I think it's because the look hasn't really been updated in...100 years. Modern clowns go for a really cheap look that somehow simultaneously makes them both child-friendly and child-unfriendly. Most people who get into the clown aesthetic stuff online seem to have figured out how to integrate it into modern fashion.
I seriously think my little brother watched Goku be scared of needles and somehow managed to make himself afraid of needles too. As a little kid he thought they were cool even if painful and tolerated it all the way up until after school vaccinations the year he started watching dragonball z.
The horror movies created the fear. Stephen king wrote It about an evil clown (inspired by John Wayne Gacy) because he wanted to explore the predatory horror of a character that children love harming them. He wrote a corrupted clown terrifying because it transgressed. Then it got popular and a bunch of other fiction writers lifted a good idea, as artists tend to do.
Does anyone really have a genuine fear of clowns? It’s always seemed to me like something people just say because it’s popular
99% of IRL clowns are creepy
I think it's because the look hasn't really been updated in...100 years. Modern clowns go for a really cheap look that somehow simultaneously makes them both child-friendly and child-unfriendly. Most people who get into the clown aesthetic stuff online seem to have figured out how to integrate it into modern fashion.
I have legitimately no idea what you're talking about, any examples?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ND___y21FIM/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/7d/65/547d65f46819366eaeb667c87fdaef41.jpg
https://64.media.tumblr.com/87a8b4ba985fdd0994e6a7b35c72340f/tumblr_pmsa9wXL8y1r7ofyk_540.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/17/0a/28/170a280d5319d759dd90cf82616d3069.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2f/fa/da/2ffada0f0bc24833d41c291db1c0d578.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/97/02/8d/97028d0d9f3fa02bcf6d348fa0311d99--female-clown.jpg
Hmm still not entirely getting it but fair enough. Seem like goths but with red noses?
3d v-tubers
Probably not anyone born after 1985, but hearing about Gacy messed people up for a minute.
Exactly a 37 years long minute
If you ever want to truly grasp how useless American law enforcement is, research John Wayne Gacy.
There are 37 year periods where minutes happen, and minutes where 37 years happen. :lenin-cat:
Wait, what? I knew about the cannibalism and the chocolate factory, how am I only know learning he was also a clown?
I think you're remembering someone else. Dahmer, maybe? Gacy wasn't a cannibal.
Look there's just too many 80's serial killers to keep the details and the names in order
How do we not have a Betty White emote?
What?
It's a really old Chris Rock bit about how serial killers and mass shooters are usually white men.
Might be his most famous feature lol
Sometimes very young children are afraid of clowns, along with people with masks on, and other things that obscure a person's face.
For anyone older than that, I have to assume it's influenced by media.
not like a full on one, but a clown does set me on edge a bit
weirdly the "creepy clown" stuff doesn't, just the normal clowns for like kids parties and stuff
Edit: Think i figured it out, it's probably the "enforced fun" thing
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I seriously think my little brother watched Goku be scared of needles and somehow managed to make himself afraid of needles too. As a little kid he thought they were cool even if painful and tolerated it all the way up until after school vaccinations the year he started watching dragonball z.
Yeah that happens sometimes. My family never had problems with needles til one sibling somehow did, then we all did.
Somebody must be afraid of them there’s whole genres of horror movies
The horror movies created the fear. Stephen king wrote It about an evil clown (inspired by John Wayne Gacy) because he wanted to explore the predatory horror of a character that children love harming them. He wrote a corrupted clown terrifying because it transgressed. Then it got popular and a bunch of other fiction writers lifted a good idea, as artists tend to do.
yes
I think it's the same with kids and broccoli, especially since kids in different countries have different stereotypical child-hated vegetables.
In Japan they changed scenes in inside out that featured broccoli to instead feature green bell peppers as the vegetable children are forced to eat.
I always thought I'd hate Brussel sprouts as a kid because of Rugrats, but turns out like most vegetables they're good roasted.