Emo Day In The Philippines.

Do Philippine media really celebrate Emo Day, or do they just turn it into a joke about how millennials used to be—packaged as “nostalgia,” irony, or a meme? It often feels less like recognition and more like mockery. Meanwhile, in Western media, subcultures like emo, punk, or grunge are usually treated as part of cultural history. They’re contextualized, documented, and remembered for what they represented—youth alienation, emotional honesty, resistance—rather than reduced to punchlines or captions like “tonight will be the night that I will fall for you.”

I guess this only reflects how society here sees people like us: not as voices shaped by real emotions and struggles, but as phases to laugh at once they’re no longer convenient.