Where did Clown to Clown Communication come from?

The base picture is a 2012 3D graphic about ESP from the Braintenance Blogspot, and the earliest known clown-captioned version was posted by iFunny user UNITEDSTATESNAVY_2018 on August 23rd, 2019.

What does Clown to Clown Communication mean?

Calling an exchange "clown to clown communication" means both participants are being clowns, so the conversation itself is clown behavior reflected back and forth.

How do you use Clown to Clown Communication?

People typically reply to screenshots or clips of two users agreeing on something foolish by posting the two-clowns image, or by writing the phrase as a comment; redraws commonly swap the clowns for the autism creature or named figures.

Is Clown to Clown Communication still popular?

The format stayed in circulation after 2019 with Instagram, Facebook and YouTube reuses through 2021, and new identity-based remixes such as the autism and ADHD edits kept it active into 2023.

Clown to Clown Communication

Q: What is Clown to Clown Communication?

A reaction image of two clowns staring at each other, captioned "clown to clown communication, clown to clown conversation," used to label two people as fools talking at each other.

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Published October 27, 2026

Clown to Clown Communication is a reaction image of two clowns facing each other, captioned with the title phrase to mock people acting foolishly together. The earliest known meme version appeared on iFunny in August 2019 and traveled across Instagram, Twitter and Facebook over the next two years. By August 2022, Tumblr artists reworked the format into "autism to autism communication" using the autism creature mascot.

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Overview

Clown to Clown Communication, also called Clown to Clown Conversation, pairs a 3D render of two clowns gazing at each other with a caption that reads "clown to clown communication, clown to clown conversation"3. People drop the image under screenshots, replies or video clips where two users strike them as clowns talking past reality, so it works as a one-image insult aimed at both participants at once4.

Redraws and remixes keep the two-clowns composition but swap the figures or the caption to target different groups. A Twitter redraw by @mimiadraws in June 2020 reimagines the clowns in a cleaner illustration style6, while later edits replace the clowns with the autism creature or label them with real people, keeping the mirrored-stare structure as the joke's engine9 11.

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Origin & Background

Platform

iFunny (earliest known meme), based on a 2012 Braintenance Blogspot ESP graphic

Date

2019

The underlying picture is a 3D graphic made to illustrate extrasensory perception, posted to the Braintenance Blogspot on September 22nd, 20121. Tumblr user realfootage reposted it on April 16th, 2017, where it collected over 4,900 notes2.

Who first swapped the ESP figures for clowns and added the caption is unconfirmed. The earliest known clown version was posted by iFunny user UNITEDSTATESNAVY_2018 on August 23rd, 2019, with the setup "when the Chief's mess gets together"3. Know Your Meme flagged this iFunny post as the first documented sighting of the format4.

How It Spread

After the iFunny post, the phrase traveled onto Instagram when user pandawithnojams used it in a caption on December 22nd, 2019, drawing over 9,900 likes5. On June 23rd, 2020, Twitter artist @mimiadraws posted a hand-drawn redraw of the two clowns that picked up over 3,700 likes6.

Facebook page sciencememes and Instagram user pablopiqasso both ran versions of the reaction image on January 7th, 2021, with the Instagram post pulling over 74,000 likes7. Later that year, on September 19th, YouTuber Luke Correia uploaded a short video in which the two clowns turn to the camera for a third viewer, with Correia narrating "clown to clown to clown communication"; the clip crossed 610,000 views8.

The format then opened up to new identity-based variants. Tumblr user itsinkwell posted an "autism to autism communication" redraw on August 8th, 2022, placing the autism creature in both clown slots9. Instagram account adhdmemetherapy followed on November 6th with an "adhd to adhd conversation" version10, and on February 16th, 2023, Twitter user @velvetbnuuy overlaid Vaush and Keffals onto the autism-creature edit as a political jab11.

Timeline

2012-09-22

The source 3D ESP graphic is posted on the Braintenance Blogspot[1].

2017-04-16

Tumblr user realfootage reposts the ESP image, reaching over 4,900 notes[2].

2020-06-23

Twitter artist @mimiadraws posts a redrawn version of the two clowns[6].