Social media users made fun of the Paris 2024 Olympics logo for looking like a “Karen”.
When the logo was first revealed in October 2019, Insider reported that it had an optical illusion with three different images. A gold medal, an Olympic flame, and the face of Marianne.
According to the French government’s website, Marianne is the symbol of the French Republic embodying values of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
During that time, some social-media users made fun of the symbol and even compared it to Tinder’s —a dating app— logo. While some said it looked like an advertisement for a hair product or hair salon.
Just this past week, as the rescheduled 2020 Olympics happens in Tokyo Japan, memes about the logo for the next Olympics re-emerged on the internet.
Twitter users are quick to compare the symbol to the “Can I speak to the manager?” haircut which is synonymous with the “Karen” internet meme.
According to Insider, the cropped hairstyle was a popular meme before the name “Karen” became a meme in its own right.
A great example of the hairstyle was worn by TV personality Kate Gosselin, of the reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” back in 2008.
Matt Schimkowitz, a senior editor at Know Your Meme, told Insider, the haircut image was largely contributed to the “Karen” character.
“It’s a very easy, recognizable thing to the meme,” Schimkowitz described the hairstyle. “All of these elements kind of blend together.”
Schimkowitz added that it’s hard to make memes out of a name alone.
While the origin of the “Karen” meme is hard to point down, the term is “usually used as a pejorative for middle-aged white women,” he said.
“It’s almost like they have an entitlement, where they’re kind of lording their privilege over another,” Schimkowitz said of the typical qualities a “Karen” might have.
“Karen” has also became associated with white women who call the police on Black people, Insider reported.
While Paris’ 2024 Olympics logo had a mixed response from the people, Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant, the chair of the International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission, has called it “innovative”.
Beckers-Vieujant told BBC that the symbol is a “wonderful calling card for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.”
Moreover, according to the official Olympics website, the “feminine nature of the emblem” holds significance as it honors the 1900 Paris Games — the first Olympics where women competed.
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