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Finn: When I was 16 I assassinated the Burger King.

If 27 year olds are emo elders I must be an emo senior. 😂

I'm from Los Angeles, so luckily in middle-high school (2006-2013) being emo/scene/punk/goth and unabashedly dressing so wasn't crazy (you can wear basically anything here and no one cares toooo much). I was more of a mall emo but had friends from all those subcultures. I always loved and wanted to adopt the scene aesthetic (not the band lol) but didn't think my african american hair could hang 🥺

Yo, Finn telling about his work and routine is actually more useful than 99% of that self-improvement bullshit which's on Internet

dammit Finn, i come here for the culture and the jokes and you got me thinking about my whole life.

The “elder emo” thing is me. I’ve grown out of the “look” but if I’m probably listening to Motion City Soundtrack, Mayday Parade, Dashboard Confessional or any other band like that, maybe even The Acacia Strain or Whitechapel if I’m feeling really edgy that day. When people said “it isn’t a phase” they really meant it.

TikTok is almost like an archeological thing, new generations are discovering old artifacts (mostly clothes and music), and attributing them new uses and meanings. Some rock bands labeled as normie stuff back in the day (like Gun's and Roses, mid 2000s pop culture or MTV emo music) are basically part of some kind of new alternative aesthetic. You only have to add some anime and new emo/punk/metal-rap and hyper-pop and you have almost the full equation.

When I was into scene culture Monster was a huge deal. I think it's probably because everyone told you it was super bad for you and it could kill you. It was like doing drugs but far easier and less likely to ruin your life. That being said I haven't felt a caffeine buzz in years and I need at least 160 mg of caffeine a day just to function.

"Emo" as a term was coined in the mid-80's, which is where the movement actually emerged out of the post-hardcore or Washington DC emocore scene with bands like Rites of Spring. Bands like "Fall out Boy" was actually part of what I call the 3rd Wave of EMO.

Monster is part of any culture they can sponsor. They would sponsor a Bronie event if given the opportunity

All I know about Monster is in Florida there's a 95% chance if the sticker is on a truck the driver will be shirtless 82% chance they'll attempt to fight you at the gas station and a 74% chance they commit domestic violence

Love Tyler from Tired Violence, we actually just signed him to the record label a few months ago and has been killing it on TikTok!

"you can't get attached to things if they aren't working" Time to put my dog up for adoption

Eco-terorism is a much more respectable interest than "Look at my colorful hair, do I scare you? *plays SWS*"

My dude, I'm gonna be 41 in september and I've never stopped being emo. *shrugs* I always told my parents it wasn't a phase...

Last year I discovered that current alt culture is so way more self aware, inclusive and based post ironic funny than anything we had back in the day, I love this modern nonsense and I enjoy alt tok a lot!

The monster thing has been a emo/scene thing a while back in 2010/2013 all the scene girls at school had monster tab necklaces and drank it like it was water

As a guy who loves metal, country, punk, pop, classic rock, and hip-hop, I can safely say that there’s gatekeeping from each genre I listen to

I call that Mayday Parade thing "Dave Matthews Syndrome"; it's for any band who ostensibly has millions of fans but you don't know any.

Yo Finn, you look like you’re in your early 30s, keep doing what you’re doing my dude. Also thank you for your content, I generally hate marketing but you make it interesting, not just for bands/music but across industries.

Hey that’s me! Rawring 20s baby let’s do it! Milkw33d x PRMBA let’s do it

These videos are so fun man! Glad the 2nd channel has been growing!

As an elder emo, former mall screamo emo 04-08. Monster was an essential accessory to the mall rat ensemble

Dude I kid you not the year was 2009 I went to soma in San Diego. Me and my boy left the show, and hidden in something (I can’t remember if it was a tree or just like a window seal was a can of hairspray so me being like 14 i grab my lighter. As I am about to make a torch 2 scene girls come rolling up yelling “hey that’s our hairspray”. I laughed so damn hard.

5:14 pretty true. I know less than 5 people that dressed like this.. but they were gods in 2009

Like the reaction videos on this channel. Good change of pace from PRMBA. Keep it up Finn!! 💪

As a 30 year old who brazenly dresses like I want you to know Korn is my favorite band without saying it.......its just who I am. Nu Metal for Life 🤘🤘🤘🤘

How uncool of you to mistake Modern Baseball for American Football. :^)

Hey man, been a fan of your work for a while now. I've been subbed to your main channel for quite a while now and I just gave this video a shot and decided to sub here as well. The more loose feel of these videos is refreshing and I enjoy your perspective and life advice type stuff as well. I really like hearing your pov on things like careers because I'm now 31 and about to start classes for my Bachelor's in about a week. Watching your videos makes me feel like I'm not too late to try and get what I want in life, after years of partying and fucking off like a loser. Anyway, as tacky as it sounds you've been a big inspiration to me and I wanted to tell you that. Thank you. Also, you should link your main channel on the "channels" section of this one, I'm sure there are more people like me who immediately check to see what other channels are available when they find content they like. Thanks again, godspeed.

this whole context creeps me out so much watching a mid age man watching a teenager in her bikini this is creepy AF

You're the best, Finn. "Bait a Hook" is one of my favourite country songs for every reason you mentioned. "Somebody Else Will", "You Look Like I Need a Drink" and "The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home" are some other terrific cuts from Justin Moore. Recently I've been getting back into synthpop (with artists such as GUNSHIP, September 87, Lazerhawk, etc.), what are your thoughts on the genre?

I appreciate the tid bits of advice shared throughout this video!

Spot on with the mayday parade observation lol. All the girls who liked them didn’t branch out further than fallout boy.

It’s actually hilarious that Finn mistook modern baseball for American football 😂

when i was 14 and listened to Mayday Parade someone said to me "Is this McFly for self harmers?"

Emos are culturally appropriating Kyle culture with that Monster statement

Tik tok reminds me of being a kid playing with a old school video camera that my parents had. Doing skits, lip singing to song etc.

I remember chatting to a friend when I was 16 and he asked me what my favourite band was. I said Mayday Parade and he laughed and said ‘he doesn’t really see them as good enough to be anyone’s favourite band’. When I asked him his favourite band he said Brand New. For years I always saw that as an L on my part, but who’s laughing now, baby!

Finn is like if Joe rogan had a baby with Henry Rollings

Working for myself is hard. My boss can be a real jackass sometimes.

I absolutely love Mayday Parade. I’m 39. In my teenage years (1997-2004)my favorite bands were Hole, Blink 182, Good Charlotte, The Used, MxPx, Social Distortion, Staind, Dashboard Confessional, Letters to Cleo, Korn, Coal Chamber, Third Eye Blind etc. all of these bands I still love to this day. So pop punk, emo, alternative, Nu-metal type genres but I like all different types of music but a majority of what I love falls into the rock/alternative group. About 3 years ago I started listening to some bands I’ve heard in the past just overlooked somehow like Mayday Parade, A day to Remember, and Pierce The Veil ( I couldn’t stand his voice when I first heard them so I didn’t dive further into their discography at that time ). All 3 of those bands have become part of my favorites. Mayday parade is an altogether great band. The lyrics, melodies, song arrangements, everything I love. They are down to earth and aren’t making music just for fame or money. They never disappoint with their live shows. Their fan base ranges from people my age to those in their late teens and twenties. And I wouldn’t say their fan base is too close to those who love Fall Out Boy ( I like some songs from them but don’t own every album they have or anything). Maybe could group the fan base of them to 04-08 bands that were signed to Hopeless Records.

Ily for this video bro. I love the RAWRing20s🦐

08:00 I've literally looked like that since 2010 😂 rocking that Beau Bokan look forever haha

A lot of scene / alt kids would use the Monster can tabs to make necklaces or collected / posed with the cans because they were colorful. I had a hoodie with a giant blue M on it at one point and stopped drinking that nasty stuff pretty early on

I mainly listen to metalcore but I can’t deny Doja Cat is one of my favorite artist

Finn Mckenty looks like a 47 year old that still attempts to kick it with the 24 year old crowd.

Dude this is HILARIOUS !!

Wise words at the end Finn. Love your content man.

I have no idea what’s going on these days. Power to ya for staying on top of it haha

I hereby declare! Today we Form The "international Screamo, Protective, Collective!" May all people on the fringes be accepted and find the peace their hearts and minds have yet to give them!

The "what you think I'm listening to" clip is so accurate to me 😂

I was in my late teens/early 20's when the whole "mall screamo/scene" thing was around in the uk and it definitely had a minute around 2005 where lots of people dressed like these scene kids but you'd mostly see them at either tours for the bigger bands in that scene like MCR or funeral for a freind (they were massive here at one point, not sure how well they did in the US) or at big live events like festivals oand alternative clubs/bars, if you went to a DIY show they'd be very thin on the ground so it definitely would be interesting to see what the Tik tok generation think that period was like

My wife was really big into the scene 08ish and Her and her friends all had different monster energy drinks that was kind of their designated brand/color. She was legit 13 so I guess it was a thing

8:14 Lol.. I'm still rocking cords and grandpa shirts with vans in my mid-30s.

Loved the kid's myspace shout-out. Im 48 and I gotta say, myspace was the shit!

If anyone is looking for the song at 10:30 its actually Untitled by Knuckle Puck. An understandable mistake since one of Real Friend's most popular songs, "From the Outside," has an opening line involving a ceiling. I'd been looking for the actual song for months and just found it lol.

Correct Finn, mayday parade girls are normally preppy, normie girls you used to see at the Hollister store that have a slight alternative emo edge

I was in my first couple of years of college in the UK during 2005 and the emo/scene "rawr means I love you in dinosaur" look was huuuuge here, knew loads of people who dressed that way. It's funny because the fashion divides even in the alt community were huge in that brief timespan, I was in the 'dress like Matt Heafy with skinny black jeans, stud belt, adidas classics (before they quadrupled the price) and classic thrash or maiden shirts'/every metalcore band with a black button up shirt. Loved it, but then you had the scene kids, pantera wanna-be-rebel, the 'hate everything thats come out in the last year unless its tr00 CvLt', still plenty of KoRn, Slipknot and Cradle of Filth hoodies going round, thats just a handful of what I'd see on a daily basis. And thats just 2005/06. Now everyone just looks the same. Its weird.

Great video! An interesting video idea would be heavy metal & mixed martial arts. There are a lot of artists who have found a home with martial arts as well as Every time I Die getting involved in pro wrestling.

FINN YOU CALLED KNUCKLE PUCK REAL FRIENDS IM GONNA THROW UP REEEEEE

That was Modern Baseball 😂

Tyler from tired violence is awesome. Also had a METALCORE band called misgiving. Highly reccomend checking out all his stuff. Super nice dude aswell

Whenever someone wishes they were in a previous era I remind them how much our social awareness and technology have advanced since then.

Whenever I tell people I used to be a scene kid they always say "yeah I can tell"

I feel weird reminiscing on scene stuff from when I was a teenager already. It makes me feel like my mom, who still fawns over her 80s hair bands lol. I also remember having like loudness wars with my friends about whose MP3 player or headphones was the loudest. I did have one time where a kid sitting in the seat in front of me did ask what I was listening to because it sounded cool. I’m pretty sure it was Black Label by Lamb of God iirc lol.

I can hear the word prep being thrown around already lmao

I love spreadsheets. In 2009 and now in 2021. My previous bands tours were set up on those haha

When you referred to Modern Baseball as American Football I lost it. lol

I never stopped looking like 8:54, just stopped straighting and dying my hair. Graduated in 2012, just as most of us emo/scenes were turning into candy ravers.

35 year old dude and I have always loved early Mayday Parade.

5:16 there were so many kids like this at my high school (early to mid 2010s) and we all just called them emos lol. never thought of them as “alt” but i guess they totally were

Okay but Justin Moore played at my county fair (small ass town in MO) and I was in 8th grade and almost caught his JD bottle he threw into the crowd. I was having an identity crisis the entirety of middle school. 🤦🏻‍♀️

The whole scene kid scene definitely had a Peter Pan vibe to it like yeah we’re never gonna get older. I’d like to think I’m 17 still.

I always hear the scene kids today talk about 2008-2009 but I remember scene not being as popular then at least at my school the peak was 04-06ish

I cried when I saw Mayday Parade in concert lmao

as an early-2000s-borne pop-punk/metalcore/etc. fan and also someone who grew into country as well...not sure if anyone has said this yet but "bait a hook" literally has a nascar driver in it and the whole thing is like a self-parody and once I saw the video it seemed super self-aware to me and cool

I think Monster Energy has been associated with the “Alt” way back when they were in Warped Tour.

Dude no matter how hard i try on Tictok, the irony is too deep to penetrate.🤣

I swear I remember what is now referred to as "Midwest emo" was just "emo" in 1997. The heavier screamo shit was called emocore. But I was into skate punk back then, so I dunno.

Lol I love those deep cut YT country videos. I'm 28 & I love the rise of emo again but it is odd af to see young teens aim for something that happened 15 yrs ago. 🤣❤❤🔥

What is this 9 to 5 luxury you speak of, I'd love that. Here in Brazil a regular job is from 8am to 6pm.

Monster for me is an alt thing but that’s because it started getting big in the UK around 2008 and that was around the same time emo exploded at my school and me and all my friends discovered skateboarding

I remember saying or believing stupid, naive, sometimes whiny things as a teenager. Luckily social media was not really a thing in the late 90s and so unlike these kids, I did not preserve my cringiness for posterity.

the monster thing happened at the end of the scene phase, around 2011 or so. All the emo kids put their monster tabs on their shoelaces

It's so weird. Seeing kids react almost the same way i did, to videos i've seen now, hundreds of times. I love tiktok. This goes under the same roast as mtvs change over to reality television.

I work in a factory and there’s this 4 foot gal always walking around with big bows with the hair or one of those fury things on her head

Dude I was a scene kid back in the day and now I’m a working cowboy. Life is weird

Wait… but that song clip from the shower wasn’t Real Friends, that was Knuckle Puck right? Untitled?

I met someone who likes mayday parade once in my life. It was at warped tour and a kid thought I was the guitarist because we has similar hair, so I autographed his cd lmao.

I might be tripping but the audio is not synced when you're talking. Still enjoyed the hell outta this video!

I swear this new channel gives me a whole new idea of who you really are. Like the real Finn, away from the Script and just winging it. I definitely gid this Finn, but I'm not gonna lie you sound like the " Dr. Phill " of the Punk rock and metal Scene. 🤣🤣🤣 and that's not a bad thing, it's just when you were on a rant about the 1 billion that do like a Selena Gomez and some other dude being the one who doesnt get it lol.

Lol good time, thanks Finn

I work from home doing spreadsheets. i miss the free coffee at the office.

I like Mayday Parade. Not as much as before during ALIR era but I check them out still from time to time.

This is such feel good content

One of the girls in that 'scene girl' compilation is an ex of mine, I can confirm that it wasn't just an odd day or a one-off, it was an every day thing. I can also say that they are pretty embarrassed by it these days but can have a good laugh about it.

12:36 this was me, same song and year lmao

17:58 singer songwriters will hve to be writing their songs then performing constantly so in the end you have to do lots of work just to get by really

Br000! Scene chicks were crawling around the parkway plaza mall in san diego in 2009, they were EVERYWHERE