Goths have horrible eyesight from the strain of reading web sites with white text on black backgrounds. Don’t bother to look for a goth site or MySpace page without a black background. There aren’t any. You can only pray the text is white rather than red. Count yourself lucky if there are no dripping blood bars.
Metal fans rival Goths in black-background-induced eye strain, however Goths have the slight advantage of readable fonts.
Just wanted to give my two scents. Most goth sites do have black background with white text and some don’t. I hate the cheesy flaming mouth opening skulls, or dripping blood as you mention. My site has a black background… but “almost” all of the text is black on a gray background, or white links.. only a very small portion is white text on black.. that does get hard to read after a while.
I do get thrown off when I’ve seen goth sites using blue background, or stuff like that though! lol.
black is the classic goth, even on the net
That’s an inventive answer to an interesting qsuteion