mallgoth

Noun

mallgoth (countable and uncountable, plural mallgoths)

1. (countable) Originally (derogatory), an inauthentic or trendy goth; now, a person who dresses in goth-inspired clothes, is interested in industrial metal and nu metal music, etc.
   • MallGoths are young in age, spending the majority of their time after school at the mall. […] MallGoths dress differently to seem "in the know," when, in actuality, they have no clue what Goth culture really is. To them, Goth is a fashion statement and nothing more.2007, Raven Digitalis [pseudonym?], “Goth”, in Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 35
   • “Lester, what the fuck?” he said, grinning and laughing as he clapped Lester on the shoulder, taking a young mall-goth’s five bucks out of a hand whose fingernails were painted with chipped black polish. “What the hell is going on here?”2009 November, Cory Doctorow, “Part II”, in Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor, Makers (A Tor Book), New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 174
2. (uncountable) The culture or fashion style adopted by such a person.
   • "The skull is all-purpose," said Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic at The New Yorker. "It simultaneously refers to horror movies, to the Misfits and, by extension, all punk rock, and to a generalized culture of blackness and spookiness and the larger, mall-Goth culture."2006 July 27, David Colman, “The heyday of the dead”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2023
   • For the most part, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has grown stronger with every season. […] Case in point: the last five minutes of the finale, which included a six-month time jump; Daisy adopting a mallgoth vigilante persona; and the "birth" of AIDA, a humanoid A.I.2016 May 18, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, “‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Killed Off a Main Character, and It Should Kill Off More”, in The Daily Dot, Austin, Tex.: Daily Dot, archived from the original on 17 May...