Fashion received inspiration from androgynous styles, including skinny jeans and males wearing make-up, both uncommon in the country at that time.

As the movement became mainstream in the country, mainly among teenagers and young adults, anti-emo groups formed, which claimed that emos were appropriating and copying their subcultures.

Alleging that the emos were attempting to expand and appropriate more zones in Mexico City, anti-emo groups organized a confrontation at the traffic circle on 16 March 2008 via social network services.

Musically, international rock groups like My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Fall Out Boy, as well as local bands like Panda, Delux and Kudai, surged or became popular.

Its fashion included androgynous clothing styles, like skinny jeans, make-up, and the emo hairstyle, whose bangs cover one eye.

You have confused hard rock, punk and screamo and you have grouped all the ideas of these scenes, just to give significance to your stupid bullshit movement.

[2] Anti-emo groups surged in the country; additionally, there was tension between different subcultures, such as punks and metalheads, who saw emos as a threat to their codes and values.

Fernanda Guzmán said on NPR that stereotypes surrounding emotional behavior and fashion could have contributed to a bullying culture in some sectors of society, primarily because emos were viewed as effeminate.

It was only deescalated when members of the Hare Krishna movement, who regularly sang at the traffic circle on Saturdays, invited both groups to chant with them.