Clown Core (aka Clowncore) are an American experimental band known for their nonsense songs and weird clown aesthetics. The band members themselves were once a mystery, but they have been identified as musicians Sam Gendel and Louis Cole. Their first appearance on the internet came with the live music video of the song Surreal Cereal, uploaded on YouTube on the 23rd of November of 2008; the song later appeared on the duo’s first EP Clown Core, which released on the 1st of March of 2010. After uploading the music video for the song Get To Know Me on March the 12th of 2011, they went silent on their YouTube channel for 3 years, until they uploaded a video titled “?” on August the 12th of 2014, which featured only a text saying “what happened to clowncore” and an ominous background music.

In 2017 they started reuploading and made videos with hints of their EP Toilet, released on the 3rd of March in 2018. The album featured hit song Hell, the latter of which gathered over 2.5 million views on their music video, and Toilet, whose music video was featured on Adult Swim. They released a music video for every song on the EP.

On September the 23rd of 2020, they released their third album Van, with songs like Earth and Computers gathering over 400k views on their respective music videos.