What do you mean my emo is fake?

Recently, I have often seen netizens commenting on "I am emo" and "I am emo" on major platforms, and some even started the topic of emo. In fact, the stem of emo comes from a serious vocabulary called emotional hardcore rap.

Emo appeared in the 1980s. After 2000, a group of bands made this style popular. Its musician image and behavior are very special, with straight black hair, slim clothes and tight jeans, canvas flat shoes, eyeliner or eye shadow.

When netizens express "I am emo", they are actually expressing their bad mood and depression. So "I am emo" can be understood as "I am decadent", "I am depressed", "I am stupid" and "I am non-mainstream".

In network terms, it is this person who is "pressing the cloud with the net".

Inflation in emo:

Among the thousands of emo expressions on the Internet, some emos are people's urgent emotional expression needs, while others are full of performance. This is why the behavior of "pressing the cloud with the net" has become the object of ridicule.

Is it really an act of "affectation" and "affectation" to leave your feelings when listening to a song in the comment area of a song and share a favorite song at twelve o'clock?

Bilibili's last comment, which received 57,000 praises, related to "Internet pressure cloud" wrote, "We are not mocking or despising those who are really depressed and whose lives have been hit hard, but satirizing those who use their names to gain sympathy and attention and pretend to be very sad." Some users added a comment below, "We hate those who use these emotions to make stalks and play stalks."

When these tree holes used for emotional expression are habitually filled with stalks, jokes and performances, the meaning of emotional expression is indirectly weakened.

In On the Inflation of Language, Li Anzhai pointed out that there is inflation not only in economy and currency, but also in language. As a medium to express thoughts and feelings, language will expand if it can't carry the corresponding thoughts and feelings. When a word is used frequently and casually, used as a stalk, as a joke, the emotion it represents is correspondingly less important.

This also explains why young people who say "I am emo" may not be so emo, leaving more, but just being subservient to popular culture, and this "subservience" is getting worse and worse under the deduction of various media and platform algorithms. Articles titled "I am emo" in the official WeChat account tend to get higher traffic, and various bloggers and video creators will also add a large number of popular words to their content to integrate into this tide.