How do you know if you’re emo?

[sserafim]

How do you know if you're emo? Someone once called me one…

 

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When you post a thread asking how you know if you're emo~

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Someone calling you emo doesn't mean anything. Emo is a specific subculture that stems from a specific genre of music (emo music), similar to goth, punk, ravers, metalheads, etc. If you do not identify as emo and do not listen to that genre of music then you aren't emo. Simple as that.

 

[sammiechzxv]

If you listen to emo music

 

[sserafim]

If you listen to emo music

I don't listen to emo music, I think they meant emo as in depressed

 

[druggedonsurvival]

It's a vacuous term used by a toxic culture that stigmatizes emotional vulnerability (particularly in men). Probably a large reason why so many men hide their feelings and end up like us. You're not "emo" if you're depressed or if you feel emotions, just human.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

No idea. I think that maybe they were being stereotypical when they used the word

 

[leavingthesoultrap]

That's still a thing lol?
You dress in black and have hair with bangs that are constantly in your face.

 

[Pluto]