I mean from her perspective her friends been messing with her crush, but hasn’t said anything. It just got out and she feels like she’s been betrayed she didn’t know what really happened.
@@strawberryherpes528 you could look at it that way. Looking at it another way she would think she knows her which is why it was probably hard for her to understand why she would do what she did
@@theepiscesprincess lol! I remember 20 years ago the health teacher gave us a sheet of a bunch of different terms for std’s. It’s almost as funny as the nicknames for illegal substances. Lmao
yes and Emma didn’t even want to get back together with Chris. She was leading him on so he wouldn’t date Liberty. She was just worried about what people would think of her if he got together with Liberty. But I love how Manny called Emma out on that
Tbh Manny would've been a better main character. Emma was just a terrible character all around, the only good thing about her through the series was her glow-up.
Never got how Manny or anyone put up with her. I swear she got worse with each season She was such a hypocrite and was always sticking her nose where it didn’t belong
This puts things out of a lot of context. They were all terrible people. Teenagers are terrible. Emma was a judgmental prude. But “Ur JuSt JeAlOuS” hoe bag Manny wasn’t any better. I get it’s cool now to glorify people like Manny - to the point they straight up copied her in euphoria, but she was no less obnoxious. But had her good moments. But a lot of bad too. The video itself kind of has an obvious bias towards Manny, but you could just as easily make a 5 minute video of Manny being the worst person ever towards Emma and many others, or Paige, Craig, or Spinner being the worst character ever, among others. Again, they were all terrible.
You missed the part where Manny is telling her “you’re better than this” after she hooked up with Jay and Emma tells her “well I’m not getting pregnant” throwing mannys pregnancy and ab*ration in her face
As someone watching the show for the first time and am currently on season four, my impression on their “friendship” so far is that Emma is extremely awful to Manny. While Manny isn’t exactly always the nicest friend, most of the time she is constantly supporting or uplifting Emma and genuinely puts in work to make amends. Meanwhile, Emma takes her for granted and throws extremely low blows at Manny and always victim blames her whenever Manny is confining in her. I really felt that Manny should’ve just cut Emma off for good at some points.
The way Emma was so anti abortion when manny said she wanted to abort the baby and was giving valid reasons( mainly that she wasn’t ready) and Emma was like,”your killing that kid! How could you?” Like girl your friend is struggling and you’re judging?!
I think Emma Nelson is the perfect example of the "young nice mean girl" its definitely a character flaw but I know a lot of girls like her who posses these righteous indignation with everything they do but are actually really shallow...
exactly. and people say she was right for tripping Rick, but she didn't belong in that drama at all. if i were Paige i would've told her to stay tf in her place lol
Also: Emma not standing up for Manny at Peter’s party when that other girl shaded her- and then having the nerve to later be seen WITH HER ARM AROUND THAT SAME GIRL- says everything you need to know about her. Like… Holly Freakin’ J wasn’t even half as horrible to Anya as Emma was to Manny.
@@simpleplanfan011lol Ashley was most annoying character and possibly the most hated character of Degrassi. Not the biggest fan of Emma but she’s def not in the list of my hated characters like Trashley
Emma's mom, Spike, was one of my favorite characters in the original Degrassi from the 80s-90s. Very sweet and authentic. I was so surprised that the writers made Emma so opposite .
@@azzz7279 if Wheels’ actor was still alive, I think it’d be much more interesting if Wheels was Emma’s stepfather. But Spike liked Snake even back in the day so ig her being with him is only right
It just dawned on me after all these years--Emma complained about Manny being with Paige so bad she almost ruined the cheer squad. Fast forward a few years and now Emma is blowing off her friends for Paige--Oh the ironnnny
She's the essential whiney white girl of the early 2000's. She's can't whine about herself? It's fine. Pick a cause, any cause. She doesn't really have to care about it, as long as she can protest about it for a second. One of the most self-involved characters on Degrassi. To be fair, they gave Emma alot of basic teen drama and had to make it seem bigger than it was bc any real problems went to any other character but her (except her ed). But I feel like Degrassi has a problem with "main characters". Each era of Degrassi had a character they wanted to center the show around, but then they become whiney, crazy, and pretty hard to like. Clare is another example of this. Though, Emma had it the worst, especially when they would have her do something out of character just to add drama to someone elses storyline. But the actress who played Emma was able to make a stall piece of knockoff dollar store wonder bread taste more like a ready to eat pastry dish.
I wish they would have done more with her story line about her bio dad. Its like one of the real interesting story lines with her and they dropped it forever, the only time it was referenced again is when she picked up knitting like her dad did.
@@всемпривет-и1щ and you should stop calling everything out as racist. The character kinda sucked (bad writing) but the actress did a great job of making her lovable. That's all I said about her.
Ashley was horrible. Especially to Terri. Think about all the years Emma and Manny spent together. Ashley did all of her dirt in literally 3 seasons. Emma doesn’t take away from Hurricane Ashley. They were both horrible, judgemental people and even worse friends.
@@hesayshesayhowboutmesay You have a point. Wasn't trying to take away from the nasty things Ashley did I'm her preppy phase, just saying that a lot of Emma's flaws get overlooked (in part due to her glow-up) whereas Ashley is given full-blown hate from start to finish.
IMO Emma was worse than Ashley because at least Ashley would apologize in some scenes. Plus I did like that one episode where she did “don’t you think you’re just a bit ignorant?” When they were mocking that Muslim girl as well of how concerned she was for Toby when he had is ED Don’t get me wrong she did do some crappy things and I get why people don’t like her but IMO Emma was worse especially with how she dated the guy who spread revenge p*rn on her friend and blamed it on her and how selfish she was being when Snake was falsely accused
"Why does she still hate me so much?" Bro! You committed a major felony that could have destroyed her life and her future, and you only got detention out of it. Accepting her hatred for you is the least you could do.
@PrincessLovelyAngelIf you were exploited like that by a literal stranger who did it because you didn’t want to be blackmailed by them…it’s shocking how much Peter had changed but he definitely belonged in prison a long time ago
2:092:484:34 these might be the incidents we can let go just because of the circumstances surrounding it. They were symptoms of the ED. I’m not gonna say it was necessarily out of character but it was def nastier than usual.
@@chibichan9586 Emma thinks that everybody thinks Liberty was a nerdy loser when not long before some people thought that about Emma. She is a hypocrite
Realistically, they ALL sucked. You can’t name me a single character who wasn’t unlikeable and foolish for the sake of a plot line at one point or another.
I remember defending Emma against a couple of edgelords in another comment section, blaming her regarding Rick’s actions after weeks of being pushed to the limit due to bullying and the principal’s lack of regard towards. What I find even more disgusting was the fact of them being pissed at Emma for simply, but harshly giving Rick a reality check that she had no romantic interest in him and only pitied him. Here’s the thing; do I like Emma as a character? No. Is Emma the blame for Rick reaching his breaking point and bringing a gun to school? Definitely not. Did Emma play a part in him getting bullied by the entire student body? Yeah, but at least realized how far and intense the situation got and put an end to it. Just because she stood up for him and was cordial towards him, does NOT mean she owed him any type of loyalty or relationship.
here's the thing. I'd understand if everyone bullied him for no reason. He abused one of the nicest girls and put her in a coma. He should've been expelled or in juvie.
@@chaosspy6723 Rick should’ve never came back to Degrassi. If he was really THAT desperate for people to see that he changed, he should’ve relocated and transferred to another school.
@therealinuyasha yea, but that's really on his parents. like, who sends their child to a school where they are known for terrorizing one of the nicest girls? And who keeps their gun where their kid can get to it? wtf?
@@chaosspy6723 That’s also on Mr. Raditch as well because he willingly let Rick back in school, knowing full well that he was a danger to other students and did little to nothing when he complained to him about being bullied.
I remember one day I was vibing with someone who used to watch Degrassi High. When I told her Snake became principal and Spike's baby is kinda a nightmare she died laughing
End of 9th...when she threw down and brawled with Alex in the hallway like it was a street fight just because she was pissed about Snake leaving a will for when he dies while he was getting cancer treatment lol
When I was younger, I loved Emma because of her activism. I also really liked Manny. As an adult, Manny is a way better person. Yeah, she does some really messed up stuff. But she is a far better friend than Emna. And a better costar when acting- Dracula, anyone? And yes, that's even with her dating Jay toward the end.
i love emma, she's the literal perfect "character you love to hate" archetype. i loved watching her get worse too, its a pretty accurate depiction of what happens when the goody goody people pleaser who has all of her "greater good" actions completely backfire so their psyche breaks down along with their sense of identity. degrassi nailed so many complex character types, it was wild.
its her cheating on peter for shawn, then believe shawn to be a drug dealer despite peter being an asshole, then shawn needing her when he's scared and alone and she bascially says F u....then being kissy kissy with peter again...girl
Realizing that the character most frequently centered as the protagonist/viewer POV is actually the antagonist of the series 💀. And not entirely sure that last part was intentional.
People who talk bad about her forget spike had her at 14, she grew up with a mom still tryna figure out life, she was always the “Nice Mean girl with strong morals” She was really growing up and it shows
Manny couldn't say anything to Emma about the Jay dilemma because she was encouraging Craig to dump Ashley and continued going after him whenever she saw a small crack in their relationship but at the same time Emma's nose was all up in Manny's Craig dilemma and claims she's the better/bigger person yet goes on to do something similar to what her bestie did in s4 Honestly they're both bad and hypocrites but i think Emma is way more toxic for Manny than Manny being toxic for Emma
I grew to love Emma, honestly. Her character was a reminder to all of us that no one is born knowing to be a good friend. We’ll make mistakes and learn along the way. Neither Manny nor Emma we’re perfect friends to each other but, their growth was amazing to see.
slander her all you want but we wouldn’t have TNG without her or Spike, seriously I hate how very little recognition Spike/Amanda even gets for being the vehicle for TNG, had she not kept Emma there would be no TNG
Fr the series was planning on ending for good in school's out but due to Emma's existence they wanted to see her and her mom in the future that's why the Degrassi saga had a revival with TNG after 9 years of being dead
Y’all can hate all y’all want. It’s easy to say “she’s terrible” or “jealous” (idk why y’all use jealous, always pitting characters against one another” but she was reality because her stories is what you’d see in the avenger girl. First hard crush over friends, not wanting to admit when you have a problem (and people suffering from anorexia do lash out at those closest to them) it’s not meant to be pretty, reasonings behind going with the bully and picking on someone. She’s still a favorite because it came out genuine. Half of these moments are out of if context.
4:42-4:50 Never have I agreed with Jay more than this statement by him about Peter. As messed up Jay can be, at least he has a conscious and he’s aware of his peers well beings. Peter is an even bigger monster and jerk than Jay ever was.
I agree that in some cases, Emma was incredibly rude and in the wrong, e.g. with Chris and Liberty, but a lot of these scenes are taken out of context. For example, she supported Manny after Peter distributed that photo, she fund raised for Sean so he could get a lawyer, she felt bad about how she treated Rick and later became his friend. I am not saying she was the best character but I think sometimes she gets too much slander.
@@gabrielapineyro678 Yeah I understand and that's why I said she is still rude, but she gets too much slate. As if people like Manny or Paige were great friends.
I hated when Manny was borderline homeless and how she inserted herself with her moms relationship over and over ugh. Manny would have died for Emma but she just always felt superior to her and it showed throughout the entire series. In the end though no matter how many ways they tried to drag Manny, she will always be a fan favorite which is what i feel like the writers wanted for Emma.
I am so surprised that you added the clip where Sean really needed Emma's help and she said she doesn't care, not anymore. I didn't think you would add that in this video.
Problem is... Most of those scenes is a best friend's feud. She may not be the perfect and coolest protagonist ever, but she certainly wasn't the worst and not even the worst friend to Manny.
even as a kid i would complain that they positioned emma as the "main" character early on because of her parents being in the original series and she was the WORST. CONSISTENTLY.
In defense of Emma: 0:10 She said Manny was dressing like an idiot and let's be honest here, she was. A visible thong is not appropriate for a 10th grader. Even then, Emma said she cared more about how Manny was acting. 0:13 Honestly, Manny deserved a taste of this because that's what she was doing all of S1 trying to be a cheerleader and blowing Emma off. 0:20 She was a bit rude here, but how would you feel if your mom and her friend were in your room and on your PC without telling you? I keep a lot of personal stuff on mine. 0:43 she was wrong for this, but unlike a lot of characters; she learned and BETTERED herself. 1:13. Can't defend this. 1:58. She should have trusted Sean more here, but when you're very infatuated with somebody you don't WANT to believe they're bad. She learned and dumped him. Most people don't do this. 2:14 Awful for dating Peter, but she didn't want to hurt Manny. Anorexia is a mental illness, it compelled her to protect her secret by distracting her with something hurtful. 2:44 Manny made a mistake by going after Peter who Emma said she was into and then kept the problem a secret. Emma was rightfully upset here. 2:51 Anorexia causing her to lash out. 3:04 Emma was projecting here, Emma is definitely the grudge holder. 4:10 Emma was a teen pregnancy, she obviously has a right to feel some type of way here. But in the end she defends Manny DESPITE not agreeing with her. Something few are willing to do.
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omg i forgot to include the scene where she says to manny "at least i'm not getting pregnant" 😒
I thought that was funny
@@ashleyburchettajleefanlove4683 I thought I was selfish and rude
I meannnnn manny was fast in the ass.
@@AshleyWilliams-zs1sp it was still unkind
Well Manny was rude to Emma a few times
Manny gets sexually harassed and Emma says she hates her and goes on to date her harasser 😒
Poor thing has divorced parent. I mean who wouldn’t want to date someone who distributed CP- twice
Who sexually harassed? I don’t remember
I mean from her perspective her friends been messing with her crush, but hasn’t said anything. It just got out and she feels like she’s been betrayed she didn’t know what really happened.
@@mnlyt2942Emma has known Manny their entire lives. She should know Manny better than that.
@@strawberryherpes528 you could look at it that way. Looking at it another way she would think she knows her which is why it was probably hard for her to understand why she would do what she did
The fact that she was gonna kiss someone KNOWING she had the CLAP 😭😭
I thought it was gonnorea
@@mandananely6860The Clap is a nickname for gonorrhea.
@@typicaldemoness6x111 I thought the clap was chlamydia😭
@@theepiscesprincess lol! I remember 20 years ago the health teacher gave us a sheet of a bunch of different terms for std’s. It’s almost as funny as the nicknames for illegal substances. Lmao
LMAO
The fact that she considered the idea of Chris going out with Liberty embarrassing...
Like did she forget that she wasn't exactly miss beauty pageant herself? Especially not in her earlier seasons.
yes and Emma didn’t even want to get back together with Chris. She was leading him on so he wouldn’t date Liberty. She was just worried about what people would think of her if he got together with Liberty. But I love how Manny called Emma out on that
Yea for real
@@azzz7279 Manny was a real one.
@@elizabethchint6485she deserved better
Tbh Manny would've been a better main character. Emma was just a terrible character all around, the only good thing about her through the series was her glow-up.
Still not as bad as Trashley
Well Manny wasn't much of a Saint either
Yasss she her glow up ❤
manny would always date men who were taken like calm down
@@rqktsushi7526 Did I say she was perfect? I said she would've made a better main character.
Emma was a bad friend to Manny. Idc 😭
Nah fr, that peter arc pissed me off😒
Yeah, she thought she was better than her
The bad friend thing was mutual.
@@tiamod How so? Oh… wait… like that time she left Emma at the club to go have sex with Craig. Lol Hmmm… what else?
@@MamiTT237 idk it’s been over a decade but Manny certainly had a habit of making terrible decisions.
Never got how Manny or anyone put up with her. I swear she got worse with each season
She was such a hypocrite and was always sticking her nose where it didn’t belong
fr
they were all the same to be honest. Manny had her share of bad streaks.
This puts things out of a lot of context. They were all terrible people. Teenagers are terrible. Emma was a judgmental prude.
But “Ur JuSt JeAlOuS” hoe bag Manny wasn’t any better.
I get it’s cool now to glorify people like Manny - to the point they straight up copied her in euphoria, but she was no less obnoxious. But had her good moments. But a lot of bad too.
The video itself kind of has an obvious bias towards Manny, but you could just as easily make a 5 minute video of Manny being the worst person ever towards Emma and many others, or Paige, Craig, or Spinner being the worst character ever, among others.
Again, they were all terrible.
Emma was so annoying and unattractive still is lol and she looks like an anorexic barbie doll now lol
they always made the main characters unlikeable after each season
Emma hanging out with the blonde girl at Peter's party when she was hating on her earlier that day when her and Manny were at the pool lmaoo
she's so fake lmao
Yup, I've always said she was a whack "friend" for this
It wasn’t the same day though
@@oooh19She’s still fake 😭
You missed the part where Manny is telling her “you’re better than this” after she hooked up with Jay and Emma tells her “well I’m not getting pregnant” throwing mannys pregnancy and ab*ration in her face
As someone watching the show for the first time and am currently on season four, my impression on their “friendship” so far is that Emma is extremely awful to Manny. While Manny isn’t exactly always the nicest friend, most of the time she is constantly supporting or uplifting Emma and genuinely puts in work to make amends.
Meanwhile, Emma takes her for granted and throws extremely low blows at Manny and always victim blames her whenever Manny is confining in her. I really felt that Manny should’ve just cut Emma off for good at some points.
iconic
Unbelievable that Emma takes this attitude, considering her own (supportive, loving, sacrificing) mother was a pregnant teen...
Ouch 😮
The way Emma was so anti abortion when manny said she wanted to abort the baby and was giving valid reasons( mainly that she wasn’t ready) and Emma was like,”your killing that kid! How could you?” Like girl your friend is struggling and you’re judging?!
I think Emma Nelson is the perfect example of the "young nice mean girl" its definitely a character flaw but I know a lot of girls like her who posses these righteous indignation with everything they do but are actually really shallow...
oh god gen z popular girls pretending to be woke but only care about the social status of it then bully kids…
“I asked him and he said he didn’t” like… what??
The actress is very good if she can play such an insufferable character
her tripping rick was kind of a slay tbh
yes 🤭
LMAO yeah i chuckled on that part
I’m saying
Honestly tho lmao
no it wasn’t cuz she did it to fit in, not just to b mean to him🙄
I always hated how she inserted herself into other people's drama even if it didn't involve her in the slightest.
exactly. and people say she was right for tripping Rick, but she didn't belong in that drama at all. if i were Paige i would've told her to stay tf in her place lol
@@nysclipsRick was a natural heat magnet. I think Emma wanted to become more popular and seized the opportunity
Also: Emma not standing up for Manny at Peter’s party when that other girl shaded her- and then having the nerve to later be seen WITH HER ARM AROUND THAT SAME GIRL- says everything you need to know about her.
Like… Holly Freakin’ J wasn’t even half as horrible to Anya as Emma was to Manny.
Omg i didn’t see that part
Exactly
Now I know why manny was your only friend. Oh my gosh that was the best burn/line
I love characters like Emma. They’re problematic as hell but you can’t say they’re not entertaining lmao
she wasn't even entertaining to me
@@nysclips lmao, damn. I can’t even say anything because I feel that way about Ashley 💀
Not everyone is filling a void with toxic entertainment
@@simpleplanfan011lol Ashley was most annoying character and possibly the most hated character of Degrassi. Not the biggest fan of Emma but she’s def not in the list of my hated characters like Trashley
@@nicoleavery7238 It’s not that serious, armchair psychologist.
Emma's mom, Spike, was one of my favorite characters in the original Degrassi from the 80s-90s. Very sweet and authentic. I was so surprised that the writers made Emma so opposite .
For reals
Punks are some of the nicest people I've met while environmentalist hippies like Emma have always been so hateful and spiteful
Even though Emma annoyed me her mom was one of my favorites
Mine, too. Her mom's amazing. :)
@@reeses_unicorn Spike was definitely one of my favorite parents in the show
Yeah, Spike was awesome! Sucks that her daughter was so insufferable.
Spike & Emma lowkey give me Lorelai and Rory vibes, and Snake is the Luke to spike’s Lorelai
@@azzz7279 if Wheels’ actor was still alive, I think it’d be much more interesting if Wheels was Emma’s stepfather. But Spike liked Snake even back in the day so ig her being with him is only right
God she was only SLIGHTLY more tolerable than Ashley. She was such a shit friend and switched up whenever the opportunity presented itself
Literally the only reason that Emma is more tolerable is because Emma is annoying but entertaining while Ashley is annoying and boring 💀
It just dawned on me after all these years--Emma complained about Manny being with Paige so bad she almost ruined the cheer squad. Fast forward a few years and now Emma is blowing off her friends for Paige--Oh the ironnnny
That's what bullies do. If they can't be happy and do well, they can't stand to see you be happy or do well either.
She's the essential whiney white girl of the early 2000's. She's can't whine about herself? It's fine. Pick a cause, any cause. She doesn't really have to care about it, as long as she can protest about it for a second. One of the most self-involved characters on Degrassi. To be fair, they gave Emma alot of basic teen drama and had to make it seem bigger than it was bc any real problems went to any other character but her (except her ed). But I feel like Degrassi has a problem with "main characters". Each era of Degrassi had a character they wanted to center the show around, but then they become whiney, crazy, and pretty hard to like. Clare is another example of this. Though, Emma had it the worst, especially when they would have her do something out of character just to add drama to someone elses storyline. But the actress who played Emma was able to make a stall piece of knockoff dollar store wonder bread taste more like a ready to eat pastry dish.
I wish they would have done more with her story line about her bio dad. Its like one of the real interesting story lines with her and they dropped it forever, the only time it was referenced again is when she picked up knitting like her dad did.
Chill with the casual racism
@@всемпривет-и1щ and you should stop calling everything out as racist. The character kinda sucked (bad writing) but the actress did a great job of making her lovable. That's all I said about her.
@@AndrewKolotyliuk when did I call everything racist
@@AndrewKolotyliukthe character didn’t suck. The writing was good. She pulled amazing performances
Emma deserves all the slander but she’ll always be one of my favorites 😭
Whyyy😭
@@alyssiak8042 it’s more of a “love to hate” favorite.
Same!!😂
That says a lot about you
@@nicoleavery7238 girl that doesn’t say anything about a person 😭💀
She probably got that attitude from Shane side of the family
😭😭😭😭
No, the Mom
@@lovelyswimmer1 how do you figure that?
@@jonathanmiller9235 because both are very outspoken. However, Emma is the more meddlesome of the two.
@@lovelyswimmer1 I'll credit Spike for the outspokenness, but the self-destruction is Shane.
This whole compilation is one of many reasons why Emma Nelson deserved way more hate than Ashley Kerwin. 🙄
Never liked Emma. She was low key jealous of Manny and was just an all around terrible friend.
Ashley was horrible. Especially to Terri. Think about all the years Emma and Manny spent together. Ashley did all of her dirt in literally 3 seasons. Emma doesn’t take away from Hurricane Ashley. They were both horrible, judgemental people and even worse friends.
@@hesayshesayhowboutmesay You have a point. Wasn't trying to take away from the nasty things Ashley did I'm her preppy phase, just saying that a lot of Emma's flaws get overlooked (in part due to her glow-up) whereas Ashley is given full-blown hate from start to finish.
IMO Emma was worse than Ashley because at least Ashley would apologize in some scenes. Plus I did like that one episode where she did “don’t you think you’re just a bit ignorant?” When they were mocking that Muslim girl as well of how concerned she was for Toby when he had is ED
Don’t get me wrong she did do some crappy things and I get why people don’t like her but
IMO Emma was worse especially with how she dated the guy who spread revenge p*rn on her friend and blamed it on her and how selfish she was being when Snake was falsely accused
@@CeCeIsAnArtist I think we’re definitely on the same page.
2:52 yet she fails to acknowledge how she's the type to dates boys who take advantage of drunk girls 🙄
"Why does she still hate me so much?" Bro! You committed a major felony that could have destroyed her life and her future, and you only got detention out of it. Accepting her hatred for you is the least you could do.
@PrincessLovelyAngelIf you were exploited like that by a literal stranger who did it because you didn’t want to be blackmailed by them…it’s shocking how much Peter had changed but he definitely belonged in prison a long time ago
2:09 2:48 4:34 these might be the incidents we can let go just because of the circumstances surrounding it. They were symptoms of the ED. I’m not gonna say it was necessarily out of character but it was def nastier than usual.
Spot on! I was about to comment about this!
"What are they going to think of me if Chris goes out with Liberty next?" They're not going to think anything.
They’re going to think he upgraded 😂
What did she mean by that😂😂
@@chibichan9586 I guess she thinks Liberty is worse than her. I don't know.
@@chibichan9586 Emma thinks that everybody thinks Liberty was a nerdy loser when not long before some people thought that about Emma. She is a hypocrite
LOL😅@@helpyourselfimbusy5747
Realistically, they ALL sucked. You can’t name me a single character who wasn’t unlikeable and foolish for the sake of a plot line at one point or another.
Aw, I thought Terri was a good one. She just never woke up from her coma
Teenagers.
@@juvinaortega Terri woke up from her coma and transferred to a different school.
Cough* anya
@@bluecomet1109*cough Anya lied about a pregnancy and a miscarriage she was also a coke head
I remember defending Emma against a couple of edgelords in another comment section, blaming her regarding Rick’s actions after weeks of being pushed to the limit due to bullying and the principal’s lack of regard towards. What I find even more disgusting was the fact of them being pissed at Emma for simply, but harshly giving Rick a reality check that she had no romantic interest in him and only pitied him.
Here’s the thing; do I like Emma as a character? No. Is Emma the blame for Rick reaching his breaking point and bringing a gun to school? Definitely not. Did Emma play a part in him getting bullied by the entire student body? Yeah, but at least realized how far and intense the situation got and put an end to it. Just because she stood up for him and was cordial towards him, does NOT mean she owed him any type of loyalty or relationship.
Yeah, I felt horrible for him how she told him that. I understand she didn’t want to date him but she didn’t have to say she only felt sorry for him.
here's the thing. I'd understand if everyone bullied him for no reason. He abused one of the nicest girls and put her in a coma. He should've been expelled or in juvie.
@@chaosspy6723 Rick should’ve never came back to Degrassi. If he was really THAT desperate for people to see that he changed, he should’ve relocated and transferred to another school.
@therealinuyasha yea, but that's really on his parents. like, who sends their child to a school where they are known for terrorizing one of the nicest girls? And who keeps their gun where their kid can get to it? wtf?
@@chaosspy6723 That’s also on Mr. Raditch as well because he willingly let Rick back in school, knowing full well that he was a danger to other students and did little to nothing when he complained to him about being bullied.
I remember one day I was vibing with someone who used to watch Degrassi High. When I told her Snake became principal and Spike's baby is kinda a nightmare she died laughing
She was one of the worst friends ever.
2:17 THE LINE DELIVERYYYYY 😭😭😭 that’s why I’m like this
Paige: Manny sweetie you are so gonna be the star of the show after me of course
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Now it makes sense why she and Peter ended up together in the first place. She’s like Paige, but worse. At least Paige had a bit of heart.
Spike is so lovely, and Emma's so..not. Guess Emma got all Shane's toxic traits.
when she was talking down on cheerleading and manny wanted to join and got mad because she wanted to cheer .
Manny is always good friend to Emma. Manny deserves better
Emma dated Peter and lied to Manny for months has made the situation 10x worse
Wheww the way that Emma had talked to Spike like that, my hispanic mom would not tolerate that at all lmao Emma def wouldn’t ever again either! 😂😂
Yup. If Emma switched parents with Manny for a day, she wouldn’t get out of the Santos apartment alive. Oof.
Being afraid of your parents is not good either her parents were awful too
Or the Bhandaris she would've been preparing for her funeral 😂😂😅
I’m so glad you included the “you look great!” Part cause on my recent rewatch I was like “ummm but you just said yesterday….”
Emma definitely was her meanest 10 grade and 11 grade and a little at the end of 9th.
End of 9th...when she threw down and brawled with Alex in the hallway like it was a street fight just because she was pissed about Snake leaving a will for when he dies while he was getting cancer treatment lol
She walked so ginny could run, and my god do I hate it.
Ginny from that show Ginny and Georgia?
@@cheshirerose2001 yep.
Emma is more of a mix of Rory Gilmore & Betty Cooper. Plus Spike & Emma give me Lorelai & Rory vibes in a way
Emma walked so Clare Edwards & Maya Matlin could run for real
there's literally no similarities to those characters aside from being whiny
Emma fake crying then slinking across the bed counting the bracelets…she ate that tbh
When I was younger, I loved Emma because of her activism. I also really liked Manny. As an adult, Manny is a way better person. Yeah, she does some really messed up stuff. But she is a far better friend than Emna. And a better costar when acting- Dracula, anyone? And yes, that's even with her dating Jay toward the end.
Cassie Steele (Manny) is a great actress especially the scene at the hospital with Miriam Mcdonald (Emma)
"I asked him and he said he didn't do that!" pissed me off so bad lmao
Damian wasn’t lying!! Emma could be something else at times !! 💯💯
i love emma, she's the literal perfect "character you love to hate" archetype. i loved watching her get worse too, its a pretty accurate depiction of what happens when the goody goody people pleaser who has all of her "greater good" actions completely backfire so their psyche breaks down along with their sense of identity. degrassi nailed so many complex character types, it was wild.
I need to rewatch this show. There's so much that I forgot.
People remember Paige for her sass, *but Emma was ACTUALLY the ruthless one!* She always gave me a good laugh 😂🤣🤷🏾♂️
its her cheating on peter for shawn, then believe shawn to be a drug dealer despite peter being an asshole, then shawn needing her when he's scared and alone and she bascially says F u....then being kissy kissy with peter again...girl
Realizing that the character most frequently centered as the protagonist/viewer POV is actually the antagonist of the series 💀. And not entirely sure that last part was intentional.
People who talk bad about her forget spike had her at 14, she grew up with a mom still tryna figure out life, she was always the “Nice Mean girl with strong morals” She was really growing up and it shows
Manny couldn't say anything to Emma about the Jay dilemma because she was encouraging Craig to dump Ashley and continued going after him whenever she saw a small crack in their relationship but at the same time Emma's nose was all up in Manny's Craig dilemma and claims she's the better/bigger person yet goes on to do something similar to what her bestie did in s4
Honestly they're both bad and hypocrites but i think Emma is way more toxic for Manny than Manny being toxic for Emma
2:20 did she just.... blame manny for her anorexia
I wouldn’t say so, she was still completely denying it only using it as a excuse of why she “couldn’t” eat
I grew to love Emma, honestly. Her character was a reminder to all of us that no one is born knowing to be a good friend. We’ll make mistakes and learn along the way. Neither Manny nor Emma we’re perfect friends to each other but, their growth was amazing to see.
I liked the older Emma seasons 1-3. In season 4 she got annoying.
I cried when I saw how mean Emma was in Season 4. My heart was broken forever
I’ve always liked Manny more than Emma anyways
slander her all you want but we wouldn’t have TNG without her or Spike, seriously I hate how very little recognition Spike/Amanda even gets for being the vehicle for TNG, had she not kept Emma there would be no TNG
Fr the series was planning on ending for good in school's out but due to Emma's existence they wanted to see her and her mom in the future that's why the Degrassi saga had a revival with TNG after 9 years of being dead
This is why it won’t be out of character for Emma to cheat on Spinner with Sean when they do a middle age reboot.
It needs to happen
This is everything I didn’t know I needed tonight😂 Thank you
The only thing she did right was trip Rick since he abused Terri
Yeah nah she started a schoolwide bullying campaign that got someone shot. (No, I'm not condoning Rick's abuse of Terri)
You are a horrible person. Should I trip you out of nowhere just because you said or did something bad at another time. You're just as bad.
Y’all can hate all y’all want. It’s easy to say “she’s terrible” or “jealous” (idk why y’all use jealous, always pitting characters against one another” but she was reality because her stories is what you’d see in the avenger girl. First hard crush over friends, not wanting to admit when you have a problem (and people suffering from anorexia do lash out at those closest to them) it’s not meant to be pretty, reasonings behind going with the bully and picking on someone. She’s still a favorite because it came out genuine. Half of these moments are out of if context.
pls 2:53 is not a bad moment she flamed all of them
"you take advantage of drunk girls.. you are the drunk girl.." like 🤭🤭
Emma being super judgmental again
To be fair the anorexia storyline was one of the best and is not deserving of worst moment. She was sick.
She literally was a pencil with an attitude and then she hit puberty, and that still didn't justify her attitude
Why has everything gotta be about looks? As if having desired looks allows you to get away with murder
4:42-4:50 Never have I agreed with Jay more than this statement by him about Peter. As messed up Jay can be, at least he has a conscious and he’s aware of his peers well beings. Peter is an even bigger monster and jerk than Jay ever was.
Really. Jay should have been in a wheelchair. Not Jimmy. You know exactly why
I didn't even realize this, but she's the first one to start bullying Rick!
“ I don’t care” 💀
The first clip is the only one justified cause simpson had cancer.
Emma turned heel in season 1 and never looked back lmao
Manny deserved a better bestie.
With a friend like this you DON’T need enemies!
She was actually one of my faves idk why 🤣
you’re clearly a manny stan because she’s no saint either
Manny had her flaws and was far from perfect, but she had a good heart at the end of the day.
2:43 OVER A MAN…….STAND UP
2:04 the best because he was so spot on. How was manny ever friends with emma?
I agree that in some cases, Emma was incredibly rude and in the wrong, e.g. with Chris and Liberty, but a lot of these scenes are taken out of context. For example, she supported Manny after Peter distributed that photo, she fund raised for Sean so he could get a lawyer, she felt bad about how she treated Rick and later became his friend. I am not saying she was the best character but I think sometimes she gets too much slander.
Emma just felt sorry for Rick
Emma slandered manny when he released those photos of her
@@gabrielapineyro678 Yeah I understand and that's why I said she is still rude, but she gets too much slate. As if people like Manny or Paige were great friends.
1:17 Manny wasn’t wrong…
Season 4-6 Emma was a menace 😭😭
Claire is still worse
😂i mean her hair tho!!
I love how almost everyone gets their karma on this show.
I hated when Manny was borderline homeless and how she inserted herself with her moms relationship over and over ugh. Manny would have died for Emma but she just always felt superior to her and it showed throughout the entire series. In the end though no matter how many ways they tried to drag Manny, she will always be a fan favorite which is what i feel like the writers wanted for Emma.
i’m sorry Emma is my all time favorite, some of the slander is deserved however
Emma was a hot mess, but I loved her, idc. And there were far worse characters, tf?
I am so surprised that you added the clip where Sean really needed Emma's help and she said she doesn't care, not anymore. I didn't think you would add that in this video.
Problem is... Most of those scenes is a best friend's feud. She may not be the perfect and coolest protagonist ever, but she certainly wasn't the worst and not even the worst friend to Manny.
Plus everyone in here acting like Manny didn’t do some messed up stuff too 😂
@@tiamod Right???
@@tiamod You keep saying that but the point is that what Manny has done doesn't compare to the stuff Emma did to people nor her attitude.
@@chanise2218 Manny has 0 regard for anyone but herself and her catchphrase is literally “Ur JuSt JeALOuS”
Idk dating someone who took advantage of your childhood friend is pretty revolting and she’s the embodiment of white feminism but each their own.
THANK YOU!!! I swear I just started watching this again and I’m like Emma is absolutely ducking horrible
Manny deserved so much better my god
1:01 omg manny is beautiful
Emma was the worst from day 1, a total Karen
Emma = Drama
why is her tripping rick in this?? he put a girl IN A COMA
I've been trying to figure out if Emma is worse than Ashley or if Ashley is worse than Emma, I need a side by side comparison lmao.
even as a kid i would complain that they positioned emma as the "main" character early on because of her parents being in the original series and she was the WORST. CONSISTENTLY.
In defense of Emma:
0:10 She said Manny was dressing like an idiot and let's be honest here, she was. A visible thong is not appropriate for a 10th grader. Even then, Emma said she cared more about how Manny was acting.
0:13 Honestly, Manny deserved a taste of this because that's what she was doing all of S1 trying to be a cheerleader and blowing Emma off.
0:20 She was a bit rude here, but how would you feel if your mom and her friend were in your room and on your PC without telling you? I keep a lot of personal stuff on mine.
0:43 she was wrong for this, but unlike a lot of characters; she learned and BETTERED herself.
1:13. Can't defend this.
1:58. She should have trusted Sean more here, but when you're very infatuated with somebody you don't WANT to believe they're bad. She learned and dumped him. Most people don't do this.
2:14 Awful for dating Peter, but she didn't want to hurt Manny. Anorexia is a mental illness, it compelled her to protect her secret by distracting her with something hurtful.
2:44 Manny made a mistake by going after Peter who Emma said she was into and then kept the problem a secret. Emma was rightfully upset here.
2:51 Anorexia causing her to lash out.
3:04 Emma was projecting here, Emma is definitely the grudge holder.
4:10 Emma was a teen pregnancy, she obviously has a right to feel some type of way here. But in the end she defends Manny DESPITE not agreeing with her. Something few are willing to do.
But 😂you still shouldn’t be rude to your mom 0:12😂 id slap her
poor Manny, Emma was such a crappy friend 😔
Once again the main character is the most insufferable that they gave the minor characters better episodes