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Kostilin in Russian alternative community

You probably don't know Vitaly Kostilin, but he's popular primarily among the Russian scene emo community, as well as people nostalgic for the era around 2007, when subcultures flourished in Russia and the time generally seemed less intense. Despite this, opinions about him vary; the emo community is divided into two camps: haters and fans; most scene kids can't stand him. I want to talk about this in this blog, especially since I'm a scene kid myself.

Let me introduce him first. Vitaliy Kostilin is one of the most popular "emo" bloggers. He has YouTube channel, telegram channel, VKontakte blog and so much more. His YouTube 28.6K subscribers which is not a small number for a russian emo youtuber. His opinion matters to most new comers which is a bad influence, especially if you are a scene kid. To a greater extent, he puts pressure on the fact that he has been in the subculture since the moment it became popular and that he has been in the subculture for 15 years.

The public page "Bring Me Back My 2007" (this blog will focus on the Telegram channel, as accessing VKontakte is simply inconvenient) is his public page, which began at VKontakte and now you can also find it on Telegram. Currently, he has 7,000 subscribers on Telegram.

His public page has a section called "Emo Girl/Boy of the Day." , where Vitalik doesn't differentiate between emo and scenes. All scene kids fall into this category. Despite this, he easily differentiates almost anything with "goth" in its name: mall goths, cyber goths, and even 80s trads.

Admins often refer not to a person's affiliation with the subculture, but to the hashtags under a post, despite the fact that scenes can use #emo to attract an audience. Furthermore, he never mentions whose photos he uses.

Examples of scenes attributed to emo :

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And sm more

Examples with Goth distinctions (3 examples)

Mall Goth

Cyber Goth

Trad Goths

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Is it really that hard? A mystery.

BTW HE ACTUALLY POSTED SOME SCENE KIDS AS SCENE KIDS AND CREDITED ALL OF THEM, DIDN'T EVEN ADD ANY SHITTY COMMENT BUT IT IS HARD TO ACHIEVE

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Still, people ARE scared that they will be posted as emos:

"It's scary to live with the thought that Kostilin has more than 20 of my photos saved in his gallery, and if I get into his recommendations again, he will post me as an "emo" and not as scene."

Let's move on to the sexualization of alternative teenagers.

In the "Emo of the Day" column, there's a note—"this baby" or "pepper"— as a compliment. It's more often used to describe teenage "emo" girls, which is bad for Vitalik, who is already quite an adult. The word "pepper" is used for boys, which is also questionable, but when they text "baby" you immediately think of age gap between a teen in the post and Vitaliy himself. I'm not the only one who finds these comments unpleasant since they evoke an unpleasant association. There wouldn't be any problems if the channel didn't belong to an adult and the photos weren't of teenagers (sometimes it's older women and men too but usually it is girls and boys). I'm not saying he's a pedophile, but this comment he always adds evokes negative associations.

https://t.me/wetakeitback/27641

Also... This post falls to this category, it is a joke about alternative teenager — " emo girl showed her kitty" (in slang it is used the as "pussy", yeah yeah the joke is pretty simple but still. It is a teenager on photo.)

It's worth checking out his TikTok and Telegram.

He uses expressions like: "scene is part of emo culture," "the dead culture of the late 2000s," "scene is not a subculture," "scene in the 2000s was the same as posers," "analogous to the word pedovka" (Russian for emo posers) – all of these directly express his opinion. He believes that emo and scene are the same thing, failing to understand that scene have their own roots (fashioncore is not part of emo subculture) , that scene kids have their own music, and that they have their own visual attributes. He asks himself, "What should I look like?" implying that emo can also be colorful, though no one in the modern scene community has disputed this; in fact, some have even said that scenes can also be dark. His thinking underlies the politics of his channel, because even if a scene kid noticed the post by them and dispute their affiliation with emo, nothing would come of it; to the public, they would still be emo, especially by this exact channel.

I also find this funny but he follows lots of scene kids despite the hate he spreads against scene kids. And despite the fact that most of scene kids hate him ( for a reason).

Also his channel — " Kostilin " has this post:

https://t.me/kostilin/3210

Scenes-teenage guys, I'm going to say such a thing now, don't fall off your chair: There is no "scene" subculture that separates from the EMO subculture. Yes, yes, you can now repost this in your chats, channels and write three angry paragraphs in cfs, but the fact remains: scene (or whatever you call it in Russian) Is part of the emo culture. Scene is the fashion and aesthetics inside emo. To put it simply: every scene kid was an emo back then, but not every emo was scene. And that's okay. It's like punks and hardcore - the names are different, but they're all punks. It's just that emo is primarily about music, and scene is about fashion and aesthetics. So you're part of the EMO culture, whether you like it or not. So why are they trying to separate it now? Because from the whole story on social networks, they pulled out only a shell - a picture without understanding the culture as a whole. And it's just more convenient for many to call themselves scenes, so as not to delve into history, music, and context. But you know what? It's stupid. Because without music, without understanding and inner content, it's all just a cosplay for something that you don't even understand. And this is not a reproach. It's a motivation to delve into emo music and emo culture. I don't see the point in separating emo and scenes today, honestly! Especially in 2025, when there are only a few of them. So why build walls inside the same subculture? Why is it that if someone says "emo", you reply "I'm not emo, I'm scene"? You might be the last scene kidie in a 100 km radius. Hug each other. Listen to the MCR and make a lip syncing video with Brokencyde song on bg. It's still all ours anyway, dear.

The hypocritical fight against sexualization?

In one of his YouTube videos he goes against VKontakte channel that sexualizes goths and alternative people

https://youtu.be/0Z3mJ1kxawE

He himself says he is against the sexualization of alternative women, which is very much at odds with his public channel. "Baby" for girls, "pepper" for boys at the category "emo of the day" and comments that do things like, for example, call someone a slut for wearing shorts when temperature is around 40+ (user wasn't punished).

Sexualised alternative people.

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He really thinks that being in the subculture for a long time won't make him a poser (Years ≠ quality)

Even though he's been in the subculture for over 10 years, a fact that he's very proud of, he still attributes metalcore and rus nu metal to emo music, largely due to a common mistake among emo teenagers in the 2000s, which is precisely what he was then.

+ In the video "The Amazing World of alternative TikTok"(YouTube) he calls himself both a normie and an emo, which is highly contradictory. After all, a normie is someone who fundamentally condemns alternative movements.

GAI slop

Bullying the teenagers

1. https://t.me/wetakeitback/27114

Kipomi

Kipomi was an emo teenager. She is older than 18 right now but at the moment she just got 18 and the audience was waiting for this moment. To be honest i don't have exact context about this picture but it was posted to a channel with 7k+ followers with a negative undertone, so i think it can fit into the name of paragraph.

2. https://t.me/kostilin/3786?single

Lottie Milk [Klutzy Polkadotz]

To be honest i wanted to include other post than this 1 but it seems deleted. Lots of people started to talk about her looks, rather than thought at that post. But since the evidence was erased let's talk about passive aggression of Kostilin on his channel? At some point i would do that too if i was offended but at this exact point we talk about.. Well, an adult dude posting a teen to his channels with 4k+/7k+ followers with an aggressive comments, which leads us to bullying of teenagers.

Finally, a joke: Somewhere in the alt universe, Kostilin considers himself a goth, disparages mall goths, and separates emos from scene kids.

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