Karen

 

The YouTube channel, Great Big Story, has added a new video one week ago. The video already has about 1300 comments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLRWJVIseY
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Of course, she has her own YouTube channel if you want more:

https://www.youtube.com/@KarenJacobsen/videos

Only 13 years late

A story about the GPS girl was release about 13 years ago.

So close…actually 12 years ago:

https://youtu.be/nShSOd2KVIc

Australian Karen

The voice of Australian Karen has always been my Garmin GPS choice.

Impressive. I still can't

Impressive.

I still can't get over a voice telling me where to turn. 15 Years ago when I got the first gps for the bike, what ever voice it came with of course could not be heard over wind/exhaust noise at speed.

As such, when I used the gps in the car, it was sop to just mute the voice and follow the visual cues. Still do to this day.

Mine too

mcginkleschmidt wrote:

The voice of Australian Karen has always been my Garmin GPS choice.

Mine too. My voice wake-up command is "Hey Karen." From the week-old YouTube, it appears that she has left New York and returned to Mackay in Queensland Australia.

Saw the title of this thread...

... and thought it was going to be an "I want to speak to your manager" story. wink

I wondered how long it'd take to read this

BSideTheCSide wrote:

... and thought it was going to be an "I want to speak to your manager" story. wink

twisted

First thing I thought of too.

BSideTheCSide wrote:

... and thought it was going to be an "I want to speak to your manager" story. wink

First thing I thought of too.

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Me Too

soberbyker wrote:

First thing I thought of too.

My first thought too and my firstborn is named Karen, a now-corrupted perfectly good name.

The corruption of "Karen" as a name

The people named Karen I've known have all been nice people and good friends who did nothing matching up with the Internet meme for "Karen," so with apologies to all of them...

"Karen" went from being the 3rd most common baby girl name in 1965 into a gradual decline to 165th in 2007, then steeper decline to 635th in 2018, and since then with the growth of the Internet meme using the name as a synonym for a, uh, witch, fell even faster over the next two years to 828th in 2020, the most recent date shown here:

https://babynames.com/name/Karen

It will probably keep falling steeply thanks to the web meme.

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Karen voice

CraigW wrote:

The YouTube channel, Great Big Story, has added a new video one week ago. The video already has about 1300 comments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLRWJVIseY
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Of course, she has her own YouTube channel if you want more:

https://www.youtube.com/@KarenJacobsen/videos

Very interesting. I wonder if she gets paid royalties for everytime the Karen" is downloaded.

Always

Karen will always be my favorite.

Same for Me

I Like Karen also..

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