2020年7月30日 · Although its exact origins are uncertain, the meme became popular a few years ago as a way for people of colour, particularly black Americans, to satirise the class-based and racially charged...

2020年10月26日 · Before the public learned the name of a white woman who called the police on a Black man in Central Park on May 25, she could easily be identified by a moniker. The internet agreed with certainty...

One of the earliest viral memes to bestow the name "Karen" onto an annoying woman was Nintendo Switch Karen. The meme grew popular after the promotional video for a new gaming console showed someone bringing it to a rooftop party.

Bitch magazine described Karen as a term that originated with black women but was co-opted by white men. [16] In an article on high-profile incidents in the U.S. of white women calling the police on black people, The Guardian called 2020 "the year of Karen". [5]

2020年7月31日 · Karen Chang, a Bay Area resident who works in business management, had shrugged off early memes, but then the Amy Cooper video changed everything for her.

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2023年1月27日 · And the high schooler named the character “Karen” after a popular thread that had since been deleted. And somewhere along the way, the haircut, the name Karen, and the behavior associated with...

2020年6月25日 · There’s the Karen who was recorded spewing multiple racist tirades against Asian Americans in a park in Torrance, Calif., upon which the Internet discovered that she had a history of...

2020年2月5日 · Karen itself was originally a Danish form of “Katherine,” descended from the ancient name “Aikaterine,” which Evans told me was often confused and conflated with a Greek word meaning ...

2021年7月16日 · In this article, Queen explores this term under the lens of language and discrimination after learning about one of the first viral ‘Karens’ — the “Central Park Karen,” Amy Cooper.