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Let's go back 5 or 6 years (Perhaps even less), emo was starting out in it's latest 'wave' of musical evolution. And around this time, maybe one or two years later, social networking sites where beginning to bring in vast amounts of traffic and it became cool to be somewhat geeky (As opposed to the times that if you knew how to navigate the internet it was an instant beatdown from your school jocks, who obviously were yet to master their hand eye co-ordination enough to control a mouse), now everyone seems to know how to do your basic html coding. Anyway, around this time 'emo' bands began popping up on myspace and purevolume and suddenly the rest of the internet took hold of this new craze. The problem with these bands is that a large number of mainstream emo bands have gone about making majority of their money by dressing emo and riding the wave of money that emo brought them, but then at the same time those bands try to seperate themselves from the emo genre as to be sure that those who are against emo still like them as a band. And will continue to listen to their music without the fear of being called emo.

While this story is by new means new, I feel it hasn't been published enough and will do my part to ensure everyone knows exactly what kind of band Bring Me The Horizon is. Too often do I see girls in Bring Me The Horizon shirts or girls talking about how hot Oli Sykes is and how they would do anything to get with him. Would you really? For those unaware Oli Sykes, the vocalist of Bring Me The Horizon was brought in by police last year for an incident involving a young female.

Here is apparently what went down

Emo and scene found it's way into the mainstream media one or two years ago, and as could be expected the media went on a frenzy of bad stereo-typing and cliche assumptions. There were public warnings to parents issues by high schools, colleges and universities as well as religious communities, and instead of trying to understand the culture the media seemed to log-on to some websites and pick up on the stereo-types that were being spread online.

Here are some news articles and videos which were directed at the emo and scene culture but have no idea what emo really is. Some you can't help but laugh at, some are accurate and some are just plain annoying.