Killer Clowns
You're Wrong About
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Clowns Are for Grownups, Right?
I feel like people now associate clowns with freakiness more than they associate them with joy and happiness in kids' birthday parties, right? Absolutely. And then there's also, you guys know about super normal stimuli? What? No. So we got the uncanny valley on one hand. On the other hand, we have this thing called super normal stimuli, which is it's a psychological concept that explores how we are naturally more attracted to things that are exaggerated and blown up. Clowns are a good example of this, of course, because they have all of the features of humans, but they're all a little bit exaggerated. They're just a little bit off like their eyebrows are really
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