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xp to sarahell, I only meant popular culture came for the Beckys well before 2010 or w/e

i've never seen the video for that. i cannot be held responsible for music videos made before the year 2000.

treeship...

― Yerac, Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:14 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

xp. becky is the addressee.

jesus treesh.

i cannot be held responsible for any of these white boys allowed on the internet.

oh my god, look at that post

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.

oh my, god look, at that post

now do a girl named Suzy.

genuinely shocked this hasn't been posted prior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKG4EJ6rsQ

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

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

That’s literally just a bunch of dudes repeating “I hate my ex” and has no connection to the “type” exemplified in the meme

The name is the same yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI

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.

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 do

nice 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

names have been changed to protect the man-Karen

🎶but I do knowwwww man-Karen🎶

College shouldn't be free.

(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)

(It's definitely uncool though)

You’re right, free Universities are where it’s at.

i saw Ted Cruz called a Karen online because of his need to criticize the 1619 Project.

I feel like I missed something there, Andrew Sullivan was throwing a shit fit about it, but I couldn't really understand

some people think america is good but actually, it is bad

"don't call attention to the genocidal ravages of colonialism and chattel slavery! america's good"

hmm, why would a right-wing piece of shit not like writing regarding the legacy of slavery

Any argument against the 1619 Project should be met with fire.

“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

Per Luvvie Ajayi, the progression is Becky > Karen > Susan.

https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2020/04/caucasity-karen-becky-susan.html

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

tbf noone is ever mean to posh men

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

otm

a challenger approaches

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXW_wrpU0AAEV1e?format=png&name=240x240

is she a jogger y or n?

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

"Karen" definitely means the person who narced on you for not wearing a mask and standing too close to people out in public now.

according to who? you mean on facebook?

Pretty sure it now means absolutely nothing coherent

What is this "Karen" thing?

I mean of course xp

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

I pretty much now will not use any slang I heard recently at all because this process doesn't need my participation

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)

that belief isn't uncool, it's poggers

"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."

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.

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.

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.

I guess my uncool conservative belief is that I'm skeptical about the whole Karen origin on black twitter thing. I've not heard that anywhere but here. Light research suggests that it came from a reddit user that was complaining about his ex who was literally named Karen and the meme stemmed from that. Maybe a coincidence?