This is one of the craziest stories we've seen in a while. Like, recalibrating the crazy-meter kind of crazy. Apparently, there is rising wave of violence happening against emo kids in Mexico. Not just teasing and the occasional crude graffiti ("emos va a casa!"), but actual mobs and standoffs and rock-throwing and beatings and police intervention and everything. A popular television personality named Kristoff has been inciting people to rise against (heh heh) emo kids, and different groups of youth - metalheads, skaters, punks, goths - are all organizing and clashing with kids who look, you know, emo. (It's a good thing Fall Out Boy have already played Mexico).
I mean, say what you will about the emo kids, but THEY ARE JUST STRUGGLING TO FIND A PLACE IN THIS WORLD JUST LIKE YOU AND I.
Anyway, our friends at The Daily Swarm have been doing a good job aggregating a lot of the reporting going on from different daily and weekly newspapers in and around Mexico.
We'll have more for you here, but in the meantime, check this clip, which is crazy whether you understand Spanish or not.
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