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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

As the resident goth, I can tell you, that one, emo evolved from scene kids, and their music is mainly from the 00s bands like AFI, Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, etc. Just because the word are used interchangeably doesn't make it accurate or correct, most goths feel that the emo set are engaging in cultural appropriation

Emo goes much farther back than that and was it's own thing. I agree that current use of goth and emo interchangeably came from the scene kids, but they weren't emo kids appropriating goth. They were kids discovering several different subcultures at once. Punk, goth, emo, metal, etc... The internet made all sorts of subcultures instantly available to all the kids at the same time, so instead of getting into one thing, they were combining bits of it all into what it is now.

It's just all basically Hot Topic culture to me.