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".
01 Aug 2008, 9:58 pm
