I agree with the ‘lost’ definition, but it is a self inflicted ‘lost’. It’s really the same thing in many respects as suburban whit kids dressing and acting ‘gangsta’ and pretending they be from ‘da hood THUG 4Life YO!
The I Can haZ a Cheexburger site has a section called “Go cry emo Kid” that mocks the hell out of Emos and their ‘culture’. Spend about a half hour going through the pics. They ‘embrace’ the mocking because feeling bad feels good...which is bad, so they do more of it to make it worse, to feel better in their misery.
Makes no sense right? In their world, it makes perfect sense. 100 years ago they would be in institutions. They really are mentally disturbed, and they desire it.
are emos behaving themselves, not stealing or mugging or vandalizing, if so then they really ought to be low on the list of social phenomena to worry about at any official level. let churches preach the gospel to them.