>>127633401 (OP)
Like 2003/4. You look at bands who released their debuts around this time like Hawthorne Heights and Funeral for a Friend and they look like a midpoint between nerdy yet normie 90s emos and androgynous, faux-goth 00s emos. Then when MCR got big the transition was complete.
>>127633494
this >>127633570
My Chemical Romance was essentially the initiation of the transition into a goth aesthetic for the so-called Emo movement, as far as I am aware >>127633401 (OP)
not all emos even looked like this, Conor Oberst for example is one of the symbols of midwest emo and he didn't dress like a dork
if anything his style was just indie