Characteristics
According to Utsler, " from all walks of life – 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." Juggalos have compared themselves to a family.
Common characteristics of identifying a member of the Juggalo subculture are as follows:
- Drinking and spraying the inexpensive soft drink Faygo.
- Listening to horror-themed rap music.
- Wearing face paint.
- Wearing HatchetGear.
- The Running Hatchet man logo applied on personal effects.
- Doing hair in the spider legs style, i.e. like the Twiztid members
- Displaying the gesture of wicked clown, the westside sign with the left hand and the C sign in ASL with the right, with arms crossed over.
Juggalos view the lyrics of Psychopathic Records artists, which are often violent in nature, as a catharsis for aggression.
Many characteristics of the Juggalo culture originated from in the 1980s, when Joseph Bruce and his family were living in poverty. He and his brother Robert received all their clothes from rummage sales, and their food from canned food drives held at their own school. Due to their poverty, the Bruce Brothers were the brunt of many jokes in school. However, the brothers were not ashamed of their living standards, and instead embraced it. Joe even made a name for themselves, Floobs. 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. turned scrubbiness into something could be proud of." 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.
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