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As you all know, this weekend as the 11th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos. It was, as the Juggalos are constantly reminding us, a chance for a group of like-minded people who enjoy the same kind of music and hayrides to get together and celebrate their shared passion. And also to throw rocks and feces at other human beings. From the AP:
A sheriff says reality TV actress Tila Tequila complained that audience members pelted her with stones and feces during an outdoor music festival in southern Illinois.
The sheriff also said one man stabbed another, though not fatally.
STONES AND ALSO FECES! Also this, from CNN:
“She’s pretty cut up,” said a performer who saw the violence at the “Gathering of the Juggalos” in rural Hardin County, Illinois. The witness asked not to be identified so that he does not anger the juggalos.
A performer who saw the violence that was perpetrated by thousands of people in a public space doesn’t want to be identified as just straight-forwardly admitting that he saw a thing that everyone knows happened, for fear of angering the Juggalos? WAIT A SECOND, WHOSE WORLD IS THIS? Look, I’m no Tila Tequila apologist, but GOOD GRIEF, MY NINJAS. TMZ has video of her unfortunate appearance, and the only time the crowd stops throwing shit (literally) at her face is when they break to chant “SHOW YOUR TITS!” What a fun festival! What a fun celebration of the wonderful music of Psychopathic Records.
Don’t these people realize Tila went to high school with Sugar Slam?
Of course, none of this is actually that surprising. The Gathering of the Juggalos is a nightmare collection of the world’s most unapologetic homophobes and misogynists, but this whole situation certainly gives the lie to their constant claim that they are good people who just want to have a good time together.
Admittedly, there is still no explanation of why Tila Tequila was chosen to perform at the Gathering of the Juggalos. Considering that this was the 11th annual event, you would think that the organizing members of the Insane Clown Posse would KNOW THEIR AUDIENCE at this point. Then again, they probably had a conversation about it afterwards where everyone agreed that when you mix alcohol with ROCKS AND FECES, you never know WHAT is going to happen. Ugh.
So this is the end of the Juggalos as a popular Internet meme, right? We can all go back to just thinking they’re horrible assholes again, without the deflecting sheen of ironic detachment and winking appreciation? Good. Shut it down. (Thanks for the tip, werttrew, Shoogyboomz, Sonya, caseanate, Jim, foodpartay, Alicia, Harry Leibniz, and Lew Zealand.)
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I think that the real question is, “Why is Keanu the only one who is sad?”
the rest are sad. they just don’t know it…
That dog is too sad to even show his face.
The Human Cannnonball looks bored.
What kind of “performing” does Tila do? I can only imagine MySpace fame-whoring doesn’t translate well to a large stage.
“Only I may do the dance”
– Ruby, Violent JJ’s sister
Changing Avatar in 3…2…1…
My favorite part of the video is Tom Green coming out (presumably to calm the masses?) and dancing, then realizing that garbage is being thrown at him, and leaving the stage like any normal person would do. A nice counter-balance from Tila Tequila’s idea to actually take her top off in the same situation.
Tom Green: Voice of reason!
“I’m just glad it wasn’t Faygo”
-Tila Tequila
“Actually that can’t be ruled out”
- Faygo Inc.
I almost just laugh/barfed. Laurfed? Gross.
Here’s your marketing slogan, Faygo.
It’s the ‘naturally flavored’ on there that’s the clencher. Eesh.
Clencher, the wurst? There is a line, and you crossed it. Ew.
You haven’t tried their new “Rocks and Feces” flavor?
u think this shit is funny bitch if i knew who you were id cut ya bitch ass
The London Symphony Orchestra came and played in my city and I put a rock through a cello, but to be fair Sir Colin Davis’ interpretation of Tchaikovsky was downright unsavory. So this could happen at any concert really.
This all could have been avoided if they hadn’t cancelled the hayrides this year.
Words cannot express how much fuck juggaloes. Dudes are assholes. I’m all for “Whoop whoop” and “Clown Love” and Faygo as a joke, but come the fuck on. I’m actually horrified at this whole thing. I shouldn’t be, what with them being juggalos and all, but this was actually pretty terrible. Before anyone says, “Well, this happened to Andrew WK and he just partied harder!”, I’m fairly certain that AWK didn’t get beaten like that after he got offstage.
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Can someone please explain to me why everyone hates this comment?!
I had really and sincerely hoped that I could go through life without being on Tila Tequila’s side in any matter. Thanks, juggalos, for ruining that dream.
“She’s pretty cut up.”
-Juggalo Steve Winwood
I believe his juggalo name is “Stabby Bloodwood”.
actually, that was steve’s prison name in the showers
Dude! He asked not to be identified (so as not to anger the monsters).
I think you might be implying this is partially our fault and I agree. I don’t think anyone ever lost sight of the fact that a good deal of the people who affiliate themselves with this sub-culture are nightmare garbage monsters. The problem is, I think the other portion of their community, along with a lot of the figure heads wanted to take this new-found internet attention and turn it into some form of more mainstream success.
In other words, they wanted to take this opportunity to bring more people into their world of axe murders and corpse fucking. I would image not everyone in the community was thrilled with this and they saw Tila Tequila as part of this new trend.
Or maybe not. However, I agree that its time to stop playfully mocking the Juggalo culture and return to the form of the past 10 years where we actively remind people that maybe glorifying horrible violence towards women while wearing clown makeup is repulsive.
I think you’re onto something. The Juggalos feel threatened about the potential of being co-opted by the mainstream! It’s the early 90s all over again, but with clown makeup and poop.
I think you are giving them too much credit for their critical thinking skills.
This:
“Dear me! This community that I value is about to undergo a change, diluting that which makes it great. I, for one, prefer to keep this as it is, pure and undefiled by the commercial concerns of the broader culture. To that end, I am going to throw this handful of this at this woman, not in anger, but as a sign that I will not have my community sullied.”
Or this:
“Ugh. Look, there’s like a girl on the stage. Vern, gimme that turd you were showing me earlier. Imma throw it at her and then get her to show me her titties. Fuck, I shouldn’t have soaked that joint in bleach so long. My ears are cold.”
All Juggalos are basically Earnest.
Bleach-soaked joints FTW.
I think ohthehorrorifitall makes a good point comparing it to the early 90s though. In any of those periods of co-optation and commodification of a subculture, I’m not sure that everyone who was upset with that co-optation thought about it with much nuance. I imagine a lot of the reactions were more visceral – “This is ours not yours argh [insert further angry reaction here].” Within any cultural/subcultural context there are leaders who are creating the narrative and filling in most of the details allowing the majority the luxury of choosing whether or not they have to think about what it is they find themselves involved in.
So I think that both of those lines of thought that you introduce Mans could be going on simultaneously, just in different levels among all of the different individual juggalos. The more self-aware may take the first line of thought (though not necessarily in so many words), and the less the latter. Every group has its thinkers and its turd-throwers.
Thanks, Wurst. And also, in fairness to the Juggalos, they follow the Dark Carnival which, from what I understand, is a very complicated theology. And, having been an asshole teenager in the 90s, I prolly would have thrown shit at Alanis Morrissette if she had appeared at the Nirvana/Jawbreaker show I attended. I remember people threw tampons at the Frogs when they opened for Smashing Pumpkins in Chicago in 1995. Proprietary feelings are really powerful when you’re young and define yourself by what you listen to.
I would like to return to the form of the past 10 years where I did not know that juggalos existed at all.
thanks for giving us the juggalow down…
The thing I’d like to know is where one finds feces while in the middle of a fairly crowded pit at a show. Preplanned, just there on the ground, produced on-the-spot? There really are no acceptable scenarios.
CNN said the feces was from a Port-a-potty. I do not know if that makes it better or worse.
ah, investigative journalism at its finest right there.
Let’s be honest: It’s the Gathering. Feces anywhere shouldn’t be surprising.
Best comment of the week already? I think so.
“I’ve seen shit that’ll shock ya eyelids”
– deleted scene from “A Family Gathering”
Literally
Fucking feces throwing, how does it work?
I’ve never been to the gathering, it’s entirely possible that feces throwing is their version of a “thumbs down.”
Or ‘thumbs up’
Yikes, now I just feel like I have to wash my hands after upvoting.
She looks strange without her clown makeup.
Why did they invite Tila Tequila? Where did that feces come from? Tila Tequila performs? I’m going to put this shirt on and take a nap…
The dream is over, friends.
I don’t believe in Juggalos. I just believe in me.
Juggaloes are a concept by which we measure the end of civilization.
Because I am old, I remember that Pavement dirt clumps thrown at them at Lollapalooza ’94. It follows that someday the Juggalos will embrace her as an underrated hero and she will fill (Juggalo) stadiums on her reunion tour (with herself?) when her child needs to go to college (college?). Wait, this doesn’t work at all.
(Tequila) Slammers ?
Aw sheee-it!
You Can Make It Up: Tila Tequila and Sugar Slam have a heart-to-heart about their friendship
We Should All Be So Lucky As To make Friends For Life With Sweet Sugar Slam.
Being best friends with Sugar Slam is honestly the greatest thing I could ever imagine happening to me. She is delightful.
She keeps performing, which just baffles me. What part of the crowd that was sort of nodding their head and looking disapprovingly at everyone else was she pandering to? If one person in a crowd of thousands hits you with a rock but everyone’s still cheering, go Justin Bieber and play like you meant to get hit with something, but maybe don’t yell to a crowd of people that you’re trying to entertain that you “DON’T GIVE A FUCK” that they’re booing ferociously and hitting you with things. It’s like stonemill said, just go ahead and bounce, you’re not going to turn a crowd that has devolved into throwing piles of shit at you.
I keep thinking about that monkey that smelled his butt finger and fell over because….even the chimp didnt’ *throw* the poop. Then I went looking for an animated gif to illustrate my point and the first result was “BO DERRICK GETTING HER BOOB SUCKED BY A CHIMP” and I don’t want to live in a world where humans throw poop and rocks at other humans and humans also breastfeed chimps.
How can it be the 21st C., a time that was promised to be a glowing utopia of science and human promise when I was a child, yet America is just now discussing if people throwing their own feces at other people is unacceptable? How is this not just some ingrained given for everyone?
How is it that America is not all on the same page regarding that drunk mobs throwing rocks at the face of a woman? How do we all not agree that is a bad thing?
We could talk about how we can’t believe that in 2010 we still have semi-literate mobs shouting “Show us your tits,” but we can’t get some people to put down the damp balls of their own excrement long enough to listen.
I have to say you’re being a little naive, Mans. These people aren’t on a different page, they are reading* a separate book in another anthology.
*They don’t understand all the words but keep reading just to giggle at words like “recession,” “foreclosure,” and “tarballs” because they sound like sexual innuendos.
Being naive is my best quality.
In other news, the Taliban continues to stone people to death for adultery.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/afghan-couple-stoned-by-taliban-for-adultery-official/article1674013/
Not sure what my point is. There are worse things to have thrown at you than poop? We are on a slippery slope of stuff-throwing? Everyone is awful all over the world?
Never mind.
It isn’t a slippery slope. Here’s the rule: Don’t throw stuff. Here’s another rule: Don’t touch human feces for fun.
It’s the 21st C.; jump into the 21st C.
i think it’s that the Taliban doesn’t understand how rainbows work, either.
That’s your species!
I know there’s an ASS DAN joke in here somewhere……oh yeah: There’s a guy named ASS DAN …also these people.
Joe Mande could have saved the day. A rare miss, videogum.
My mind is spinning with all the diseases Tila Tequila could be getting right this second from combining open wounds and feces.
I think the diseases she already has are strong enough to destroy the new ones.
That was the second part of this comment, but I deleted it because I didn’t want to come off as mean. Basically, that the antibodies she already has probably cover any feces-borne illnesses known to man. Mean? Mean.
Sorry, Tila Tequila. I don’t even know you.
But I still know you too much.
There were seminars to attend and face painting booths to go to and faygo machines to drink from and midgets to gawk at all going on at this time too, right? So these people basically showed up to see Tila for the sole purpose of throwing things (terrible things) at her? Now I feel even worse.
Wasn’t this at the Ladies Night, supposedly a safe space for juggalettes? It truly is the Lilith Fair of Garbage Monsters.
I wonder how Gallagher’s set went over.
it was a SMASH!…….sorry folks…
“you would think that the organizing members of the Insane Clown Posse would KNOW THEIR AUDIENCE at this point.”
Typical Juggaloes. They’re great at preparing for LAST YEAR’S gathering.
“The sheriff also said one man stabbed another, though not fatally.”
Then it’s totally cool.
Just hit Buzzfeed…
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/tom-green-at-the-gathering-of-the-juggalos
I don’t know how Joe Mande would have topped this.
If Juggalo-fascination wasn’t so sour and horrible now, someone would have made “FREE MAMA GYPSY” t-shirts.
It’s like some sort of Paranormal Activity/Blair Witch impending doom mockumentary.
This is kind of what I imagine post-apocalyptia will look like.
http://tinypic.com/r/2dqrs54/4
Gallagher in the above video at 8:05.
Also, if you ever need broll of white people on acid, go ahead and save this video.
I feel filthy having read this post.
I wish we could cover the Gathering of the Puggalos (“BOO!!! Get off the stage” – the Fresh Ass Comedy Tent) instead:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/anteater/pug-swim-meet
I was really expecting Tila to start shouting, “I’m not here to make friends!” A rare miss, Ms. Tequila.
Next years gathering video:
“Sweet sugar slam here, this year because you asked for it we have… Public Maiming Yall!!
wait…if all these people were at ‘The Gathering’ this weekend, how did The Expendables make $35 million?
I think we all know the performer who doesn’t want to be identified is Tom Green.
Nice try, Tom Green!
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