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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 18 minutes ago

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

[-] webp@mander.xyz 2 points 33 minutes ago
[-] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 3 points 25 minutes ago

Fan of Insane Clown Posse, aka ICP

[-] webp@mander.xyz 1 points 22 minutes ago

That's what it is? Well fuck if I know

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 17 minutes ago

Why would they need facial recognition? Just look for the guy in clown makeup.

[-] mrslt@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago
[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

I feel like you might stand out as "the guy wearing clown makeup"

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)
[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

I wonder if those patterns still work.

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I used to think juggalos were cringe but I'm really digging how based they are ideology wise. Their music isn't my taste but I've got weird musical preferences anyway.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Christian Rock.

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago
[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 30 points 6 hours ago

Hello fellow juggalos, it’s me, a juggalo. I was just taking Wolfie for a walk.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

“Your foster-juggalos are dead”

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 7 points 5 hours ago

"Have you seen this meme?"

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

Ha ha, took me a minute to recognize him as Nathan Fillion from the Rookie. 🙂

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

People will call the cops on clowns they spot on the street, and cops respond. I kid you not, at least in some places.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 21 points 6 hours ago

Juggalos are still identified as a domestic terrorist org, probably for this exact reason

[-] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 97 points 8 hours ago
[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 79 points 8 hours ago

ICP is based as hell:

"I SAY FUCK YOUR REBEL FLAG

Out here pretending like you ain't offendin'

I SAY FUCK YOUR REBEL FLAG

You redneck judges with racist grudges

I SAY FUCK YOUR REBEL FLAG

If you gotta tattoo, I'm aimin' at you

I SAY FUCK YOUR REBEL FLAG

You get punched in your faces reppin' the racists"

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 71 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Speaking as someone who isn't a juggalo, it's clear that the subculture represents a lot more people than just the ones who identify with it. Like with Punk, a lot of outsiders don't look past the aesthetic to realize that they're trying to convey an important social message and be a voice for disenfranchised groups. They aren't just people in clown make-up, they're people who were fucked over by society and this is the outlet they found. Sadly it's easier to laugh at memes about magnets than to confront their reality.

I'd include the rap subculture as well but regrettably their message became diluted when they achieved mainstream success and were co-opted by the marketing and propaganda machine as another tool to perpetuate the Spectacle.

[-] Godort@lemmy.ca 40 points 8 hours ago

I am also not a Juggalo, but every one that I have met has been kind and accepting to an aggressive degree.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I grew up around quite a few as they are pretty common in the Middle West especially middle and low income areas. Aggressively inclusive is a pretty good description of the subculture's values. There's some bullshit like anti science and anti education, but it comes from the elitism and exclusivity of those institutions which is a problem in public outreach and inclusiveness in academia. Most of the juggalos I've met just want to do drugs, listen to horrorcore rap, and watch wrestling, but I've also met some that can't stand any of those things but just celebrate the stuff they do like instead of denigrating other people and their aesthetics.

[-] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 22 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I grew up around a lot of juggalos. The music is kind of just a small part of the culture, it really is an entire culture, one based on acceptance of anyone. At least in the 2000s there wasn't anything else like that. Old heads gatekept punk, they had officially declared punk was dead. Metal was mainstream. Eminem was the only "credible" white rapper because he had street cred from Detroit. If you didn't feel like you fit in, the juggalos were there saying you're welcome here. If you decide to call yourself a jaggalo, then you are, and you're apart of the family. No interrogations about what music you've listened to your whole life, when you got into a specific scene, what socioeconomic background you have.

And yeah your second point about rap is 100% true. I saw $uicideboy$ come and go. I remember in like 2014 they were underground, I really fucked with them. They made over 500 songs, had a huge following for the time, and were doing great. Then they signed onto universal to release iwtdino or whatever in like 2018. Never felt more betrayed. I really fucked with yung lean too, but he straight up said he was going to sell out. He was gonna get money. I respect that. $B are just corpo shills now acting like they're underground while being the most mainstream corpo rappers to exist currently.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 13 points 7 hours ago

Rave was the same way until it also got pulled mainstream around 2007/2008

Before that we had assholes like Joe Biden trying to outlaw it by saying proving water to patrons was “encouraging drug use” and classifying any clubs that did it as “crackhouses”

That shit was my church and they burned it. I stand in solidarity with Juggalos.

[-] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago

I was trying to figure out where edm fits in to that but yeah, it was mainstream by the 90s. Started in the 70s, by the 80s there were defined raves for edm. But its hard to look at rave culture/edm as a whole since its so old and widespread. UK edm was different than US edm which was different than Latin American edm etc. Then all the divides within edm. House ravers didn't want to go to hard style raves. Hard style ravers didn't want to go to trance raves, etc.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

The show Workaholics some years back did a juggalo episode and it was eye opening.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Same goes for metalheads

[-] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago
[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Thats actually from Confederate Flag off of the missing link album, but your original statement is correct CoC is awesome.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 35 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You know those influencers who are like makeup addicts? They often use shading or tape to change the shape of their faces. I wonder whether they could fool facial recognition technology as well.

The difference being that a person made up like that won't stand out as much as a person wearing Juggalo makeup.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 7 points 7 hours ago

I think this guy definitely definitely knows how to fool them!

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 8 hours ago

We must be close to the sort of flexible eink display that will finally make Rorschach's mask a thing.

[-] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 31 points 8 hours ago

We become Rorschach. Funny joke, everyone laughs.

[-] homes@piefed.world 12 points 8 hours ago

Wasn’t this established a long time ago?

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 29 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It was.

And I have bad news: it's largely no longer true. Modern models, gait recognition, 3d face maps, all can de-anonymize juggalo/clown makeup

https://arxiv.org/html/2410.16317v1

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13507

[-] org@lemmy.org 10 points 8 hours ago

Yes, but, you have to keep changing the makeup design!

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

it's an improvement over having to keep changing my face

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

Ya know, they do have two songs I like, maybe I'm a juggalo now

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Just outta curiosity, what are those 2 songs?

[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

Not who you were originally asking but Tilt-a-whirl is so much better than it has any right to be. It's on my top five lists of songs containing the best belting out of "mother fucker." My husband may eventually win his battle of getting me to like ICP.

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