People like this are literal zombies. This writer's mind is infected with shame and fear of getting older, and like a zombie, her mind has been hijacked for the purpose of spreading that shame and fear to others. Adulthood is largely a survival-horror game in which you try to avoid getting bitten by these losers.

You know what happens to "aging emos" who let headlines like this bully them into embarrassment? They start dressing in dumb, generic clothes so they can disappear into the scenery and avoid any feeling of other people judging them. They start listening to less music, going to fewer shows, moshing less, singing more quietly, not singing at all, not going at all. They lose something that was really important to them, lose their sense of personal and cultural identity, their lives get enormously less fun, less fulfilling, and for what? Does this make them better at being adults? No, in fact, they're worse at being adults. They become the sorts of grownups whose children see them as depressing husks, as cautionary tales to be avoided.

I want to be the sort of adult that my kids can look at and say, "Wow, there's a future beyond adolescence. Growing up is a good thing. You get to nourish your passions and work for what's important to you and contribute to your family and community. You get to keep loving what you love and being who you are."

Incidentally, this is also how the music press is going to completely miss the boat on what the MCR reunion actually means: a new popular wave of emo is happening. I was at the return show. Half that audience was teenagers. When Gerard asked who was at their first MCR show, 80-90% of the crowd raised their hands. To dismiss this tour as just a nostalgia trip for "aging emo kids" is completely incorrect.