Dealing with goths and emos

[The Last Meatbag]

If they are making you sad they are trying to make you join their emo ness DO NOT FALL INTO IT DAMMIT

 

[ico]

If they are making you sad they are trying to make you join their emo ness DO NOT FALL INTO IT DAMMIT

MY GOD I'VE BEEN INFECTED

kill me, please... save mee

 

[Sabretooth]

There's this quiet kid in my class who cries over the stupidest stuff,has a bowlcut (and black hair at that) and wears a sweatshirt ALL the time. Even when it's 100 degrees. ANd in my experience,people who do that usually wear sweatshirts to conceal their cuts on their arms.....

And supposedly,one day after school he went around telling people he was badass at Resident Evil 4.....

 

[arachnid-guy]

hey check out my mates myspace page.

and click on the song 'No Emo No Cry'.

Extremely funny spoof on 'emos'!

And check out the song 'Will Omallagaerhn'- based on me....well, partially.

http://myspace.com/0001mikeallandjawsh

 

[Ox Elf]

turn your dispair into hate, and you will be freed.

 

[Leto Atrides]

Hawthorne Heights are the most massive sell-outs ever. I'm a person who doesn't care at all if people get money or success or anything, and I think they're sell-outs:

 

[Mr. Thing]

Can I just ask you guys, do you think this man is emo?

 

[Ox Elf]

Hawthorne Heights are the most massive sell-outs ever. I'm a person who doesn't care at all if people get money or success or anything, and I think they're sell-outs:

What about Outkast and the Black Eyed Peas?

 

[ico]

The thing that makes me hate them more is the fact that right around the big emo explosion happened, I had long-ish hair and it was dyed a dark brown, and people kept mistaking me for an emo.


So i cut it, and bleached it a light brown colour. Self destruct averted.

 

[ico]

"Saying Sorry" and "If Only You Were Lonely" are the most emo album/song names ever.

 

[ico]

Can I just ask you guys, do you think this man is emo?

His hair maybe. But ain't he in Franz Ferdinand? They're an indie rock band aren't they?

 

[Leto Atrides]

From the "Field Guide to North American Hipsters" on Something Awful:

Emo Kids

Identification:

To refer to emo as an entire subculture centered on being vain, melodramatic, pathetic, self-absorbed, and emotionally histrionic would be unfair. There’s more to it than that. There’s also all the terrible music, stupid haircuts, and fantastically complex MySpace profiles. While we can all conjure up a mental image of a stereotypical Emo kid, with a tight sweater, hair dyed black, tiny jeans, and converse with “deep” lyrics Sharpied on, it can be difficult these days to tell emo kids from any other scenester morons. Asking vanilla hipsters and emo kids to list their favorite bands would net similar results: a list of bands you’ve never heard of. However, an emo kid’s band list would contain telltale patterns. First of all, watch out for bands with melodramatic, complete-sentence names, like “I Die in Agony” or “His Heart is Sour.” Secondly, the list of bands will quickly transmogrify into a diatribe about how the emo kid doesn’t really want to be there because he or she is feeling very depressed over a girl/boy and Hawthorne Heights really helped him or her out during tough times and maybe you’d like to go back to his/her place and see his/her zines and maybe make out a little bit, no big deal. The great thing about emo kids is that they’re both promiscuous and emotionally crippled (except for the weird Christian ones).

Musical Taste: A broad banquet of crap. Some emo kids hate the other emo kids because they listen to new fake mall emo instead of the “good” stuff which was by bands from twenty years ago who never actually released any albums but were quite good nonetheless, according to third-hand recollection. Other emo kids listen to the fake mall emo and love it. I’ve met quite a few who never actually admit that they listen to emo: “oh, they sort of used to be emo, but they’re basically just indie pop now; oh, that’s not emo, it’s just sort of slightly emo-ish hardcore.” Jesus, you idiot, if you listen to six hundred bands that skirt the borders of emo, you basically just listen to emo. ****.

How to Tame an Emo Kid: Leave them flattering comments on MySpace. Listen to their problems. Be a member of the opposite sex and reject them (they love unrequited love more than most people love sex, so they’ll hang around you for-ev-er).

Benefits of Friendship: They’ll listen to your problems (for about three minutes, before turning the conversation back to their own problems). They’ll write you really bad poetry if they fall in love with you, which you can share with your sane friends for a classic chortle.

Drawbacks of Friendship: They are really, really into the terrible music they listen to. This is true of any hipster subculture, but a lot of emo kids have absurd tunnel-vision taste: they listen to only their ****ty little niche of emo, and you’ll never get a moment’s respite from it. Regular hipsters will turn off the Wolf Parade once in a while and throw on some David Bowie, but emo kids will offer no such breaks: it’ll be straight from His Dying Words to She is Cruelly Dying to This is My Pain Area to He Cuts Me Deep.

 

[Mr. Thing]

His hair maybe. But ain't he in Franz Ferdinand? They're an indie rock band aren't they?

Yes, I applaud you for knowing that. They're great. But ever since the emo outbreak, indie fringes have been suffering.

 

[Leto Atrides]

What about Outkast and the Black Eyed Peas?

If they were telling people to vote for them on TRL, yes.

Also, when you go from being dark to wearing white suits and using cheesy blinged out letters, you can't expect anyone to take you seriously.

 

[Warhammer]

I think Emo kids at my school are terrible.
They are hard to deal with and some act sad because they think it's cool.
The thing worse than that are fake-emo people who think it's cool to try and be emo and are happy when they are classified as emo. One of my friends did that crap. She cut her hair to look like a guy and started wearing weird clothes.

 

[ico]

Yes, I applaud you for knowing that. They're great. But ever since the emo outbreak, indie fringes have been suffering.

I think though emo started the whole fringe thing, they've pretty much bled into the mainstream fashion nowadays, so having an "emo fringe" wouldn't necessarily peg you as an emo.

I wouldn't say the Franz Ferdinand guy is emo, because the only emo thing about him is his haircut. He's actually happy.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

I know a girl that cuts herself. she's really really hot, and really really stupid.

 

[arachnid-guy]

hey check out my mates myspace page.

and click on the song 'No Emo No Cry'.

Extremely funny spoof on 'emos'!

And check out the song 'Will Omallagaerhn'- based on me....well, partially.

http://myspace.com/0001mikeallandjawsh

 

[ico]

Thats the worst thing about it all. Forget the stupid hair and clothes, its the faux depression and the self-harming. So so dumb.

 

[Mr. Thing]

I think though emo started the whole fringe thing, they've pretty much bled into the mainstream fashion nowadays, so having an "emo fringe" wouldn't necessarily peg you as an emo.

I wouldn't say the Franz Ferdinand guy is emo, because the only emo thing about him is his haircut. He's actually happy.

Yeah. Awesome song writer too.

 

[The Last Meatbag]

http://emosong.ytmnd.com/

 

[Mr. Thing]

I've got a friend, who claims she's emo. She dresses emo and listens to the music and stuff, but her personality is nothing like one. She's one of the most funny and genuinely happy people I've ever met.

 

[The Last Meatbag]

lookie here, I found an emo named Fiona on Myspace

 

[arachnid-guy]

I've got a friend, who claims she's emo. She dresses emo and listens to the music and stuff, but her personality is nothing like one. She's one of the most funny and genuinely happy people I've ever met.

hm i know a gal exactly the same!

 

[ico]

I've got a friend, who claims she's emo. She dresses emo and listens to the music and stuff, but her personality is nothing like one. She's one of the most funny and genuinely happy people I've ever met.

Yeah, I must admit, the majority of the ones I have ever met are all outgoing normal people, personality wise.

But still, the fact they're slaves to a trend still irritates me.