I'm not afraid of clowns. I just think they're creepy AF.
I grew up with Emmett Kelly Jr, and Bozo, too. Bozo was more fun than any of them.
I think the concept of the "sad clown" (Kelly) started ruining the fun a long time ago.
John Wayne Gacy first gave us the "killer clown", and it became clear they could be
malevolent.
Then, when Stephen King wrote "It", that was the actual start of people really being
afraid of clowns.
I think the makeup doesn't help either.

Not being able to read facial expressions is what causes the fear. You have no clue what they're actually thinking - think "micro expressions".

I worry about the folk who DO like clowns. What's wrong with them? lol

Generally no, unless one would offer me a red balloon, in which case I might go ballistic.

Bozo died yesterday. I’m ok with them on tv but in person they are very scary and I really don’t understand the fascination with evil clowns shudder

I’m not afraid of clowns, but I don’t like them either. I find them somewhat creepy.

Clowns are cool

Only if they get some of that horrible make-up on my clothes.

It!

I'm unafraid of clowns, but I do remember my first encounter with a clown when I was little, and I just didn't "get it." I was rather put off by the clown, but not scared. I couldn't figure out what the purpose of this oddly dressed person was or why I was being encouraged to interact with them.

The only clowns I truly fear are the ones who think they know in a dogmatic way.

I would had it all in this life if I didn't lacked fear. I meant I lack nothing I want. Fear is nothing I need.

Jeez, clowns have scared the caca doo doo out of me since I was a kid. I haven't forgotten when John Wayne Gacy was caught. And Bozo, he seemed like a demon to me when I was little.

Not in the slightest

John Wayne Gacy

clowns are creepy. it started with me getting freaked out by a mechanical monkey in a department store, who was clapping a pair of cymbals together. i was about 4 years old. a few years later i immersed myself in the moomin's adventures, which led to a weird recurring dream, in which a moomin would poke his head above the panoramic backdrop & very slowly start to smile at me in a way that didn't quite convince - it was more scary than anything else. clowns sometimes give a similarly non-friendly impression when they laugh.

Nah. I have no memory of ever fearing clowns. Just don'tlike the gawdy shoes they wear. Lol

My sister has been a white face clown for 35 years

No but I think they are awfully boring!

I was raised by a below mid-class family and never had any fucked up experience with clowns as a kid, so, nah.

No.

Only clowns with a big knife or ar AR15...