Posted on 05/18/2020 11:35:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Are you the type of gal who demands to speak to the manager when you feel you’ve been wronged? You just might be a “Karen.”
Karen is the latest in a growing line of internet memes poking fun at real-life archetypes. Names such as Karen, Becky and Chad have been co-opted to call out social faux pas online, think: calling the police to shut down a kids’ lemonade stand because they don’t have a permit, or as slangy put-downs like, “Don’t be such a Becky.”
Other names have become so entangled in pop culture that they’ve taken on a new meaning: Who can think of anyone but the Kardashians when they hear “Kim”?
But while the internet directory is fun, real-life Karens (or Beckys, Debbies, Chads and Kyles) bear the brunt of the jokes.
Here’s some of the names ruined by the internet, where they came from, and what the people named before the meme think about their online personas.
KAREN
“Karen” has become social media shorthand meaning a middle-aged white woman — potentially with an asymmetric haircut a la 2009 Kate Gosselin — who makes a big fuss, and is not-so-blissfully ignorant. While the origins of “Karen” are oft debated, some point to Dane Cook’s 2005 bit about the lamest gal in a group of friends being named Karen, others to the “Mean Girls” character played by Amanda Seyfried who is admonished for asking pal Cady (Lindsay Lohan) how she can be from Africa if she’s white. Some view it as a righteous motivator for the creation of Black Twitter — the world wide web knows a Karen when it sees one.
One recent example of a Karen? A woman brawling with the Red Lobster staff, reduced because of the pandemic,
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I have a close friend who works at Bose, and he says they use her songs on demo albums and such for their car audio systems because the tone of her voice was so full and pure...
Being a guy, I recall a time in my life where I couldn’t have people know I liked here music because I would have had to surrender my Man Card...
But one of the wonderful things about getting older is that you care less and less about what other people think of your tastes in various things like clothes, music, etc.
You just do what you want, and if people don’t like it you can smile and say “So what? I Like It!”
I like that...:)
St Chad, pray for us.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-chad/
We are all Karens in Hawaii. A favorite local activity is tracking down tourists on social media who are violating the 14 day mandatory stay in your hotel room quarantine and having them arrested and thrown in prison.
They shouldn’t be here in the first place, but unfortunately because of American law we can’t block them from coming here. But we can arrest and jail them if they go out of their hotel rooms.
>>Also Sunday, the state reported that its ongoing enforcement of a mandatory 14-day quarantine for arriving passengers netted another suspected violator just an hour before the California resident was to fly home. The COVID-19 Joint Information Center announced that deputy sheriffs arrested the man Saturday at the airport for violating the quarantine.
Abdulla Aliyev, also known as Turgut Aliev, allegedly had been posting images of himself at various locations across Oahu, following his May 1 arrival.
Hawaii officials said Aliyev’s social media posts on YouTube and Instagram showed him on the beach, at Diamond Head, at Foster Botanical Garden and at other locations across the island instead of remaining in quarantine at the Airbnb condominium he rented on Kuhio Avenue in Waikiki. He also posted while riding TheBus.
On one of his social media updates, someone wrote that he was violating the state’s COVID-19 emergency rules, and Aliyev falsely responded that police had already given him a ticket, the joint information center said in a news release.
Concerned citizens who had been monitoring Aliyev’s social media posts alerted authorities, the release said. Around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aliyev posted on a social media account that he was at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport and was leaving in a few hours.
The Attorney General Department’s special agents alerted state deputy sheriffs, who caught up with him at the airport one hour before his scheduled flight to Los Angeles.
State Attorney General Clare Connors said in the statement that most people in Hawaii have “little tolerance for anyone, either a visitor or returning resident, who flouts the emergency rules” to stop the new coronavirus in Hawaii.
“If you are out and about in violation of a self-quarantine order, it is likely you will be reported and arrested,” she said. “We again implore visitors to delay their trips until this pandemic passes and we ask that anyone who arrives here comply with the 14-day self-quarantine rule.”
Aliyev, an Azerbaijani who lives in Reseda, Calif., was charged with violating the state’s 14-day mandatory quarantine for arriving passengers and unsworn falsification to authority. His bail was set at $2,000.<<
Given it’s one year in prison for each violation, he going to be in prison for a few years. Probably the State will ship him to a private prison in Arizona to serve his time.
Local Karens in Hawaii hunting down another criminal tourist
Maui police seek assistance in locating Colorado visitor
LOCAL NEWS
Posted: May 18, 2020 / 09:13 AM HST / Updated: May 18, 2020 / 09:13 AM HST
Courtesy: Maui Police
Police are requesting your assistance in locating Ashley Ruth Degraaf. Degraaf is wanted for violating the Rules and Orders for failure to quarantine. On May 15, 2020 she arrived on Maui from Colorado. Degraaf acknowledge the 14-day quarantine, and indicated she would be staying at a North Shore Hostel.
Police were later contacted regarding Degraaf having immediately canceled her reservations at the hostel.
Police attempted to contact Degraaf via the given phone number and email address, but no response was received.
Degraaf is described as a 31 year old, Caucasian female, height 5’8”, weight 150 lbs., with brown hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to please contact the Maui Police Department Non-Emergency Number at 808-244-6400 or in an Emergency dial 9-1-1.
You personally are participating in this?
I have no sympathy for these criminals—they are potential disease spreaders, track them down and throw them in prison.
Most “Karens” are behaving like “L’’Ackatesiantes”
It’s just ok to criticize them because they are white.
Most “Karens” are behaving like “L’’Ackatesiantes”
It’s just ok to criticize them because they are white.
I wonder what “Greta” will mean after another year of the far left swooning every time that abused girl screeches “how dare you!”
I notice some people call karens, gretchens which I do prefer since
wretched gretchens make us retch.
He would be a Carl
Well, back in the day we had “Monicas”
I’m going to have to speak to your manager about this post.
Punk move to spy for the government and police
Her lower register was unparalleled. I was only twelve when she died, so I didn’t really appreciate her exquisite voice until years later.
From all accounts, Karen was a gracious, humble but terribly insecure woman. I feel that her “cold” mother, who clearly favored Richard, was the source of many of Karen’s problems.
Yeah; from all I’ve heard, her mother was a hot mess bitch.
They do, but how are they going to get the signatures?
I’m embarrassed for you.
I could swear that the Beavis and Butthead characters were ripped off from a couple of my classmates.
The boys didn’t just look like Beavis and Butthead, they spoke, sounded and behaved just like them. Sadly, they were as intelligent as Beavis and Butthead. And, like the animated duo, they were inseparable.
The first time I watched Beavis and Butthead, I did a double take because of the resemblance.
She’s changing her name from Kitty to Karen. She’s trading her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron.
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