Martini, Ella2026-05-062026-05-062026-04https://hdl.handle.net/10177/41435voteboykiss.com is a critical response to the sidelining of queer and feminine tastes in emo discourse. For the past twenty five years, white male music journalists have dominated the conversation around emo, its histories, and its canon. These accounts consistently prioritize the bands themselves and pay comparatively little attention to emo fandom, which, since the mid-2000s, has been dominated by young women and queer people online. Because the majority of emo bands have (until recently) also consisted of mostly white men, this approach has broadly misrepresented emo as white masculine subculture and has obscured the fact that girls and queers online have almost singlehandedly steered emo's trajectory for the past twenty five years. At the center of this installation sits the titular voteboykiss.com, a hand-coded website which parodies "emo historian" Tom Mullen's notorious 2014 website isthisbandemo.com. Mullen's site cheekily presents itself as the authority on which bands are "real emo" and which are not, as decided upon by a committee consisting of himself and his circle of music journalist friends. Consistently, bands associated with teen fangirl audiences rank as not real emo, capturing the way that feminine tastes and values threaten emo's credibility and must therefore be excised from the subculture. Mimicking the design of Mullen's original site, voteboykiss.com asks visitors to choose between quintessential boy-favorite emo album American Football's LP1 (1999) and the notorious gay kiss from My Chemical Romance's I'm Not Okay (2004). Pitting these two emo icons against each other in a mock-battle ultimately rigged in boy kiss's favor, voteboykiss. com reclaims vilified queer and feminine contributions to emo (i.e. shipping) and centers those who have for so long been treated as an embarrassing footnote to emo's history: girls and queers on the internet.HTML/CSS, Javascript, customized monitor, keyboard, and mouse, silver paperclips, beads, plastic rhinestones, pyramid studs, wallet chain, silver glitter posterboard, digital video, "I Voted" parody stickersinstallation, digital, website, video, sculpture, emo