Why Are We Afraid of Clowns?

[deleted_user]

Post your thoughts.

[deleted_user]

If you're not "we" don't bother.

[harcha]

They portray unnatural excitement that creeps me out. Where is it coming from?

[fightinfrenchman]

As a kid I had a recurring dream about a character I called "the mountain man." He wore denim overalls and a yellow smiley face mask and chased me around my yard.

[deleted_user]

They portray unnatural excitement that creeps me out. Where is it coming from?

Where is it coming from?

You answered the question, which validates the question, so that's where it's coming from.

[Jam]

They have fake faces.

[Dolan]

I was never afraid of clowns, tho.

They seem like cool bros.

[Riotcoke]

I have a clown mask on the wall in my family's place in France and I always thought it was watching me when I was younger. So that's why they creep me out

[Dolan]

Wait a minute, your fam has a house in France but you want out of the EU?

What if they build a wall around the EU to keep Brits out?

[Riotcoke]

We can still go skiing there when the UK leaves the EU.

[QueenOfdestiny]

I think it's traumatic from childhood...
I'm not afraid about spiders or clowns but I'm afraid of electricity bc I grow up on a big farm and we had a lot of times no electricity bc of lightning strike that's why I'm afraid of thunder/lightning and electricity

[Dolan]

I'm not afraid of electricity, probably because when I was a lil boi I thought it'd be kewl if I plugged the axles from my toy car in a wall socket.

I basically did this:

And that's when the party started. I could see millions of big roaches coming out of the socket and crawling on the walls. It was so fun.

Until someone pulled me out. Otherwise I might not have been here writing this.

Might explain why I am the way I am today. I create a lot of electricity around me.

[Dolan]

spoiler

[QueenOfdestiny]

.. And now everything makes sense....

[TNT333]

If it helps you all, I have a phobia of gas cylinders

[Horsemen]

Big dick energy

[wardyb1]

If it helps you all, I have a phobia of gas cylinders

Just the cylinders? Or do they have to be full of gas? Or is it fear of them blowing up?

[TNT333]

If it helps you all, I have a phobia of gas cylinders

Just the cylinders? Or do they have to be full of gas? Or is it fear of them blowing up?

Fear of them blowing up

[Horsemen]

Why are YOU afraid of clowns?