People don’t actually grow out of their emo phases. People are forced out of their emo phases by employers who get a raging boner over controlling how their employees dress, cut their hair, whether they mod their bodies and so on
How many beautiful emo men would we have if not for the tyranny of the 9-5. How many strange goth women are trapped inside the performance of a clean girl aesthetic because she needs to be able to eat. How many people are wage slaves when they should be punks?
Also I’m smarter than all of you guys who were forced out of your emo phases because I went to 7 mile and bought a wig for normie cosplay and no one has clocked me at any of the job interviews I’ve been to. I go to the interview in long sleeves and I wear a brace on my wrist to cover my hand tattoo and pretend to have sprained it until they give me the job. life hacks.
Oh also this is why a lot of people dressed alt on social media during the pandemic and then stopped. They’ll say it’s because they were bored and they think it’s cringe now. They’re liars it’s actually because they had to go back to work and were made to feel cringe by the lame ass office culture