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.
That’s very true
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.
It’s crazy how they were popular back then
Aside from Pennywise the clown, honestly I have no idea.
Personally, I’ve never found clowns to be funny nor something to be feared.
Yea, kinda same
