Are youth subcultures genuine signs of revolt or simply the manifestation of style?

Youth subcultures are always going to be around. You only hear about the problems when a group is needed for blame. The media only report the bad things groups do, never the good. As Dick Hebdige explains ‘youth is only present only when it is a problem or is regarded as a problem’. I personally feel that the youth subculture is manifestation of a certain style, for example friends introduce friends to different music, then they follow the ways of the type of music for example the clothes they wear. Goths are tended to be portrayed as people who self harm and believe in death, but not every Goth does this. Elder people feel Goths, Chavs, Emo’s and rude boys are a part of revolt, but in general the people who are apart of these subcultures tend to grow out of it when they become older, or the subcultures evolve into something else.