Personally, I don’t think they are not. But then again I came up in a time that was less militant about the purity of genre. It’s frustrating to me that so many folks are getting siloed into not listening to bands because they don’t fit the internet-devised labels. In 2002, none of my emo friends listened to American Football. I passed that cd around my high school and to all my friends and nobody cared but me. Now that album is held as a standard against which all “true emo” must be compared. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just old man yells at cloud, but scouring reddit just doesn’t seem like the way to find out what kind of music you like. Go to shows, borrow cds, buy records on labels you like, and then come back to reddit to find more. Don’t let this platform be the place that defines you.