Back in high school, they hung out behind the gym, comparing Bauhaus t-shirts, smoking, and despising the "phony corporate trappings of post-war suburban America." Then they (sort-of) grew up. It quickly became clear that they were too dysfunctional to succeed in the real world, so they had to create their own reality. Thus, the Satanic Temple of Detroit was born - an organization designed to give 25-year-old goth kids something to do when they aren't working at the T-Mobile store.