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Wouldn’t that make it Epoe?
Old meme is old.
Someone should be hanged for this utterly cretin association…
I think he was more demented than emo.
no, you see, his parents were killed by blind vampires, so now he’s deranged and has turned into EAP the blind vampire slayer
his parents did die, but it any kind of vampire
Got maybe? But not emo
Agreed. Poe is more Goth than Emo. Dark, but not whiny and depressed. If you’re only going by suicide (since I think he was among the suicidal classic writers) – almost every writer you study in the classics committed suicide. O.o;
Emo was… oh hell what was that lady we studied in 10th grade? Some poet chick who was like this major recluse and all her poems were whiny and annoying and then she killed herself. I think I’ve blocked her name from my memory. LOL I *hated* reading that woman’s stuff.
Poe just wrote a good scary tale for his day and age.
Poe didn’t kill himself, he was found half-dead in a gutter from alcohol poisoning.
Really, I find that ironic.
Emos only pretend to be suicidal because they think it is cool. Plus calling Poe Emo is like saying that Twilight is an awesome book. It’s just not true now I must burn my keyboard for spawning that blasphemous phrase.
Except that was a clause, not a phrase.
Actually, there is a lot of speculation surrounding his death–one theory suggests what you’ve said, another points to a deadly beating, some even say it was a hitman hired by his fiancee! Though, of course, he did have serious opiat and alcohol addiction, I’m still curious as to whether or not that killed him. In any case, the suspicion kind of fits him well–we never knew his mind, and we will never know his death! (Btw, did you know that studies suggest that people who use dashes (–) in their writing a lot tend to be mentally unstable…? (i.e., The Bells!)
Sylvia Plath. She stuck her head in an oven.
LOOOOOL
He may be the only person that can call ‘first’ and no one would get pissed.
The other people in that category are Morgan Freeman and Hugh Laurie.
seriously why would you even think of calling him emo eww… thats a horrible insult on good taste…
It is indeed…
I… third (?) the notion
UH, so NOT emo.
He didn’t cry or cut himself.
Like said earlier, MAYBE goth, but not emo.
King of Horror, for sure
I’m glad people are making this point, except you like many others clearly don’t understand emo in the first place.
What would make us want to understand? Is there some complex theory behind bad taste and poorly written music?
Clearly, no one here has bothered to read the stories that *weren’t* in “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”… some of them are quite funny and light-hearted.
Really, folks. Read some books. Then you can start making remarks on the authors, m’kay?
Ooh, I loved the one about the guy who married his grandmother because he thought that wearing glasses impaired his good looks. I forgot what it’s called; just read it a few years ago.
He isn’t emo or goth. He may be gothic. There’s a difference.
And btw emo doesn’t mean to cry or cut yourself.
Lol that’s exactly what Emo is.
um…yes it does. Emos are wannabe goths who whine about everything in their perfect life (what could possibly be wrong when you can afford to buy $100 pants?) and USUALLY cut
Emo is actually a musical genre describing Emotive Hardcore from the 90′s. Bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate, The Promise Ring, Mineral, and Rites of Spring are emo. Stuff like Fallout Boy and MCR or the kids who wear their little sister’s pants aren’t.
Emo is the all encompassing term for all ‘Emotional’ Rock, no longer just Emotive Hardcore… Fallout Boy and MCR are Emo, as are the lil idiots as described by Casa or wear their sis’ pants.
There is a cure to regain a ‘good’ name though, just remind them tis down the road not across the street
Then by your logic, Metal is emo too… you know, since it has emotion to it? Not trying to start an argument, I guess I’m just kinda sad about the bastardization of the term Emo.
Damnit, my logic has been turned against me, heh. Nah, twas poorly worded as I read it now. It is a shame that the mainstream has destroyed, as it does, a decent genre. But what can you really expect?
we/they are not!
Urban Dictionary strikes again:
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A group of white, mostly middle-class well-off kids who find imperfections in there life and create a ridiculous, depressing melodrama around each one. They often take anti-depressants, even though the majority don’t need them. They need to wake up and deal with life like everyone else instead of wallowing in their imaginary quagmire of torment.
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Like a Goth, only much less dark and much more Harry Potter.
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So yes… I wish my lawn was emo, ’cause then it’d cut itself.
So genius, I wish I’d wrote it. Bravo!
oh why do that to sir potter…yeah corporate goth because boots are expensive
ahhhh… but this one used his Emo abilities to compose great poetry that has stood the tests of time for 150 years. He channeled his Emo well…
Todays Emos cant hold a candle to him…..
Emo’s can’t write poetry. They THINK they can.
I declare fake emo poetry hour, starting… Now.
The Little Death by DWN
They say I should cut my hair and not my arms
They say my actions bring them harm
But only I know the answer
That we walk this world in a wheel like a hamster
I couldn’t afford those preslashed pants
For more fodder for another one of my rants
Now my girl is going down on me
Draining until it is all empty… Like my soul…
*bows* Next!
I think you won fake emo poetry hour. Someone get this person a prize!
Woot!!! I won!!!
Bwahaha.. You, dear sir, totally made my day
And you are most welcome.
My parents and teachers, they demand
But I’m the only one who understands
That life is pointless and should end
And the imaginary scars will not mend
As I straighen my hair
I look in the mirr’ar
And see a girl in tight black pants
Who goes on constant bi-polar rants
And I pull back my sleeves and see my wrists
free of scars or scratches or slits
As I feel a tear run down my face
I know that there’s no time to waste
I walk out the door and break into a run
And sprint to Hot Topic.
The End
Put that in your juice box and SUCK IT!
And thus you’ve actually proven that he isn’t an Emo in the slightest.
i dunno why it always has to be THIS picture posted when Poe is discussed…it looks like he has boobs…
He was Gothic, not Emo
Quoth the Raven,
This Caption SUCKS!
you got that right!
Quoth the Raven
Nevermore!!
Ugh, how the hell did this get on here? This is a disgrace.
Poe is not emo and the caption writer needs a thump on the head.
I agree! I love Poe’s work. He is definitely not emo…..
“Emo” I’m sure, is short for emotional. Well, then that would mean everyone is an emo…. Everyone can become a little emotional sometimes….
By the way, emotional does not mean that you are depressed all the time. An emotion is someone’s state of being, like being happy, sad, angry, etc.
So this obviously means that everyone is emo, which I do not believe this to be true.
So, how many of you actually sent an objective email? If all you do is whine at nobody important, you’re basically no better then the emo kids.
Like yourself huh?
Wow, that’s really funny. But I think the very first emo is the one I gave the link to.
Well now we know all about Peo. Thank you Zizua. Good stuuf.
Yet more people making fun of things they don’t understand. If people believe those idiotic stereotypes I’m amazed they managed to use a computer.
Caption is wrong too, like a lot of you have said.
I wish it weren’t so, but they only throw their own fuel upon the fire that is the ‘Emo’ stereotype…
for me old “emotive” band have become almost “indie” bands or stay “Emotive” but I swear there is a difference between “emotive” and “emo” bands… “Emotive” being like Ozma, Death Cab for Cutie, Vampire Weekend, etc… and “Emo” bands being MCR, Tokio Hotel, and Simple Plan… but MCR really only has the look, but not really the mentality anymore.. which is sad because the music is alright.
but back to the picture… it is a bit of a disgrace for Poe, a literary genius to be compared to the stereotypical “EMO” that we all love to hate… unfortunately the caption-er probably found the picture found out who it was, is only under the age of 16(or was a complete retard when it came to language arts classes) because of lack of knowledge that Edgar Allan Poe was a writer… so suffice to say… most writers who write about horror or occult things… are EMO? Then I cant wait for someone to tag Stephen King or Lovecraft as Emo
lovecraft was the ultimate emo….didnt he stay with his mom for the longest amount of time?
He was my 5th cousin. No lie.
I don’t really agree with the ‘emo’ label for him…
I don’t equate Alcoholism and (legitimate) Manic depression as being EMO, but his poetry kicks all their asses!
Pish. Emo or not, he’d hardly be the first. Emo has been around a LOOOONG time. Just look at some medieval songs like “Fortune my Foe”. Some of the lyrics to this song include gems like “Fortune my foe, why dost thou frown on me?…Will thou, I say, forever breed my pain?…In vain I sigh, in vain I wail and weep! In vain my eyes refrain from quiet sleep! In vain my eyes refrain from quiet sleep!…Sorrow, hereafter thou shalt my mistress be!”
And the woman’s response, in the song, is very much like today’s response to emo kids: Get a grip!
Emo never dies, no matter how bad it wants to.
“Emo never dies, no matter how bad it wants to.”
Neither do the stereotype emos(emphasis on the stereotype part)… They’re just whiny attention whores with bad fashion sense
Yeah, pretty common. Ausias March was another perpetrator:
Just like he who sees himself near death,
going through hardships, through perils at sea,
and sees a place where he can find his ease
and cannot reach it for his evil luck;
like him I pass through these hard times
and see you, who might cure all my ills:
and now despaired of achieving my desires,
I’ll circle the world, telling of your pride
its so annoying! we cant die! alredy tried!
When I was young I thought that poetry was named after him.
but….it was!
Its called GOTH people!! EAP was NOT emo!!!!!
What on earth re: that person’s typing skills?! PEO? My God, it’s three letters….you couldn’t type that correctly?
If Poe lived today, he’d be as equally screwed up in the head now as he was in his own era. Not sure if he’d be emo, because I can’t really see him wearing those jeans…but you never know. But cutting, whining, etc, he’d probably be down with that scene. Is having inappropriate feelings for underage family members emo? Hmm.
That’s more vampirish. *winks*
Personally, I never found Poe’s works to be anything depressing, whiny or nihilistic, like a lot of “emo” stuff.. Then again, I couldn’t call Poe Goth either.. Poe actually wrote brilliant dark and creepy stuff (among some other light, fun pieces..) that people *still* remember and adore, unlike most emo/goth music
I’m no expert on emo, but goth music typically is pretty moody, creepy and dark, such as Bela Lugosi’s Dead. I do hope that you aren’t thinking of some crappy pop rock band when you think “goth”.
If poe were alive today, would he wear an MCR shirt with tight jeans or a “the voices in my head are tellimg me to kill you’ shirt with those idiotic tripp jeans?
Okay, all those stupid t-shirts that say things like “My imaginary friend thinks you’re weird”, “You might be a redneck if…” and “Who are these kids and why are they calling me ‘Mom’?” give a bad name to t-shirts everywhere. Disgraceful!
wwpd?
This is wrong. Poe went through enough tragedy in life, why slander his name so?
Well to put it into context. Poe actually married his 13 year old 1st cousin. (As far as things go, it apparently wasn’t all that unsual for those days) Poe was apparently a very loving husband and apparently wasn’t all that particulary strange or weird until she died of TB. Then he began drinking heavily out of grief for his lost love, then his stories and poems began getting a far, far darker tone. He apparently eventually lost the plot, as gradually insanity (which he apparently always had but suddenly emerged, like a volcano, when his wife died) The drinking and unknown reasons likely tied up with the insanity drove him to the brink, and he died in 1849, a broken man, in mysterious circumstances.
I believe that he got rabies, which caused his death.
Or Syphylis, or severe alcohol poisoning, or a hundred other explanations of his death. No one really knows how he died.
He was found at the edge of street near unconscious. A man found him and called a doctor, but in a matter of days, Poe died.
Since he died during the time of a certain election, some people think he was literally loaded with alcohol and cooped up for days to convince him to vote for a certain political figure. So yes, like Vila said, alcohol overload is likely.
THIS DOESN’T COUNT
no way, poe got too much coochie to me emo
So wrong.
First if you’re referring to over sensitive guys as “emo” then you should have put Gothe there because I think his Werther was the first “weltschmerz” character or the first with a bigger response (hence: the whole lot of suicides that copied Werther).
But, just connecting any of the great romantic writers with that stupid fashion movement (because it’s nothing more) would be, and it is ridiculous.
As much as I love Poe, I don’t consider him a horror author. He wrote a few horror tales, but these were exceptions to his body of work. I think “dark romantic” fits him a bit better and I DO credit him with the first detective story.
But for the king of horror, I’d have to give that one to H.P. Lovecraft. Now THAT man was ALL about the eldritch!
peo peo peo!
i think i peo’d myself
…. edgar allen poe isnt emo…. its called LITERACY
Definetly not an emo!
Correction, Goth; Not Emo.
Actually, Shakespeare was the first emo.
Nice try though.
omg, lol…
dude, he’s not emo, his poetry rocked. emo poetry is fail.
I’m fairly certain someone should be publicly executed for this debacle.
Or executed pubicly
so emo </3
Uum, he’s not emo.
Poe is definatly not emo. He was a writing genius. And you could at least call him goth, not emo.
You’re so stupid saying that ¬¬… well, you have talent >:-|
I agree. He was an alcoholic and he started to hallucinate near his death. He wasn’t emo, or goth, he was twisted (in a creepy, but not too bad way). Poe rocks, and so does emo, but he doesn’t fit with it.
Poe wasn’t emo. Go find yourselves.
This is ridiculous.
Yep, this is ridiculous. Edgar Allan Poe was a genius. Emo aesthetic is for idiots with no personality.