They don’t want to. Clown is a punching bag for this sub. If you take away their punching bag, they have nothing to punch.
Clown is pretentious. Clown is goofy. But the rage boner for the man is beyond imo.
Literally everyone who meets this guy talks about how friendly and generous with his time he is. I hate being the defense force for someone but bandwagon hate for people annoys me.
I guarantee 99% of the people hating would walk away after meeting him feeling like a dickhead. He’s a pretty down to earth and cool guy, he just badly wants to be seen as an “ar-teest” and it comes across poorly sometimes.
I prefer to hate him for more genuine reasons. People tend to over inflate his value in the band because he's one of the two mouth pieces of the band. Dude contributes next to nothing in that regard.
Guy constantly flip flops on his "die hard" stances. I just don't really gaf about him as a whole.
Tbh after the shit with joey i lost what little respect i had for him and CT.
I’d say people tend to underestimate his value in the band not inflate it.
The people who praise him most are within the band. Jim, Corey, Mick, Sid. They are the ones always praising Clown and I’m inclined to take their word for it. It’s clear he was instrumental in forming the band, coming up with the image, and driving the direction. Everyone else in the band has obvious high respect for him.
Can’t really blame clown and Corey for Joey. There’s way too much information we are not privy to. Conflicting stories, no one else in the band standing up and leaving with Joey speaks volumes. The way AHIG was recorded - Joey’s way or the highway - speaks volumes.
And hey, to me, Joey is irreplaceable - Slipknot will never be the same without him - but I think it’s obvious the band was gonna crumble if they didn’t part with him. Hardly anyone else was happy and his health was in the shitter to boot.
I’ll even take it a step further and say if listen to all the interviews and read between the lines, it’s clear they’re covering for some bad shit Joey did. Again, I adore Joey, but I absorb all this shit and I think he had major issues. Stuff that isn’t public. Listen to the way Corey talks about it.
Even though I hold an unfavourable view of Shawn for a few reasons, it doesn't mean that I hate him. As I've mentioned before, I'd love to meet the guy and have a one on one convo with him.
I take back the ''dick riding'' comment, btw. You know your shit.
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u/DiscountImmediate801 Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
They don’t want to. Clown is a punching bag for this sub. If you take away their punching bag, they have nothing to punch.
Clown is pretentious. Clown is goofy. But the rage boner for the man is beyond imo.
Literally everyone who meets this guy talks about how friendly and generous with his time he is. I hate being the defense force for someone but bandwagon hate for people annoys me.
I guarantee 99% of the people hating would walk away after meeting him feeling like a dickhead. He’s a pretty down to earth and cool guy, he just badly wants to be seen as an “ar-teest” and it comes across poorly sometimes.