2016 lurking clowns epidemic

my wife's sister is attending Puddles Pity Party tonight and if you didn't know what that is, it's this

https://vimeo.com/108635845

A clowny clown clown

for some reason i find puddles surprisingly unobjectionable

He's a talented singer I guess. I just don't have time for clowns in any way shape or form. They're baconed as fuck.

it really is an epidemic

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/34862208-75/reports-of-creepy-clowns-appear-in-eugene-springfield-area-prompting-warnings-from-law-enforcement.html.csp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/05/scary-clowns-spread-white-house-weighs-in-on-creeps-and-stephen-king-defends-the-good-ones/

Also on Tuesday, creepy clowns were invoked at the White House. During a news conference, a Bloomberg reporter asked White House press secretary Josh Earnest if President Obama was aware of the clown reports and associated arrests. Earnest said he did not know if the president had been briefed on creepy clowns, and deferring to the FBI and Department of Homeland Security on the jester specifics.

imo, this is all part of the larger Trump phenomenon.

From pirates to zombies to creepy clowns.

our school district sent out an email yesterday telling parents that they were dealing with creepy clown threats, but they're pretty sure they're hoaxes. my daughter hasn't reported any creepy clowns.

Great, now my middle school daughter actually *has* brought up creepy clowns. Is there a helpful article I can show her addressing this as a non-issue?

the problem with clowns, vs the boogeyman or slenderman for example, is that they're real

feel like large cities will have less of a problem with this than rural communities. more wackos per capita

I basically told her that there are plenty of people in this country who are dangerous, and the vast majority of them are not dressed like clowns. I told her they are a much bigger problem, so no use worrying about clowns. At least you can see them coming!

Also, clowns are 'real' only in the sense that anybody in a costume is real. People dressed as skeletons, or vampires or werewolves are real too. But also totally not real.

A skeleton is inside everyone
Werewolves and vampires are fictional creatures with certain physical aspects people emulate

As far as I know clowns are not mythical creatures, they are literally people wearing exaggerated clothing and face paint with wigs. If you dress like that, you're not dressing to emulate some fictional creature, you are an actual clown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ3IcBhur50

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley#

http://ebayclowns.tumblr.com/post/151250662572/is-there-a-word-for-people-who-really-like-clowns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8poOaSlGc

Cl(o)w(ntology)

thish ontology of clownsh

Clown riot at Penn State

http://heavy.com/news/2016/10/creepy-clowns-penn-state-riot-lock-down-campus-college-threatening-video-pennsylvania/

This was a terrible day to teach adolescents, in case any of you were wondering. Never did I imagine my job title would involve defending the right to clown.

so is this the bath salts/face eating of 2016

I'm sick of the zeitgeist and it's obscure phenomena begging for psychoanalytic unpacking. Sick go death

*to

any doubts about whether this was viral marketing for the 2017 IT remark should be laid to rest by that first image in the link about the Penn State "riot" (sounds more like a "flash mob" to me, and I say that with full intent to disparage)

http://i.imgur.com/uUk1Cg1.png

Remember when the kids used to plank?

suspect his punker friend was v disappointed when he realized what he meant by going "Pennywising"

the happy slapping pandemic was much worse

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/oddities/20161005/instagram-account-says-creepy-clowns-are-coming-to-pasadena-whittier

they better watch out for the old lady on Colorado Boulevard

take it back, this might be 2016's "knockout game"

no, people are actually wearing dumb clown outfits

I saw at least two youth dressed like that Goku dragonball guy in the last year, including one at a mall food court. Where is my warning and news report for that shit?

are there that many people actually wearing clown outfits? i want a timeline

One of the schools near me had two lockdowns because of alleged clown sightings.

why aren't there more photos? everyone has cameras in their phones now. i am skeptical

In another part of the county, someone did post a picture online of guy in a clown mask holding a bb gun and standing on a bridge.

lol xpost

https://twitter.com/SightingOfClown?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

on the one hand, this whole thing seems really forced

on the other hand, what the hell, you know what, why not, some clowns here and there, who gives a shit, why not some clowns standing around, some here some there, just a couple of clowns, standing

feel like following any of these assholes home discreetly, then putting on a Grim Reaper robe, holding a scythe, breaking into their room, and standing at the foot of their bed in the wee hours of the morning every night until they find some new shitty fad

hm

that is exactly what all these people think xp

Violent jay and shaggy 2 dope must be enjoying this

Lurking clowns feed on fear, imo. The greater the panic over this, the more people will be inspired to clown. The solution is to stay calm, or deport all clowns.

clown threats

http://www.cleveland.com/garfield-heights/index.ssf/2016/10/instagram_clown_accused_of_mak.html#incart_river_home

The file art they're using with these is killing me.

A person dressed as the scary clown from the movie "It" poses at a convention in Argentina.

https://twitter.com/CIown_Sighting

also ^^^

we've reached the thinkpiece stage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/what-do-the-scary-clowns-want.html?_r=0