Are Juggalos Spoiled Compared to Other Music Fans?

Juggalos and Juggalettes...this is Scottie jumping on the news page on more of an editorial tip.  There has been a lot of drama and speculation revolving around Psychopathic Records lately.  From internal feuds on Twitter, talk of artists being on or off the label, a combo Gathering/March (that was quickly squashed), and more that I don't care to even reference, Juggalos on social media are quick to voice their opinions on all of it. In the midst of reading about it all, I saw a post that really got me thinking.  We as Juggalos are given more access to things than just about any other band on the planet.  The advent of Social Media has opened all kinds of doors to us as fans, and some of us have taken it for granted. I know a lot of you found out about ICP, Twiztid, and any other Juggalo-related groups BECAUSE OF things like Facebook and Twitter.  For that, I'm thankful.  I've gained a ton of friends beyond my local scene due to it.  But back in the day when "word of mouth" truly meant telling your homies about something in person, ICP was extremely secretive and mysterious.  I remember Violent J stating at some point that he didn't even like having their faces on t-shirts because it takes a little bit of the mystery away. Obviously, there's no turning back the clock...and I wouldn't want to anyways.  What I do think though, is that some of you should give some thought about how this ultimately affects YOU.  Some of you appreciate that feeling of being on the inside, getting a brief glimpse of how things operate at a small underground powerhouse like Psychopathic.  Some of you may not care one way or another.  Then there's the trolls.  The ninjas who latch onto something and then run it into the ground.  Look, I like memes as much as the next guy.  But some of the ones I see are straight cringeworthy. In my opinion, the people that spew all of this venom online consist mostly of two types:

1. Young ninjas who didn't grow into being a Juggalo, but rather found the scene not really knowing how close-knit most of us are to each other.
2. Those older ninjas who USED to be in the scene, for one reason or another mostly got out of it, but still have their toe in the water swirling around all of the negative bullshit and never focusing on ANYTHING positive.

I want to share something that a ninja named Hipp E Donn wrote about an experience he had with another band and how it differs so much to the Juggalo community.  He really puts things into perspective...probably much better than I just attempted to.  Check it out:

Do you guys ever consider just how spoiled we are as fans? Like fer real, if ICP is your favorite band, you prolly see them at least twice a year for fairly cheap prices. You get opportunities to meet them, talk to them, hug them with your nasty beer infested crack breath. You are more involved with this band than any other fans of any major band can ever be. Then you go home sit on your computer or phone whatever and shit on everything they do to for you. As if what they do isn't already enough. When I say ICP I'm not just talking about Violent J and Shaggy either, I mean the entire Psychopathic Records family. The people who work their asses off to make everything that entertains YOU possible. While a lot of you live dead end pointless ass lives just doing drugs and robbing your friends because you're too lazy to get a real job. Check this out, I was at Riot Fest about a week ago.. maybe two but anyways, the band Social Distortion is on stage and there's this chick standing next to me crying her eyes out. She was sooo happy to finally be seeing her favorite band live for the first time. So I kicked it with her a little bit, she said she was 34 and was from Alaska(a place where you're probably not gonna catch a lot of tours coming too often). So she spent all this money and traveled thousands of miles to come to Chicago to see her favorite band only to be stuck in a crowd of 200,000 stale ass fairweather fans all the way in the back unable to even see the stage. She couldn't have been any taller than 5 feet. So you know what my fairweather clowny ass did? I let the bitch sit on my shoulders for almost an hour so she could see everything. Their set is boring af compared to a clown show but still when you're a top fan I think having a live visual of what you will probably never see again is important. She certainly loved it. Im glad I was able to make someone's experience better than it could have possibly ever been. If her favorite band was ICP, it wouldn't have been nearly as fresh because she could of had a meet and greet for a hundred bucks and got free merch out of the deal. Once the Social Distortion's set ended, they were gone and nowhere to be found. This story is just an example of how great we have it as fans. So to sit around on social media constantly antagonizing every move the company makes to make things "fresher" for you just makes you look like a bunch of ungrateful bitches. I'm saying this on their behalf since if they were to say it you guys would just start a whole bunch of more dramatic bullshit. If you people would put as much energy into the March as you do starting shit on the internet, the Juggalo world be a much better place. QUIT SUCKING NEGATIVITY'S DICK! That's my word.

You can call this an editorial, or call it whatever you'd like.  What I intended from this is to spark some conversation and get your gears turning about everything that's gone down over the past several weeks.  Does the fact that Psychopathic's inner workings are so open to Juggalos make your experience as a fan a little bit stale? Or do you LOVE knowing what's going on, but hate that some things get tainted because of the disdain of others?  Maybe it's something else altogether. Either way, I'd love to know your thoughts.  Much love y'all.