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Mar. 27th, 2009 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmastolenSo. I am in LB and rather bored, despite Dress Shopping Part 1 and Dentist Appointment, so I resorted to internet quizzes (see immediately previous post) and Pieces of Flair on Facebook. I looked at the "Recently Popular" for the "Emotions" category, and immediately noticed the ridiculous amount of "sad-14-year-old-girl emo flair," as I described it to Malia. And then it was just too good to keep to myself, so I screencapped the emo from the first ten pages! MAI MOCKERY, LET ME SHOW U IT!
Now, being that I just associated this with 14-year-old girls, it's a little bit incongruous that my first example (and apparently the most popular of the lot) was made by some kid named Jeremy.... but then he cropped up several more times, so obvs he is in fact a 14-year-old girl. Or, you know, shares the same mindset. It makes me smirk.
Spare me.
Emo flair pair!
I am particularly entertained by the mismatch in tone here: the defeated message of the actual flair, and the apparent shock in Catie's CAPSLOCK INTERROBANG title.
Aah, and Mr. Middleton returns! *snerk* Note especially the understated, lowercase, single-word titles.
More tonal mismatch here, but less hilarious. No cigar, Christine.
Few things are more subtly emo than textless icons!
See? "Subtly emo." Also: MAI DEFIANS OF PHIZZX, LET ME SHOW U IT
Of course, nothing is more emo than deep flair titles.
And here we have our final selection from Mr. Middleton. I think this one is actually a little bit creepy... I mean, leaving an unsigned note is a tiny bit stalkerish, and the message is quite cryptic, and the heart... is that ironic or something? Not to mention naming the thing "love." So, creepy. Also, what does it say about our Jeremy that the only other emo-flair-maker with multiple creations on the first ten pages is "Facebook User"? I sort of think it's hilarious that he's the one with repeat performances, whereas all the emo girls are either one-hit wonders, or one flair was sufficient to vent their deep, enduring feelings of loneliness and despair. *rolls eyes*
This one is particularly interesting in that it seems to convey both hope, and hidden underneath that, bitterness and blame! :D I think it's hilarious.
Okay, yeah, this one might actually be happy, but it seems to carry a weird undertone of "I can't stop loving you even though you don't give a rat's ass," and also it's overly dramatic in a very teenagery way so I'm keeping it in, hah!
Dear Kelsey, This eye (singular!) is neither "Cryin" nor crying (with a g!). Those are not tear-trails or running mascara lines. They are the shadows of the model's fake eyelashes. Love, Sigma
The salient features here are: (a) actual image of a broken heart on the damn thing; (b) Twilight reference FTL; and (c) Deanna's apparent LITERACY FAIL. The word is "admirer," not... "admireror," wtf, where did that extra syllable even come from? It's probably a symptom of the general ENGLISH LANGUAGE FAIL of the Twilight books themselves...
And our final example is... well, I'd say understated, but ain't nothing understated about that skinny black font on that red, red field. Please also note: Sarah's INCONSISTENT CAPITALIZATION FAIL. Yay!
Yeah, yeah, you got me -- the reason I even noticed this trend was that a lot of these actually spoke to me -- evidence of my weakened state. So I made fun of them to make myself feel better, yay! Guess which ones seemed most applicable!
Now, being that I just associated this with 14-year-old girls, it's a little bit incongruous that my first example (and apparently the most popular of the lot) was made by some kid named Jeremy.... but then he cropped up several more times, so obvs he is in fact a 14-year-old girl. Or, you know, shares the same mindset. It makes me smirk.
Spare me.
Emo flair pair!
I am particularly entertained by the mismatch in tone here: the defeated message of the actual flair, and the apparent shock in Catie's CAPSLOCK INTERROBANG title.
Aah, and Mr. Middleton returns! *snerk* Note especially the understated, lowercase, single-word titles.
More tonal mismatch here, but less hilarious. No cigar, Christine.
Few things are more subtly emo than textless icons!
See? "Subtly emo." Also: MAI DEFIANS OF PHIZZX, LET ME SHOW U IT
Of course, nothing is more emo than deep flair titles.
And here we have our final selection from Mr. Middleton. I think this one is actually a little bit creepy... I mean, leaving an unsigned note is a tiny bit stalkerish, and the message is quite cryptic, and the heart... is that ironic or something? Not to mention naming the thing "love." So, creepy. Also, what does it say about our Jeremy that the only other emo-flair-maker with multiple creations on the first ten pages is "Facebook User"? I sort of think it's hilarious that he's the one with repeat performances, whereas all the emo girls are either one-hit wonders, or one flair was sufficient to vent their deep, enduring feelings of loneliness and despair. *rolls eyes*
This one is particularly interesting in that it seems to convey both hope, and hidden underneath that, bitterness and blame! :D I think it's hilarious.
Okay, yeah, this one might actually be happy, but it seems to carry a weird undertone of "I can't stop loving you even though you don't give a rat's ass," and also it's overly dramatic in a very teenagery way so I'm keeping it in, hah!
Dear Kelsey, This eye (singular!) is neither "Cryin" nor crying (with a g!). Those are not tear-trails or running mascara lines. They are the shadows of the model's fake eyelashes. Love, Sigma
The salient features here are: (a) actual image of a broken heart on the damn thing; (b) Twilight reference FTL; and (c) Deanna's apparent LITERACY FAIL. The word is "admirer," not... "admireror," wtf, where did that extra syllable even come from? It's probably a symptom of the general ENGLISH LANGUAGE FAIL of the Twilight books themselves...
And our final example is... well, I'd say understated, but ain't nothing understated about that skinny black font on that red, red field. Please also note: Sarah's INCONSISTENT CAPITALIZATION FAIL. Yay!
Yeah, yeah, you got me -- the reason I even noticed this trend was that a lot of these actually spoke to me -- evidence of my weakened state. So I made fun of them to make myself feel better, yay! Guess which ones seemed most applicable!
