Karen Type Meme

The meme which is often combined with the can i speak to the manager haircut is used as a pejorative for middle aged white women according to a senior editor at know your meme to depict their entitlement.

Karen type meme. Here s where they came from and what the people named before the meme think about their online personas. Karen is a slang term used as an antagonistic female character in memes. Karen the stereotypical name associated with rude obnoxious and insufferable middle aged white women. Kate gosselin of jon kate plus 8 fame is commonly used as a depiction of karen.

They are a mutated subspecies that descends from the soccer mom and have many of their traits. Origins of the karen meme can be found from a movie mean girl movie. As featured in memes karen is generally stereotyped as having a blonde bob haircut asking to speak to retail and restaurant managers to voice complaints or make demands and being an anti vaxx generation x soccer mom. Needless to say this might be the origin of this meme who knows how it becomes this popular.

Kate immortalized the haircut type and her picture is used more often than not when people modify the meme. Karens take everything wrong with the typical over entitled western woman and crank it up by several thousand percent. Names such as karen becky and chad have been co opted to call out social faux pas online. She s entitled and rude to service staff and always wants a good deal particularly if she s in possession of an expired coupon.

When the karen named actress ask why you are white then the other girl says omg karen you can t just ask people why they re white. Examples of karen haircuts. The karen meme is being used to describe women who commit racist acts in public like unjustly calling the police on black people. When i see young and not so young white women defending the karen meme i m reminded of the cool girl passage in gone girl.