Alas, People Online Are Quite Horny for Pennywise the Clown
The Internet is, unfortunately, kind of down to crush on the titular character from 'It'.

It is Inverse’s sad, unsavory duty to inform our readers that people want to have sex with the ageless, shapeshifting demon from Andy Muschietti’s new adaptation of It when he appears in the form of Pennywise the Clown.
We wish it wasn’t so, but it is. It is. The origin of this desire seems to stem primarily from the actor, Bill Skarsgård, who plays Pennywise. Skarsgård is best known for his role on the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove, and for being a member of the scary, beautiful Skarsgård clan, a family of Swedish actors including brother Alexander and father Stellan.

Before It even premiered nationwide on September 5, people were preemptively hot for Pennywise based on Skarsgård’s casting alone.
Relieved that a hot Skarsgård is playing Pennywise in the new It movie. It'll be SO much easier to jerk off during the clown scenes
— smellody (@melodykfan) July 31, 2017
Once the movie was finally released, things began to spiral. Some people seemed to feel ambivalent about their attraction to Skarsgård/Pennywise, the clown who kills children and whose face opens to reveal eternity and rows upon rows of gleaming, needle-like teeth.
Pennywise the clown from IT is super hot and I'm very confused right now 😍🤡❤️ pic.twitter.com/x2dRZLtqMd
— Connie 🍑 (@noodlerella) September 11, 2017
so this is the man playing pennywise the clown? catch me in the sewer floating sis! pic.twitter.com/a9pIZHvNNd
— dee 🕷 (@hstylegends) September 10, 2017
This realm of thought is understandable. Bill Skarsgård is attractive by conventional metrics: he’s symmetrical, tall, cheekbone-y, etcetera. But other people were graphically, balls-to-the-wall down to hop on some spooky clown dick. One user even drew rudimentary Pennywise makeup onto a regular picture of Bill Skarsgard. That’s right, he wasn’t even a clown in that picture until they made him a clown.
Tbh Pennywise is kinda hot and I want him to get in my guts before he rips them out
— Cheyenne⭐ (@l0serrrrr) September 11, 2017
i gwnuinely want to fuck the IT clown. like THAT is a white king............
— hi (@alehxie) September 8, 2017
I'M SO DEAD HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL AND CUTE
— bill skarsgård pics (@bskarsgardpics) September 6, 2017
OMG BILL SKARSGARD OWNS MY HEART pic.twitter.com/bacovLS586
But making the sewer-dwelling child killer a sex symbol is not a priority for everyone online, and there has been backlash in response to the Pennywise lovefest.
stan twitter: im gonna FUCK the IT clown
— kiddo (@dunwaIl) September 10, 2017
me: u mean bill skarsgard right
stan twitter: ye 😍😍,, as the IT clown 🤡💦
me: pic.twitter.com/ttZi0tpXD9
No matter how desperately we wish this online affection could be gradually erased from our memory for the next 27 years, with an It sequel on the horizon it’s likely that this crush is here to stay.