Editing Juggalo (section)

== Characteristics ==

The [[Americana (music)|roots music]] journal ''[[No Depression (magazine)|No Depression]]'' classified Juggalos as "[[goth subculture|goth]] clowns", as well as "a true community of music-lovers with a strange and warped view of today’s music scene and a strong connection to modern [[hillbilly]] culture."<ref name=Music>{{cite web |url=https://www.nodepression.com/hillbilly-hip-hop-lives-go-juggalo/ |title=Hillbilly Hip Hop LIVES! Go Juggalo! |last=Music |first=Hearth |date=August 15, 2010 |publisher=[[No Depression (magazine)|No Depression]] |access-date=2022-09-13 |archive-date=September 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914015927/https://www.nodepression.com/hillbilly-hip-hop-lives-go-juggalo/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to [[Shaggy 2 Dope]], "[Juggalos come] from all walks of life &ndash; from poverty, from rich, from all religions, all colors. ... It doesn't matter if you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, or a crack rock in your mouth."<ref>{{cite news |title=Insane Clown Posse is back in the Dark Carnival |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10140/1059302-388.stm |first=Scott |last=Mervis |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=May 20, 2010 |access-date=22 May 2010 |archive-date=April 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424073016/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10140/1059302-388.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Juggalos have compared themselves to a family.<ref name="McDevitt">{{cite news |first=Katie |last=McDevitt |title=''Fans or gang? Meet the Juggalos'' |url=http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/article_8f52abae-e15e-551d-98e0-eda625c749b6.html |newspaper=[[East Valley Tribune]] |date=July 27, 2008 |access-date=4 April 2009 |archive-date=June 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608202100/http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/article_8f52abae-e15e-551d-98e0-eda625c749b6.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Cizmar">{{cite web |first=Martin |last=Cizmar |title=Insane Clown Posse's Juggalos Aren't a Gang – Just Punk Kids |url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-11-20/music/insane-clown-posse-s-juggalos-aren-t-a-gang-just-punk-kids |website=[[Phoenix New Times]] |date=November 18, 2008 |access-date=4 April 2009 |archive-date=February 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221215445/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-11-20/music/insane-clown-posse-s-juggalos-aren-t-a-gang-just-punk-kids |url-status=live }}</ref> However, the subculture is most predominant in rural North America.<ref name="Music" />

Common characteristics of identifying a member of the Juggalo subculture are as follows:

* Drinking and spraying the inexpensive soft drink [[Faygo]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Hotts|first=Mitch|title=Insane Clown Posse inspires pop vandalism (with video)|url=http://www.dailytribune.com/article/20120627/NEWS01/120629692/insane-clown-posse-inspires-pop-vandalism|access-date=15 July 2012|newspaper=The Daily Tribune|date=27 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703091401/http://www.dailytribune.com/article/20120627/NEWS01/120629692/insane-clown-posse-inspires-pop-vandalism|archive-date=2012-07-03|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Rob|department=Consumed|title=When Celebrity Endorsements Are Unwanted|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29FOB-Consumed-t.html|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=15 July 2012|date=27 August 2010|archive-date=September 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929154157/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29FOB-Consumed-t.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 
* Listening to [[horrorcore]] and other types of [[underground rap]] music
* Wearing [[face paint]], generally those either like an [[evil clown]] or perhaps similar to [[corpse paint]]
* Wearing [[Psychopathic Records#Hatchet Gear|Hatchet Gear]] or Chapter 17 branded clothes
* Having the Hatchet man logo applied on personal effects and, die cast, worn as jewelry
* Doing hair in the "spider legs" style, i.e. like the [[Twiztid]] members<ref name="McDevitt" />
* Displaying the gesture of "wicked clown", the "westside" sign with the left hand and the "C" sign in [[American Sign Language]] with the right, with arms crossed over
* Making and responding to "whoop whoop" calls
*Expressing a (generally) [[tongue-in-cheek]] obsession with [[murder]], committed with a [[blade]] weapon

Juggalos view the lyrics of Psychopathic Records artists, which are often violent, as a catharsis for aggression.<ref name="Stevens">{{cite news |first=Bill |last=Stevens |title=Gulf High's Juggalo Cleanup Crew displays edgy look, genuine caring |url=http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/article987870.ece |newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=March 29, 2009 |access-date=4 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405023047/http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/article987870.ece |archive-date=5 April 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Florangela |last=Davila |title=Hanging with the Juggalos |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20060718/juggalo18/hanging-with-the-juggalos |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=July 18, 2006 |access-date=11 April 2009 |archive-date=August 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811191527/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20060718&slug=juggalo18 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Many characteristics of the Juggalo culture originated in the 1980s, when Joseph Bruce (Violent J) and his family were living in [[Poverty in the United States|poverty]]. He and his brother [[Robert Bruce (rapper)|Robert]] received all their clothes from rummage sales, and their food from canned food drives held at their school.<ref name="BehindthePaint35">{{cite book |last1=Bruce |first1=Joseph |author-link=Violent J |last2=Echlin |first2=Hobey |editor=Nathan Fostey |title=ICP: Behind the Paint |url=https://archive.org/details/icpbehindpaint00viol |url-access=registration |date=August 2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Psychopathic Records |location=Royal Oak, Michigan |isbn=0-9741846-0-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/icpbehindpaint00viol/page/n46 35] |chapter=The Floobs}}</ref> Due to their poverty, the Bruce Brothers were the butt of many jokes in school. However, the brothers were not ashamed of their living standards and instead embraced them.<ref name="BehindthePaint35" /> Joe even made a name for themselves, Floobs.<ref name="BehindthePaint35" /> According to Joe, a Floob was essentially a scrub, but not just an ordinary scrub. A Floob "wore the same old shoes and shitty clothes from rummage sales ... but ... didn't even have to be cool. [Floobs] turned [their] scrubbiness into something [they] could be proud of."<ref name="BehindthePaint35" /> Though Joe only specifically names himself and his brother as Floobs, he alludes to other Floobs whom he had not met or known of, but were living in the same conditions as he and his brother; the respect that Floobs had for each other and their family-like embrace of likewise people influenced the philosophy held among Juggalos.<ref name="BehindthePaint35" />