Oh there they go again twidget, blaming us peaceful vampiras.
Posted on 09/16/2006 11:34:05 AM PDT by CapnBarbosa
MONTREAL - A website that revels in pain, blood, death and darkness is the common link between several homicides, rapes, a church arson and now the Dawson College rampage.
Gunman Kimveer Gill blogged at VampireFreaks.com, a popular online refuge where the Goth sub-culture shares morbid poetry, death metal music, details of violent sex and black musings rooted in social alienation and personal despair.
Gill, 25, referred to himself in one seething online post as ''the Angel of Death.''
On Wednesday, armed with an assault rifle, he went on a murderous rampage at Dawson College in Montreal, killing one woman and injuring 19, before killing himself.
The New York-based Web site, catering to 600,000 mostly teenage ''cybergoths,'' is also associated with a recent string
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Oh there they go again twidget, blaming us peaceful vampiras.
I visited the vampire site the day after the shootings. Most of the "conversations" are lame and boring. The grotesque icons the members choose for themselves and their signature lines are probably the most dramatic part of the forum. I did see a few members who seem to be older, early thirties, maybe, and that concerned me because they are interacting with those who are much younger. The "poetry" there is very black. Most of the kids who hang out at those sites don't seem to think they have much of a future, although there were signs of intelligence here and there.
Democrats have a similar site... http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Before the advent of the internet, most freaky gothy teens grew out of their goth phase into fairly normal, well-adjusted adults. After the internet, the repsonsibility of adulthood doesn't force the goth flock to break up; they're always there, right online, reveling in their gothiness and "woe is me, screw the world" attitude. Instead of learning to deal with the real world as a normal person, they just throw themselves deeper in their little online world and community.
LOL! Good one.
Interesting insight to a very dangerous subculture. You need to read the whole article, which isn't long, to see pretty much what's going on.
What a dreadful job their parents (or whoever raised them) have done, when a teenager in the United States of America thinks he doesn't have anything to live for. Of course, one of parent's main responsibilities these days is to protect their kids from our sexualized, drug-filled, irresponsible culture. I realize a lot of kids don't get that protection.
Actually, 99.9 percent of the people (adults and teens) partaking of this particular subculture are perfectly harmless. To each his own...
"misguided souls" ping
How typical. Moon-bats in every flavor.
Okey...(stepping toward the door, back to wall)...dokey...
Around here we call them goth-hicks - small town kids who wear black, listen to mostly screaming music, and have a few silver posts in their face somewhere. They do it for the attention and noteriety. Once in a while I do see an older one that gives me pause for concern.
They are the antithesis to the bright-eyed, though mostly vacant, Abercrombie Zombies.
Aw, geez. Where are our 1337 hax0rz when we need them? ><
Retarded emo kids living in their parents' basement FOR THE LOSE!
Our #3 son, who is a HUGH World of Warcraft player said that those folks describe Vampirefreaks as the sewer of the Internet.
I think it's because kids these days spend an inordinate amount of time with their peers. It's like the media echo chamber; they only believe what they hear most often. If they get a overdose of cynicism from their peers and their teenage culture, the ones who are susceptible to influence can just get lost in that world.
They're busy on WOW. ;o)
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