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Since when do we consider "emo" a subculture? Now, before the many opositions are brought up I must say (with the admitted breif lack of objection) that emo perhaps is only the mainstream's poor substitute for goth. Yes, emo started out as the underground's emotive hardcore musical genre but I honestly think there is but a fad of emo throughout youths that is not bad in any terms but a pretentious rip off of mainly punk and alternative-and now goth in fashion terms. The boundaries of emo are not that of a subculture but that of a slang and even musical and clothing style, it's foundation has no true followers but the kids we see in the mall not called goth because they're in stripped gap clothing with brown hair brushed down to their eyes. I respect you deeply Draconysius but in my opinion considering 'emo' a subculture is like considering atheism a religion-though it may be thought of in this legion it truthfully is not to the foundation of being what it is thought out to be. Sorry for my stringy vocabulary.
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