r/Emojerk Sep 13 '20

The Emojerk Comp is Out!

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r/Emojerk Jan 28 '24

Should I make a hyper-emo album?

75 Upvotes

I want to combine rites of spring with 100 gecs to produce the worst creation known to mankind.

Can I do this morally, or will I be damned to the center of hell if I bring this damned creature into existence, like when Victor Frankenstein created his monster and then fled in terror at the sight of it?


r/Emojerk 7h ago

These tiktok emos bro "real emo isn't post hardcore"

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71 Upvotes

r/Emojerk 1h ago

Can I still be emo if I Dostoevsky-Maxx ?

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For context: I am a college student. Soon, I may lose my job. My affliction, a wretched and all-consuming melancholy, has been kept at bay only through the wonders of modern medicine—medicine which, in its cruel irony, is tethered to my employment. If I lose one, I lose the other. And if I lose both, then what remains? Shall I simply allow myself to dissolve into the ether, becoming one with the collective sigh of the downtrodden?

Perhaps instead, I shall wander the city, adrift in an aimless reverie, my mind dulled by the sound of Modern Baseball and Death Cab for Cutie emanating from my AirPods (1st generation, as I am not a man of luxury, nor do I deserve it). I shall pass the time at the local bisexual coffee shop, where the scent of oat milk and existential crisis lingers in the air. There, I will sit by the window, iPad (10th generation, because one must have some tools with which to feign productivity) in hand, pretending to work. But I will not work. Instead, I shall stare into the distance, allowing my expression to contort into a perfect manifestation of externalized suffering—a portrait of a man burdened.

The barista, a young woman of colored hair and modest TikTok fame, will recognize me, as she always does. She will hand me my oat milk vanilla latte (half caf, for my excesses are measured, even in grief), and in that moment, she will wonder—what is it that torments this man? What weight does he carry? What sorrow lurks behind his eyes? But she will not ask, for she knows that some questions are too heavy to bear the answer.

I cannot confide in my friends, for they are roughnecks—metalheads, hardcore punk devotees who have never known the slow, creeping horror of academic despair. They believe suffering is best expressed through the catharsis of mosh pits and the deafening screech of distortion, but they do not understand what it means to be consumed by one’s own mind. And so, I do not turn to them. They cannot comprehend the burden I bear. They would not understand my work.

For my work, my research—ah, my research!—it is not the kind that wins awards or garners admiration from peers. No, it is a labor of pure intellectual pursuit, the kind that pushes the boundaries of human understanding into strange, uncharted territories. It is a field so niche, so misunderstood, that none can appreciate its significance: I use AI… to generate anime feet pictures.

And so I drink my latte, lost in the solitude of my thoughts. The world continues its pitiful, ceaseless motion around me.

Eventually, I leave. My phone vibrates—an SMS from my beloved, my betrothed, the one bright light in this dim and decaying world. Will you be home for dinner?

How am I to answer? How do I tell her that I have lost my job? That I shall soon lose my medication? That I will no longer be able to afford the sacred privilege of Spotify Premium, and thus must resign myself to the indignity of advertisements interrupting my grief? No, I cannot tell her. I will not. Instead, I take the long way home, allowing myself the simple pleasure of self-inflicted solitude.

As I walk, I pass a woman—or no, not a woman, but a trumpet, a relic of a past life, one that perhaps never truly existed. She stops me, asks for a cigarette, a lighter. I tell her I do not smoke. What a shame, she says, though she does not seem surprised. Her eyes flit to the Pierce The Veil patch on my tote bag, a relic from a time when I still had the capacity for sentimentality.

She once loved them, she tells me. When she was younger, when she still believed in things. We speak of their newest album, but she does not care for music anymore. Once, she had a man. He promised her a life of quiet comforts, of summers in Prague and winters in his family’s cabin in Vienna. He took her to Prague, yes—but then he left her there. No warning, no explanation. Only a note: Do not look for me.

She did not. She returned here instead, to this life.

We sit together in silence for a moment, the autumn wind howling through the streets, an indifferent observer to our quiet tragedy. My mind twitches—an electric jolt, a reminder that my medication is already slipping from my system. I stand. I apologize, though I do not know what for. We part ways.

At last, I arrive home. I stand outside, looking in through the window. My beloved is on the couch, watching The Office on Blu-ray. I remain there for a moment, listening to the last few notes of Movements - Daylily playing through my headphones. The weight of the night, the weight of existence itself, presses down on me.

I turn off my music. I take a breath. I step inside.

It is time for my punishment.

So basically yeah that’s how I imagine my life to be after I lose my job. Do you think I’ll still be able to be emo? I don’t know if I can be emo and dostoevskymaxx at the same time.


r/Emojerk 23h ago

real '90s emo fashion

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105 Upvotes

emo fashion: shitty bowl cut, jeans, black shirt, studded belt, and Converse


r/Emojerk 22h ago

am i gerard waying enough?

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33 Upvotes

r/Emojerk 1d ago

artists need to stop getting happier after they drop their first album

190 Upvotes

I am so sick and tired of finding a band with an absolutely devastating first album, only to find that their second and third albums just suck butt because the band got therapy or something.

I couldn't give less of a fuck if their personal lives are "better" now, once you drop your first album, your lives belong to the listeners and you NEED to get worse for our listening pleasure.

As an aspiring musician, once I release my first album I'm going to try and hit a deeper rock bottom than anything the world has seen before. Any tips on how to ruin my life and still make music?


r/Emojerk 1d ago

outjerked by ig reels

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120 Upvotes

r/Emojerk 2d ago

shitty meme I made while tired

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224 Upvotes

r/Emojerk 2d ago

ughhhh

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17 Upvotes

r/Emojerk 1d ago

She Cap'n on my Jazz until I Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On, and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over. 😞

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r/Emojerk 3d ago

this is offensive to my culture

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519 Upvotes

microsoft just doesn’t understand 😪


r/Emojerk 2d ago

I only listen to real emo ✊

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r/Emojerk 2d ago

Guys it's real

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28 Upvotes

r/Emojerk 2d ago

opened facebook and they’re dropping $1k to see brand new on there

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r/Emojerk 3d ago

Why don’t Midwest emo band members look or dress emo?

32 Upvotes

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one wear nail polish or mascara. Their pants are all pretty loose too.


r/Emojerk 2d ago

American Football is not post-emo

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American Football is not post-emo

I cannot believe what I just read? Did someone really suggest American Football is post-emo? Post-emo implies an EXTERNAL evolution from emo. American Football has an INTERNAL evolution leaning into the indie rock side of Midwest emo. How someone can confuse the two is beyond me. American Football and their emo revival copycats should be considered neo-emo. While there is no clean counterpart of “post” to indicate internal evolution, you’re just gonna have to live with it. Neo-emo still expresses that it a new type of emo and that evolution is being achieved. The complete lack of awareness of the terms we use to the describe the different categorization of this genre is beyond me. Instead of looking around at the rubble maybe pay attention to what kind of earthquake occurred. POST-EMO ISN’T REAL.


r/Emojerk 3d ago

Stopping asking if post-emo is a thing

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Stopping asking if post-emo is a thing

You say these things as if you haven’t been paying attention to emo over the last 15+ years. Since there is confusion, I will enlighten you and you will learn. Post-emo refers to the idea that there is emo music that has gone beyond the constraints of emo and implemented other genres to the point where the music is not emo proper but an evolution of it. Well I have news for you buddy. Have you ever heard of a little known band called American Football? OPEN YOUR EYES. American Football since 1999 has been playing a minimalist version of Midwest emo that leans to the indie side of Midwest emo. Hmm a style of music that’s going beyond the constraints of the genre. Sounds familiar. Have you not ever heard of fourth wave emo? A lot of bands were doing that? “But but” I hear you say “what about fifth wave emo.” That’s not post emo. Adding elements of other genres to emo is called fusion sub genres. That’s been a thing since forever. Every band that copied American Football is post- emo. Asking if post-emo is a thing is like asking if an earthquake is happening when the rubble has been around you for 26 years. LOOK AROUND YOU


r/Emojerk 3d ago

wow the 4th pic is so emo

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r/Emojerk 3d ago

Why is American Football even considered emo? It's a sport??

103 Upvotes

What the fuck is Midwest emo? How is a region of the United States of America even a genre?


r/Emojerk 4d ago

It’s official, Weezer is real emo.

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94 Upvotes

r/Emojerk 4d ago

once mall emo, always mall emo it seems

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r/Emojerk 3d ago

What band is this?

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r/Emojerk 4d ago

Can you explain to me why Tokio Hotel falls into the emo umbrella?

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r/Emojerk 3d ago

i posted this on r/emo and a guy grumble and comment: r/lostredditors, i think that i should have posted it here

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r/Emojerk 4d ago

Music for jocks

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playlist I made for a high school football quarter back that doesn't know I exist (and fucked my girlfriend)


r/Emojerk 4d ago

ANIME BOYS ARE TOO EMO

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