[Benn Roe]

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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

Well, as the resident punk who grew up on 80s and 90s emo, I can tell you that the same goofy pop-punk and metalcore kids that appropriated goth fashion in the 2000s also appropriated the term 'emo', and that bands like AFI (pop-punk), Panic at the Disco (pop-punk), and My Chemical Romance (metalcore-influenced pop-punk) have zero to do with emo, sharing virtually no historical roots with the genre. I've had the displeasure of meeting My Chemical Romance, so I can tell you with pretty high confidence that nobody in that band has ever listened to Rites of Spring, Hoover, Embrace, Indian Summer, Heroin, Policy of Three, or Portaits of Past. So, either we split hairs here and the Hot Topic kids don't get to be emo either, or we accept that chosen subcultures can't be culturally appropriated since they're completely optional, and that the vast majority of the world doesn't understand there's a difference between 'goth' and 'emo', so there isn't, because that's how language works.

EDIT: Just thought it was funny to see someone else bring up Hot Topic while I was writing this.