I feel I should come out of the closet on this, because visibility is important. Now I don’t routinely bang Insane Clown Posse or Twiztid, but a juggalo once told me that I am a juggalo, and by his decree, so I am. I, Bébé Mélange, am a juggalo.
If you are a juggalo and feel the need to talk about it with someone, let my comment section be a safe space for you. Also, if you just want to ask a juggalo a question, you can put it to me. Just be kind, you know, ask in good faith. Thank you…
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…ok, apologies to real jugheads; this was obviously a bit facetious. no offense intended, do consider me an ally at least? i’ll pour a faygo out for you in contrition. i really was granted juggalo status by one of that tribe, but it’s more of an honorary title. rezpekt.
There’s not much to that story. I went to a diploma mill type commercial art school, which lured in radical bros by saying “you could make animays or vidya games.” This wasn’t me; I was lured by lies about how much money I could make with the job skills. But this juggalo, he was a radical son of a bitch, as they say. He had a ball bearing necklace and his life drawings looked like lofi dragon ballz.
We rode the same bus south from Seattle into poor people lands, where he was the kind of guy to drop acid and shoot fireballs in his back yard, and I was the kind of binch to work in fast food and come up with house rules for ttrpgs I’d never get to use. One night he told me that I met his criteria for being considered a juggalo. Fantastic. I’ll accept that.
I hope he’s having a juggalish good time out there somewhere, perhaps with a juggalette and two point five juggajuniors. He was a handsome lad, but life has many traps.
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That’s a blast from the past. I haven’t heard anything about Insane Clown Posse in years. Are they still a thing? Never heard of Twizted at all.
last thing i heard about them, the lead singer publicly called out a maker of fursuits for giving his furry child shoddy goods. good job, dad.
before that it was magnets, how the fuck do they work?
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Not very Zen, they.
it’s on brand
kinda hate weekends and weekdays. gotta figure out a healthy way to balance my shit. hm …………
I’ve never (knowingly) met a Juggalo, but my (distant outsider and possibly ignorant) impression is that they’re mostly middle-class people who playact being sex-crazed, circus-themed hooligans, but actually don’t cause a whole lot of trouble and often leave places cleaner than they found them.
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Yeah, that sounds about right. It’s been going around some of the SF/Anime/Furry convention news circuits for a few years now that the head of ICP has occasionally shown up at furry conventions along with his kid.
(The various subgroups may all have their insular portions, but convention-runners talk to each other across genres.)
To which I agree: yeah, good job, dad. This is how parenting is supposed to work: support your children, help them learn how to deal with the rest of the world, and leave them ready to take it on. And how to deal with people cutting corners on merchandise is part of the world, sadly.
i believe they are mostly lower class people who have a constructed social identity that offers some positive benefits, but there is no small amount of mental illness and destructive behavior in that community. best to treat with them on a situation by situation basis.
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I took a nap and woke up with this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool in my head.
Does Trump have one? If so, who is it?
lol rude