Bands whose fans were their own subculture

yeah, that was a wonderful post. reads like a great short story.

wow. thank you table.

Good stuff table.

Thanks for reading it. All true! Apologies for misspellings, I was a little drunk and typing on my phone.

That was a great story, thanks, but I went to look up the Hobo Museum and saw that it was in Iowa so I got a little confused.

https://www.bbcrc.org/

My husband and I were winter caretakers here, 2015-2016

Fine tale, table. But

winter caretakers

Puts one in mind of

https://i.imgflip.com/2/4gtxd8.jpg

This was the place where the two other people on the property were right drug addicts and one of them threatened to kill us. We were fine and having a great time up until that point

marilynne robinson - 'juggling'

Do we have an 'excelsior'-like thread for booming posts?

Yes, and this was already posted there by Elvis Telecom. ilx posts with striking imagery

Also this, but not really for recent posts, according to thread title: Old ILX Posts Which Continue To Haunt Your Thoughts

Presidetn Donald John Trump

The Corona Virus

Insane Clown's Posse

Donald J. Trump

COVID-19

I.C.P.

Mr. Don Trump, U.S. President

SARS-CoV-2

Juggalo Family Gang

Hello Im Barron Trumpe and I've got the Corona Virus. I enjoy listening to music of Insane Clowns Possee on my Apple iPod portable music listening device. My father is President Donald J. Trump and we have the COVID-19 virus inside of us. Thank for reading my message, good day, I am Barron Trumpe

https://voca.ro/1oCsBKWgfg9Z

a recent revive has me thinking that a good example of this phenomenon might be Insane Clown Posse

Beat me to it!

Okay, the downside of this thread hijacking is that we have nowhere to discuss this topic.

So, in an attempt to get this thread back on the rails, I'll offer a non-jokey answer to the question (and frankly, I can't believe I'm the first to mention them): the Juggalos! (fans of Insane Clown Posse)

I understand juggalo, but then they do boogaloos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXg1AxBXN5g

Ringo's response to "Honky Cat"

Have we talked about GWAR in this thread? A bunch of friends from elementary and middle school go to the Gwar-B-Que every year. It seems linked to Warped Tour and festival culture generally, but more bro-ey and also, Gwar.

GWAR fans are called "bohabs"

I seem to recall GWAR have played at the Gathering Of The Juggalos - which, for those of you not 'in the know', is a festival to celebrate the music and personal grooming style of clown-based US rap act Insane Clown Posse, aka "ICP".

never heard of them

Insane Clown Posse

From time to time, I drive past a business which uses its initials ICP on the sign. I amuse myself more than I should by imagining an office filled with Juggalos working in cubicles.

I recently found myself (sort of) explaining to a kid how magnets work, and had to spray out some imaginary Faygo.

never did learn how they work tbh

you want to talk to a scientist

Yeah, but the metaphysics of it all.

great revive

ffs

i keep meaning to come back here and revive the thread for icp

What’s icp

Indochinese Communist Party, 1930–1945, a predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam

and i scream at the top of my lungs
"what's ICP"

xp
bingo

I believe the fans are called buffalo's, because the band is from upstate NY

Not to be confused with Ruffalos, who pay tribute to their idol by wearing rumpled T-shirts and jeans and rubbing the back of their necks while smiling nervously.

simply cannot comprehend that nobody's mentioned the Jimstein Clowman Posse

is the kiss army boomer juggalos?

this meme on fb says so

lol accurate

who are the juggalos?

Fucking love guns
Why don't mine work

are there any ethnographies of a particular instance of this phenomenon, juggalos (followers of icp)

There must be one on Deadheads by now, surely.

the politics of juggalos and deadheads (every potential definition of the word politics here) would be particularly rich and confounding vein I should think

Nathan Rabin wrote a book called You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes .