Going with Juggalos, Juggaloes, or what seems to be their preferred spelling, Juggalo's.
- Liking some pop culture thing a lot is fine, but basing your entire life around your pop culture fandom is limiting, empty, and pointless.
- From there, someone who bases their identity on being a fan of a cheesy nerd thing and then says that "no! It's not because we're geeks! It's because our favorite thing is so deep and so smart that there's no need to develop a skill or travel outside our rooms!" is just too fucking lazy and scared of even trying anything new and challenging.
- And from THERE, it's ridiculous to latch onto the most awful, shallow shit the entertainment industry has to offer and claim that you don't like it because you just find it fun, but because it SPREADS A MESSAGE~
- ICP are idiots. If you listen to them talk, they are complete, honest-to-god idiots. The titles of all their songs should just be "Random Shitty Horror Movie Tropes That Will Undoubtedly Upset Grandma (Reprise)" because that's all it is. It's not offensive. It's just stupid.
- The issue is that they do that crap and then tell everyone "nah guys! There's a message here and shit! The message is to be GOOD!" They rap about killing people in different uncreative over-the-top ways, then slide into the frame and say "oh but the victim was a racist so, y'know! d(^_^)b" So as you can see, by killing the racists in their songs, that spreads the idea of "RACISM = BAD!!!" They can't just own up to it and say "look, we want to make songs about murder, and making the victim a faceless bigot takes the edge off so you can just enjoy the parts about hatchets and blood!" They and their fans believe it's all part of an important, life-changing narrative. Saying you learned about unity and love through ICP is like saying you learned about body positivity from Garbage Pail Kids cards*. Either you're lying to yourself just to build up your favorite nerd shit, or you're admitting that your understanding of the world is so fucking short-sighted that you needed pop culture to spoon-feed your opinions to you.
- ... of course, that narrative never speaks about getting an education. That kind of thing isn't relevant, and in fact is of course derided in the infamous lyric "I don't wanna talk to a scientist/y'all motherfuckers lying and getting me pissed." That's not about the beauty of life or whatever the fucking hell "Miracles" was supposed to be about. There's literally no other way to interpret "y'all motherfuckers lying," especially when coming from two dipshits in clown make-up.
- So you have a group of morons who follow other morons because they're pretty sure there's some deep lesson to learn in the moronic lyrics of their stupidfuck raps. And that deep message contains the idea of "learning? PFFFFT." That's what speaks to Juggalo(')s.
Believe me when I say the anti-education stance shows when talking to those people. On the podcast we tend to go after the crazy numbskulls in any community, but with Juggaloes, there are no boring, smart people. The furry who has a regular job and just dresses up as a kestrel on the weekends can feel comforted in the knowledge that his quantum-jumped Juggalo doppelganger would be stupid 100% of the time.
Idiocy on its own is bad, but idiocy that actively refuses to become smarter is counterproductive. On the intelligence scale, Jugallo'''z would have to be somewhere in the negatives.
* Once again, nobody under 30 gets our references.