(Yes there's already a thread about juggalos, but I think this video deserves its own thread)
[video=youtube;RXRAQyiqx-M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRAQyiqx-M[/video]
[editline]22nd October 2012[/editline]
My thoughts:
I'm all for freedom of speech and being an individual but if the government took donations for exclusion of these people from the future genetic pool I would donate handsomely.
Every single one of these gaping idiots sprouts on about "not giving a fuck" and "family" and all sorts of shit. It just makes me want to punch myself in the face really.
Where did humanity go wrong?
[editline]22nd October 2012[/editline]
Really? No one has an opinion?
Even after seeing the pregnant smoking woman, or the kid who thinks he is going to be a doctor one day?
Those women were not pleasant to look at at all.
[QUOTE=RoastedSagets;38136327]Those women were not pleasant to look at at all.[/QUOTE]
Actually the one on the right in the YouTube clip thumbnail is rather surprisingly good looking.. but as for the rest...
dogmeat.
whoop whoop
Here's another documentary--this one seems to not be directed as much at making fun of them, but after I heard the first 'whoop whoop' the juggalo's immediately lost any footing they had with me (which was none)
[video=youtube;aDQalLHNltw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQalLHNltw[/video]
[editline]22nd October 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=BusterBluth;38136421]whoop whoop[/QUOTE]
oh god.
It's like goth and hip hop had a baby and left it behind in a dumpster.
expected an american psycho ICP remix
i am disappointed
[QUOTE=OHNOES;38137161]It's like goth and hip hop had a baby and left it behind in a dumpster.[/QUOTE]
I guess you've never seen this video then.
[video=youtube;iMv9d1pIoBA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMv9d1pIoBA[/video]
Okay, what the hell did I just watch...
[QUOTE=jonoPorter;38137399]Okay, what the hell did I just watch...[/QUOTE]
whoop whoop
(I think if we start saying it EVERYWHERE we can make it not-cool and not-funny, like all the memes and shit)
The real thumbnail
[IMG]http://i47.tinypic.com/dvn9xy.png[/IMG]
The white trash pregnant bitch smokin is from Muncie...go fuckin figure :v:
The human need to find somewhere to belong is incredibly strong. I think we can all attest to that.
The fact that what brings these people together is smoking weed and painting their faces, while listening to music that they can identify with, isn't something deserving of our judgement. One of life's greatest struggles, is discovering ones own identity. Either these people have already found theirs, or the Juggalo movement is just a step on that journey. Whatever the case, they've found a place that welcomes them, one that they feel connected to and makes them happy, and I'm happy for them. Not everyone is so lucky in life.
For a few moments, I suppose we can all come together and make a mockery of these people, with their strange ways of entertainment and body decoration, as a way for us to identify with our fellow Facepunchers. I just hope that this is not the final leg of our very own individual journeys for a place of belonging.
Peace out y'all ~~ Magnusson
[QUOTE=Dr Magnusson;38138945]The human need to find somewhere to belong is incredibly strong. I think we can all attest to that.
The fact that what brings these people together is smoking weed and painting their faces, while listening to music that they can identify with, isn't something deserving of our judgement. One of life's greatest struggles, is discovering ones own identity. Either these people have already found theirs, or the Juggalo movement is just a step on that journey. Whatever the case, they've found a place that welcomes them, one that they feel connected to and makes them happy, and I'm happy for them. Not everyone is so lucky in life.
For a few moments, I suppose we can all come together and make a mockery of these people, with their strange ways of entertainment and body decoration, as a way for us to identify with our fellow Facepunchers. I just hope that this is not the final leg of our very own individual journeys for a place of belonging.
Peace out y'all ~~ Magnusson[/QUOTE]
I really don't understand it though; I've never felt the need to belong, when I was in high school I got bullied to fuck and back and treated like shit be people. I just grew out of it and found my own place, my own interests and my own friends. And people who didn't like me still treated me like shit all the same, I just learnt how to laugh at them better.
The 'need to belong' IMHO just comes from people who have extremely low self esteem.
As the saying goes "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down". These guys aren't nails that stick up because they are among people who are the same, but does that really make it 'right'?
I'm pro drug legalization (in specific circumstances) and I'm pretty liberal despite having grown up in a school filled with muslims (some hardcore and some not); but still if I had kids I wouldn't want them to grow up with fucking idiots like these people.
What really disgusts me is how people think its appropriate to take their kids to venues like that. Some time ago you would be able to tell people they weren't allowed to do shit like that, but everything nowadays has to be 'free'.
I kind of envy them for having their own little week, with their own people to do whatever they want; but at the same time I'd much prefer something like Burning Man or something with a little more meaning.
I've never been to America, but a lot of people have told me that everyone there really takes this shit seriously (i.e. being a biker, or a juggalo, or a stoner, or a hippie) and it is sacrament to them to respect people's freedom.
Watching some of their other videos, they really take a harsh stance against anyone who isn't a juggalo--going as far as to call them sheep and whatnot. Given the mishmash of people's physical appearances at their Juggalo festival, I would honestly say these are people who have very little opinion of their own--their sole existence is to party hard and act like idiots while everyone else is boring and has a serious job. The sense of 'family' is really really contrived, and I felt pretty sorry for the mothers who were standing around acting like being a Juggalo is the be all and end all and that these random people would help them out.
I happened to watch another TV show called "world's worst tattoos" or something, and as it happens the first person they featured was someone who got a tattoo at 16 (after their father let them get a tattoo). The guy basically said that he was the butt of jokes all the time during his life, and he felt like a complete idiot for getting the tattoo in the first place.
Insane Clown Posse and the whole 'Juggalo Lifestyle' are exactly that, a fad. These people are blind to how contrived and commercialized something can be, because it tells them something they really want to hear--that there's a group of people out there just like them who will accept them. I'm sure that one day, one of the ICP musicians will say something out of place, possibly making fun of their fanbase and all of these people will feel like idiots...
Or more likely, they will pretend as if it was never said in the first place.
I'm not gonna argue for or against the Juggalo movement. I don't subscribe to it myself, I was just trying to bring some light to their situation in a way that might help to explain away some of the confusion people generally feel when encountering groups like the Juggalos, or bikers.
However, this one sentence in your reply stood out to me though
[quote=parsley].. I just grew out of it and found my own place, my own interests and my own friends. And people who didn't like me still treated me like shit all the same, I just learnt how to laugh at them better.[/quote]
I think, in isolation, a lot of the people featured in the documentaries above would have no problem at all identifying with that statement.
The whole Juggalo lifestyle is probably just a fad that has, or is currently reaching, its prime, but I don't think that discredits it in any way. It obviously means a lot to these people, and is not dissimilar to some of the small fringe groups that came before them. Like the UFO-observers in the 50's and 60's. It could probably be argued (and very well at that) that what they did was a complete waste of time, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it created a bond between these people, around a subject that, although foolish to outsiders, gave them a purpose, and improved their internal relationship.
The illusion of a government that didn't like what they were doing only helped to strengthen the group cohesion, in much the same way that the "conformists" help the Juggalos.
[quote]Watching some of their other videos, they really take a harsh stance against anyone who isn't a juggalo--going as far as to call them sheep and whatnot. [/quote]
Every counter-culture has done this bro.
Just sayin...
modern day hippies? lol
I would say maybe 1/3 of the young peoples in my are Juggalos. Can't say they're the best to be around.
[QUOTE=RoastedSagets;38136327]Those women were not pleasant to look at at all.[/QUOTE]
The one at 1:30 had a nice ass. Then she turned around.
Reason for views: tits.
[QUOTE=MenteR;38139624]modern day hippies? lol[/QUOTE]
Far from what a hippy is.
it's a fucking meat cleaver
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