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https://www.cracked.com/article_28870_the-year-world-was-terrorized-by-scary-clowns-it-was-2016.html
Back in August 2016, an independent filmmaker in Green Bay, Wisconsin came up with a brilliant idea to promote his new short film. Since the 16-minute horror short focused on a scary clown named Gags, director Adam Krause hired an actor to dress up like a clown and stand silently in various locations around Green Bay. It was classic low-budget viral marketing. A few weeks later, the entire country was in an uproar. Enraged mobs rampaged through the streets hunting for clowns, while terrified parents organized armed posses to protect trick-or-treaters from the red-nosed menace. The Great Clown Panic of 2016 had begun.
It's easy to forget just how huge this thing was. Multiple school districts went into complete lockdown for fear of clown attacks. A Kentucky man mistook a woman walking her dog for a clown and burst out of his house firing an AR-15 into the air, which has to be the worst way to learn you're wearing too much makeup. College students were particularly susceptible to panic, as students at multiple universities armed themselves with baseball bats and pepper spray and roamed the campus searching for clowns. Please take a moment to feel sorry for any parent who scrimped and saved to help send a kid to university, only to see them on the news waving a bat with a nail through it and threatening to fight an imaginary clown.
Back in August 2016, an independent filmmaker in Green Bay, Wisconsin came up with a brilliant idea to promote his new short film. Since the 16-minute horror short focused on a scary clown named Gags, director Adam Krause hired an actor to dress up like a clown and stand silently in various locations around Green Bay. It was classic low-budget viral marketing. A few weeks later, the entire country was in an uproar. Enraged mobs rampaged through the streets hunting for clowns, while terrified parents organized armed posses to protect trick-or-treaters from the red-nosed menace. The Great Clown Panic of 2016 had begun.
It's easy to forget just how huge this thing was. Multiple school districts went into complete lockdown for fear of clown attacks. A Kentucky man mistook a woman walking her dog for a clown and burst out of his house firing an AR-15 into the air, which has to be the worst way to learn you're wearing too much makeup. College students were particularly susceptible to panic, as students at multiple universities armed themselves with baseball bats and pepper spray and roamed the campus searching for clowns. Please take a moment to feel sorry for any parent who scrimped and saved to help send a kid to university, only to see them on the news waving a bat with a nail through it and threatening to fight an imaginary clown.
