A lot of it is mass media as I understand it. John Wayne gacy being all over the news as well as horror movies like It changed the popular consensus on clowns.
Clowns were meant to be funny, but why do lots of ppl find them scary ?
Submitted 1 day ago by Alice@hilariouschaos.com to askhilariouschaos@hilariouschaos.com
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over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Aside from Pennywise the clown, honestly I have no idea.
Personally, I’ve never found clowns to be funny nor something to be feared.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
Yea, kinda same
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like, there was a big clown craze in, I believe, the 1940s or 50s or something.
My grandma’s house has clowns all the fuck over the place, and there is something uncanny, unsettling, slightly disturbing about them.
I don’t understand the fear of them, just like general revulsion.
I imagine if some of your earliest memories were at your grandmother’s house with all of the weird clowns and something about them stuck with you, that could be a damn good foundation for an irrational fear.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 7 hours ago
It’s crazy how they were popular back then