emoz

People wrongly assume that fashion and mentality are two different things. If you wear the clothing of a certain fashion group, there is something in your brain that makes your views on clothing the same as those of the others, thus making you part of the fashion movement. Emo is not a "wannabe" fashion, it's a very real fashion, as proven by the fact that it's spread so far. A "wannabe" fashion would be if someone tried something completely different to anything anyone else has done, and it would probably fail for reasons I explained earlier.

On individuality.

You may well feel like you're different, like you stand out. Fair enough, but don't confuse that for actually being original and different. Everything you do, someone has done before. Being "your own person" is different to being individual, you don't have to follow a fashion to the very core to be part of it, and indeed many people who are said to be emos, chavs, goths, whatever, they don't always act in a way that the fashion befits. This isn't individuality, it's not non-comformity, it's not rebellion. It's human nature - we act and dress how we do because of what we've seen/done/smelt/tasted/heard/felt/known/been told/experienced/missed out on. Everything affects us in some way, so yes, we may all have our differences, but at the end of the day we are all humans with the same basic instinctive programming that makes us a successful - if diverse - race.