Really? I feel like BBQ Becky (et al) peaked at least a year (if not two) before Karen got coined
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
even just using people's actual name can be ironically disrespectful and cutting, there's a lot of grey area
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
Every Dick, Tom and Harry...
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
"barbecue becky" is at least alliterative. that one is approved.
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
There's different ones in different countries - not surprisingly.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
i thought bbq becky was a leftover from becky with the good hair and it all segued from any old bland white name---> to karens.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
the Karens and Beckys dodged bullets growing up
My friend Becky who was in middle school when "Baby Got Back" came out begs to differ!
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
all the white women calling the cops had alliterative nicknames. that was the idea. xpost
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
wait there was an actual "barbecue becky," a woman who called to complain about a black family barbecuing in a park. (charcoal grills weren't permitted in the park). her photo got out and got plastered all over memes. not sure how i feel about that.
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
BBQ Becky was "Becky" because it was alliterative. Most of the sequels to BBQ Becky were also alliterative, aka Permit Patty
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
yeah the becky in the sir mixalot was brought up in a becky/karen article about original becky.
we've probably done "should non-famous people be shamed on the internet?" a dozen times in this thread alone already
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
the becky from baby got back isn't white
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
and also is fictional
defending bad white women is indeed conservative.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
archetypes are reductive, no need to be such a treesh about it (sorry treesh)
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
xp BBQ Becky incident happened about 10 blocks from where I live ...
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:10 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
feel pretty good about it personally
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
???the becky in the sir mix a lot video isn't white???
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
― treeship., Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:11 PM (forty seconds ago)
...
I'll go check but this is wildly wrong iirc
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:09 AM (two minutes ago)
uh, that song came out in 1992 ... my post was about 70s and 80s popular music ... your friend is a millenial, and most of the stereotypical Karens are Gen-X women, so ...
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
oh good, it took only 1 second to confirm that she most certainly is
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
treeship...
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
same with donkey dick dale
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
maybe he thinks brunettes aren't white?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
in the lyrics. unless "becky" is the addressee and not the girl they're talking about.
Oh, my, God Becky, look at her buttIt is so big, she looks likeOne of those rap guys' girlfriends....I mean gross, lookShe's just so, black
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
xp to sarahell, I only meant popular culture came for the Beckys well before 2010 or w/e
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
i've never seen the video for that. i cannot be held responsible for music videos made before the year 2000.
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
― Yerac, Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:14 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 🔫 (peace, man), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
xp. becky is the addressee.
jesus treesh.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
i cannot be held responsible for any of these white boys allowed on the internet.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
oh my god, look at that post
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
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.
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
oh my, god look, at that post
― 🔫 (peace, man), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
now do a girl named Suzy.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
genuinely shocked this hasn't been posted priorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKG4EJ6rsQ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
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
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
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
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
That’s literally just a bunch of dudes repeating “I hate my ex” and has no connection to the “type” exemplified in the memeThe name is the same yes
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
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 donice 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
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
names have been changed to protect the man-Karen
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
🎶but I do knowwwww man-Karen🎶
― we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
College shouldn't be free.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
(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)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
(It's definitely uncool though)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
You’re right, free Universities are where it’s at.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
i saw Ted Cruz called a Karen online because of his need to criticize the 1619 Project.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
I feel like I missed something there, Andrew Sullivan was throwing a shit fit about it, but I couldn't really understand
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link