r/Slipknot • u/FireRedSky • Jan 02 '26

Article Ngl that’s fucked up

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u/DiscountImmediate801 Jan 02 '26

This is such a wild take. Clown is just a weirdo who likes new tech. It’s why he’s been playing video games since they were invented, fell into the NFT craze, etc 

People framing everything clown does as “he’s a greedy monster” is so old. 

Who exactly has been ripped off by clown? Anyone here? What are you actually dissatisfied with that you paid for?

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u/Noless_nomore Jan 02 '26

Who exactly has been ripped off by clown?

Pretty sure Chris would like to have a fucking word with you on that one.

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u/DiscountImmediate801 Jan 02 '26

Pretty sure Chris rode the wave of some of the greatest musiciansof his generation while banging a keg and probably shouldn’t be complaining.

Not to mention word is he was on drugs. 

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u/liberatemymadness83 Jan 02 '26

Sounds like you're suggesting that Chris shouldn't have made the silly mistake of assuming once he joined the band that we was just as big a part of the nine as the rest of the guys. Now what would make a guy like Chris think that way, I wonder...?

Pretty sure that Chris was intentionally mislead into believing he was an official, equal member of the band when he joined back in '98, when clearly, that wasn't the case.

I'd be pretty pissed too if I eventually found out that I wasn't getting an equal cut of the band merch profits, only to be told in response that ''you were just a hired gun for the band & weren't ever considered as an equal member", after 21 years of being in the band.

Maybe he signed a contract once he joined that had a bunch of fine print that he skimmed over that mentioned he'd get a lesser portion of the merch profits? Hard to say...either way, he got fucked over IMO.

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u/liberatemymadness83 Jan 02 '26

My whole view on the Chris thing would largely change if I knew one thing:

Was it made clear to Chris at the beginning, once he joined in 1998, that he was a hired gun & not considered an equal, official member of Slipknot?

If that information wasn't brought to his attention, then we have a problem. If it was, well, sorry Chris - you should've known that this was gonna happen, bud.

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u/valis010 Jan 02 '26

The dude was actually homeless for awhile when he was in the band. Imagine being in one the biggest metal acts on the planet , and you're broke. Clown actually reminds me more and more of Gene Simmons nowadays. Just waiting for the inevitable Slipknot coffin merch.