>millennials are terrified of clowns
>zoomers get off at clowns
What's the materialist explanation for this? I feel like millennial romanticization of vampires has parallels.
I'm not a zoomer and I'm really starting to like these. Bring on the clussy
>millennials are terrified of clowns
since when
>>725089Since always. All the evil clown media came out during millennials' youth.
>>725089Yea, it's a real evil clown infestation
It's a gen x thing.
First IT movie came out in 1986 and scarred them.
>>725091You just made that up to hate on millennials.
>>725091Most millennials weren't even born yet.
>>725096I'm a zillennial and everyone in my school thought clowns were creepy.
>>725098Not an argument. Terminator for example was very culturally relevant in the 2000s even though none of us were born when it came out.
>>725107It's an argument.
They have no cultural memory of it except second hand. Gen X got it the most.
>I'm a zillenialcringe.
>>725107>>725108Also, the it remake was big with Gen Z or whatever.
>>725087>sexualizing liminal spacesIsn't that just being a tilefucker at scale though?
girl dressed as clowns seems like low-key a reaction to clean makeup looks, seems like a way to present yourself with heavy makeup without feeling out of step with what's fashionable, like somewhere in between cosplay and ootd stuff
My first impulse is to say Clowns are a simulacra. They are simulating Anime and Tiktok aesthetics within post post post ironic humor.
Maybe not though, I knew a girl 15 years ago I really wanted to sleep with who always painted her face white and dyed her hair green like a clown. Got some head before she moved away to NY.
So then it is possible that sexy clown is separate and apart from the poison of the modern digital world. But I think the cartoonish disassociation is the key. I think it's the same horny as really pleasing anime cosplay. We know the wig is fake. We know they are all painted up for the photoshoot or convention. We know it's all done as signifier. I think the horny is just a response to that signifier.
>>725089the killer clown hysteria was in 2016
>>725111if you actually look at those communities,the liminal space just becomes a Rust server with cities and multiple floors and shit