Birds are dying!

April 19, 2006 4:01 PM

Like, try to understand where the emo kids are coming from.
posted by jonson (70 comments total)

Christ I hope the wife doesn't find out... I think I may be in love.
posted by jonson at 4:04 PM on April 19, 2006

Birds are dying ... I MEAN, BIRDS ARE DYING!
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:05 PM on April 19, 2006

The Birds are on the plane

*ducks*
posted by bigmusic at 4:06 PM on April 19, 2006

Oh, now that's just mean.
posted by mediareport at 4:06 PM on April 19, 2006

oh hay, more stuff from SA making its way around the web.
posted by keswick at 4:08 PM on April 19, 2006

What the ....what is an emo-kid , another way to say deeply depressed ?
posted by elpapacito at 4:09 PM on April 19, 2006

Like, wish I, like, owned a webcam.
posted by parki at 4:13 PM on April 19, 2006

Pick-on-lonely-kids-Filter
posted by CRM114 at 4:13 PM on April 19, 2006

I think we broke it.
posted by PurplePorpoise at 4:15 PM on April 19, 2006

You guys wouldn't be so mean if you really understood pain and sadness.
posted by Espy Gillespie at 4:15 PM on April 19, 2006

One would assume that the girl is making fun of the guy? Right?
posted by billysumday at 4:19 PM on April 19, 2006

If you publish in any medium, be prepared for critique and commentary: the good/the bad, the kind/the mean, etc.
posted by ericb at 4:22 PM on April 19, 2006

PWNED. It's fake. They're British.
posted by OpinioNate at 4:23 PM on April 19, 2006

From the SA thread

This is an epic tale of videoblogs, emo poetry, mass stupidity, bad hair and fake american accents....

A few days ago, my friend non goon friend Matt, known from here on out as "EmoKid21Ohio", sent me a link to his first videoblog on YouTube.com, where he had "opened his heart"

Now I'm gonna be honest from the get go cause somethingawful goons are not as easily fooled as the rest of the internet, so I might as well come clean; the thing you have to understand about EmoKid21Ohio, is that he's not actually emo and he's not american. I saw this video, and I thought it was pretty funny, but he hadn't really taken it as far as it could go, so I thought and jumped aboard.

I set to recording a videoblog reply, straight from my heart. I googled "angsty poetry", pulled my hair over my face and piled on the eyeliner to express the pain in my soul, and came out with this... It was about this time that the comments started trickling in. You can see them on the blogs...

Emokid21Ohio then recorded me a reply and by this time we were well on our way to YouTube e-fame.....


I'm not sure if GBS is public at the moment, so the link may or may not work for non-members...
posted by keswick at 4:25 PM on April 19, 2006

Isn't that the girl that tagged Airforce One?

Fake.
posted by fire&wings at 4:26 PM on April 19, 2006

This could be real, and if it were real, it would be fake: people, especially teenagers, try on drama and soliloquy like new clothes.

But it's just precisely good enough that it seems like an ironic fake, instead of the perfect glowing specimen of clueless play-acting that it's being presented as.
posted by cortex at 4:27 PM on April 19, 2006

On preview...natch.
posted by cortex at 4:28 PM on April 19, 2006

I'm so calling 'fake' on emodog. Dogs can't even talk!
posted by dgaicun at 4:43 PM on April 19, 2006

So there was no dead bird? I just spent the last half hour crying for nothing?
posted by birdherder at 4:44 PM on April 19, 2006

Brilliant. The lad's uptalking was perfect.
posted by brain_drain at 4:58 PM on April 19, 2006

this was better when it was recounted to me by the avid, waifish young girl that was over here to chat a few days ago. the ridiculous amount of irony surrounding the entire affair fascinated her to such an extent that I almost started my own videoblog to tell everyone how sad I felt that she wanted to talk to me about ironic emo internet feuds instead of kissing my neck. almost.

that said, if these two kids end up hooking up in real life I think I'll be happy forever.
you detect no sardony.
posted by carsonb at 5:02 PM on April 19, 2006

Man that's twice in one night I couldn't spot a fake. Sotheby's will probably fire me tomorrow.
posted by CRM114 at 5:05 PM on April 19, 2006

So if you take reality and get all ironic on it, and then you like get all ironic on that irony thing, and then you treat that with like, irony, and then you think, I'm going to respond to that ironically, is it spiraling up to some new revelation of like irony? Or is it like collecting dryer lint ironically, where you spiral down and get like a web award from some guy with a bad goatee and everyone else's attention like evaporates quietly with like vague embarrassment and nobody remembers it?

I need to know because I'm typing this on a laptop in a Starbucks, only I'm doing it ironically, so it's cool, but I'm like starting to worry.
posted by sidereal at 5:07 PM on April 19, 2006

Really 'Sensistive'
+
Putting up a Video Blog
+
Crying when you get feedback
=
Attention Whoring
posted by HTuttle at 5:09 PM on April 19, 2006

LOL.

Birds are dying.

It's all Bush's fault. With Clinton birds lived forever.

Thanks Disney. That Bambi thing really fooled 'em.
posted by HTuttle at 5:12 PM on April 19, 2006

Well, I think it is, like, rilly sad that birds are, like, dying. I don't care of this is, like, fake. It, like, spoke to me, man. You know? I have to, like, go cut myself now. Not too deep, though. That'd be, like, gross, and sad.
posted by Decani at 5:13 PM on April 19, 2006

LOL^2

So THAT's EMO?

Gee, that's really SOOOO different from every other crap rock tune that's existed in the last 30 years.

Yo! Dude!

Step back from the trees!

You 're all in the SAME damn crappy rock forest.
posted by HTuttle at 5:17 PM on April 19, 2006

This is, like, the first time the internet has really, actually, you know, fooled me. And it, well, it like hurts. Because, I mean, it seemed totally realistic and everything. I actually believed it, you know? And then I find that, like, it was fooling me all along. Fooling me! Like -- isn't there enough of that in the world? Really? Today?
posted by booksandlibretti at 5:26 PM on April 19, 2006

I'm so calling 'fake' on emodog. Dogs can't even talk!
I don't really care what you think, but that hurts me on the inside.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:32 PM on April 19, 2006

I was completely fooled by this. I am just old enough to have missed the emo thing and didn't get that this was parodic.
posted by Falconetti at 5:35 PM on April 19, 2006

I was completely fooled by this. I am just old enough to have missed the emo thing and didn't get that this was parodic.

With emo it's always a tough call.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 5:36 PM on April 19, 2006

I get that the first girl understands like penis sadness. The second has gotta be a piss-take. Way too obvious.
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 5:36 PM on April 19, 2006

they're like cartoon characters. real napoleon dynamite. utter genius.
posted by 6am at 5:37 PM on April 19, 2006

Emo kids come from Omaha, as I understood it. Anyway, the city seemed full of them when I was there, sulking around at basement parties, listening to Connor Oberst, who was still totally unknown then, and, I presume, depressed about the fact.
posted by Astro Zombie at 5:40 PM on April 19, 2006

You guys wouldn't be so mean if you really understood pain and sadness.

I don't, but then again, that's probably because I'm a poser.
posted by Afroblanco at 5:41 PM on April 19, 2006

That was funny. Dang. I wish I'd thought of it.
posted by tkchrist at 5:50 PM on April 19, 2006

there is some goth/emo confusion going on here, but still funny as hell.
posted by empath at 5:54 PM on April 19, 2006

3.2 seconds, then the back button glared like a headlight, so I clicked it.
posted by disclaimer at 5:58 PM on April 19, 2006

'entropy' was the give-away.
posted by airguitar at 6:02 PM on April 19, 2006

Is it just my imagination, or does emogirl21 hater and goth Megan have a barely-concealed German accent? When will this European cultural imperialism of our cherished American subcultures stop?
posted by whir at 6:24 PM on April 19, 2006

Sometimes suicide is an option.

Most often that statement is accurate when applied to marketers. But not always.
posted by loquacious at 6:30 PM on April 19, 2006

I wish I could extract these videos and mash em up.
posted by boo_radley at 6:32 PM on April 19, 2006

Ooo that would be awesome. I love all of emogirl's videos. I'm totally her biggest fan.

The guy's voice got on my nerves though.
posted by Hildegarde at 7:00 PM on April 19, 2006

the video of the kids watching the emokid video is my favorite. meta!
posted by gac at 7:12 PM on April 19, 2006

517 hates all things emo.
posted by 517 at 7:42 PM on April 19, 2006

I don't get it. What do these emotionally disturbed youing people have to do with elmo?
posted by eustacescrubb at 8:11 PM on April 19, 2006

Oh weird... where did the "this is a joke" video go? She had a few before that were the "emo" character, and then one where she showed her normal hair and her non-American accent and said she was just making fun of emoboy. Hmm... looking some more...
posted by VulcanMike at 8:13 PM on April 19, 2006

ha! it's gone -- brilliant. there must have been so many people that believed it that she kept playing along... the debunking video was one of the most popular on YouTube last week, which is how I found it.
posted by VulcanMike at 8:16 PM on April 19, 2006

Emo?....RoMo?...Goth?

On the highly unlikely chance this ISN'T a piece of parody.

Why do these kids need to find some psuedo-movement to identifty themselves with to validate their existence?

What ever happened to just being your good ole dorky self, getting a crappy job that puts you through college, until you finish and get your first crappy job after you graduate until you look back 30 years later and realize you are VP of Product Development at CrappyJobs.com, a limited liability Corporation.

Birds are dying?

Soldiers are dying.

/difference

Emo....? People really take this seriously? I mean...there are people who can actually not break out in laughter over stuff like this?

sheesh
posted by timsteil at 8:27 PM on April 19, 2006

I have no idea whether timsteil is laughing at me or not.
posted by whir at 8:58 PM on April 19, 2006

I wish my grass at home was as EMO as these kids. Then I would never have to mow it cause it would cut itself.

Sorry, I laughed at this comment.
posted by junesix at 10:07 PM on April 19, 2006

Somebody needs a hug.
posted by geekhorde at 10:38 PM on April 19, 2006

timsteil, et al - read the fucking thread. god damn it. there're fewer than 60 comments and right at the top it says it's fake.

You people! Too lazy to read.

Hey, old people. You know what the only thing is that's cooler than emo? Pretending that you're too old to know what it is.
fercrisesake.
"Oh, that. Well, I don't even know what that is. How droll."

Where's diehipsterdie when you really, really need him?
posted by Baby_Balrog at 11:01 PM on April 19, 2006

Astro Zombie: Emo kids come from Omaha, as I understood it. Anyway, the city seemed full of them...

Emoha.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:05 PM on April 19, 2006

My spidey sense tingled when a kid from Illinois going to college in Cleveland spoke with the accent of a stoned-out San Fernando Valley dipshit.

Apparently, that's what the Brits think American's sound like.
posted by quite unimportant at 12:01 AM on April 20, 2006

Well....these Brits anyhow....
posted by quite unimportant at 12:02 AM on April 20, 2006

Whereas everyone in the UK sounds like the guy in the bottom clip.

So now, I'm totally confused.
posted by seanyboy at 12:29 AM on April 20, 2006

Apparently, that's what the Brits think American's sound like.

Hey, we've seen Friends. We know exactly what you guys sound like: you all shout at each other and get really over-excited, and then one of you sticks your head in a turkey.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 12:31 AM on April 20, 2006

i'm confused ... he doesn't "get on with" the kids at college? ... do americans "get on with" anyone?

on the other hand, his sister said "hey" ... do brits know that's a midwestern/southern thing?

still, at least i know what maynerd g krebs' grandson is like
posted by pyramid termite at 12:54 AM on April 20, 2006

Hey, we've seen Friends. We know exactly what you guys sound like: you all shout at each other and get really over-excited, and then one of you sticks your head in a turkey.

Isn't that last part a move pioneered by Rowan Atkinson?
posted by sparkletone at 12:58 AM on April 20, 2006

Good for a chuckle.
posted by OmieWise at 5:48 AM on April 20, 2006

Satire is alive and well! (Well, it's alive...)
posted by Acey at 6:53 AM on April 20, 2006

Isn't that last part a move pioneered by Rowan Atkinson?

It certainly is. He loses his watch in there and has to go after it.

Concealing the turkey stuck on his head from his girlfriend, she asks "Have you got a turkey on?"

That's good stuff. That'll still be funny a hundred years from now.
posted by sonofsamiam at 7:17 AM on April 20, 2006

The truly sad part about this is not that SA goons have assembled a painfully transparent satire, nor that other, sillier people have taken it at face value.

It's the pure vitriol spewed out in comments on the blog that displayed the videos. Doesn't take much, these days, to display just how little empathy we have for each other. Especially if you don't conform.
posted by FormlessOne at 8:17 AM on April 20, 2006

Growing up in Illinois, I met people who really sounded like that.
posted by Human Flesh at 8:40 AM on April 20, 2006

Astro Zombie: Emo kids come from Omaha, as I understood it. Anyway, the city seemed full of them when I was there, sulking around at basement parties, listening to Connor Oberst, who was still totally unknown then, and, I presume, depressed about the fact.

Yep, he's now attained celebrity status: if you moved into his old house, it's worth mentioning in World Lit class; if you heard his mother speak about elementary school education, it's worth bragging about.

Conor's now this polarizing figure among Omaha teenagers. You either follow him, or you don't, and either way you're bitter about it. He's like some tragic Jesus Christ.
posted by Sfving at 12:02 PM on April 20, 2006

He's like some tragic Jesus Christ.

Ha!
posted by cortex at 12:16 PM on April 20, 2006

Seriously, what is this emo thing? Is it what goths have evolved into or do goths still exist? Somebody please explain.

I'm guessing its something to do with the music they listen to.
posted by aqueousdan at 5:11 PM on April 20, 2006

aqueousdan. yo. check it out.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 4:45 PM on April 20, 2006

ArmyOfKittens wrote "Hey, we've seen Friends. We know exactly what you guys sound like: you all shout at each other and get really over-excited, and then one of you sticks your head in a turkey."

ha! That was roughly my expereince stuck in front of (fellow) US citizens during a snowstorm at a European airport recently. I pretended I was foreign until one of them saw the logo on my bag and started talking to me. Then I just pretended that I was a snob.
posted by VulcanMike at 8:09 PM on April 26, 2006