The term "emo" has been coined randomly in order to describe scene kids.
Scene kids are kids who follow the fashion of popular metal and punk. At the moment bands such as Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Aiden and Fallout boyare popularising skinny black jeans, dyed black hair in an 80's romantic style, dark, thick eyeliner and band merch such as blackhoodies with roses and guns and other such symbolism. The kids see it. The kids follow.
Travis Barker (the Blink 182 drummer) can be blamed for much scenedom, as he started the 'Famous Stars and Straps' clothing label. If you see anyone with clothing or accessories adorned by an 'F*', well, thats Famous. Thanks Travis...
The whole self harm thing is a small minority making an impression that the majority suffer for. LOTS of people self harm who aren't scene, so whatever.
Emo is a genre, and as it has been hammered down in this thread TIME and TIME again, not ONE of the bands people are listing as emo, are emo.
The topic title should be "Why is scene considered cool?"
And my answer to that is - kids are impressionable. Always have been, always will be.
LOL...
"panterar must b emo! hav u herd semetry gatezz!?"
Jenova_Flare
This is another good description that is going so unnoticed in this thread. Emo is a genre of music. Scene kids look (and i guess act) a certain way, people call this emo but it is scene. I don't know if certain people are just being difficult on this subject or what or if they just don't want to listen ( i also want to clear up my stance, i'm arguing this thread simply on the basis of musical ignorance, i am not a fan of Linkin Park, Panic!, FoB, etc, i am also not a scene kid, i am not a fan of real Emo music, i just would rather have people get some things straight). Your thread should say "why are scene kids considered "cool'" or something of that sort, if that was the case i would have looked at the thread and walked away, i'm not interested in scene, i dont find scene cool, i couldn't care less why people think it is cool, but this started as a discussion about the above mentioned bands being emo, that is simply incorrect it is not true emo. If i meet someone who is homosexual and i tell someone "yeah, they are gay i am using the term gay correctly, if i say "amperepunx is an emo group" i am using the term emo correctly, if i see a heterosexual person and have something against their style and say "that person is so gay i'm using the term gay incorectly, if i say "LP, FoB, Panic!, etc is emo" im using the term emo incorrectly, if i see a scene kid, dressed in black with a dumb haircut and say "they're so emo" i'm using emo incorectly, even though that has become a slang way to use the term im using it wrong, if i'm in a bad situation and so "oh, this is so gay i'm using gay incorectly, even though that has become a slang way to use the term it is still incorrect. This thread is driving me crazy, for every person who seems to know something about musical genres there are 10 people to say "no! that song is sad it is sooo emo!!" Oh, and to the person who said something about 'any song can be labeled emo" (based on lyrics) that just isn't true, depressing lyrics don't make a group emo. A sad country song cannot be emo, the music is country, the lyrics do not make the genre. Musical genres are laregley determined by the instruments used, the style of the music, the style of singing, etc, not just lyrics. That is why we have genres like Metal, Rock, Country, Rap, etc and not genres like "Sad", "Happy" "Indifferent" those are emotions, not genres, the emotion of a song does not determine a songs genre. 
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