virovac:

espanolbot2:

vo-kopen:

did-you-know:

The FBI spent years investigating an anti-goth cult that didn’t even exist.

After a worried goth contacted the FBI about the ‘Church of the Hammer’ and their Yahoo group ‘GodHatesGoths,’ concerns grew and the Bureau launched an official investigation.

It continued for over 2 years before they realized the entire thing was completely fake and intended to be a joke - which had been written as a disclaimer on the website all along.

Source Source 2

Iconic

Hm, reminds me of the time that they thought that there was an elusive LGBTQ activist that was roaming America “sowing discord“, because evidently they heard a bunch of folks using the euphemism “friends of Dorothy“ and assumed it was an actual person and not… y’know… a Wizard of Oz reference.

coolclaytony

But you know what, good on who ever staryed the investigation for being that concerned for the well-being of goths.

I honestlyl was surprised  the FBI would even care for a subculture commonly seen as “threatening”