Gemini Cricket doesn't do clowns, but Artie over at Ideogram does, but most of them bear a striking resemblance to Pennywise the clown from, "It." And it is like putting an intellectual property "Kick Me" sign on your back to run an image of Pennywise.
Still I can't resist creating clown designs. I'm not sure why. I don't suffer from coulrophobia (the morbid fear of clowns). I don't like clowns but I am not particularly afraid of them either. I'm just not sure why anyone would dress up like one. But the sinister ones Arties creates are pretty fascinating.
I do think carnivals in general are creepy. Though the closest thing we had to a carnival we had when I was growing up was the Western Idaho Fair. It had all of the carnival rides and games that you would expect. And the people who worked them were all pretty creepy. Though I don't remember any clowns. The clowns were part of the Shrine Circus that came to town every year. But it generally played at the Boise State (college at the time but university now) stadium. I seem to recall the clowns were Shriners dressed up, which make sense, because you would need to be a clown to become a Shriner.
According to ChatGPT, though, you had to be a Freemason to become a Shriner. So maybe it is a conspiracy of clowns. I just remember they were usually old, fat and bald guys in fezzes driving golf carts in parades (when they weren't clowns in the Shrine Circus).
I could never be a Freemason, a Shriner, an Elk, an Oddfellow or a Knight of Columbus. I'm just not a fraternal kind of guy. I am right there with Groucho Marx who once said, "I would never want to be in a club that would have me as a member." I was a cub scout, but I was a pretty piss poor one. It's also probably why I am not into organized religion (other than it is a crock of donkey crap.)
They are colorful if nothing else.
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