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?

Too old to be emo. I'm a good old fashioned 90's goth. If I could fit my tree trunks into those stripy tights I bloody would!

I still stomp about in para boots and wear too much eyeshadow at the grand old age of 37.

Oh I miss being able to wear funky tights!

From what I can see on Facebook, the emos I was at secondary school with 2002-2007 have all grown up and look very ‘mainstream’. Some are married/partnered with kids. One is a solicitor and rides her bike for hundreds of miles on the weekend!
I think it has already been said, but fashion seems to be a lot more diverse nowadays so teens are possibly embracing it more and are less inclined to want to be ‘different’ (in the same way as each other ).

My son's girlfriend is emo, she's 21.

She's coming with me to one of the Green Day/FOB/Weezer gigs next year. She's into FOB and Green Day are my favourite band.

I have a theory that social media killed off sub cultures by blending them all into one god awful watered down version.

Howdy!
I was part of this crowd. We're mostly just miscellaneous alternative people now. I've got more of a punk/androgynous style, some of us are more hipster or whatever.

I'm thinking of dying my hair lavender next week.

DD was emo. I remember ”Rawr” and her and her friends looking edgy in black. Lots of eyeliner.

I remember d d spening ages on the fringe it was so pointy!

Ah bless. My DD and her friends (now 26/27) were emos. This thread is bringing back many memories. TBF they are all still a bit alternative.

I was a bit old for this - we were moshers. Somewhere between grunge and emo, time wise. I had a pair of old jeans of my dad's that I turned into flares and a camel coloured coat with furry edging, though, less of the baggy jeans and chains stuff. I think I just made it up as I went along. Caused a stir in school in DMs and a long black skirt - drove the teachers nuts, that skirt, coz they couldn't technically tell me not to wear it.

Likewise, Milkstick. Although I was a bit more skate punk. Then I grew up... and married a metaller 😁

Got tickets for Rock am Ring and BFS next year already. 🤘

I was SO SO SO emo.

I work in a secondary school and you're right. They're gone. Where are they?

I'm 33 so was more mosh than emo also Milkstick My sister was full emo (she's 27).

We lived not far from Afflecks palace which was amazing back then, like a treasure cove, all the fashion and music all over the show.

Thanks for the responses - these have made me smile! So much nostalgia I do think social media may have something to do with it. Agree with what someone else said about the chavs vs emos thing - that was such a rivalry!!!

My 14 yo dd is an Emo! She loves Panic at the Disco, MCR and Fall Out Boy, plus a band called 21 Pilots. She wears black jeggings, band t-shirts and black sequin DMs and has an undercut hairdo. No make-up though!

My 12 year old is a huge MCR fan as was her older sister who is now 26...I
She lives in black hoodies 20 times too big. Skinny black Jean's. Van's and a mop of curly red hair. No make up yet but I've caught her mucking about with black eyeliner

I’m 27
I was really into the emo and punk scene.
I’m now far more into punk music than emo, and go to a lot of gigs. But I did go and see taking back Sunday the other month who were fantastic.

I have normal un-died brown hair which amazingly hasn’t fallen out from all the stupid colours it’s been
Don’t wear awful eyeliner anymore
But still when not at work wear band t-shirts (admittedly more Fidlar/Minor threat/Menzingers than MCR or panic!) jeans and vans.
I didn’t grow up that much.
And I had a really good solo dance to teenagers in the car on Friday morning

My DH was an emo, then got a job and was goth. Then met me and had kids and now he's too tired and doesn't fit in his goth clothes. He likes to call himself alternative but he's grown up and refuses to pay the high prices for emo/goth clothes.

When I was a bit younger (like, 11) I desperately wanted to dress in hippy skirts and stuff all the time. Think Anna Paquin in Fly Away Home. My taste now is a shifting thing, somewhere around Stevie Nicks, oversized floaty tunics, grunge and florals and the odd piece of BJJ sports wear with jeans!! My ebay watch list is all over the shop. 35 here. Always dr martens though. My feet are too wide for anything else.

Did anyone have a velvet hat like Blossom?

My DS is 16 and it's all MCR and Black Veil Brides. Boots, skinny jeans and band tees. No ott hair though as he has to look presentable for his apprenticeship

I’m in my 40’s, have always been a bit of a mish-mash - hippy/emo/raver/cyber/goth. Due to mental ill health I’ve spent a lot of my life living in plain jeans and t shirt so no one would look twice at me. Now I’m getting older, and a mum, I, dying my hair more, wearing much more hippy/goth clothing (and New Rocks), and loving it 🥰

@DeadButDelicious same here! Still living in DMs etc, think my DH would be mortified if a started with the tights again, didn't know him back then and it really wasn't his scene

I still dye my hair black and have the stretched ears. Slightly alternative but yeah I'd look a knob if I attempted some of the looks back then