What do people mean when they say someone is "emo"?

People usually get called emo by how they dress or the music they listen to. Emo is in fact a genre of music but somehow people have developed this into a lifestyle. Emo's apparently self-harm and hate life. You usually get called emo if you like to wear black clothes and lots of eye-liner.

Today emo is commonly tied to both music and fashion as well as the emo subculture.[121] Usually among teens, the term "emo" is stereotyped with wearing slim-fit jeans, sometimes in bright colors, and tight t-shirts (usually short-sleeved) which often bear the names of emo bands. Studded belts and black wristbands are common accessories in emo fashion. Some males also wear thick, black horn-rimmed glasses.[122][123][124]

The emo fashion is also recognized for its hairstyles. Popular looks include long side-swept bangs, sometimes covering one or both eyes. Also popular is hair that is straightened and dyed black. Bright colors, such as blue, pink, red, or bleached blond, are also typical as highlights in emo hairstyles. Short, choppy layers of hair are also common. This fashion has at times been characterized as a fad.[125] In the early 2000s, emo fashion was associated with a clean cut look,[126] but as the style spread to younger teenagers, the style has become darker, with long bangs and emphasis on the color black replacing sweater vests.

Emo has been associated with a stereotype that includes being particularly emotional, sensitive, shy, introverted, or angst-ridden.[127][128][129] It has also been associated with depression, self-injury, and suicide.[130][131]

Someone who wears dark colors, tight pants, eyeliner, scarves, and listens to the genre of "emo" music.

Probably the most inaccurate label out there. But that's what they mean.

Emo-

Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle.

The REAL answer is this .

People say people are 'emo' because they hate their life, dress in black, listen to scremo, & cut theirself, ect.

THAT IS NOT WHAT EMO REALLY IS, emo is a type of MUSIC. but ignorant people made it seem like what i said.

so there you go (:

emo, also stands for Eat More Orange

if it was said to a person that means that person is pail, need to be more happy or emo(Eat More Orange)

When someone is a nerd or a not cool person. Thats their only way of being cool. Which they think they are. It's stupid.

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Emotionally depressed

They think life sucks. Emos are Debbie downers who wear black and act pissed because their parents don't let them do whatever they want.

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-of/emo

people who hate their lives cut themselves etc ........