#i think it’s fuckin rad that teens get to see aging in relation to joy and happiness and love

[meat-wentz]

one of the worst parts about most elder emos i’ve known irl is that they consistently talk about how kids just won’t “get” bands like fall out boy or my chemical romance and like what fucking world are you living in where teens today won’t understand bands who rose up during the first major spike of fame culture, whose privacy and artistry were constantly invaded and twisted around to be something they were not, who rose up in a scene that was misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and racist, whose original messaging got lost to aesthetics and mainstream misrepresentation, who consistently fought capitalistic corporate entities for their own artistic integrity and identity to be preserved, who saw the rise of immediacy and accessibility of the internet be turned against them and who felt more isolated the more their lives became available for consumption, and who WROTE AND SANG ABOUT THOSE VERY THINGS, like despite the fact that their primary audience in the aughts were teenagers and they have retained that audience for two decades, literally what world are you living in where kids today wouldn’t understand?????