It’s a Youtube thing. People dress up as clowns to frighten people, record it, then post it on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=clown+prank
This guy is doing it to sell clown costumes.
He has a link selling costumes in his video description.Sociopathic evil clowns? The Insane Clown Posse’s music is more addictive than I thought!
I live in suburban St. Louis. I got this email today from my son’s school district. Subject: Clown Hoax.
What a bizarre fad. Are all these bozos acting independently, or is this being encouraged and coordinated in the bowels of 4chan or something? Just…odd.
It’s Youtube.
I don’t think all this activity is directly related to any YouTube videos. Reports of things like this initially spread due to mass hysteria. The first reports came from South Carolina where people claimed “clowns” we’re trying to lure children into wooded area near an apartment complex. Significantly, no arrests were ever made and no real evidence was found to substantiate the reports. From there reports began to pop up up in other areas of similar activity.
Stories like this date back to at least 1981.
http://www.blumhouse.com/2016/01/04/when-pennywise-was-real-the-phantom-clown-scare-of-1981/
This roughly coincides with the Stranger Danger fears of the early 80’s. Also, compare these clown reports with the Satanic Panic of the 80’s.
Of course people have taken these reports and fears as an opportunity to run around with clown masks and post threats on Facebook, etc. because they think it will be a fun prank. The initial reports, though, can almost certainly be attributed to mass hysteria and panic.
Nevada
So, by my accounting, the only states left to have not been hit by clowns are Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Iowa, Wyoming, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Clown riot occurring at Penn State
I check the news sites for clown reports every few hours. There are always more. Unbelievable.
are mimes clowns? I’ve been followed by an American living in Dublin a few times in the past , he was a real oddball, gradually progressed to mime , it’s a slippery slope to clowndom? clownhood? I’m sure:confused:
We have unconfirmed reports, calls to 911 and a blurry picture of a guy in a clown suit showing up on the local news here in Portland, Oregon. When did Killer Klowns From Outer Space become a fucking documentary? I weep.
I had such hope for Iowa. Middle America common sense and all. Alas
Only a handful of states now without some kind of clown activity. The response has been way more scary than the clowns themselves.
These idiots would be scared of their own shadow…and please don’t spread that around-it would probably start a “Shadow Panic!!”
Yikes. I was walking by the woods near sunset and saw a shadow. I told my friends and they came over and saw shadows too. But when the police got there a bit later they found nothing. Weird.
I so want to do an outdoor performance of Godspell