When the Hell did "Goth" become "Emo"?

Seriously! When were the lines blurred? I can tell the distinctive differences between the quintecential Goth and the typical Emo, but it seems like my perspective is a rare one. I have heard plenty of clearly goth people being called "Emo" and vice versa. Is it just people's ignorence or an offical switch of title?

I think it's because most people have more important things to worry about than correctly distinguishing one flavor-of-the-week clique from another in mall food courts.

I wear a trenchcoat, my head is shaved, I ride a skateboard and I have big thick black horned glasses. Yeah, I'm trendy as fuck.

And I still missed about 6 categories. *sigh* I'll never be popular.

I think with the sighing you moved a little closer to emo.

In the UK, right after this article was published by The Daily Mail.

Apart from being ridiculed all over the internet, several other UK newspapers decided to run articles attacking this article, or reference the how bad the writer's research was in their own comment pieces.

It stands out as one of the most inaccurate pieces of journalism (despite the content being pretty trivial) that I've read this year. And, no, it wasn't a joke.

WE have sub-sets now? What makes them so sure that goth isn't a subset of Emo?

Who gives a fuck..................be who you are and if others don't like it...............fuck them to.

If you have that much time in your life to judge people by the way they dress, go back to HIgh School!

No, the problem exists universally in all locales, in all subcultures. Such behavior is probably less a symptom of dullardism and more the result of a desire to look better or more "scene" in the eyes of peers. At least I hope that it's just a result of group-think.

Oh don't feel bad; I've never been able to fit into a subculture either. Its not that I don't WANT to, its just that I always manage to screw it up So, I suppose I am a Nerdy-Punk-Hick with dreams of political glory

Hmm, well as far as the females of both groups are concerned, they're both hot!
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But seriously, I don't care how people choose to dress. I think labels are pretty pointless.

"A Little Closer to Emo"
Can anyone else see that as a song title?

The girl on the left there is neither goth nor emo. She just looks like a college student trying to be trendy. Either way, what's with the need to attach people (including ourselves) with stupid labels? I never quite got that.

Capitalism?

Linkin Park's next big single.

hi i am Chris and I am a label.

I just read that. Hol-eeeee shit.

Hah.. ahahaha.... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Christ, I give up. Read this while I put on some Sunny Day Real Estate.

(But seriously, what's with all the definition-of-emo threads lately? Are you guys trying to rile me up?)

would it be emo if i put this on a t-shirt?

No, it would be emo if you put it on at-shirt and then went in the bathroom and slit your wrists.

They aren't even in the same neighborhood.

It's a matter of chronology. Goth as a subculture came into existence long before emo (the late 1970's is when Goth started to come into existence in the UK, whereas the D.C. hardcore roots of Emo wouldn't be established until the mid-1980s). I think that the assertion that Emo is a subset of Goth to be a bit silly and unfounded, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than saying that Goth is a bastard child of Emo.

When you put it like that, it makes a lot more sense.