Out of all the possible times throughout human history, we have the good fortune to have been born during the existence of Emoism. This thread is for boys with pale skin, dark hair, and a brooding attitude.
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Shuichi Saihara. Perhaps one of the most legitimately emo people in any piece of post-Emo media.
>>3971681In the course of 30 days, most of his friends (including both of his lovers) join the Black Parade. Shuichi becomes extremely depressed and even contemplates suicide via starvation and a bullet to the brain.
>>3971682He could have just taken up smoking to cope
"Oh, you finally took off that stupid emo hat!" - Shuichi's boyfriend
>>3971688I don't know if vampires count as emo, but they are definitely emo adjacent. MCR has enough songs about them for it to count
My dyslexia translated this to I [heart] Rand Paul
Boys laying in their beds yearning is an under appreciated art subject.
>>3971694He's cracked
If you aren't thinking about a noose at least five times a day, you're a poser
snuffjak on Twitter is a good emo artist
>>3971743Looked him up and I diagnose him with Based. He would have loved the mid-00s.
Imagine somebody caring enough about your wellbeing that they come to your house to check up on you...haha
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What do Emos eat anyway? Is there an approved diet of some kind?
Does Rodrick Heffley count as emo? Here's a Rodrick.I wonder why emo boys are so rare in media nowadays. There's definitely a market for emos—zoomers seem to like them, at least.
>>3971995They eat the organs of posers
>>3971996Rodrick is as close as you can come to being a poser without actually being one. Also, Zoomers are pretty faithful to copying it sometimes, too. The problem is that the original emo mindset requires a deal of angst that can only be brought about by a mutually shared trauma.
>>3971997So a carnivore diet? Makes sense. Most are pretty thin and carbs seem like an indulgence out of line with the lifestyle.
>>3971681That's not even Saihara. Dogshit normalfag thread. kys
>>3972292>>>/soc/
>>3972298Whuh happen
It is only now dawning on me how severe the emo boy character shortage is. Most of the emo boy characters I've been able to find are individual people's OCs, and even then, they're far more rare than they should be. The only emo boy character popular with the contemporary youths is maybe Andrew Graves. Where did we go wrong? Why are things so bad? Something needs to be done about this. Empires crumble when they lose sight of their need for emo boys. Truly despairing. >>3972343Some (non-emo) faggot posted his real face and said hi
>>3973503Yeah, emo boys were a product of a very specific time. That time is over. This, you may only ever see depictions of enough boys in works that take place in the past (like TCOAAL). Zoomers can replicate it, but it's like cosplaying. They'll never have the same level of angst as the real thing. Quite the contrary, many zoomers are too jaded to be emo. We may never see these boys again, but their impact will be felt for all time. In other words...Though they're dead and gone, believe me, their memory will carry on.
>>3973503I'm glad I'm not the only one concerned about this. Nature must heal. Pic is nabbed from one of the DN threads but I think it is close enough, although to Anon's point above, it too is of its time.
>>3973614That last line hit me.>Go to high school during the climax and wane of the emo era >Befriend a cute guy who is emo but standoffish so it the friendship is limited >Graduate and say goodbye to him during the ceremony >Never see him again because he hanged himself a year later after breaking up with his gfMaybe I could have saved him. I'm sorry, Christian.
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>>3973614Yeah I've seen the rawring20s bullshit on Reddit and they pull off the look but not the feel. Basically, if you didn't live through the aftermath 9/11, you can't pull off modern emo.
>>3971743Are these dudes from a comic or something? I get the impression there's lore here.
>>3974048I think it's the same thing that makes Marvel movies besides the Guardians series so bloodless, how they always tag any serious dramatic moment with a dumb joke.Jaded hyperironic aversion to really feeling anything. Maybe living in the panopticon makes you afraid of the inherent self-absorbed cringe that gives life to the whole emo aesthetic
>>3974159Well said. Being cringe and then looking back and realizing it is part of growing up. Emo encapsulates this ethos perfectly. You live, you experience, you learn. Boomers had this in the form of hippie movements, but most never grew out of that mindset so they never learned. Zoomers don't seem to have it at all, so they never experience anything for themselves. Much of what they witness is through somebody else's perspective. How can one form their own opinion this way? Explains why many of the older ones are socially stunted.
>>3974141I looked him up and didn't find much more info. I only know that the guy tied up and being strangled is Andre Crow.
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>>3974170I mean, the opinion thing is pretty easy, you can think for yourself with pure information. Experience is different since it colours your views of the world with emotion. Emo-tion, see.I think it's less the lack of motivation to experience and more the lack of motivation to feel and connect, to see everything through this teal-tinted lens of unearned cynicismI heard somewhere that one of the key differences between millennials and zoomers is that the millennials grew up in the historically rare feeling of a world that was constantly and rapidly progressing, whereas the zoomers grew up in an age of stagnation and regression. The former were promised everything, the latter had no expectations. This may have been all stolen from Hunter S. ThompsonSo perhaps the issue is that millennials saw their depression as angst, part of a more romantic grand narrative of tragedy, being :-( in a :-) world, whereas the zoomers saw their depression as depression, as an unremarkable reflection of the world already around them. And of course, how authentic can any self-expression through your looks be in the postmodern post-ironic zeitgeist they grew up in?Also, it's less hippies and more the whole counterculture movement. I think most did grow out of it. Just in a bad way that kinda explains where we are now to some extent
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>>3982595There are more emo boys than Naoto, but you are probably a hylic who can only understand surface-level stuff like appearance and nothing else.
>>3982655Oh, boy. Kill yourself before the stupidity infects us all.
>>3982661>when the truth is too much for you to hearI am sorry you are such a hylic
>>3982665>hylic! Hylic! Everything I don't like is hylic!Imagine being a catheter in 2025.
>>3982655>Naoto>Just discovered the gnostic fallacy>jewish postThree retard moments in one breadth. That's a new record.
>>3975576You hit the nail on the head with this one. I don't have anything to add - this is good and youre correct. I think that the postmodern hyper-ironic cultural hell that zoomers grow up in might culminate in some neo-emo sort of culture though. Post-ironic emo culture has been rising within the youths - I've been seeing some increasingly common examples of zoomers replicating emo culture except with a layer of irony clouding the cringe. It sucks that it's not totally sincere, but the soul is there, which is nice.Picrel (by snuffjak, mentioned here >>3971743) exemplifies that I'm talking about.
xochibunsai (X)Anyways... Does Jeff the Killer count as emo? ...He's emo adjacent, at least.
xochibunsai (X)I like this artist.
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>>3985465I'd say so. JTK was from the same time period as the Climax of Emoism, and the same types that were into that were into him.
>>3971743why is this so fucking hot
