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== [[Web Original]] ==

* An edited ad for a fictional Girl of the Year displayed a character wearing a track suit, bob haircut and wielding a semi-automatic pistol, while defiantly violating face mask guidelines, as a personification of the "Karen" stereotype. This provoked criticism from [[Mattel]] subsidiary [[American Girl]], who took umbrage to the use of their name and trade dress, stating that they were "disgusted" by a post from brand strategist Adam Padilla under the online persona "Adam the Creator", and "are working with the appropriate teams at American Girl to ensure this copyright violation is handled appropriately". [[Boing Boing]], however, expressed doubts over the merits of American Girl's proposed legal action against the "Karen" parodies, citing the [[Streisand Effect]], though it has also noted the debate on whether the satirical intent of the parody advertisement is protected by law.

* When the pandemic first began, several posters on [[4chan]] (mostly American ones) ran with the idea of [[Anthropomorphic Personification|personifying the virus]] as a [[Anime Chinese Girl|standard anime-styled Chinese girl]] ([[Refuge in Audacity|as they are wont to do]]); many of them at the time were apparently under the impression that the pandemic was either nothing serious or would blow over quickly enough to be a funny memory. [[Harsher in Hindsight|As the pandemic approached its second complete year as (of November 2021)]], the frequency of searches mentioning her tapered off fairly quickly, and posts about her or the pandemic became [[Nightmare Fuel|decidedly disturbing in nature]] - and then, in what many consider typical 4chan fashion, she became a sort of figurehead among the ''more'' racist segments of the userbase.

* When the pandemic first began, several posters on [[4chan]] (mostly American ones) ran with the idea of [[Anthropomorphic Personification|personifying the virus]] as a [[Anime Chinese Girl|standard anime-styled Chinese girl]] ([[Refuge in Audacity|as they are wont to do]]); many of them at the time were apparently under the impression that the pandemic was either nothing serious or would blow over quickly enough to be a funny memory. [[Harsher in Hindsight|As the pandemic approached its second complete year (as of November 2021)]], the frequency of searches mentioning her tapered off fairly quickly, and posts about her or the pandemic became [[Nightmare Fuel|decidedly disturbing in nature]] - and then, in what many consider typical 4chan fashion, she became a sort of figurehead among the ''more'' racist segments of the userbase.

* [[UrinatingTree]] frequently alludes to [[Anthropomorphic Personification|"Corona-chan"]] in his non-live commentary videos on sports (which is naturally impacted by the pandemic), with mentions of COVID news punctuated by a sound of someone coughing.