in the lyrics. unless "becky" is the addressee and not the girl they're talking about.
Oh, my, God Becky, look at her buttIt is so big, she looks likeOne of those rap guys' girlfriends....I mean gross, lookShe's just so, black
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
xp to sarahell, I only meant popular culture came for the Beckys well before 2010 or w/e
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
i've never seen the video for that. i cannot be held responsible for music videos made before the year 2000.
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
treeship...
― Yerac, Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:14 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 🔫 (peace, man), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
xp. becky is the addressee.
jesus treesh.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
i cannot be held responsible for any of these white boys allowed on the internet.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
oh my god, look at that post
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
sorry i never did a close reading of that song before. i'll dust off my old cleanth brooks textbooks tonight to sharpen my skills.
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
oh my, god look, at that post
― 🔫 (peace, man), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
now do a girl named Suzy.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
genuinely shocked this hasn't been posted priorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKG4EJ6rsQ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
ogmor is correct, until fairly recently this meme was just any generic white lady name, “jeez Debbie” or whatever, which is why tracing it back to dane cook or some random on reddit is off the mark
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShittyLifeProTips/comments/62cw4z/lpt_avoid_the_pain_of_a_messy_divorce_by_not/
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/7lz4ar/what_is_this_fuck_you_karen_thing/
I don't know that looks like convincing evidence of the origin to me
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
That’s literally just a bunch of dudes repeating “I hate my ex” and has no connection to the “type” exemplified in the memeThe name is the same yes
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
The first link is what I thought was cited as the inspiration for the name Karen being chosen. But looking again it's not from the same user most point to, so never mind.
The second is someone asking about it some months after the snowball started rolling down the hill. So at least that kind of puts a timestamp on it. Always thought it was a reddit thing.
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
lol I know a man in his early 40s who definitely exhibits Karen-like behavior and for that, among other reasons, we’ll joke about “pulling a Brian” when doing something he’d donice guy to hang out with until the moment he asks something mortifying of a person in our vicinity then it’s a race to cut him off mid-sentence, though
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
names have been changed to protect the man-Karen
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
🎶but I do knowwwww man-Karen🎶
― we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
College shouldn't be free.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
(I don't know if this is really a conservative opinion because I think public college tuition should be a third of what it is now and that state government support should make up most of the difference)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
(It's definitely uncool though)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
You’re right, free Universities are where it’s at.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
i saw Ted Cruz called a Karen online because of his need to criticize the 1619 Project.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
I feel like I missed something there, Andrew Sullivan was throwing a shit fit about it, but I couldn't really understand
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
some people think america is good but actually, it is bad
― silby, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
"don't call attention to the genocidal ravages of colonialism and chattel slavery! america's good"
― silby, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
hmm, why would a right-wing piece of shit not like writing regarding the legacy of slavery
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
Any argument against the 1619 Project should be met with fire.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
“Karen” was a term created *specifically by Black women* to talk about white women’s interpersonal + state violence against us and our communities: calling the police on us for getting coffee, threatening to have us fired, talking down to us at work (where we’re now “essential”).— alicia sanchez gill. (@aliciasanchez) April 5, 2020
― Branwell with an N, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 07:45 (three years ago) link
Per Luvvie Ajayi, the progression is Becky > Karen > Susan.
https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2020/04/caucasity-karen-becky-susan.html
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
it's interesting that treesh identifies this as a conservative opinion bc it treats gen x liberal centrist feminism as conservative, which for rhetorical/dialectical purposes it often is, and then i saw this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXVlEMdVcAETEiB?format=jpg&name=900x900
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
tbf noone is ever mean to posh men
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
most men (esp. cis-het white men) are over-sensitive to criticism and need to "man up" -- if they received the same privilege push-back as white women do on the reg, they would either cry, try to cancel the internet, or else shoot a bunch of people
― sarahell, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
otm
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
a challenger approaches
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXW_wrpU0AAEV1e?format=png&name=240x240
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
is she a jogger y or n?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
I have seen evidence that "Karen" has already made the jump from woke Twitterites to broke Facebook whites.― 🔫 (peace, man), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:00 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 🔫 (peace, man), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:00 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
"Karen" definitely means the person who narced on you for not wearing a mask and standing too close to people out in public now.
― peace, man, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
according to who? you mean on facebook?
― Evan, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure it now means absolutely nothing coherent
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
What is this "Karen" thing?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
I mean of course xp
― silby, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
the life cycle of slang:
black trans women invent a slang term to mean something specific
white gays co-opt it, bringing it into the mainstream while diluting its original meaning
white people in general exhaust all signification of the term completely in the course of two weeks
the Charmin twitter says "bae" or whatever
― silby, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
I pretty much now will not use any slang I heard recently at all because this process doesn't need my participation
― silby, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
uncool conservative belief: white people shouldn't use slang terms they just heard b/c it's either misused appropriated black queer/trans slang (bae, woke, Karen, slay, yass) or it's been invented by online white supremacist reactionaries (incel, cuck, simp, SJW)
― silby, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
that belief isn't uncool, it's poggers
― imago, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
"white people shouldn't say "woke" or "SJW"' is anything but a conservative belief. There is no conservative belief about what white people should say except "Any suggestion that white people shouldn't say just what they like is the real racism."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
My uncool conservative belief is that there is probably very little public health benefit to wearing masks outdoors unless you are going to be in an unusually crowded setting for a long period of time.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
mask wearing is a signal that you are taking this seriously and are unlikely to get in someone else's face, thus contributing to general social order.
as to the science behind my face bandana, i'm guessing "better than nothing" is likely accurate but - given the available options - the former is likely more important than the latter just now.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 25 May 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
I don't live in the kind of metropolis where I'm going to bump into six or ten or twenty-five people on sidewalks, yet our county requires us to wear masks in enclosed public spaces.
Wearing the mask outdoors signifies that you care about the social compact.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 May 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link