News Flash: Dangerous “Emo” Trend Might Take Hold of Your Impressionable Teen
…AND IT WILL RUIN THEIR LIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVESSSS!!
Don’t believe me? WATCH THIS:
My friend Emily sent over this Idolitor link to a video of a news piece by a Devils Lake, North Dakota station WDAZ in which they reveal a “dangerous trend” among area teens–it’s something called “EMO”, and if you aren’t careful, your child could be sucked into this destructive and extreme behavior. Kids wear “dark clothes and dark hair”…”that covers half your face” so that you “only see the world in half-view”.
OH. MY. GOD. These people are super retardo crazy.
I think I need to point out a few things about what is so crazy/funny/ridiculous about this video:
1. The area in which this is being broadcast is Devils Lake/Grand Forks, which is humorous in itself. But the scary thing is that this particular area (Devils Lake) in North Dakota was the home of the now (in)famous evangelical Christian “Kids on Fire” summer retreat documented in the Oscar-nominated film Jesus Camp. You know, that place where Pentecostal child pastor Betty Fischer made kids cry for the sins of the world out of deranged devotion for the Lord, where kids spoke in tongue, fell on to their knees, and hypnotically prayed to God. In other words, this town is seriously into Jesus, and sometimes a little TOO serious about everything.
2. The report insinuates that “emos”, as they call them, carry around and consult a point card in order to tabulate how “emo” they are. On screen they show a list called the “The Emo-Scale” that list things you can get emo points for like if your coffee is black, you wear tight clothes, or “the jackpot”–if you have tried to commit suicide. Obviously this list is a JOKE and is not serious, b/c if you’re so emo, you’re not going to have any friend to compare scores with anyway, so WHAT IS THE POINT? Seriously, who’s walking around talking about how depressed they are as a “bragging right” and being seen as cool for doing so?
3. How did no one notice that one of the girls interviewed not only has Fall Out Boy’s “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race,” BUT SHE SAYS HER NAME IS CHELSEY WENTZ!!! Hahahahha. Come on, what are the odds that this high school chick is going to be playing FOB during a piece about the “dangers” of emo music with a last name like Wentz? This is ridiculous! That is the most amazing prank for this amazingly stupid news story. I can’t imagine that’s her real name–if it was God playing a funny ha-ha joke on all of us.
Let us pray…
UPDATE: According to an email I got from Maura, the Associate Editor at Idolator, “she’s apparently real — i googled her name and got a bunch of grand forks HS field-hockey writeups.” Ahahahaha.
[...] I posted this on my other blog, So More Scene, so you can go there for my full analysis, but I just had to share with you kids as well. This. Is. Hysterical: [...]
Haha,
This reminds me of the newspaper article we had about “emo” in one of our british newspapers.
Except this is like way more funny.
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emo scale?
are you kidding?
these people are retarded if they seriously believe that these “emos or emotional people” carry around an emo scale with them. that’s the most retarded thing I think I’ve ever heard. and they think they know all about it.
hahahaha
i can’t believe those people actually took all those quizes ect. seriously
I MEAN COME ON!
actually, chelsey wentz is a real girl. she plays hockey for her high school team.
see here
that totally made me lol.
nobody wastes their time rating their “emo-ness” and using the scale.
what the hell…what are the odds of her having wentz as a last name…this video is gay..emo scales? where do they get this crap lol :P:P
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS WEBSITE ALL ABOUT! SO WHAT IF YOUR NAME IS WENTZ, DOESN’T MEAN UR RELATED 2 PETE WENTZ. MY SURNAME IS WAY, DOES THAT MEAN IM REELATED TO MCRS GERARD WAY. NO! THOUGHT NOT!! UR ALL STUPID SODS WHO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO AND BY THE WAY THIS WEBSITE IS UTTER CRAP! STUPIID FUCKERS!!!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=111784586
i suppose this means she is actually chelsey wentz.
AND she’s a fall out boy fan.
coincidence? i think yes
HAHA! THATS FUCKIN GREAT! I LAUGHED MY ASS OFF! EMO SCALE! HAHAHAHAHA!
oh, i love grown-ups. suddenly they forget they used to be hippies who deviated from acceptable society.
i found the wentz-girl very amusing in that “wait. hold-up. WUT!? hahahaha! was that even planned?”
by the way, does anyone consider fall out boy (as a whole, not just pete) emo? i don’t really. usually a majority of members ought to be emo to be considered emo. i listened to fall out boy ages and ages ago and their origins are in pop-punk.
wow internet drama is like the special olympics even if u win ur still retarted, so whats with all the drama and hate?
Are we shocked that this story came out of North Dakota? This country sux
humm… okay. i hate the word “emo.” i really do. in my opinion, any music can be emo. it just means emotional.
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i pretty much just died. what they didn’t tell you is that we carry around that scorecard in our backpocket for handy reference.
JACKPOTTTTTTT!!
don’t they have more important things to do. you know, like real threats to society. neo-nazis? etc.?
i just realized i think i stole the scorecard idea from this entry. oops.
OMG. I’m an emo, n if i slit my wrist I wouldn’t tell anyone. These people *Sarah Sands!!!!!!!! (Daily Mail)The slag* just hate us and will do whatever they can to stop us being who we are, they are trying to say the ones who slit their wrists are doing so for attention! Not that they may have serious problems that may need sorting! It was funny though
Oh see all this time i thought emo was that noise your shoe makes when it’s been raining outside and your walking through the school hallways wit wet school shoes on. Damn it.
um,fall out boy isn’t emo like they were talking about, their genre is emo.
when i first saw this i was thinkin that she would be related to pete too, butt then i thought about it. why would she be living in north dakota, if pete’s parents house i located in chicago? and besides they never EVER talk about her, because in release the bats, pete’s brother is there, butt not her. it’s just a funny thing that happened….. maybe… where would she be that had fall out boy playing in the backround anyways?
emo is even a word to me anymore.
but that vid was hilarious.
some adults NEED to be OPEN-MINDED.
What next? Death metal?
WTF!! they ar messed!! Please they need to grow up (even though their adults) and they could at least get it right… hilarious. A score card ya right! and bragging rights no way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Hzz63BjTU
she could have been a cousin on pete’s dad’s side. i have cousins with the same last name. or maybe she was just lying to the world because she was so ashamed.
or maybe she’s just one of those weird fans who are convinced they’re “meant to be” or married to a certain celebrity. i saw something about a chick who was so obssessed with jay-z she e-mails him and calls him like 100+ times a day. don’t deny it, there are some creeps out there. not that i’ve never written “mrs. orlando bloom/carrie bloom” in my journal before. hahaha.
They made some points here you can’t really ignore, it Did just use to be a music Style but now its a look now poeple don’t carry around these God Damned ‘Scales’ I’ve never actually seen it yet but i know for a fact they dont. And most of them dont have Phycoligical or mental problems they just dont like the way thier lives are going and Dont like situations they are in a d fell helpless. SOme know how to deal with it others seek and escape. Now I know poeple like this and to put it bluntly by the way this ‘Report’ put it I am emo myself now some people know its a style and they like the style its shows them not all emo people are like that.
And It may by Short for Emotional but what you dont know is it OCuld be a lack or to much or just normal and they can’t handle it… If you poeple wanna know more about EMO then interview the ‘EMO’ population and find out stuff
Added to omy last point
WHO CARES GET TO KNOW SOME OF US AND MAYBE YOU MIGHT LEARN THAT WE DONT ALL DO THAT SOME OF US JUST LIKE DIFFERENT THINGS AND WE DONT FIT IN, Yea all people go through a hard time but think its only gotten harder over time and I know all this and the shocker
im 14…
I’ve sat back and watched they think its dangerous and it can be i admit but seriously Leave us alone deal with the people who become criminals and kill OTHER PEOPLE there the ones with the fucking problems
you’re just doing this for bragging rights for your “web-log”
They really have a point though about people who wear sweaters…i mean, really….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO9Lj0T93Xk
overrrrrr. new mcr video (i don’t love you)
this is the most sterotypical piece of crap i have ever heard, if anyone knew anything about emo they would realize its about the passion for the music not this. i’m an emo kid and i’m proud, i’m not depressed and i dont cut myself. these are what we call sterotypes. dont worry about emo
hey all you fucker fall out boy isnt emo, try listening to pageninetynine. thats emo i hate you all for thinking they are
i dont get it….
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where can i have this emo scale sheet ….just for laugh about it
SOMEONE GET ME THIS SCALE!!! it’s way too amusing to me.
UM ITS NOT MY FAULT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND US AND WERE NOT CRAZY JUST CAUSE WE CUT OUR WRISTS DOSENT MEAN WERE TRYING TO ACT COOL IT REALIVES PAIN
UM YEAH ITS NOT ABOUT ALL THE CUTTING OR THE MUSIC IF YOU ACCTUALY LISTEND TO IT THIER IS ALOT OF PASSION IN THEIR MUSIC THEIR REVIVING THIER STRESS AND BECAUSE THEIR SINGING IT IT IS IN A NON HURTFUL WAY WOULD YOU RATHER THEY SUNG RAP AND CUT THEMSELFS EVERY NIGHT?? THINK ABOUT IT WE HAVE FEELINGS TOO IS REALLY NOT NICE TO JUDGED ALL OF US
Seriously, those christian idiots that filmed this need to go stick their dicks in a bible. Shut the fuck up. I acknowledge that once kids used to go around giving out ’scene’ points. But it was never for fucking cutting yourself. that’s an over exaggerated statement. as a matter of fact my friends and I. whom you would consider “super emo” don’t cut themselves. seriously. cutting is a cry for attention. and people who take such actions get punished in the future. trust me i have fucking scars to proove it. so fuck you and your god. emo isn’t about cutting or expressing pain. it’s about being yourself in a twisted fucking way. it’s not our fault that we were picked last in gym class, etc just becuase we were a bit girly or not testorone pumped. fuck you you fucking homophobes!
^ Classic
Hello To Everyone Who Is Reading This,
I think that all of you inconsiderate “emo” kids need to lay off the damn crack or whatever the thing is that is making you think your life is so damn miserable. All you retarded people have to do is soak your lives up with the bad points of life. That is not what is living is about. You cut your selves to get rid of the pain??? Are you not fully straight in your mind?? Come on seriously guy. You have to give and take some. Look at the better points of life there is so much to smile about your just not looking for it. ITS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! And if your not smart enough to figure it out the beauty of life is that you have a life. So get living, and please stop making the future of our nation look like a bunch of idiots. That is the last thing that we are, and I am going to prove this.
sorry,but emo kids dont slit their wrists for attention a lot do it cuz its the only kind of pain they can controll and because thier xtremely deppressed but not for attention and “scores”!!!!!!!! that kinda made me mad (no offence or anything)
emo kids are the most retarded wastes of life on the planet. If life is so bad, instead of being an attention whore just fucking kill yourself and just get over it.
okay…if anyone is emo…so what? it isnt any of ur buisness unnless we tell you and why is everyone ‘downing’ emo…they havent been thru it!!! and not all emos cut themselves!!
I would like to thank each and every one of you guys for your feed back on this video I laughed my ass off when I watched this video. So I decided to write my sophmore english research paper on it. And if you guys dont mind Im going to use some of ur guy’s quotes. Thank you so much! O btw….chelsea Wentz…ahahahahahahah!
ha that video is hilarious.. and when did the british papers have anything about emos in them coz i missed it.. damn
and i cant believe that thing about the girl chlesey wentz and with FOB in the background too!! she must have done that on purpose. lol
Uhm… the truth is there is a lot of stuff you have to know about emo what they showed on the video eventually you cant stop (us) from multiplying but you can control it… im actually not full emo so i dont cut myself and stuff…
Sorry i just cant stop giving comments
cause you got some of us emo all wrong i cant take that you keep on saying we kill are selves thats not true… well maybe some of us but your only 45% right!!!
Thi.news.re.port.is.so.fuckin.gay.!.If.you.wanna.be.emo.then.go.ahead.If.you.wanna.cut.themselves.go.ahead.no.ones.stoping.you..No.ones.stoping.me.from.doing..Fuck.what.the.police.think.its.not.their.lives.its.ours.and.if.we.wanna.be.emo.then.its.okay.and.mosty.fuck.all.those.haters.who.hate.us.becuz,they.wanna.be.us.and.don’t.have.the.guts.too….piss.off.
This.news.re.port.is.so.fuckin.gay.!.If.you.wanna.be.emo.then.go.ahead.If.you.wanna.cut.themselves.go.ahead.no.ones.stoping.you..No.ones.stoping.me.from.doing..Fuck.what.the.police.think.its.not.their.lives.its.ours.and.if.we.wanna.be.emo.then.its.okay.and.mosty.fuck.all.those.haters.who.hate.us.becuz,they.wanna.be.us.and.don’t.have.the.guts.too….piss.off.
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next thing theyll be telling us that its dangerous to breathe.
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YOUR ALL FUCKING GAY FOR PUTTING THIS SHIT UP AND THE FAT ASS IN THE REPORT SHOULD GO GAIN POINTS AND KILL HIMSELF
stereotypes are horrible. emo may be dangerous for some people but not all people. something is only dangerous when you make it dangerous. its horrible how people believe that shit. its just expression. if we do cut ourselves its not for fashion. did these people ever think to ask their children about their lives at school? or perhaps how they simply feel? i highly doubt it. its bullshit. all of it. and if these kids are smart theyd know not to cut themselves without reason.
That is the weirdest cowinkdink that her last name is Wentz and its spellded the same. Lucky bach.
okay for one
this is a dumb mistake that i did
and two
that is my name and im not obsessed with pete wentz at all or anything
and three
that music wasnt even supposed to be in the backround..they were supposed to edit it out
you guys are dumb
oh and stop fricken sending me hate mail through facebook and myspace..its retarded
I actually live very close to Devil’s Lake North Dakota… I wouldn’t say the people here are super religious… That newscast was pretty hilarious though. Cut them a break, this is North Dakota. We have nothing going on to talk about. Crime doesn’t exist.
I want to set the record straight.
i am a 14 year old independent minded girl often stereotyped by consumer driven pin heads as “emo”. if it is 2 much 4 u to understand or comprehend that all emo’s are not that of which is characterized in the “emotionally hardcore” stereotype please refrain from delving into my informational extroversion rant.
info-
1)there is no such person pathetic and free will-challenged enough to carry around a chart to gauge how much of a crowd follower they are.
2)emo doesn’t come from teen angst it primarily derives from the feelings that we, the people know that our elders wont understand or even respect us enough to truly listen to our problems.
3)and the thing about the seeing the world in one half view, did you busy body Christians ever consider that you judge mental beings are the half of the view that we are avoiding???
4)Goth and emo shouldn’t even be in any way associated . Goth by definition is:goth as a subculture is contemporary and found in many countries. it first appeared in the early 80’s in the “metal” scene in the U.K. its attire often depicts that of the 19th century gothic literature. And last in my short depiction of the average gothic definition, is that the act of being gothic is often associated with the shade black due to its mystique and dark quality. Emo: emo is a loose and un -defined definition for a person who is not vocal or adamant about their emotions . These people are often characterized by the emotions such as depressed, introverted and often shy. and also often criticized for their emotional lyrics or poetry. DO U C WHAT I MEAN??? THERE IS NO CORRELATION BETWEEN THE 2 !!!
5)YOU CANT ACT A FASHION!!! Fashion is a noun., so is table . Try and replace it !!!you cant act a table!!! Get your grammar and sanity straight before you incarcerate my lifestyle!!!
6)if someone wants to slit open their wrists, and you say there is no psychological problem, I think you may possibly be the person in need of severe psycho -therapy!!! also they just don’t do it for attention that’s like saying “ hey Billy, I’m going to go cut myself because my mom didn’t pay attention to me last night .” that doesn’t happen!!! If they take part in self mutilation, they have a reason not just because they want to !!!
7)just because two teenage girls were to weak to continue their life, and they decided to check out of this life, doesn’t mean that the rest of our generation is stupid enough to decide that life isn’t worth living. DON’T U TRUST US AT ALL??????
8)WEARING PANTS THAT ARE NOT FALLING DOWN YOUR BUTTOX ARE NOT AIDING THE TERRORISTS !!!!!FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BLAME ……MAYBE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION….NO ONE HAS COMPLAINED ABOUT THEM IN A WHILE !!!!!!!
i think i some one wants to cut they can but they wouldn’t go telling every one
in the emo report, did u realize that you offered the idea that we, the “emo’s” r taking part in the fashion(hint: lifestyle) mainly because of our deprivation of attention, want for rebellion, and wanting to follow the fashion. and that u raising the intrest of being “emotionally hardcore”, is only promoting the lifestyle. and you said that one of the major flaws of the emo lifestyle is the need of rebellion. And aren’t you providing something for our generation to rebel from , just in order to rebel from the “elder generation”
So my point is. QUIT IT
YOUR JUST MAKING IT WORSE
WE JUST WERE PREVIOUSLY TEASED AND RIDDICULED BY YOUR CHILDREN NOW WE ARE BEING HARRASSED BY U
YOU ARE JUST CONTRIBUTING TO THE PAIN AND SUFFERING TAKE YOUR NOSES OUT OF OUR BUISNESS AND PUT THEM IN THE AIR WHERE THEY ARE USED TO BEING !!!!!
who are you talking to? pretty sure the people who write up those news stories dont spend their down-time on this site.
well amber, I am writing ion this site to further the downsizing of the ignorance on the quizzical subject of being emotionally hardcore. and if u have a problem with my form of expression, STOP READING THE BLOGS!!!
OK, NOT THAT ANYONE CARES BUT I THINK THAT THAT IS THE MOST RETARDED VIDEO, IT’S REALLY NO OF YOUR BUSINESS WHAT I DO AND WHAT PEOPLE LIKE ME DO, JUST LET THE TEENAGERS HARASS ME AND GET YOU 49-YEAR-OLD ASS OUT OF HERE.
this video is absolutly riduiculous. people dont kill themselves to be “cool” these people have no idea what theyre even talking about. so what if emos are teens it doesnt mean theyre stupid and they dont have a sense of things. fu.ck the people who believe this video.
and does that video mean that ALL emos are retards that cut themselves and are always dark and depressive? come on! >.
i know many people that are considered like that and they don’t cut, they find it stupid and worthless.
i think emo is more about understanding those things that are not superficial, stuff from the heart.
and this can drive you into depression because nobody wants to hear your shitty reflections about life…
i don’t find it dangerous at all, i’m still alive and breathing, and happy with my life.
I think all of you make very interesting points, especially .x.miss.x.understood.x…x. But some of your names are so ridiculous. MCRS SHADOWED FENIX!? I mean come on woman. that’s just silly. no one will take that seriously. you sound like a stalker.Oh, and Ms.Understood, people might “understand” you a bit more if your name was different.
oh and leave that poor chelsey kid alone.
- moves hair in eye- I scored a a 29 on the emo scale
i kno about the wentz hirl i noticed that the first time i saw the report! XXDD and this report is bull its whats making everyone hate emos bc of these lies that arent true im seirously going to like send something in the mail to them and tell them what they did to our society.
Okay this report is bull shit. There is no fucking emo scale!
im from spain and im emo..emo isnt dangerous! and emo isnt dark emo is love and emotional people are very nice ok????
hello…..agian
hey bella
this is X MISS X UNDERSTOOD X
i dont c y its any of ur buisness why my name was what it was
but thabk you for that insightful suggestion…i took it into consideration….this better….and dont make fun of peoples screen names ….at least their names arent as lame as “bella”
j/k
ily bella
i hope u read this !!!
im sorry if it offends you i dont mean it to !!!!
hugs!!!!
being emo is so so so so so stiuped it’s even more stuiped whne people start to cut them self
kim,
don’t point fun at someone or something and call them “stupid” if you cant even spell “stupid.
<3 kaitlyn
“stupid”.********
why does this video/comments make my life hahahahahahahahah rofl
wow…now that was halarious.
what’s almost even more halarious are the comments like, “YOUR ALL FUCKING GAY FOR PUTTING THIS SHIT UP.”
I mean honestly…
you know what, I think I just have a problem with caps lock. It makes people sound like such idiots…
anyway, thanks for brightening my otherwise worthless day
bahahah this is so stupid , yeah i have bangs so i can only see half the world bahahaahah
Wow. I haven’t been on here in a while.
Hm. hahah I just read my posts and I just realized something: I was a total douche last year.
hahah.
Dude, like seriously, someone should have told me to go die.
wow emo scale im emo id din’t even know we had emo is actually a trama you duesh bags i cut my self to see my pain physicly run out of me