User blog comment:EtherBot/Slenderman./@comment-4715955-20170926064055/@comment-25458443-20170926220201

Responding to the clown things here.

In my opinon, this ties into that "poor facsimile of a person" thing I mentioned earlier. People laugh at clowns because they can acknowledge that they are normal sensible people who are simply putting up an act to entertain. Remove the carnival pretense or motivation and the idea that "a sensible person" is beneath that makeup becomes harder to come to terms with.

Clowns wear POUNDS of makeup and ridiculous uncomfortable clothes. Seeing a clown at night, acting like a clown performer acts -- for no reason, with nobody around to entertain -- and dressed like a clown is uncanny inasmuch as there doesn't seem to be any reasonable motivation for somebody to DO that. It's the same as seeing somebody is full on stage play get up just walking down the sidewalk at night, a bit off. Double that "a bit off" thing with the "force that can't be reasoned with" vibe clowns have (what with the "I will say funny goofy things and mess with the people around me no matter what angle that clown humor style) as well as the fact that clowns in media have been painted as actual threats to your safety for decades (and also look genuinely off putting to those so inclined) and it's VERY easy to see why a clown on your doorstep is absolutely NOT where a clown should be and why it's absolutely TERRIFYING...

....again, to those so inclined.

Clowns aren't scary for no reason, nothing is scary for no reason. Clowns specifically are the perfect storm of "Oh thats unnatural" things being tossed on top of eachother in a way thats supposed to amuse. I does amuse, but only in a very specifc context; outside of that context, everything clowns do and say and are is weird and bizarre and unnerving in it's very concept...especially when they don't drop the act after you explain how not entertained you are.

At least that's how I see it. I'm not scared of clowns either so take that with a grain of salt.