America's creepy clown craze, explained

Ugh, this entire scary clown "epidemic" seems so overblown. I have this feeling that Retro Report is going to report about this someday and be like "Remember how scared we were of clowns? It turns out it was just the media having nothing else to report on! KEKEKEKEKE". And that's how this stupid clown thing will fade away forever.

PS: Atlas Obscura has a creepy clown epidemic map if you want to really scare yourself for no reason.