Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

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Black and pink clothes, young men with eyeliner and long dyed bangs, plaid sneakers, badge collections and jokes about the gender of the soloist of Tokio Hotel — if you caught all this fashion and at least once wanted to "return your 2007", then take a look at how emo musicians and just teenagers of that time they look now.

(39 photos in total)

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later
Source: Buzzfeed

Musicians

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Joel and Benji Madden, the band Good Charlotte. Then: eyeliner. Now: goatee beards.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy. Then: red strands. Now: hair gel.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Brandon Urie, the band Panic! At the Disco. Then: bangs. Now: haircut.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional band. Then: long sideburns. Now: low-cut T-shirts.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

William Beckett, The Academy Is. Then: striped scarf. Now: a fringed shawl.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Andrew McMahon, bands Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate. Then: dyed hair. Now: knitted sweaters.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Patrick Stamp, Fall Out Boy band. Then: long sideburns. Now: fedora hats.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Ryan Cabrera. Then: porcupine. Now: some animal with a better hairstyle.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Tyson Ritter, band All-American Rejects. T-shirts have been replaced with suits, but the musician still looks good.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Bert McCracken, the band The Used. Then: long hair. Now: yellow nail polish.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Davey Havok, AFI band.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Forrest Kline, Hellogoodbie band. Then: glasses. Now: the glasses are prettier.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Ben Gibbard, Death Cab For Cutie band. Then: striped T-shirts. Now: tight pants.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, band From First To Last. Nothing has changed, only the hair began to cover the face less.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Pierre Bouvier, Simple Plan group. Then: dark hair roots. Now: gray roots.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Quinn Allman, the band The Used. Then: dyed bangs. Now: bald.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Kenny Vasoli, The Starting Line.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Adam Lazzara, Taking back Sunday.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Jordan Pandik, New Found Glory. No green hair, no tunnels in the ears.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance band.

Ordinary teenagers

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"My girlfriend and I met for the first time and now. We regret the time when we were emo."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"I became a firefighter. If I had met myself from the future eight years ago and found out that I would cut my hair and work in a fire station, I wouldn't have believed it."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"The first photo shows the year 2005, I am 18 years old. On the second — 2015, I am a loving father and husband. That's how much everything can change in 10 years."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

Teenage rebellion and adult harmony.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"Emo. Goth. Emo. Emo. Marketing consultant".

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"I am 25 years old. I got married, I have a beautiful child of four years old, and I am the manager of the store next door — at 15 I was sure that I would never do all this."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"Having stopped being emo, I learned to program and now I work in a cool startup. It was just an episode of my life, but it was cool. However, then I did a lot of stupid things, especially because of drugs."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"Then I studied to be a designer, listened to Brand New, Death Cab and Blink-182. Now I'm a designer, I still listen to Brand New, Death Cab and Blink-182, and my first child was born."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"In the first photo I'm 15, and in the second I'm 21, and I work as a carpenter."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"I became an infantryman in the US Army. I'm going to go to college, study international security and conflictology."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"I am a correctional teacher. I teach children how not to behave like I did then. On the left I'm in the ninth grade — on the right I teach ninth graders."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"The beginning of the noughties and our time. Now I serve in the US Air Force."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"2007 and 2015. I became a policeman."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

2007 and 2017.

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"Now I am 27 years old, I recently started a family and moved into my house. I am studying to become a laboratory technologist."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"I'm getting a junior research associate degree."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"I was pretty weird at school. Now I work in a building materials store on the night shift and I'm trying to figure out what to do next."

Bring back your 2007: What happened to emo Kids 10 years later

"I used to be an EMO with green hair, and now I work for a corporation and pay for training as a web developer and designer. I also work part-time as a tattooed model and I want to become an actress."

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