To wonder what happened to Emos?

[Vipersnest88]

Is anyone else young/old enough to have gone through an ‘emo’ phase in the 2002-2007 period? You know, the heavy eyeliner, boys with side fringes, black skinny jeans, studded belts, cool ‘band’ T-shirts and the angsty music that usually talked about broken hearts and self harm?! It was such a huge thing at my secondary school!

You just don’t see teenagers like that anymore! It wasn’t just a few quirky people, whenever I speak to friends of a similar age we all seem to have gone through a similar phase.

Clearly the UK/the world moved on from it but it’s just like that sub-culture has totally disappeared! I realise this is probably how people feel about the 80s etc and the various subcultures! Do they not exist anymore or have I just grown up?

Oh, I miss the Emo days. My step daughter thinks emo music is noisy and weird.
I am guilty of wearing too much eyeliner still, I just couldn't bear to be parted from it.
I have millions of pictures on an old hard drive from Bebo/Myspace.
I used to have a room that was painted the darkest purple and covered in band pictures. I used to read/write band fanfiction.
I also have fond memories of bunking out of school to go and see MCR with some friends and my mum falling asleep in the middle of it.

I miss all of it. My mum also proper embraced the culture and would take me up to Camden to meet friends I met on Bebo/ quizilla. And we used to love going shopping together to get all the right band hoodies and clothes.

What a reminiscent thread.

They're very excited about Fall Out Boy touring with Green Day & Weezer next year.

I've got my tickets even though I'm too old have been an emo & DC1 is too young

My 27yo DD was an Emo in her youth. She is now a professional working in London and has a slightly hipster vibe.

My 15 year old daughter is emo as fuck!

I do think the Emo scene in the mid 2000's was kind of an alternative peak. I'm a bit older and there was 3 alternative people including me in my year of around 100 kids in the late 90's, it really did feel alternative then! Then by the time I was in uni everyone was a goth lol.

Yay @stormbaby !

I went to see American Idiot the musical when it came to my city. And the joy of seeing all those grown up emos... you could see all the tells, like badges on bags, check hoodies and the odd floppy fringe.

It was glorious. And I remembered all the words.

My dd grew up got a job still has inner Emo though 😄.. I loved some of the bands especially MCR they were so dramatic !

I was.

I now wear White Stuff, Boden and White Stuff!

DDS have bought the fall out boy green Day tickets last week emo DD is excited but being cool about it obvs 😀

My 8 yr old has claimed my old paramore T-shirt’s as his own and all three of my kids will put their latest album on with Spotify. Nightmare before Xmas is now subtle through Halloween decorations and cookie jars/mugs in my kitchen 🤣 in all fairness though my love of nightmare has been there from the late 90s 🤣 aside from my hair always in a ponytail now instead of poker straight and the lack of will power to put make up on, I still dress the same as 10 yrs ago in my band T-shirt’s, skinny jeans and converse. I’ve ditched the belts though... who thought studded belts draped round asses was a good look 🤣

lol. I was a goth in the 80s, had a boyfriend in a leather miniskirt, vertical orange hair and more make up than I did.

My 18 daughter had her emo phase about 5 years ago - she was a bit geisha/manga at 12, wore a tartan minishirt and sex pistols teeshirt to a 70s disco in year 6.

Now she has black hair with neon pink skunk stripes, 3 nose piercings and loves Tyler the Creative. Her male friends seem to have a bit of a late 60s/early 70s west coast psychadelia thing going on. They all remind me of me and my friends about 30 years ago

Now Im more of a Toast / kind of wierd hippy artist kind of girl

Awwww this has bought on some proper nostalgia! I agree there really doesn't seem to be as many subcultures anymore.
I remember -

• Punkyfish (literally thought I was so freaking cool in that overpriced shit)
• Those flat Vans wine pink and black check
• I CHIME IN WITH A HAVEN'T YOU PEOPLE EVER HEARD OF CLOSING THE GODDAM DOOR

I was a grunger, still am.....colleagues guessed my music taste the minute they met me ha ha! Still dye my hair odd colours, heavy eye makeup, dms and army surplus. Am 40 now, so beyond giving a shite what people think!

Best time of my life! College in 2007 everyone was Emo mad, guys with long hair and black nails, I absolutely loved it and fit right in! Then in 2008 my last year there it suddenly changed, just like that. Not a single Emo.

I've been watching, I've been waiting
In the shadows for my time
I've been searching, I've been living
For tomorrow's all my liiiiiife

Would they have been similar to goth,s ? I'm 46 and was into rock music ,it was all biker jackets and spandex when I was a teen

This was me! I'm 26 now and about to become a mum so a lot of what I used to wear just wouldn't work for me now. I still love skinny jeans and I still wear converse, although 15 year old me would never have allowed them to be as in one piece or clean as they are. I have tattoos and I did dye my hair purple this year but other than that I have more normal clothes as I have to work and you know be an adult. I see a few kids round our way wearing band hoodies with dyed hair, not sure what they're calling it but it looks pretty emo to me.

I was a goth/granger through the emo phase at school/college... I think since “geek chic” became a thing they’ve been absorbed into that a bit? That’s what my 14 year old sister tells me anyway :’) she finds it hilarious that I was a goth (would still be if I could he arsed) because I’m “so old” in her words.... I’m 31 😂

Grunger- bloody autocorrect!

They’ve all grown up now but are easily spotted by their star tattoos

⭐️

I still live in 2007 if I'm being honest. Old Panic!, Paramour, FOB, Green Day, MCR, Good Charlotte - still love them all!

Can't be bothered to wear make up anymore and I've embraced my super curly hair (I'm mixed race) so no more straightening and dyeing! Although I do miss my undercut that I used to bleach and dye bright colours. Those were the days

for myself cause growing up is pretty rubbish!

Hi, former emo here. Was 16 in 2006.

Haha, no, I was in my mid 30s, then. It was all goths in my day. Hair died black, tidy for the school week, crimped and often standing on end at the weekend.

@OkGo she's been 'alternative' since she was about 10, to be fair. Chopped all her gold ringlets off in to a black pixie cut about 4 years ago, will only dress in black!