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  Yes and no! In Portland and Washington, I had no troubles with my goth/alt/weird fashion. In the bible Belt? People just assume I'm on drugs.
context: Emo culture has nothing to do with oppression? It's general sadness, and you can be sad about a lot of things that aren't oppression. >
  
  I think it is more of a teenage thing.  No one understands me type thing >
  
  I haven't heard of emo culture or seen anyone identify as emos since the 2000s. >
  
  It's picking back up, along with scene and grunge. >
  
  My apologies. I guess I kind of showed my age a bit since I must be out of the loop. I know that the hipster and retro subcultures have been making strong comebacks for quite a while so this makes sense. 
  In all fairness, all power to them. I could be wrong, but luckily people are a lot less judgmental and more accepting of alternative individuals than they were when I was in high school.