Edited sentence: " Such sayings also reflect the belief that emo youths express self-pity and suicidal thoughts for apparently trivial matters such as being disciplined by parents.It is possibly because of this stereotype of emo youths as highly melancholy and angst-filled that those not in the emo scene often deride those seen to be emo with such sayings as "Cheer up, emo kid.Nowadays emo blogs on livejournal and MySpace often contain rants or complaints about such matters.Often these personas lead to anti-social behavior such as an anti-conformist attitude towards the conventional population, rejection of authority, and suicidal thoughts.The melancholy and suicidal attitudes often expressed in the words written in blogs of emo youths and in the lyrics of songs of certain emo artists can have negative effects on their friends and fans (often identifying as emo themselves).The widespread success of blog sites such as livejournal and MySpace have had a significant social impact on the emo movement by modern youth.While the attitudes of specific emo people or artists certainly do not represent all of the emo community, and the effects of the blogs' or lyrics' content on youths are debatable, youths often adopt the tempting self-pity persona while not having conventionally accepted reason for killing themselves.While the majority of emo readers and listeners are able to distinguish melancholy blogs from lessons in social conduct, an evident pseudo-suicide and melancholy seeking sub-culture has risen amongst North American youth