emotard

English

Etymology

From emo +‎ -tard.

Noun

emotard (plural emotards)

1. (slang, vulgar, derogatory) Someone who associates with the emo subculture; an emo scenester.
   • 2007 February 15, Dav, “Dixie Chicks-punker that 99.x% of the shit that passes for "punk" these days”, in alt.punk‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Rhetorical questions, of course - I've seen enough emotard MySpace pages and forums in my time to know that this shite is the soundtrack to the lives of some kids unfortunate enough to be (to paraphrase Jello) born white in the world's richest country...

   • 2008, Gremlin, News of the Stupid, page 213:

     In the most pervasive sense, emotards actually seem to know that they're emotards; probably; at least, the rest of us call them emos.

   • 2010 September 25, Betterduck, “The Event”, in misc.writing.screenplays.moderated‎^[2] (Usenet):

     The toothy Disney brats can't act. I keep looking at [Jason] Ritter and going, there is the emotard from Freddy vs. Jason.

   • 2018, Cheston Knapp, Up Up, Down Down‎^[3], pages 231–232:

     I can say I was a lot of things at seventeen—a semiserious skateboarder, the captain of my lacrosse team, an emotard who worked part-time at the Gap—but what I can't say is that I was a reader, not yet.