[QUOTE="Blood-Scribe"][QUOTE="Anamosa41"][QUOTE="Blood-Scribe"][QUOTE="Anamosa41"][QUOTE="Blood-Scribe"][QUOTE="Anamosa41"] An emo is someone who is depressed, wears a lot of black, wears tight jeans (I'm not saying everyone who wears tight jeans is emo), and cuts themselves. BTW I do not hate emos. If I can help them in any way I want to.
Also, didn't they used to be called "gothic"?
Anamosa41
No, goth and emo are two different things, but people often get them confused. Goth is just another social label branded on people who wear dark clothing, wheras emo is a sub-genre of rock that came from the 80s. Either way, both are taken as labels with no definite material to either of them, because most of the time it's spewed from ignorant high school students that don't bother to find out more about a person they don't understand. Either way you look at it, people take both the wrong way, and no one really knows what they are about.
So what is a gothic?No one knows for sure, it's just a label for someone who wears excessively black clothing and sometimes black eyeliner. That's about the best answer I've found.
Actually I have seen where "gothic" is a time period in the art of painting. Back in the 1400s (I think) there was a different style of painting. So people just labelled it the gothic years.That's an era, not a social label.
Like I didn't know that. :PI'm just trying to give out all the info I know on what the heck "gothic" is. Literally speaking, it's not a social label, but in contemporary language yes it is. Kind of like 'cool' isn't ACTUALLY referring to a temperature, but it's accepted. Wow, I'm nitpicking worse than an English teacher... sorry...
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