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[–] 61 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Oh we're doing the clown thing again?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yep, that was my initial reaction. Creep Clowns, take 2. Why aren't there TikTok trends of doing meaningful work to help improve your community?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I haven't been on social media but before I left there were people organizing clean up days and regular events which I thought was cool. It was trending a bit then but not as much as the tide pods or what not.

    I also think it depends on whose algorithm. My husbands has a lot of successful adoption or conservation videos lol

    Def could use some more positive or wholesome viral trends though.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The US has got to be the worst country for pulling this shit. 

    Remember when someone tried dressing up as a clown and jump scaring people in Stockton? 

    He got pistol whipped, lucky he wasn't shot. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIvqjznCSPA

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    That was my initial thought as well but then read that it was happening in British Colombia. If all mean Canada then say it. Don't make me assume that there are kids going to be shot here in the U.S.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Anything before or after “TikTok trend” is pretty much universally shit. What a wretched platform.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    TikTok is a cancer.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Gotta keep the masses distracted somehow

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Mike Meyers must be soo hurting for work I guess.

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    Yeah no kidding or stabbed, not everyone has a "flight" response. But it was just a prank.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago
    [–] 6 points 1 month ago*
    1. Get an MMA kick pad or build one yourself, attach it to a horizontal bar.
    2. Spend the next 3-4 months practicing kicking it precisely in the center as hard as you can. Do flutter kicks and squats as well to add strength.
    3. Wear steel-toe boots/pointy high heels at all times when the Cats in the Hats are afoot.
    4. When chased, face the attacker, assume kicking stance from your training, await the assailant until their crotch is within optimal striking distance.
    5. Follow your training. Don't kick the crotch, kick through it, as if you're going to kick the inside of that cat's top hat.
    6. Yell, "Ughh! That top hat is tight! Now run that shit, bi*ch! Ynawmean!!"
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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Heard North America found Canada. Makes sense do that in the states get shot.

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Reminds me of the 2016 clowns (and i don't mean Trump voters 🤡)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    friend thinks cat in the hat viral ad campaign. after the clown shit last decade a movie came out.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Lmfao what is this shit

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    This reminds me of the '16 clown sightings

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    This’ll be over real quick when it’s not curiosity but a bullet that kills a cat

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I liked the old days when clowns just appeared menacingly from the shadows, but didn't chase anyone.

    There are only two instances this is acceptable. Haunted houses, and Halloween, but only in party crowds, not chasing single people down the street. Otherwise, these people deserve to be arrested (NOT beaten, just arrested), cited and fined (NOT thrown in jail without their meds, and again, NOT beaten. JFC, I hate cops.)

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