EMO TIK-TOK CRINGE (it’s worse than you think)

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

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[@alexnicastro469]

The widespread phenomenon of people calling themselves Emo and the retroactive labelling of myspace aesthetics as Emo is SCENE ERASURE.

[@TacticalGhost939]

RIP Finn. You were never suppose to expose big flat iron.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

They're gonna Epstein me for this

[@seanstreck3226]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA mckenty was found hung by the cord of his flattening iron in a tragic case of obsession as the endless hours he spent with the device blinded him to the dangers the corded villain possessed.

[@MilitantMe]

Normies don't judge, other alternatives judge harder than any normal ever could. People in the alternative culture are their own worst enemy by always attacking their own because they weren't alternative in "the right way*

[@loompy1440]

The vibe I get from zoomers is like gen X apathy and intelligence- meets baby boomer levels of motivated- meets millennial unhinged alt fashion- in a post label world where it’s just dress up and you can’t be homophobic so all the old rules are gone

[@straw6382]

you missed the "wrist check" joke so hard lol

[@whitespyder9]

I don't often laugh out loud while watching videos by myself... but the bit about dressage made me chuckle.

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Same.

[@Swollen_Goat]

As someone who graduated in 2008, I can confirm that highschool attire was never better than then. My yearbook looks exactly the same as this.

[@Crimson_Ty]

08! 🤘🏻

[@eliminator173]

At least you guys missed the Jersey Shore era where all the girls looked like snooki and all the guys like Pauly D.

[@SchmikeMitz]

08! 🤘

[@DrDipsh1t]

@@eliminator173 graduated in 09. I got to endure the jersey shore shit in college 😂there were watch parties for every new episode. Almost got bumped off a balcony by a drunk "Snooki" not paying a attention and acting a fool

[@mid-s_to_earlysViBEZ]

@@eliminator173 *LMAOOOO…* *That* was *RIGHT* AFTER, like, *DIRECTLY AFTER,* the *“Emo” Era…* (2005-2008)and (2009-2012) *Where were you?!* LMAOOOO

[@trevordarko]

"Honey, the Goth Moth is back..." Fking dead, man. 💀💀💀💀

[@xxenthusedgames1540]

Gen z simultaneously scares the shit out of me but also I'm so goddamn proud of them as a whole

[@kyllllllllle]

This should be a regular series for your channel - these were HILARIOUS

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

It's beyond (Cringe) killing the mind away that at times I forget if it's Emo or Eboy to Egirl cringe mixed in between too inevitable at this point.

[@chuckles0871]

Been seeing Madeline’s TikTok’s on fyp for a while now, she always has good shit to say. Surprised you didn’t mention how short her bangs are 😂

[@wellnesspharmzcaregiver7278]

That guy in the TikTok.. MatriarchMothra was part of a huge scandal where a girl killed herself over him. He has some wierd followers who obsess over him and one actually killed themselves when he rejected her and was rude to her when she randomly showed up to his house.... After he had made a mistake of challenging his fans to actually figure out where he lived... The guy is a huge POS

[@n0c0n3]

wasn't he also constantly cheating and a pedo?

[@wellnesspharmzcaregiver7278]

@@n0c0n3 yeah he cheated on his girl and he still is constantly obsessing over her and her new life as well... The guys a real POS.... I don't know how he has any followers. I think they mainly follow just to see the train wreck that he is. His comments are always filled with ppl attacking him..

[@someguy803]

He also does that thing where emo/scene kids act like little cartoon stuff animals with their mannerisms. Anyone who does that is a POS on the inside.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Holy shit, I had no idea!

[@wellnesspharmzcaregiver7278]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA look up his KZbin Social Repose... Ppl have done some videos about the obsessed fan that killed herself... The guy is a real POS and just narcissist.... Here's a video someone did about the situation kzbin.info/www/bejne/maHHZomvo6qtp8U

[@thenewwavejoeshow]

I'm so glad you included someone who listens to the Cure - give them a chance Finn. They've been putting out amazing music for 40+ years and still doing it today. They've always done things their own way, and never gave up control to the "industry."

[@thenewwavejoeshow]

@•●CrePusculaRChiRoPterA●• they are an amazing band. Never bent to conform. Try Echo and the Bunnymen - masters. “The Killing Moon” is one of the best songs ever written.

[@thenewwavejoeshow]

Finn talks about how so many bands bend to conform to the industry. Nothing worse than a great band bending so much they become mediocre, at best. These older school bands never did, they stayed the course and are still putting out unique sounding music today.

[@StuartHetzler]

i was a senior in high school in 08 and am about to be 33. i'm horrified that there are adults in the workforce that weren't even alive for 9/11

[@mid-s_to_earlysViBEZ]

*Seriously.* *I am* *MORTIFIED AND OFFENDED.* 💯😨😰😱

[@holoceph3916]

That’s gotta be the best question to immediately know. Where were YOU on 9/11?

[@chrisnorman1902]

Emos love that Goo Goo Dolls song, because of the lyrics. That's one of the reasons it became so popular at the time

[@midnighttrain7844]

Facts, also good melodies.

[@Augrills]

That song is a banger. Everyone loves it

[@eddievanaxel5317]

"The Goth Moth" got me, I'm fuxking dead, holy shit

[@pablofmc]

emos already having kids? man, im 34, I was a teenager during the nu metal years and i have a 3yo kid. We need a couple more years for emo kids to have their own kids.

[@shadow6543]

I was a scene kid and now I have 2 children of my own.

[@injusticesystem5685]

Finn's reaction the "4 big guys" is the highlight of 2023 so far!

[@wolfhawk1999]

I thought the "wrist check" was for cutting, honestly

[@robiu013]

0:16 why doesn't Finn trust us enough to let us yell the cringe part? you know we'd do it, Finn?

[@MasonFries]

"You can't have a Ska hat, a Black Metal T-shirt, Emo wrist bands, and skinhead shoes" Picture teenage Jack white in a fadora, Darkthrone shirt, Three Days Grace rubber wrist band, and colored laced combat boots. That was the big titty goth girl's boyfriend at my yeeyee high-school.

[@lout9231]

yo madeline pendleton was spitting straight facts. literal description of all the "alt" looking dudes in barcelona who don't actually listen to metal just techno

[@hazuusan]

Three minutes into the video and Finn once again reminds me of how old I am

[@dylan.606]

Social Repose honestly doesn't even deserve to be talked about by this point

[@jimrustle]

The wrist check comment was about seeing if she had cutting scars not bracelets.

[@gasmaskestore8018]

That girl at 12:00 sounding so clever but she was tricked at least5-6times and you can tell

[@ShewTheMighty]

Emo goth rooster. What a call back. I remember seeing this dude a while back.

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Bars.

[@robertbeecroft5570]

I have to question the mental stability of somebody who dresses up as a giant bird to go to the park and shriek at his phone

[@ithinkiamoscar]

Noticed the MGS-sounds used in your Patreon ad today and I must say that it tickled my nostalgia bone.

[@jeremycunningham7897]

Love the Goth Moth! I suspect naturalists will be setting up camera traps around that park table in the very near future :)

[@icecold2021]

madeline dropping 2 mins of truth bombs.

[@dookieeater]

If I saw that thing in the park I may shoot at it in fear for my life

[@loganpeters7543]

Okay this is one of the best videos in this category you make. I am equally ready and willing to allow the zoomers to harvest my minerals for nutritional sustenance.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

It's our duty to sacrifice ourselves for them

[@Seven7Pain1]

forgot the korn kid with the giant jncos and backwards hat adidas drip saw kid other day was like holy shit its me in 1998

[@MSHNKTRL]

I do remember, back in the scene years, I saw this one kid dressed like he was Dick Tracy, immaculate in 1950's-60's corporate wardrobe without the slightest shred of irony - He completely owned it. That dude will be forever in my head as a true fashion outlaw.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Lengedary

[@binglebonglebellybarrelbla9071]

I need to hear Ryuk sing autotuned Free Bird on the picnic table

[@Sulcuryalt_Inone]

I didn't actually realize the modern status of the word "alternative/alt" until this video. I don't like it.

[@lauralulu7290]

I've got 5 kids, and my teenagers are listening to a bunch of different metal genres. It cracks me up that they like the same shit I did at their age. Also, I lol'd that someone finally found the unhinged tiktok of Social Repose. Yike.

[@loganstrickler]

My mom is in her emo phase still, so take that for what you will

[@nathanrobertschultzmusic2609]

I’m from St. Louis so anytime emo is mentioned I just think of Imo’s pizza.

[@trillwill93]

Can we get a Madeleine Pendleton interview some day🥺

[@Gimmie_my_legoz]

As one of those gen z kids who are a part of the scene revival. It's a lot of unironic irony. It's like a lot of levels

[@rickyiglesias5384]

YES! THANK YOU. it is an adjective, not a noun. at least, it was back in 2002-2006. Then mainstream media found out about it thanks to MCR and FOB and they started calling PEOPLE "emos". uggh. obnoxious. It's like calling hardcore kids "hardcores".

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

“Metals”

[@rickyiglesias5384]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA I thought about using that. Equally hilarious.

[@OhChit]

I heard that 4 big guys song the first time at the end of a Stimpee video. He always has bangers like that at the end of his videos

[@LiquidOcelot311]

"summon from dark souls" 💀💀💀

[@RB-jf5ww]

So I think the normie persecution complex started as a core of the community in the 60s with the hippies and continued through the 80 with the punks and even into the 90s with the ravers. I can say, as a former raver party kid, who is now 40 with a pretty big government job, that even by the 90s most of the “norm persecution” was gone… because the normies of the 90s were the hippies of the 60s. Just like the normies of today are the ravers, goths, punks, and emo kids of the past. We just grew up.

[@Richardarbizo]

It's that thing screaming on the park bench 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheSalPic]

It’s just so many layers of irony and meta and reference. Incredible.

[@charlesjessie1733]

I married the BTGG 25 years ago. We have a kid in college. Now you might say BTGMILF.

[@HalfenHalf]

I say Emo TikTok you say cringe! Emo TikTok! Cringe! Emo TikTok! Cringe!

[@matthewroberts3125]

There was a missed opportunity for either you or someone in the chat to say "I fell in love with an emo dad!" 🎵

[@Bacon-Moo]

I thought it was also a verb because I just got emoed watching this video.. by the way Finn you're my favorite punk rock dad after Greg Graffin

[@browniesghost4934]

Finn out here being the Sharpay Evans of the Alternative scene, telling everyone to stick to the status quo and all that

[@Randuski]

I graduated in 2009. My yearbooks look exactly like that. Haha

[@mycool3762]

😂😂😂 This made my day!!! Love all your videos Finn. You’re the best in the game.

[@midnighttrain7844]

Bro that is his own house in the back, he actually has a video about the whole process of he painting that house entirely black on his youtube channel lol

[@timriley4543]

At 5:07 - who's that attractive blonde stage right, Mckenty?

[@e-lineco]

man I feel that year book haha, in 2009 I graduated and remember flat ironing my straight hair already lol stupid stuff we did back then.

[@futuredirector999]

I’m glad you discovered Digbar, dude is a machine.

[@addisonbreanna]

Those scene-rs in my highschool were all pot heads lol

[@NottyGurlStyle]

I kind of miss seeing the Emo and goth kids. You could always find me in all black all the time. At least in New York..I don't see them around anymore...but I love seeing them when hanging in the Village

[@Seven7Pain1]

its dimebag razor blade necklace i think ive got one

[@Father-of-Xerxes]

Finn keeps saying things that remind me that he is the same age as my mom - I’m in grad school lmfao

[@RB-jf5ww]

OH YELL YEAH BROTHA. I hate the emo noun …. Almost like it’s a proper noun and should be “Emo”. It’s to much like something you find in a zoo… an emu

[@marcusduran4399]

Wait until Finn finds ram ranch😂

[@wildfya6657]

Video topic idea: Disney Channel Music (Jonas Brothers, Allstar Weekend, Mitchel Musso, Cody Simpson, Austin Mahone, Ross Lynch (& or R5), Hillary Duff, Zendaya, Bridget Mendler ect) Or you could also add or do a separate vid on Nickelodeon music (The Naked Brothers Band (& or Nat and Alex Wolff, Big Time Rush, Drake Bell, Jamie Lynn Spears, Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice ect)

[@jumbokeg1348]

For your info, I DO have a bed frame but I just don’t have it set up cause it takes away a very necessary 6 and half inches from my square footage of mine and my 4 cats bachelor suite

[@PalmelaHanderson]

I somehow remember that matriarchmothra dude from a few videos I watched on youtube like a decade ago. I don't really remember anything about the videos other than that he went on a rant about Ronnie Radke in one of them. He was just one of those random channels I found while going down a rabbit hole one night while I may or may not have been on drugs.

[@PalmelaHanderson]

Also, that madeline girl says "it's a California accent." BULLSHIT. I have lived all over the English speaking world, I have a pretty good ear for accents. I 100% heard some Pennsylvania or Maryland in there.

[@myotismusic5019]

He gets a lot of excessive hate for cheating on a couple girls and wearing a feathery hat. That’s literally the worst things he’s done. These people that attack him constantly have way too much time on their hands and could be spending that same energy on far worse people on KZbin.

[@Randuski]

Emo as a noun was something our parents did and it was cringe

[@doomztay]

I will never pass the torch to the zoomers trying to cancel my favorite movies like tropic thunder n shit

[@TheMostGloriousBeard]

I graduated from high school in 2009 and I’m 31.

[@acerimmer8338]

Finn, you're clever and fun to watch. Thanks for the entertainment.

[@radiomindchatter7994]

I'm 65 and I'm laughing at all of you! Love your work Fin...keep it up!

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Thank you!

[@retailassault]

Emo became a pronoun. (emo/emos) Don't do it Finn. Emos may file for your cancellation.

[@IamPinhead]

"Emo's an adjective, not a noun" It's a way of life

[@techdeth]

10:30 .. that was about cutting, not accessories !

[@collinthomas6288]

It's cool seeing kids revive late 2000s culture

[@soulfireclash2882]

Big Flat Iron Revival sounds like an emo hippy band

[@futilerecordings]

Lest ye forget, Sleep with Sirens covered that very same Goo Goo Dolls song.

[@thoushaltremain]

The side swept flat ironed cringe 😖

[@kevingrems]

It's always worse than I think! 😢

[@Carvania]

I used to call them emo-kids back in 04-05 and back then it was a slur.

[@taintedfairies]

so edgy 🤪🤓

[@thoushaltremain]

They obviously failed Emo 101 and never learned that to be emo you deny being emo. Real emos identify as goth.

[@mid-s_to_earlysViBEZ]

*OMG.* *I remember that $#!% !!!!* 😨😱

[@stevenroth1287]

I have that yearbook lol that was vista Murrieta ca. I used to jam guitars with most of them and the second guy filmed my wedding. They were all super cool

[@earlsfield]

Goth kids from SP "Did he just call us ....emo?"

[@itsyellowsnow]

Digbar! Love seeing you react to 4 big guys. Absolute legend 😂

[@superhydroyeast]

Acapella pig squealing videos in 240p are the true definition of culture.

[@amnm920]

Whoever introduced me to Secondhand Serenade ought to be slapped silly with spikey mallgoth brass knuckles.

[@permafrostprod1]

This is not a chose your own adventure. This is not mix and match 🤣🤣

[@Thegooblygoo]

@20:30 I wonder how much that girl accidentally cuts herself on her razorblade necklace

[@reeseferguson3604]

18:45 Four Big Guys is the highest form of art.

[@nolanwilliford8881]

I’m at an age where I don’t think I get to have a subculture. I’m very suburban dad during the week and take the kids to the family farm on the weekends.

[@ClassicJoyfulMemories]

Thank you sir for introducing me to “4 Big Guys”

[@aimeeaztec4601]

Cringe armour was up but some got through dam it! I daren’t put anything on tik tok - those kids would have me for breakfast. The vids were cringe but very smart and creative really. The 4 big guys came to my rescue with those lyrics - amazing Finn ta!❤

[@joshraymond1065]

The 2008 year book was Vista Murrieta, but it was 2009. I was a metalcore kid with a fro so I didn’t make the meme. What up to anyone that graduated with me.

[@YouTubenostalgia914]

To this day if I hear that a girl's name is Brie, I have to stop myself from pig squealing.

[@caseyflahaven57]

One question: Why would you ever frame a poster versus thumb-tack it... unless it was signed by the artist(s)? :D

[@YoungDeathWish]

emo/ a noun ie: I was out doing emo this morning. OR. Me and my emo's were hanging at the park.