Wants to speak to the manager about EVERYTHING. Very entitled and self-centered. Sees the world as existing to meet her needs and desires. Sees everyone outside of her tax bracket, ethnic group, religion as below her. Will weaponize tears if she feels that she might not get her way.

My grandmother. Like always being rude to workers and family.

That "Karen" thing has been brought to my attention not so long ago and I immediately connected it with some experiences I had that would enrich the body of Karen literature. So I cannot find that the meaning is diluted. To the contrary! But it might be due to my area suffering from more Karens than yours?

I have the same understanding of Karens as inhahe, but I think that actually the racist Karen and the "i want to speak to the manager" Karen are the same type of person.

Funny, I was just thinking yesterday or the day before when I came across this https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/94687518_160940528716547_9186404123264590787_n-6582aafab9e3f__700.jpg that the meaning of "a Karen" has kind of split into two relatively distinct but also related categories: The kind who give service workers hell and always want to talk to the manager, and the kind that's aggressively racist and tries to bully black people who are just hanging around somewhere they don't like or call the police on them or whatever.