Top 10 Reasons People Dislike Emos

Okay, so I have a friend who is extremely proud of being emo. One day, she decided to be emo out of the blue and started telling EVERYONE how emo she was. A year later, she's still going on about how depressed she is, even to people who don't care at all.

Her family is one of the richest in town, and she doesn't have any problems with them. It's terrible because she is very rude to some less fortunate kids at my school, even though they have much worse problems than her. I have never really cared about emos, but she has absolutely turned me against them.

True, true. Some people have legitimate reasons to cut, though it isn't the answer. Others just try to do it to make life worse or as an excuse for attention. I've met people like that. They are good people. It's just that what they do is messed up.

This makes sense. I have some emo friends and everyone I've met does it for the most ridiculous reasons. My parents slowly died over the course of years and I couldn't do anything for them. Those idiots don't see me cutting myself. Go cry in your room alone like normal people if you have something bad that happened.

It's probably the most annoying thing. I've got a friend, and we were talking about music. I didn't really know her music taste at the time. When she said, "I love heavy metal," of course I got excited. When I asked her what her favorite bands were, she said, "Pierce the Veil and Fall Out Boy." I lost quite a bit of respect for her that day.

I accept that she's "emo" and respect her music taste, but if she loves these bands that much, she should at least know what genre they are.

Yup. This one all the way. Pierce the Veil is not metal. It's a castrated sheep bleating. Just because there are instrumentals, it doesn't make a band metal. They are also so hateful of others in their own genre fandoms. Twenty One Pilots, for example. They hate on the popular songs by their favorite bands until their bands literally hate their own music! How is that being a good community?

I self-diagnosed with depression in fifth grade mainly because I wanted to die, could barely function because I was so sad all the time, and hated everything about myself. I didn't want to self-diagnose because I wanted real help from a professional. However, I had to in order to explain to my friends why I couldn't bear to get out of bed in the morning.

Thankfully, my parents found out how horrific my self-harm was. After they found out, I asked for a therapist and got one a year later. The therapist diagnosed me with depression immediately. I am so thankful that my friends told my parents.

Although not any emos I've heard of are obsessed with anime specifically, their obsessions can get seriously out of hand. To make it worse, like 60% of them don't know squat about what they're "obsessed" with.

They will never hesitate to butt into a conversation (at least the ones I have to deal with every day) and tell you how much better their "obsession" is, even if you weren't even talking about something like that. Emos really made me hate Sherlock and Imagine Dragons.

Hmm... I may hate being emo and don't care about emos themselves, but I think that this reason is too stupid to hate them.

I've been in a group where they only talk about how they want to hang themselves and all, but like, bruh, no one asked!

Some people don't really know what they want. Emos acting like they're something else might not say they are emos because everyone would judge them. If they act like nerds, you think it's annoying, but what would you say if they told you who they are? Of course, they would look annoying too, partly because of the depression they have. Just stop.

There are a lot of emos. Some just want to look cool, and some really need help and support. I, on the other hand, hate that I'm emo because there's nothing good in it. It's just you, your depression, and music. So stop saying that ALL emos are annoying or just acting cool because it's not true. Sorry, I just want you all to understand what I mean.

It's true that some people get easily offended. Once, someone told me that it would be better if I just killed myself, and I don't even talk about wanting to die. I just like to listen to music a lot and wear dark colors.

Naturally, I had a friend who killed himself, and it really hurt to see people say stuff like this. When I tried confronting them about it, he asked me if I was on my period and said that I was overreacting. Some people do say stuff like that to get attention, and it's awful.

I don't really hate emos. In fact, I myself could be considered one. I like a variety of music like K-pop, pop, rock, and of course, metal/emotional music. The technical definition of emos is people who like emotional music, more like Black Veil Brides if you have ever heard of them, rather than One Direction. Emos also tend to like black and have more empathy for people, at least based on most emos that I have met. They tend to express their emotions freely instead of keeping them bottled up inside.

However, what I hate most is a type of person you mostly find on Tumblr. These people are fakers and annoying as hell. They post images of their wrists "cut" and then plaster on some fake words of sorrow. They talk about how "Woe is me" when they don't suffer from anything significant and don't have any kind of mental illness.

Sure, a lot of actual emos may like dark, horror, and creepy stuff that many other people may not like. However, actual emos, not the posers, don't post pictures of cut wrists on the internet.

They think the world revolves around them. They feed on attention and torture God by hurting themselves. All they need is a hug from people who don't think they're "insane."

If you're emo, you don't always have to be depressed. I count myself as an emo, but I'm not depressed. I've had depression, but I'm fine now.

We're stereotypes? Did you mean to say the list was? Some of us have actual mental health problems. Mental health is real.

I once saw someone say Blink-182 was emo. They are literally everything but emo. Since when has not wanting to grow up had anything to do with embracing the darkness? And don't even get me started on how these emos have put their horrible brand on Panic! at the Disco. It's gotten to a point where members from these bands have actually come out and said they are not emo and hate the label. I feel disgusted that these people are members of our society.

A lot of non-emo people enjoy certain bands that emo people enjoy, which makes people think that the entire fanbase of the band is just teenage emos.

This happens with other styles, but I've seen it more with emos. Passing a picture of themselves around at a party while saying "Don't I look terrible?" or mentioning how ugly they are around a group of people - I've seen it before.

They want people to give them compliments and to be worried about them. The more people worry, the more emo they think they are, right? No!

They are also the type of sadistic people who troll 8-year-olds on Minecraft. When they're adults talking to a little kid and ruining their Minecraft server, why?!

There's this dumb kid who doesn't look emo but claims he is. He was a jerk to me and made fun of people below him. Then he ended up feeling emotionally sad and couldn't figure out why no one liked him.

You're generalizing everything. Just because you know one emo who does this one thing or responds in this one way to something doesn't mean they're all the same.

I've seen it before, and honestly, not every emo on the planet is depressed, suicidal, or anorexic. Maybe they just like the style. But using it as an excuse to complain about their life is just utter crap. I mean, okay. You have problems. I get it. We all have problems. But seriously, you don't have to put on a big show that you have so many problems that you "just can't even."

I get down from time to time, but I'm not emo, partly because my parents would notice and think, "get her a counselor," and overreact. But the people who are just fishing for compliments...just...don't. So if you're an "emo" who is just being emo for no reason except as an excuse to complain a lot, no offense, but you should get a checkup from the neck up.

I mean, yeah, the "popular kids" are rude sometimes, but I have "popular" friends. Besides, what even makes people popular? It doesn't matter. If you truly feel the need to complain, don't complain to me.

I've been bullied by the "popular" people, but that doesn't mean they're all airheads. Sometimes they're trying to fit in, or they're trying not to be kicked out. I've done it too. But they're people, not some look-obsessed shells you have the "right" to complain about.

I am popular at my school and I don't think it's fair for people to judge me because I have a lot of friends. I try to be nice and make friends with people. When I talk to any emo, they treat me like I just spit on them even though I just want to be friends. I think that they should try to get to know someone popular before getting angry at some stereotype.

This has happened so many times. Expect people to stare, laugh, point, etc. when you're walking around looking like Marilyn Manson played dress-up with a corpse. That was a little harsh, but you choose how you dress, which is great - be yourself.

So if you choose to wear a sign that says "give me attention," don't get mad when it's not the attention you wanted.

This is a real thing, though. People do this to me all the time. When I'm on the street and stuff, these people always stare and sometimes make bad comments. It makes me so mad, but I don't think you should overreact and use this to get more attention. I just settle for the good old sideways glare. At least I feel like I've done something about it.

Yeah, I do! I know Black Veil Brides, Pierce The Veil, Sleeping With Sirens, My Chemical Romance, Falling In Reverse, and many others!

A lot of emos, especially girls, will make fun of other girls for being "basic white girls." Meanwhile, they all wear the same things and listen to the exact same music. Just saying.

My sister is "emo" (even though the only real emo band she listens to is My Chemical Romance), and she just hates on everyone else's music taste.

I have to disagree with this one because you could almost say this about any other stereotypical label, right?

Once, an emo said Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, and Slipknot were emo. I hate it. It's clearly metal. She said Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse were similar to MCR. They couldn't be more different.

The reasons why emos are associated with Blood on the Dance Floor. Us real emos don't want to be associated with that.

I've dealt with this. An emo girl at my school called Muse and Stromae emo.

It does not matter if you can't tell people's genders apart. You don't need to judge people for their appearance. I have short hair - really short - and wear boys' clothes sometimes. There is nothing wrong with that.

Most people just don't like the way "emo" looks. Not because it's dark or scary, but because it makes the guys seem feminine and the girls seem masculine. It sometimes gets to the point where you can't tell their genders apart from one another.

To be honest, I like the emo style, at least when it's not overdone. I think it's kind of stylish and unique. Overall, emos are still annoying.

This doesn't apply to all emos, but I've seen it in a lot. They just love drawing attention to themselves and it's annoying, especially in conversations. I've been in situations where a group of people are having a lighthearted conversation and they suddenly change the topic to be just depressing and awkward.

I have a friend who, in a half hour, will mention how emo she looks over 15 times. She either whispers it to herself, goes into rants about how much more emo she is than some chick, or just says, "I look so emo, right?"

Ugh, I totally understand. My friend is absolutely obsessed with being emo when she isn't at all!

When an emo person is the type of emo that is always forcing themselves to be sad, they could be actually sad or just be frowning because "it makes me look so emo." If someone is constantly frowning, constantly talking about their problems to people who didn't ask, and even talking about things that they hate 24/7, it makes them look like a big attention seeker who just wants to be in the spotlight.

This isn't true about all of the emos. I'm pretty emo, but I don't make it obvious that I'm sad or depressed. I just want to be emo because I think of it as a style. I do have my downs, but I get over it really quickly. I don't make my problems other people's problems.