While this thread is less about the racial or bigoted implications of the now-popular Karen meme, Queen cites itВ as one of the origins of why the name has been so lambasted. In 2005, Cook wrote and performed a comedy bitВ about вЂKarenвЂ™ being the friend that no one in the friend group actually likes. The second thread originates much earlier, and, surprisingly, from once-popular stand-up comedian Dane Cook. These memes bore hashtags with some of the first monikers for this type of behavior - #bbqbecky, #permitpatti, #golfcartgail, and #cornerstonecaroline. The first thread comes from 2018 when the Black community posted memesВ of white women who use their privilege to falsely report criminal activity usually involving people of color. This provides the foundation for what a вЂKarenвЂ™ represents вЂ“ an entitled, older, white woman who causes scenes in public and is usually engaging in racist or bigoted behavior while doing so.ДЄs far as the meme of вЂKarenвЂ™ goes, Queen reports two distinct threads. Interestingly, Queen looks into the nameвЂ™s actual origins, reporting that вЂKarenвЂ™ peaked in popularity in 1965, meaning that most вЂKarensвЂ™ are now middle-aged white women. She tells emergency operators that вЂњ thereвЂ™s an African-American man threatening life,вЂќ when he really filmed the whole exchange and merely asked her to put her dog back on a leash in a leash-only area of the Park. Amy CooperвЂ™s story broke in May of 2020 when she called the cops on a Black man in Central Park, providing false reportsВ of вЂњassaultвЂќ and вЂњthreatening behaviorвЂќ when the man was really just lawfully enjoying the Park just like anyone else. Robin Queen, Professor of Linguistics, English Language and Literature, and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan did a deep dive into this issue in her article: вЂњ How вЂKarenвЂ™ went from a popular baby name to a stand-in for white entitlement.вЂќ In this article, Queen explores this term under the lens of language and discrimination after learning about one of the first viral вЂKarensвЂ™ - the вЂњ Central Park Karen,вЂќ Amy Cooper. But where did this meme originate? What does it mean to be a вЂKarenвЂ™ now? And how does it tie into false allegations? WeвЂ™ll explore all of these topics and provide resources to help you or a loved one who has been falsely accused by a вЂKaren.вЂ™ The Origin of Being a вЂKarenвЂ™ With the rise of viral videos, tweets, and posts, someone on the internet can usually find a post regarding someone being a вЂKarenвЂ™ every single day.

This previously popular name became one of the internetвЂ™s most prolific memes, with Google Trends reporting a huge spike in this search term in July of 2020. The Escapist вЂ“ Webcomics via Archive.If youвЂ™re on the internet, youвЂ™ve probably heard of the вЂKarenвЂ™ phenomenon. Encyclopedia Dramatica (via Wayback Machine) вЂ“ Slackerz CADbortion (via Wayback Machine) вЂ“ Seriously posted on EEGRA (via Wayback Machine) вЂ“ Hilarity Comic posted on EEGRA (via Wayback Machine) вЂ“ Gamer Comic posted on Explosm вЂ“ Cyanide and Happiness posted on Similar to how anything with green and purple can be recognized as Daily Dose, any similar-looking four pane comic can be recognized as Loss.

Usually, these would attempt to be minimalistic, portraying the characters as lines, dots, or just having four empty panels. Alternative/Minimalist InterpretationsДЄlongside the outright mockery of the strip, a trend arose on /v/ which involved taking the Loss strip and representing it in different ways. On July 25th, 2009, YouTuber KennylovesArin uploaded a musical tribute based on the comic accompanied by friends Skraggy and Arin (popular animator known as Egoraptor), with lyrical references to the miscarriage strip. Someone went to the extent of making a random CAD comic generator, subtly mocking that even disjointed, mismatched panels of the comic are still funnier than the originals.Д®l Santo (the webcomic overlook), The Bad Webcomic Wiki and others have also mentioned the infamous comic in negative reviews of the webcomic as well. Something Awful users were particularly unkind to the comic, creating mock threads (one of which is over 350 pages long), two entire (now closed) wikis and an interactive graph of the comic. On 4chan, the /v/ board became overrun with parodies to such an extent that moderators began banning people who opened new 'Loss' threads. Other notable internet persona to mock the comic included as Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw of Zero Punctuation and Shmorky from Something Awful's Flash Tub. After the strip was posted, many notable webcomics began parodying the comic and its final panel in particular, including HijiNKS Ensue, Cyanide and Happiness, Bigger then Cheeses, EEGRA hilarity comics, Fanboys, and Slackerz.

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