It's Time to Talk about Emos

Well, We at Deviant art as much as anyone anywhere else know of something called Emo. Some of us love it. Some of us hate it. I think all these views are certainly valid.
Emo has been around long enough so that we all know a thing or two about it. During my time seeing the web, I've come to see Emo as a cheap trend that markets to kids who want to be Unique, but unique like everyone else. Either way, I see more and more people hopping on to the 'I hate Emos!!!' band wagon and more and more disclaimers where people feel they need to make sure they are not Emo or anything of the sort (though, in my opinion, they obviously are).
It's time we all have an honest discussion of what originality is, what being unique is and how the Emo trend may have made it it more difficult or easier. We must also address whether or not the 'I hate Emos' Craze is a fad just like Emo itself. And finally, I think we need to take a look at what Emo has turned us, as 'Deviants', into and how we should look at it, perhaps through a more objective lens, and what it does to our struggle to find originality in a culture where so many things are recycled for better or for worse.
-Matt the Creator

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