This has been the year of public freakouts. From the aisles of Costco to the streets of suburbia, so-called “Karens” have been utterly unable to hold it together as they demand the world bow to their whims. Often, they’ve been caught on camera in the midst of their madness. Featured Video Hide
In some instances, Karens brought us endless entertainment with their absurdities. In others, they deployed racism to put others at risk, becoming a symbol of weaponized racism in the national reckoning with race and police brutality. Advertisement Hide
As strange as it is to lump those two categories together, that’s how vast the scope of Karens has become. So let’s revisit the 25 most egregious Karen incidents of the year, in all their nonsense and horror, and hope that maybe just maybe we can leave “Karens” behind in 2020.