Is the trends of today getting to out of control?

[Confession]

As I was searching upon 4chan looking up pointless banter as you do. I actually stumbled upon something quite serious

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...e-cult%27.html

After reading this horiffic article. I thought. Is what people follow today getting ahead of themselves and out of control?

It seems that everyone has A different view on exactly what "emo" is. My Idea is that it is a genre of music, that was dirived from punk, that has become out of hand with teenagers adults and children alike taking the lyrics that are in these songs to heart.

I'm completely fine with "emo's" being all cranky and dressing in black and being seemingly unaware of the people around them. (I Know it's a sterotype there, but I have many "emo" friends. I do not mean to offend)

But it seems to me that from this article. In Britian. it is becoming more then it should be.

She had secretly chatted to “emo” followers online all over the world, talking about death and the glamorisation of hanging and speaking about “the black parade” - a place where “emos” believe they go after they die.

She had even scratched her wrists in a form of self-harm often seen as a form of initiation into the popular fashion and lifestyle fad followed by young people who dress in black like their older “Goth” crowd.

Has "Emo" overstepped the label "scene" or "fad" and is on it's way to becoming a modern day mainstream religion?