# Clown Makeup slander — Meme Lab

Use to show someone gradually adopting increasingly foolish justifications until they have made a clown of themselves.

- What it expresses: Successive rationalizations transform confidence into visible self-humiliation.
- Example: Caption each makeup stage with a new excuse a friend gives for repeatedly texting an ex who never responds.
- When not to use it: A person changes their view after receiving solid evidence; honest reconsideration is not a clownish progression.
- Tags: clown makeup, rationalization, self-own, bad excuses
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