Wow, you can't make this stuff up!

[MotherGunner]

mediaite.com/online/thanks-to-creepy-clown-sightings-clown-lives-matter-is-now-a-thing/

Thanks to Creepy Clown Sightings, 'Clown Lives Matter' Is Now a Thing

There is a large group of people in this country who feel anyone who looks like them is being unfairly targeted for scorn or worse. And so they're starting a movement to declare to the world that their lives should matter as much as everyone else's.

I'm talking, of course, about clowns.

There's been a surprising uptick in creepy clowns (or at least an uptick in the media reporting on creepy clowns), and some people are very nervous about seeing clowns in public. This got so bad that President Obama's press secretary was asked about it

Well, some professional clowns have had enough and are starting, for real, Clown Lives Matter.

Yes, Black Lives Matter spawned kind of a surprising bandwagon for basically every group and every person to pick something else that matters and proudly declare it too.

One professional clown got "Clown Lives Matter" going on his Facebook page, saying in one post, "Us actors need to be heard! I'm not your enemy! I'm an actor!"

There is going to be a "Clown Lives Matter" peace walk in Tucson next week and no less than Stephen King is telling people to calm down:

[munchiaz]

yeah places are banning clown costumes for Halloween now. So people theorize this is all just a way to make ppl fear clowns again before the IT remake comes out

[jperryss]

A friend of my sister's is a professional clown (yes I know how ridiculous that sounds) and has actually gotten death threats over this whole thing.

What a wacky situation.

[HailingTheThings]

yeah places are banning clown costumes for Halloween now. So people theorize this is all just a way to make ppl fear clowns again before the IT remake comes out

Nailed it.

[seieienbu]

I don't get the whole clown thing.  It seems like a dumb internet hoax, except then this happened a few miles from where I live:

wayback.wfaa.com/news/man-says-he-had-encounter-with-scary-clown-in-plano-last-week

I'm guessing it's viral marketing that has a few me-too idiots that decide to be "scary clowns"?

[esteban]

I don't get the whole clown thing.  It seems like a dumb internet hoax, except then this happened a few miles from where I live:

wayback.wfaa.com/news/man-says-he-had-encounter-with-scary-clown-in-plano-last-week

I'm guessing it's viral marketing that has a few me-too idiots that decide to be "scary clowns"?

I think some of these sightings are just figments of fearful imaginations, most are pranks, with a sprinkling odd/imbalanced folks (not necessarily dangerous, though).

I don't want anyone to be terrorized, but at the same time, if you read the police reports, it becomes hilariously absurd.

Some phrases and/or details = unintentionally hilarious

"A car filled with clowns"
"Green and orange hair, with red nose"
"Last seen running into woods, holding 3-4 balloons"
"Shadow-boxing pantomime in street"
"Blue and white hair, with red nose"


Anyway, I hope this doesn't blow up into an even bigger moral panic, because the last thing the dying art of Le Clown needs is bad PR.

ALSO: Fellini's *I Clowns* is a movie I really love. Give it a try. Really.