Clowns are objectively scary, period. Even before It and Poltergeist,

>>17985205
>I've never looked at a clown, even as a youngster and thought:"Ha ha. What a silly looking person, with the makeup and big colorful clothing, that sure is funny.

That's because you're a faggot, as are most people nowadays compared to older generations. Everyone finds stuff that used to be considered cute or funny (such as dolls) to be instead creepy. I don't know what causes it, though.

>>17985205
I was always indifferent to clowns. When I was a kid I liked how they were hidden behind their makeup facade, and that I would likely never know their identity. They were more anomalies of personality than a means of humour in my eyes.

Then again I was a strange kid.

>>17985536
Nail on the head

We are scared of them cause they are kind unknown compared to other people we encounter
Make up prevents seeing any emotions except one that is drawn on before, thus rendering us unable to "read" them,
Since more than 50% of comunication is non verbal comunication, we are unsettled by them

>>17985205
>Clowns are objectively scary, period
I don't think you know what objectively means. I am pretty sure the majority of people on the planet are not afraid of clowns. you are just a pussy.

Watch the movie "Clown" from 2014. Jon Watts was the director, I think? Anyways, that movie puts a really cool twist on the story of the "Clown".

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I..actually love clown, a lot!
I think clowns are the cutest, the rosy cheeked ones especially.
I think for me its the bright clothing/makeup that attracts my autistic ass to them.

>>17985543
You're a dipshit
But then again so is op and everybody else in this thread

Clowns are scary in pop culture because John Wayne Gacy dressed like a clown while he raped and murdered little boys and that is terrifying, not because of some bullshit about nonverbal communication

>>17986305
I find that image slightly unsettling.

>>17986629
That's odd because I think female clowns are my new thing.

>>17986305

Female clowns are one thing, but what is up with men clowns. Someone once said they are all queer Mexicans now-a-days.

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>>17987164
Word of advice, never eat out a girl clown, they taste funny.

People use to think clowns were funny cuz originally they were a caricature of Irish people,

That's why they have red hair, white skin and a red nose (the drunk Irish stereotype)

>>17987487
hahahah what is this???

>>17985205
Subjectively faggot

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>>17987495
What load of crap. Your dad tell you that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown#Origin

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how the fuck is this scary?

>>17986624
because 6 year olds terrified of clowns totally know of Gacy. You're more likely to find a kid that saw stephen king's IT late at night. even then it's not that likely. anon, please.

>>17987512
Ith mo bod

>>17985205
My brother is scared shitless of clowns. That fear probably started back when he went to an amusement park as a toddler. It's weirded me out because I was never afraid of clowns, but I've tried thinking from his perspective as a kid, and I think I've figured out why clowns could be so creepy for other people.

>clown costumes make use of really bright colors, wigs and weird patterns
>clowns themselves wear makeup that distorts their natural facial features
>in nature, the regular clown look would be heeded as some kind of warning coloration, signs that would make a creature heeded as too dangerous to approach

As a kid, you've only been exposed to people who look relatively normal compared to clowns. You consciously know that a clown is just a person in a garish-looking costume, but your reptilian brain disregards that and triggers fear chemicals because you've been programmed from birth to survive and avoid any potential for harm.

>>17987473
Mexicans have tiny feet so HUGE clown shoes look funnier on them

>>17985205
You are just buying into the meme.
Clowns are cool and fun. They are just regular ass people with makeup and wigs on. Wow so scary!!!!
As a kid I loved Bozo Super Sunday show and even now I like clowns. IT and Poltergeist weren't scary because of the clown, but the danger of the monster pretending to be a clown.
Learn to separate fact from fiction.

Sounds like someone flinched when he took his pie.

>>17986624
You're dumb kid

>>17987479
That picture is old but it's still sexy as fuck. That bitch is probably older now

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Clowns are not objectively scary. The only objective fear is falling and drowning. But clowns can be considered to sit somewhere in uncanny valley, as well as anything that immitates the human visage but hides actual facial features. As someone said, its all about non verbal communication. Ofcourse, being scared (like actual terror) is completely objective. But the fact that they can be unsettling (this is more so for masks or realistic dolls) is that we can detect that there is a human face, but we cannot detect the visual language the face should be giving off. The act of this doesn't scare us because it presents no threats, however we cannot confirm that it is not a threat, so our minds sort of stagnate between fear and not fear, hence the unsettling uncanny valley.
P. S: i'd imagine specifically for clowns this effect works greater at a distance than it does close up, or in distorted photos. The effect of the clown loses alot of potency when the emotions of the actual face are obviously detectable. I've heard that a major reason for clown make up was to make sad drunk people look humerous and happy, so those sort of clones, who had a big enforced smile on their face, with an actual face of existential dread, are gonna be alot creepier than some happy go lucky chick with rosy cheeks and a red nose.

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I think a lot of people are terrified of Clowns like some people are terrified of heights, water, spiders, etc.

I think they are amusing and love watching them terrify others...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USfrgyK1_us

>>17988517
The fear of clowns and the fear of water and heights are literally so unrelatable, the only relatable thing in your entire statement is that your cliche observations of 'spoopy' are very relatable to a 12 year old edgefuck who thinks psychosis is hip and trendy. If you ever met an actual psycho you'd shit yourself m8

>>17986624
to be fair, Gacy's clowning had nothing to do with his killing. And he didnt kill WHILE being a clown.

One of my earliest memories, from before I should even ostensibly have memories, is my dad in clown makeup (but otherwise just dressed in jeans and a t-shirt) holding me and my twin on his lap while we screamed and cried. I was probably less than a year old but I remember being absolutely terrified and it, like, scarred my soul in some way. It was like I now knew the world is a dangerous place full of frightening things that don't care if you're scared of them and that maybe even want to hurt you, or at least don't mind if they do.

But now I'm an adult and I don't find clowns scary. You're clearly a faggot, OP.

>>17985681
Never fucking reply to me again unless you are contributing to the thread.

also pls no bully

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>>17988327
>I loved Bozo Super Sunday show

Fuck you and die

>>17988517
I couldn't watch too much of that video. I hate clowns as they really scare me and I can only imagine what it would be like on omegle to see that scary clown pop up on your screen. I can't laugh at other peoples pain. Perhaps I am too emphatic.

>>17986624
You're the dipshit senpai

I can guarantee most kids scared of clowns have never heard of that. The other guys answer or kids seeing IT seems more likely.

>>17988654
Pretending to be humoured by other people's fear is just a superiority complex people have. They feel insecure so they try to feel bigger by mocking the weakness other people have that they dont. Honestly, its so common in children. I did it myself. People who develop a conscious and self value and maturity grow out of this. The kid is just trying to be a faggy edgelord to look tough. His heart is gonna break when he realizes there is absolutely nothing special about having the absense of irrational fears.

>>17985205
>Clowns are objectively scary, period
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
fucking pussy

true clowning is the goat art form

Not to be off topic, but does anyone know the sauce on the Taco (Lexi for you uninitiated) Belle clown porn scene?

I'm kinda indifferent to clowns.

I never liked them or was scared of them as a kid. I felt disgust and pity rather than fear towards clowns, they were always nasty looking carnies who looked like shit, looked dirty, and whose facepaint was contstantly melting and mixing with their sweat in the Florida heat. Gross!

>>17985681
kek, beat me to it anon

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>>17987512
>Belling's costume became the template for the modern stock character of circus or children's clown, based on a lower class or "hobo" character,
>based on a lower class or "hobo" character,
>lower class or "hobo"

Like the anon said, the Irish.

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>>17986305
i dont remember where i saved these but i found two more pics of same clown qt
>>17986629
how about this one :3c

>>17985205
I saw Poltergeist as a kid and that clown scared me not because it was a clown because it was a doll.

Later I saw Killer Klowns from Outer Space and thought it was cool and funny

Then I saw IT and Pennywise was too much of a tryhard scary clown that it annoyed me. Good movie otherwise

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>>17989869
and this is the only other one i have

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grimaldi

You could do some research.
Clowns from the very beginning were always considered more scary than funny.

>>17985205
>not thinking Pogo the Clown was funny
Pogo and all clowns are chill af.

There's a clown currently wandering around Green Bay.

Watch "Killer Legends" on Netflix. There's a segment in the doc that tries to explain the fear of clowns.

Bon Bon the VooDoo clown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4MBhTy0-A

Fun for the whole family

>>17989891
Where in this article does it say that?

>>17989816
Irish = lower class people & hobos?
Also are you forgetting jesters and pantomimes in the 18th century?

>>17989816
>talking about origins of clown
>skips to 'modern clown'

someone post the goofy cosplay teeth guy

>>17988513
>The act of this doesn't scare us because it presents no threats, however we cannot confirm that it is not a threat, so our minds sort of stagnate between fear and not fear, hence the unsettling uncanny valley.
what explains the fluctuations of the valley? another words what is most characteristic of the bottom of the valley? (it's not 'most uncertain' because that is the far left side, which is non-unsettling)

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hell is real

>>17987484
underrated

>>17990561
You're misunderstanding
The reason something is in the uncanny Valley and therefor creepy is because it seems real and human like, but at the same time we can tell that it's somehow not real

>>17988125

Fuck

never saw it like that but youre right

see also: girls with bright hair, poisonous frogs

>>17990566

>hell is real

clowns fill me with despair.

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>>17989816
Clowns are an archetype jackass.

>>17989816
how is "homeless people with big noses, big red lips, and afros" immediately pointing to irish for you, like there isn't any other stereotype that comes to mind?

>>17990561
The rising I'd imagine represents neutral or positive emotional responses. We respond positively to things that look like us or have a visage, like animals or a cute cartoon. But the dip is sort of a point where it just looks too human without being enough. It rises again when its another human, or so close to one we can't tell the difference, sort of like Hillary Clinton.

>>17990561
So the dip in the valley would actually be as closest to the human visage we could copy that the brain would still detect in some way. Where it starts to rise again but still isn't at the same level as 'human' is where I'd imagine those insanely real cgi people to go. Like in polar express.

>>17986305
>>17989869
ok im terrified of clowns but this shit is hot i cant be alone on that

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>>17991992
Yea, duh! That's why they are called clowns in the first place. They are archetypic jackasses.

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>>17985536
>When I was a kid I liked how they were hidden behind their makeup facade, and that I would likely never know their identity
Know who else liked that about clowns? John Wayne Gacy.