the best emo bands are the ones that were around for like 6 months sometime in the 90s/early 2000s, and whose entire discography consists of like 4 songs, all released on comps or splits with unknown local bands, and who never played a show outside of their home state, and then 3 years later they release a discography consisting of their original 4 songs plus one newly recorded one bringing their entire recorded output to 5 songs, and then in the mid to late 2010s they are hailed as "legendary" and "groundbreaking" by white kids on reddit and /mu/ emoe threads who pray for a reunion even though all the members of the band have long forgotten their time in said band.