They live in a society
Juggalos are surprisingly decent, given their image. I may not be down with the clown, myself, but they’re alright
They’ve also started to become the adults in the room sometimes. I’m not sad to see it, but it feels weird.
Isn’t that a bit late? I’m 36 and ICP seemed like a thing for the age bracket above me growing up. Or did the whole magnets meme push their demo to a lower age bracket or something?
some artists pick up new fans with every generation. see also: michael jackson, the beatles, ozzy, hendrix, slayer, etc.
it’s kind of hilarious to me, being a 80s/90s kid, that of all the acts that were HUGE in the 90s (collective soul, smashing pumpkins, alanis morrisete, REM, etc), ICP is one of the few still in the news
I mean, as a GenXer it kinda makes sense to me that the biggest GenX bands are not about trying to stay in headlines. 🤷♂️
Smashing Pumpkins is back, and banks like RHCP and Radiohead just never stopped making (at least decent, some great) new records.
But yeah if the drugs didn’t get them, the attitudes to it a lot of spotlight from those bands.
However, The number of teens wearing Nirvana clothes recently has been fun to see. And being told I wouldn’t understand why a teen would like their songs is fucking hilariously (as I was a young teen when they came out). I wonder how long it’s going to last though.
As for women’s rights, he believes in them (“they have the right to be the fuckin’ shit”), and as for environmental conservation, he thinks its time humans get over their superiority complex, saying, “Let me tell you what a superior animal is: a whale.”
American politics are so fucked that actual clowns have become the voice of reason.
ICP on the right side of history
The good weird tho, gotta discriminate
I haven’t exactly spent a lot of time in Juggalo circles, but the few I have met have all been great people, the types of people who would literally give you the shirt off their back without a second thought. Generally not the brightest bulbs out there, but they also tend to be the rare type of person who can recognize that about themselves and are willing to seek out and listen to people who are more knowledgeable (unless we’re talking about scientists and magnets) which is actually pretty amazing, that’s not a common quality to find in any group of people
I generally kind of think of juggalos as those kids in school who were a little too weird to be “normal” kids, and not smart enough to be “nerds” some of them have some issues, maybe more than average, but most of them are just trying to get by with what they’ve got.
Speaking with comedian Troy Iwata for a recent segment on The Daily Show, Violent J confirmed that Harris is his preferred pick for the White House, saying “I want her to win because she’s a Democrat, and I love my mom.”
Say what you want about Juggalos, but this is likely to get Kamala significant votes.
More than Dick Cheney or Lizzo (look up the lawsuits from last year if you don’t know).
I’d even say this is bigger than Eminem the other day. Juggalos are a very close knit group, and if Violent J says vote, they’re gonna vote.
Edit:
The Daily Show segment
That’s fresh.
He didn’t say go vote tho, he said he hopes she wins. I think it would probably help “voting juggalos” be more likely to pick Harris. But I also think many of them are nonvoting, and Violent J hasn’t necessarily given them any strong direction to go vote in this message IMO.
But I also think many of them are nonvoting,
And even if they don’t watch the whole episode, they’ll watch that clip because he’s in it.
That’s what outreach should be, reaching out to people who’s values align with the Dem voting base, but aren’t politically active
Not changing the candidates policy in an attempt to “win over” people who vote Republican.
It’s easier to get someone who agrees with you to vote, then get a voter who doesn’t agree with you to vote for you.
It’s easier to get someone who agrees with you to vote, then get a voter who doesn’t agree with you to vote for you.
but it’s also doubly effective to convert a voter than creating a new one, because you gain a vote AND your opponent loses a vote.
“Wololo”
TIL juggalos are real and not a made up community from the internet.
Especially since the juggalo crowd is by and large rurally based, they overlap a large generally Republican Voting demographic.
haha, that’s a pretty good segment.
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Damn, I have a new found respect for the posse.
Are they still figuring out how magnets work?
That’s why I’m surprised they endorsed Harris. Trump doesn’t know how they work either. You’d think they would find friendship in their common imbecility.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ridiculed-bizarre-magnet-remarks-iowa-rally-1858420
Stupid people like to be in the room where they’re the smartest. Smart people like to be in the room where they’re the dumbest.
I like to be in the room with people who are a mix so that some of them can teach me things I don’t know and I can teach others things they don’t know.
Does that make me smart or stupid?
It makes you right, my comment was a very broad generalisation to make a point.
What is this magnet thing with juggalos?
A verse from Miracles, implying that magnets are miraculous: Water, fire, air, and earth / Fuckin’ magnets, how do they work?
Another, often quoted from the same track: I don’t wanna talk to no scientists / Y’all fuckers be lying, and getting me pissed
Mystery solved! Thank you!!
Insane Clown Posse - Miracles:
I see miracles all around me
Stop and look around, it’s all astounding
Water, fire, air and dirt
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed
Thank you!!
If Richard Feynman can’t explain it in a way he’s satisfied with himself, I’m okay with rapping clowns being open about not understanding it.
Hell ya, I always send the Feynman video about this when it comes up. What a great communicator.
It would be weird if they didn’t lol
ICP for the win!!! Hopefully that resonates with GenX.
I think the ICP fans include at least as many millennials, maybe even more
I can only think of two times I’ve seen ICP in pop culture, once with their whole magnets thing, and once on Workaholics which is a heavily millennial show.
Makes sense. Millennial generation starts with people born in 1981, and ICP became big in the late 90s. So millennials were the teenagers when ICP hit big. I doubt many people in their 20’s and 30’s were jumping on the ICP train.
The endorsement I’ve been waiting for
“According to the National Gang Intelligence Center, there are more than one million self-proclaimed Juggalos across the United States. It is estimated that 85–90% of self-described Juggalos are peaceful, non-criminal music fans. The other 10–15% make up the Juggalo subculture’s criminal element”
a million.
Those are impressive numbers. Sincerely, I’m sure I never hear about them because they’re so well behaved.
Well, 85-90% of them.
This is going to give my Trump-loving prepper brother in law an aneurysm.
Can you post a video?
Whoop Whoop
This will almost assuredly get her more votes than literally all of the press and air time Cheney has offered her.
Put some respekt on the Dark Carnival. There are over a million Juggaloes in America. Probably a couple dozen Juggalettes, too.
How about Juggalenbies?
by the terms of the juggalo-furry alliance, the furs are called to also vote
We been on the block to vote. Republicans have nipped at us one too many times and many many of us are LGBT. 😤
The alliance has your back 🤝
The furries are voting
Y’all are an odd bunch, but I’m happy to have you on side.
Is this satire? I honestly can’t tell.
They hold a music festival every year called the gathering of the juggalos, usually somewhere in the Midwest, that attracts around 10k people per year. They’re not a huge underground culture in America but they are there and disproportionately higher populations living in Midwest and Central swing states. Most of the juggalos I’ve met are kind and just want to get high and listen to music about horror movies and wrestling and stuff like that. They have been anti-science and education in the past in their anti-establishment rhetoric which is probably the worst part of the subculture.
their dedicated following, known as Juggalos, is in the tens of thousands. Gatherings for ICP fans have drawn upwards of 20,000 people. Juggalos are known for their distinctive style, which includes face paint, clown costumes, and hatchet symbols. They’ve also developed their own slang and idioms. The National Gang Intelligence Center estimates that there are over one million self-proclaimed Juggalos in the United States, but 85–90% of them are non-criminal music fans.
That a lot of voters, I wouldn’t say no to. And for some reason Ive found out that a lot of conservatives in the u.s think juggalos are a crazy street gang like in the warriors
Too many cartoons. They took Batman Beyond seriously.
