How do I know I'm emo?

情绪硬核 is short for emotional, so if your emo, your depressed and sad, and really in an emotional distress. but lately it's because 更多 of a trend and a style

and goth is a style and a lifestyle.

Stereotypically, 情绪硬核 is 更多 personal; it's 更多 about your emotions and the way 你 feel. Goth is 更多 about who 你 are and your interests (which are darker than most others' interests.) I could go as far as to say it's almost like romanticizing dark subjects and seeing beauty in what other people think is creepy 或者 scary. But that's just the way I see it.

"Emo" is a trend and 音乐 style based around emotional feelings, both positive and negative contrary to 流行的 belief, and a deeper outlook on every 日 life and events. It's possible to be "emo" without constant sadness 或者 even an over emotional outlook on life, and it's possible to have an emotional outlook on life and not be emo.

To me, it sounds 更多 like you're going through a blue funk 或者 somewhat depressed stage than "emo".

Goth, on the other hand, is 更多 of a lifestyle and a set of interests, and also contrary to 流行的 belief, is not the same thing as emo.
Goth means different things to several different people. Generally, it is a 爱情 for things of a dark nature, things that are twisted, mysterious, and melancholy, and the act of twisting that 爱情 in to your life. It is a mix of what is both romantic and tragic, the dark and the dreary. Being a bit of a Goth-at-heart myself, I'm inclined to say that things of a 哥特式 nature run much deeper than things of an 情绪硬核 origin.
I could go in to a lot of detail about what Goth is and isn't, but I don't really want to bore anyone.

I am not depressed, miserable yes, and bored, and pessimistic, and though I do not try to have any style in particular, just avoid colour because i don't like it and yet many people call me 情绪硬核 :( (it must be the hair, it is spiky on the back and I have hair all over my face :P) And I think it is stupid, because they have to label everyone according to trends and styles...You are 情绪硬核 if 你 want to be, I think I am not, so wearing only black, having 'emo hair' and looking like I am about to slit my wrists (a friend put it that way, a friend that knows how derpy I can be ) doesn't make me emo, (nor wearing a lot of eye-liner, I like eye-liner)...Since it has to do with emotions If 你 feel 情绪硬核 你 don't have to follow the trend, and 你 can still be, while looking 情绪硬核 doesn't mean 你 are.

你 know you're 情绪硬核 if 你 view Russian Cutaway Gag numerous ties a day.