I'm A Stealth Clown
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Origin
"I'm A Stealth Clown" is a phrase coined by Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's creative strategist and "community manager", Robert Bowling. The phrase refers to a tactic in the multiplayer where you stand behind a fake clown and shoot people from an angle in which they can't see you, thus the term "Stealth Clown". The first and only time he said this was during an interview about Modern Warfare 2's Resurgence map pack, released in July, 2010.
Go to 3:52 in the video.
"Without even realizing, I went up and I posted up to the first cover point and I'm picking guys off and they're running by and I'm picking them off, and I'm like 'How are these guys not seeing me?' And I realized as I'm fighting that I'm standing in front of a clown, that it's supposed to be the 'You have to be this high to ride there' but my head just happened to be where the clown's head should be, so I'm using that as perfect cover. And so their sight lines, they're running through and they're like 'Oh it's just a clown, it's fine' but I have my gun posted up there on his hand, like just picking guys off and I love that because it was a perfect moment of like, they have no clue I'm even here, I'm, I'm a stealth clown." ~ Robert Bowling
Initial Spread
After this video was released, the phrase "I'm A Stealth Clown" as well as the whole concept of Robert Bowling being a "Stealth Clown" (as well as just Robert Bowling in general) begin to spread all around the Call Of Duty community, Youtube mostly.
What's odd about this video is that it was released before the official resurgence map pack video was (researching)
also see:
Robert Bowling: What's your real identity?
Blame Truth Is Robert Bowling?
Other videos referring to this.
also see:
Robert Bowling and Modern Warfare 2
A Conversation with Robert Bowling
and many more.
Later Influence And Spread
Someone named their youtube channel after this. ImaStealthClown
On www.hupitgaming.com forums, once you reach about 1000 posts you get the "Stealth Clown" status.
Yahoo Answers: :
How can i be an stealth clown?
Modern Warfare 2 Stealth Clown?
How can i become a stealth clown?
AM I A STEALTH CLOWN?
How can I be a stealth clown?
Good gamertag suggestions?
Are there stealth clowns in black ops?
Someone Apparently trying to force it
Even Encyclopedia Dramatica referenced this in their Modern Warfare 2 article. WARNING! Very NSFW!
"They decided to make a map so huge that camping is the only option (wasn't that the only option anyway?), a carnival (where if you're badass enough you can be a camping stealth clown), and a trailer park (where most of the IW creators used to live). If you don't think this is amazing just watch Robert(stealth clown) Bowling confirm how "amazing" these are. Hardcore MW2 players who've bought the prestige edition at $150 will also buy the stimulus and resurgence pack,totaling their amount of rape dollars paid for this shitty camp of camp game to $180."
There were too many to list, however you can see more through searching "Stealth Clown" in any search engine or on Youtube.
Fake402
Around the same time, someone on Twitter going by the name of Robert Tenpin (a parody of Bowling) or Fake402 (Robert Bowling's Twitter name is FourZeroTwo) appeared who parodied Robert Bowling by answering questions about Modern Warfare 2 with comedic replies aimed at making Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward, and Modern Warfare 2 look bad. He would often reference the Stealth Clown in his tweets. These can be seen here.
From his Twitter:
RT @Mortalized I heard you are not the real Robert Bowling, that makes me a sad panda – Sorry Sad panda, but my name is Tenpin not Bowling
RT @eternityhq The PC gaming community would like to see more options for HC game modes in #MW2 – Sorry we don't respond to minorities #PC
RT @Wylo1 @fourzerotwo Fix the game. I thought you were the community manager? – I prefer to think of my role as Stealth Clown Mascot.
RT @Sprookle @fourzerotwo Why are you a money grabbing monkey? – I'm not! I'm a rich stealth clown, but I do work with money grabbing chimps
RT @Elkoorps I heard that IW is 99% Chimp and 1% Stealth Clown, true? -No 60% chimp, 20% Janitor and 10% Stealth clown http://bit.ly/iwstaff
Yes, 90%, I only do half the work of the next leading Stealth Clown & let's be honest we put less then 100% effort into #MW2 #WhySoGlitchy?
What is a Stealth Clown?
Urban Dictionary said:
"This is a state of mind in which a person mistakes themselves as being a "stealth clown" but is actually an over paid, pen pushing, "community official", supposed "strategist", semi-retarted, sells recycled bullshit, OMA lover, lazy piece of shit, butt plugging, homosexual, 3d intro loving boweler."
You could also say it this way:
"A stealth clown is someone who believes that they are a stealth warrior who no one ever sees but is actually just a jackass who everyone sees and everyone hates."
The point is, the "Stealth Clown" will live on as a symbol of Robert Bowling and the outrage with Modern Warfare 2 (and Robert Bowling) that came from people world wide.
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