![]() Thankfully, Macbook Pros came out in 2006, the same year the Cute Is What We Aim For released their debut album, which made it a little easier to achieve peak Myspace profile. “That’s when people started going out with their cameras, not phones, because phones were still shitty. “ you had to scan a photo of yourself to get it online,” Jeffrey recalls. The guys in the bands you were listening to didn’t have great bodies, so why should you feel pressure to have one? Outfits consisted of ill-fitting band tees, so a waist-trainer was not necessary. And half the time, your entire face didn’t even make it into the picture. They were more about displaying your scene-queen trucker hat and studded belt.įace pics were posted with no makeup at all, save for maybe some ill-placed glitter around the eyes. But the selfies of the emo era had less of an emphasis on flawlessness. Today’s selfies are all about showing off your lit highlight and makeup skills, with maybe a trendy choker for added effect, and they’re also about showing off your perfect body. Lastly, you had to find that constantly lost camera cord of yours and physically plug it into your mom’s computer, praying she didn’t walk by and see the “edgy” pics you took of yourself on the screen. You had to take about 30 photos, contorting your body along the way, and pray that at least one of them had a good face-to-arm ratio instead of just being a closeup of your hairy forearm. Then, you had whip out your digital camera and either snap into a mirror, or twist your arm around to shoot a photo of your face head-on. First, you had to find decent lighting–because editing wasn’t really a thing. “ is really when the whole selfie thing started,” says Hanna.īut whereas today you can snap a quick selfie with your iPhone, throw a filter on it, and upload it, back then it was a process. Hanna Beth, arguably one of the most famous “scene queens” from the era, also remembers the beginning of photo-sharing. Like age, sex, location, pic, everyone wanted to see what you looked like.” “ the early AOL days, you would add a picture of you, you were like a celebrity online. “I don’t know, I just remember it was such a big deal,” Jeffrey Czum, guitarist for Cute Is What We Aim For, told Galore. READ ALSO: Why Emo Is Ripe For a Comeback in 2017 The definition of emo is kind of fuzzy, and while some will claim it’s only a very specific cluster of bands and styles, we’d argue that emo is now used to describe the entire scene kid/pop-punk/Warped tour aesthetic, which is how we’ll be using it in this story. The pioneers of this movement were the emo kids. ![]() In fact, self portraits have existed forever, but technology didn’t bless us with the capability to take a full-blown selfie until the early 2000s. “Selfie” wasn’t recognized as a word until 2013, but that didn’t mean people weren’t craning their arms to take photos of themselves before then.
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