is it the hair? the clothes? the music? the personality? what REALLY makes someone emo.
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I'd say all of those are surface things. It not just the hair and music, but how you feel about those things
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thats true..i suppose it also depends on political views..since "alternative" is heavily political in general. atleast to me it is
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>mainstream progressive beliefs
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fair fair
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politics and musics alwaysalwaysALWAYS!! fashion nd hairs optional!
I'd say politics and music 
id say the music is most important but i also think the fashion is importnant too like i feel like someone cant be emo with only dressing it because music is what started but i think someone can be emo with only music but in my opinion fashion and music together is better if that makes since
the music the political movement ect.... not just wearing all black or having one band tee
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Help me understand just what the fuck emo politics is?
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also, yes it does depend on personality
imo it's mostly about values and also very importantly the music
amazingsavv_ wrote:
is it the hair? the clothes? the music? the personality? what REALLY makes someone emo.
- Everything above.
(and everything is equally important)
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WHY is everyone saying "politics" to answer this??? i know scene and emo are separate subcultures, so this applies less to emo than scene, but they BOTH came mostly from teenagers wanting to be edgy and piss off their parents/mainstream society with their clothes and annoying online/irl personas. it's not about political alignment. scene and emo are not inherently political.
i feel like i'm gonna get hate for saying that, but it's true. there were plenty of examples of emo and scene kids being homophobic, racist shitheads, much like what was expected from your typical edgy 2000s young person. yes, some of them were left-leaning or progressive or whatever the hell, but they were NOT inherently against-the-grain lefties. THAT is why people said emos and scenesters are posers, because most of them were spineless enough to just steal pieces of alternative style from punks and goths, while removing the political aspects of the subcultures they were imitating.
things are different nowadays, but i still don't believe that politics make someone emo. it's some combination of involvement in the subculture, fashion, music taste, and i hate to say it... "lifestyle." that last metric is really vague and part of the reason it's so hard to call out why modern "emo" kids don't really fit the bill imo.
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