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=== Assistant: Yeah it is funny — Carol and Karen feel like they belong to the same “aunt who complains to the manager” cinematic univ… ===
Yeah it is funny — Carol and Karen feel like they belong to the same “aunt who complains to the manager” cinematic universe 😄

Both names:
* start with a hard K sound
* are old-school English names that peaked decades ago
* got memefied as “middle-aged bossy lady” characters
* ended up symbolizing a personality type instead of just a name

Karen became the universal meme.
Carol is like her cousin who shows up during the holidays and argues about how the turkey is cooked.

If you want I can give you:
* the origin of why “Karen” became a meme
* why “Carol” sometimes shows up as the “lite version”
* or a list of other names that accidentally got meme stereotypes too (Chad, Stacy, Kyle, etc.)

Just tell me 😄