It's funny that you say this because that's exactly how the word "emo" was used circa 2008. The same way anything really uncool and disliked and uncannily edgy

It's funny that you say this because that's exactly how the word "emo" was used circa 2008. The same way anything really uncool and disliked and uncannily edgy is just reflexively called "incel", everything effeminate, dorky, and so on was "emo". Hipster went through the same cycle a few years after emo. By the time these words go so mainstream, they lose all of their nuance and just became fill-ins for basic emotions, I guess.