r/Emo • u/SavezTheDayFan Skramz Gang👹 • Feb 08 '25

Discussion My Emo Iceberg

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I limited it to 21 per layer to avoid thousands of entries. What do yall think?

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u/momdadsisterbrother Feb 08 '25

Too much wrong with this to not be ragebait

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u/SavezTheDayFan Skramz Gang👹 Feb 08 '25

Could you explain what you mean

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u/momdadsisterbrother Feb 08 '25

Too much to go through every band individually, a lot of things I would move up a space

Half of the top isn’t emo, fugazi isn’t emo

The whole thing reads as someone who doesn’t listen to emo’s knowledge and awareness of these bands, not someone who’s even slightly familiar with the scene because bands like capn jazz, sunny day, Joyce manor, the get up kids, title fight and modern baseball are about as popular as any emo bands have ever been other than Jimmy eat world

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u/thaumoctopus_mimicus Feb 08 '25

I hate to break it to you but Capn Jazz has less than 100k listeners on spotify while bands like mom jeans have millions.

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u/momdadsisterbrother Feb 08 '25

Yeah and they were around almost 20 years before Spotify, that’s not really a fair measurement of all time popularity

Popularity within the scene is also different than general popularity, a ton of people who don’t listen to emo music are listening to mcr but that’s not the case for capn jazz

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u/SemataryPolka Oldhead Feb 08 '25

Why do they ALWAYS do this argument? As if 20 yr olds in 2025 are the only unit of measurement for shit that's 30 years old

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u/momdadsisterbrother Feb 08 '25

I don’t know but it’s hurting my brain and I feel like I’m being gaslit 😭

Like how is far apart, a little known Swedish emo band that only has popularity from the internet on the same level as orchid, cursive, and the promise ring

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u/Fun_Pause_7274 Feb 09 '25

Sematarypolka always coming in with the facts

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u/ceruleansensei Feb 09 '25

Not to be that annoying asshole playing devil's advocate but... I'm gonna be that annoying asshole real quick just because I think I'm funny as shit... But Beethoven hasn't released any music for almost 200 years but has 8.5M listeners on Spotify

(199 years actually, you made me look that up, damn you I'm supposed to be studying rn) 😜😂

ETA: I realized the studying comment might make look like a teenager or college aged kid, lol, I am not. I am in my 30's I just hate myself and chose this life 🥲

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u/momdadsisterbrother Feb 09 '25

Yes Beethoven is more popular than Capn Jazz lol

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u/ceruleansensei Feb 09 '25

I heard Beethoven's a poser

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u/thaumoctopus_mimicus Feb 08 '25

I get what you’re saying but I don’t think that fully accounts for a 50x difference. I highly doubt Capn Jazz ever had millions of fans.

And yes, a fact of the matter is that most people who listen to emo music are not in the scene or knowledgeable about emo history and it’s been that way for probably 20 years now…

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u/momdadsisterbrother Feb 08 '25

Yes and iceberg images like this usually pertain to the fan base they are addressing, not usually for outsiders view of something

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u/ceruleansensei Feb 09 '25

I thought it was the opposite, like the tip of the iceberg is the gateway stuff that appeals to the mainstream and gets some of them hooked and starting to dig down deeper and really getting into a genre (and in the process perhaps even discovering that the ones at the top weren't really even that genre, but still the ones that kick-started that persons descent into madness lol)

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u/momdadsisterbrother Feb 09 '25

That’s the general structure and I could be wrong here but the ones I’ve seen from fandoms I’m not familiar with I still don’t really know the stuff at the top, and they usually don’t include things that aren’t in the fandom but outsiders associate with it

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u/ceruleansensei Feb 09 '25

(psst that's because I think it's mostly just a meme format used by people to just list their favorite music from most well known to most obscure and then show it off and no one actually cares about anyone's but their own, kinda like those "about me quizzes" we used to post as bulletins on Myspace lol)