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 Emo is the new ""goth"" to the musically ignorant. They both wear black and are depressed, so according to musically ignorant kids they see the same thing. It's just a new insult word, like ""I hate goths, there creepy."" Now it's ""I hate emo kids."" It's become an insult coming from the mouths of the ignorant. Almost everybody who gets called emo isn't. In fact most of the emos that would get called it probably shouldn't care what society thinks since their trying to be disenfrachised. And as far as it being used as an insult The Emo Song hasn't helped any, mainly it's just stereotyoed Emo kids as a bunch of wrist slashing bipolars."