Furthermore the pearl clutches don't even need the satanic metal imagery anymore. They're perfectly content finding devil stuff in Disney movies and soap commercials or whatever.

Youth music-oriented subcultures kinda don't exist anymore. I think young people now orient subculture around which twitch streamer they enjoy. Rock music in general has also become far less culturally dominant.

Actually maybe there are some geographical factors at play too. I feel like here in Finland I still see metal/goth/punk people of varying ages around. Hell, not too long ago I saw some high school or early 20s metal head dudes wearing black jnco pants with those stupid fucking straps which just about floored me because I remember people I knew wearing them nigh on 20 years ago and laughing at them when the straps got caught on shit constantly

I think Northern Europe has had a reputation for being a rock and metal holdout for decades already