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My psychological impression of emo is something akin to "wearing your feelings on your sleeve". These feelings generally seem expressive of (or at least desire to express) negative self-awareness and cognition, as in the form of alienation and/or personal angst.
Every major youthful movement, sub-culture, or otherwise identifiable mass grouping of people unifies in that it adopts/creates individual trends in response to the (social) environment in which it began. The manner in which a new, typically generational sense of group identity is forged depends on the time and the place -- though one constant is adopting behavior which at least on the surface challenges preexisting social norms/conventions.
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"What I am interested in now is predicting what will be next. Who do Emos dislike and ridicule amongst their own kind? Surely there is a small diverging group at this very moment, which does not have a name but is different enough to be seen. Five or ten years from now we will all hate some other group for no real reason other than because they are everywhere."
Interesting question, though it seems particularly difficult to answer or even speculate on at the moment due to the proliferation and cross-pollination of (intra-national) cultures, sub-cultures, sub-sub-cultures, etc...
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