Let's Unpack The "Alt Girl"

✨I’ve never watched more TikTok in my life for this✨ Join me as I delve into the history, rise, and peculiar evolution of the “alt girl” – what she stands for, her TikTok-ification, and the (both empowering and unfortunate) implications of being “alternative”. - 🕦TIMESTAMPS:🕝 0:00 - Intro 1:30 - The “alt” subculture: a quick history 5:39 - The American “Goth Panic” 8:04 - From alt to mainstream: rise of the internet’s “alt girl” 10:24 - The “alt trad” oxymoron / why do some alts romanticize traditionalism? 14:02 - The role of memes and music stars 16:23 - Alternative gatekeeping: are alt trends even “alt” anymore? 26:08 - “Not Like The Other Girls” 34:59 - The limitations of “alternative” fashion - 🖤 FOLLOW ME ON IG:   / anaisabelcosplays   🖤 All third-party clips and images are Fair Use/Fair Dealing under copyright law (transformative under criticism/review/commentary/news reporting). Australian copyright law on “Fair Dealing”: https://www.copyright.org.au/acc_prod... US copyright law on "Fair Use": https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/mo... 📚Main Sources Used:📚 “Alternative Fashion” – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterna... What Did the Gothic Counterculture Have to Do With the Columbine High School Shootings? – StepByStep https://www.stepbystep.com/What-Did-t... "EVERYBODY IS THEIR ENEMY": GOTHS, SPOOKY KIDS, AND THE AMERICAN SCHOOL SHOOTING PANIC – Allen Berres https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/... How Catholicism became alt-fashion's saviour – Biz Sherbert, i-D Vice https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/g5b4d... Gothic Crosses: Their Origin, Significance, and Religious Underlying – Skeptic Mag https://skepticmag.com/2022/01/14/got... “Im Not Like Other Girls” – Lauren Luna, The Bottom Line (UCSB) https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/201... Beer Girls, Sad Indie Alt Girls, and Why Women Can Never Win – Anna Hochman, 34st https://www.34st.com/article/2022/04/... Am I Too Brown To Be Emo? How Alternative Beauty Favours Whiteness – Yasmine Summan, Refinery29 https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/alte... tiktok is kind of bad for fashion – Mina Le    • tiktok is kind of bad for fashion   Why No One Wins the Fast Fashion Debate – Broey Deschanel    • Why No One Wins the Fast Fashion Debate   The Horrible Aftermath of the SHEIN-pocalypse – Salem Tovar    • The Horrible Aftermath of the SHEIN-pocalypse   #altgirl #tiktok #alttiktok #altfashion