- Joined
- Dec 17, 2019
It was in existence before that.OT: But the Karen meme is/was artificially created to discourage the average person from speaking up. Asking to see a manager when a shopfloor worker is either; useless/ignorant, or doesn't have the authority to complete your request is standard protocol.
Nowadays though? You 'can't' ask to see a manager otherwise you get *eyeroll* "what a 'Karen' "
However, like "NPC", "triggered", and to some degree "incel", it got driven into the ground by mainstream libs calling anyone and everyone they don't like "karen".
In the early days of the coronapanic, it was used by both sides because there were karens on both sides (e.g. middle aged women screaming at wagies for making them wear masks and/or middle aged women reporting their neighbors for not wearing masks).
Then it got used to the ground and became meaningless, as all memes do once coopted by normies.