Cliff Winton submitted this photo with the comment “I was doing the ‘Goths up Trees’ meme 12 years before it was popular! This photo is from 1999, taken in Newark, Delaware.”

Dudz0r, this ain’t no meme.  Some “news” site decided that it was a meme without actually looking at the site, which was very nice of them.  Now a bunch of old Grannies in the UK seem to think that those ca-razy kids who were planking are now dressing up as Goths and posing up trees.  However, the truth is that Goths have been doing this for decades and I’m just acting as a curator.  Just check this site.  I have photos from zee 80s, damn it. This isn’t a new trend.  OH MY GOTH!

Back to the photo at hand, I think I can sum up my sentiment about this photo with: hooray for boys in skirts!  Well, I think that’s a skirt.  It could be a pair of those obscenely wide legged pants but I am hoping that it is a skirt because Goth boys in skirts = awesome.  I’m going to have to give it a low scoring on the tree height because, technically he is up a tree, but it looks horizontal. He’s pulling the typical emaciated-Goth-boy-in-a-skirt kinda pose and, in the process, looks as if he’s going to attempt the first solo flight by a Goth boy since Peter Steele (stage diving counts).  He’s not smiling and the sun going down but it’s still technically day light. 

3.5 out of 5 - Goths up trees: men in skirts.