Emos

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In admittance, I am sometimes a little emo.

We all have a little emo inside of us. Right?

Y'know what's really bothered me about emo lately? How they romanticize death and suicide. I had a friend who drove his car in front of a train this year, leaving his wife and son alone and all of his friends filled with regret. Forgive me if I don't find anything romantic about death or killing yourself.

That sounds so, so wrong.

Ahh, it depends if they are any good on the inside.
A bad centered emo: stay away.
A good centered emo: mix if you will.

I don't if somone is emo, really. They are just people.

The Tickle-Me-Emos are my favorite.

annoying people who dress goth and cut them selves, yet make sure everyone sees because they are anoying attention whores, and then ruin rock music for an entire generation so whenever I turn on a radio I get annoying whining/screaming that makes me insane

Goths and emos are quite different, I don't like them all, but emos really make me sick. It's impossible to define is this a boy or a girl, they even dress the same and have the same haircuts! In my country, I mean... Anyway, I don't take them serious, just teenagers who have no problems and try to look like they really do. Pretending to be grown-ups?..

What exactly is an emo?

You will notice if an emo passes by

OK, I know what emo music is, but how does the emo character gets defined? I mean, you cannot just put a tag on someone based on his clothing. So what characteristics or personality traits makes you emo?

I've never had a wish to communicate with them. All I can say is that they cry a lot and neither boys look like men, nor girls look like women, so they probably feel like 10-year-old children
This impression keeps me far from them.

They go great along with waffles for breakfast.

Actually, with their style of dress the girls in their ultra-tight black skinny jeans don't go unnoticed to me. They purposefully try to look so cute and innocent yet at the same time so world-weary and self-defeating it makes me feel so happy and mushy on the inside. That and their reputation for rampant promiscuousness and widespread bisexuality in half-hearted attempts to destroy any trace of self-respect they might have. You want to try and talk to them but you feel as if it would be akin to raping an aids ridden puppy.

^lol random

You mean androgyny? Or something different?

I dress a bit androgynous myself, I wear make-up as well. And I dye my hair. I never felt like I could be classified as emo though. Where do you draw those lines? The definitions of all those subcultures are so blurred ; why would someone want a tag anyway? Just dress like you want and don't even think too much about how the world would label you... that's my philosophy regarding such subjects

Several years ago, my high school was crawling with emos. I saw them everywhere. Since then, emos have slowly but steadily decreased in number and no one seems to notice because they are so preoccupied with making fun of them. A couple years ago, emos went from being a legitimate and highly prevalent subculture to a mere punchline. By the time I graduated from high school in may, my school of 1500 students contained maybe three or four emos. There were still, however, a lot of scene kids (AKA emos without commitment) around. Emo jokes seem to survive because most can be just as easilly applied to scene kids.

What is a scene kid, you ask?
A scene kid is essentially an emo without the depression and miscellaneous neuroses characterizing emos. They still wear disturbingly tight pants, have that "flippy" hair do, listen to My Chemical Romance, shop at hot topic, obsess over tim burton, and guzzle vitamin water, but do so in imitation of emos. The emo subculture essentially unleashed a "second wave" of imitators, who in time took on a collective identity as "scene kids".

Like what Tim Tex said, what are emos anyway?