Your experience with emo sounds more suburban Edvard Munch than what I have seen out here in amishland...they come across more pythonesque here such as the teen girl in the movie Local Hero.
In smaller towns they don’t have the opportunities that suburb/city kids have to go full tilt overboard. The druds and such are there but not so easy to get or as popular. There is less peer pressure as well.
But the net is a great equalizer in a lot of waus, bringing all of the mental aspects of Emo culture to the smallest of places. And the peer pressure, if only online.
Sure there are the ‘normal’ kids that dress the part and thats about it. That’s no biggie. But the entire culture is as destructive to a family and to society as a ‘cultural’ movement gets. All my ranting aside, spend some time searching “Emo” on the web to get a glimpse of what it’s really about. It isn’t fun and games. The suicide rates prove that.
Fair warning, you will come across a LOT of self-shot porn.