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After last week’s UN meetings, the Obamas took a photos with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Spanish Prime Minister’s family. The daughters dressed like they were preparing for a night out with The Cure.

The Prime Minister has tried to keep his daughters out of the public eye. Despite convincing the state-owned Spanish news agency EFE not to distribute the photos, the images ended up on the front page of several Spanish newspapers.

These first daughters have potential to be the most notable Goths in Spain since the Visigoth conquest of the 7th century. The Goth subculture exists in Spain, as it does in much of the world. Goticos were featured in a 2006 episode of a Spanish news magazine.

The Gothic family photos have prompted a Facebook group called Las hijas góticas de Zapatero.  The group has over 14 thousand fans. And like all great newsworthy images, these pictures have prompted Photoshoppers worldwide to turn this into a meme.

There is the minimalist approach, by dressing the entire party in black, to signify their inner angst.

Then we have a more hardcore version of the Rodriguez Zapatero daughters leading the group in a Satanic sacrificial ritual. Note the US president’s commitment to cultural diversity, by symbolically “raising the horns.”

Meme-sters have quickly connected the Goths with cinema. In these examples we see references to The Ring, The Shining, Edward Scissorhands and The Exorcist.

The final image shows the entire clan celebrating the commercialism of contemporary Goth culture, alongside pro-heavy metal activists Los Hermanos Alcázar. The 41 year-old twins stand in front of the site of a former Madrid rock venue every night, to commemorate its legacy. They are avidly opposed to the commodification of rock n roll.

Spain has a bright future in darkness.

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