I seen Mervyn's MySpace before. He is taking it too far that I agree.
There are two kinds of emo in the world. There's one like Paul Twohill who is only into the fashion and culture, like music dressing and all, but they dont cut themselves or feel depressed. They can infact be very cheeky and very normal, they just look and dress like one.
Then there are those who are really emo, as in deep down, they got alot of emotional wounds. They dont even dress emo, they look normal like you and me but they have alot of depressing emotionals issues.
So the real emo kid should be someone who is the mixture of both above. But they are rare. I mean when you are really sad and feel like dying, you will bother to dress up as emo meh?
I used to have alot of emotionals conflicts within myself. Like dont have alot of friends and all, so I was being emo without knowing it. It was only in secondary 5 that this skinhead I know told me to be emo.
Then I read up on it and realised that such a culture actually exist.
But now I'm ok.

But earlier, I was into the goth culture without knowing it. I like all the dark dark stuffs like werewolves and Dracula. When playing games, I always choose death and fire instead of light or ice.
Again, it was only until I check what "gothic" means in the dictionary, that I finally know that such a culture exist.