They're different but both equally non-conformist conformists. I can actually get along with goths because I enjoy a lot of the shit that inspired the movement, but they still piss me off lol.

In Australia we once had a bash an emo day.

I thought the emo's where now replaced by the Vampirists?

Wow.  And there are so many people taking pictures of him!

Pretty cruel, tbh.

@highwaystar: Nailed it.

Because at the moment emos are more popular than goths and it's easier to just generalize them both as the same thing than to actually try to distinguish each apart from each other.

I think people use that term very loosely.

The difference doesn't matter, they grow out of it after a year or two. I mean honestly how many Goth and Emo adults do you see? A tiny tiny subculture that is by far and large, sad in the same way fat people middle aged people that cosplay hot anime characters at conventions are. You don't see goth investment bankers, or emo chemists. Therapists don't wear black fingernail polish, and the guy doing my taxes doesn't have one of his bangs grown out so that it covers his eye and a tear drawn under the other eye with a purple magic marker. The only profession you see goths and emos is fast food service and it's because it's a kid thing. You grow up and act embarrassed at the old pictures, and you move on with your life get a job and a spouse and forget all about vampirism and pink eye liner and wearing a wedding dress to chucky cheese.

Just for Twest.

i love gothopotamus! I hope that kid can't reproduce though

 Yeah, I'd hit it.

^haha, i hope you mean literally beat his ass up, but I know that's not what you mean...sadly