Before the general 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 that Amy Cooper was a Karen. Just days later, another Karen went viral for leaning on a car in a parking lot to prevent the driver from getting their desired parking spot. In the weeks since, the internet has been entranced by viral videos labeling women "Karens, " including "coughing Karen, " who coughed on patrons at a New York City bagel shop; a woman who, with her husband, called the police on her neighbor for writing "Black Lives Matter" with chalk on his own property; and a woman who shouted "I have a Black husband" when a man filmed her after he claimed she cut him off in traffic, gave him the middle finger, and used racial slurs. The "Karen meme, " which has become so ubiquitous it's been used as a Halloween costume, burst onto the scene in the last couple of years to depict white women — who stereotypically had "speak to the manager" haircuts — acting entitled in public. Now, it's used as an identifier for any white woman who acts inappropriately, rudely, or in an entitled fashion."It's usually used as a pejorative for middle-aged white women, " said Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor at Know Your Meme, the online meme encyclopedia. "It's almost like they have an entitlement, where they're kind of lording their privilege over another. "The "speak to the manager haircut" became its own meme before the Karen character took hold online. According to Know Your Meme, the joke was first posted on Reddit in 2014. Between 2016 and 2017, that idea began to spread throughout Reddit and spawned other images, including "starter pack" memes. The best (and most famous) example of the haircut in real life was worn by Kate Gosselin of the popular mid-2000s reality show, "Jon and Kate Plus 8, " which followed a married couple rearing eight children. The haircut is a side-swept bob in the front, with spikey and much shorter hair in the back. Vice wrote about the "often-maligned haircut" in October 2018, arguing that "the different haircut is unjustly derided as ugly and out of place, when it is actually a socially necessary style object. ""It's a very easy, recognizable thing to meme, " Schimkowitz said, explaining that just a name itself is hard to make memes out of, and the haircut imagery ultimately helped contribute to the Karen character. "All of these elements kind of blend together, " he said. While there are many origin stories for the Karen meme, it's not completely clear where it came from — as is the case with many popular memes. "The origins of Karen are kind of really hard to pin down, " Schimkowitz said. But Schimkowitz said the most "convincing" theory is that the character originated from a Dane Cook comedy special that aired in 2005. "Every group has a Karen and she is always a bag of do-che, " Cook said in the routine.


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