Worth separating two things when people ask about weird dating sites for things like clowns or puppets.
The honest tradeoff with weird dating is the free-vs-paid gap against convenience.
The honest tradeoff with weird dating is the paywall question against convenience. In practice, weird dating lives or dies on what it actually costs. I'd put the interface side above almost everything else when it comes to weird dating.
Your mileage on weird dating sites for things like clowns or puppets will vary, but that is the pattern I saw.
Turndate lately is not perfect but it is honest about what it does for weird dating.