Are clown eugenics a thing?
hello!! firstly i want to apologize for taking so long to answer this ask, i have exams coming up and i am exhausted ><
about clown eugenics, it isn't as mainstream as it used to be in ancient Egypt and the Tudor era in the UK; when clowns were domesticated for entertainment and medicinal reasons. Notably, jesters were famously bred to have the pointiest of hats and be able to have the highest quality Hookus-Powderus (magic dust). It has also recently been discovered that there are medicinal properties in jester noses, hence they are selectively bred to have highest concentration of juggleria-eburneae. Many attempts have been made historically to selectively breed Rodeo Clowns to eliminate """undesirable characteristics""" like their famous hunting abilities and their brown coats, which have all ended fatally. I have also heard that the now (nearly) endangered pyramid clowns were selectively bred in the 1600s to have the brightest colours and the highest durability (traditionally, a pyramid clown head could remain apart from the rest of their organs for about 56 hours, with selective breeding, it was extended to over a hundred). HonkSong university has confirmed that pyramid clowns were lead to endangerment due to unethical breeding and the dismal conditions that they were left under :(((
The famous "clown experiments" that were conducted in Spain in the 1970's not only gave recognition and awareness to hybrids, but also made major advancements in clown eugenics with the head clourologist Areia Baumgartner doing what was deemed impossible: breeding the ketchup venom out of the mcclown.
