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‘Why is she acting like there’s a dress code?’: Karen shames TikToker for her outfit at Panera Bread

‘When are these Karens gonna learn to MYOB??!!!’

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A woman was shamed for her outfit—a top and shorts—in a California Panera Bread. She’s taken to TikTok to share her experience with a Karen who criticized her outfit, saying she was dressed “like a whore.”

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The Karen—an older woman eating at the restaurant in what commenters have called a “nightgown”— spends the length of the video telling TikToker @amiri.xo in many ways and words that she disapproves of her outfit on that hot day. The video has since garnered 1.5 million views.

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Commenters remarked that what the woman who was criticizing her was dressed in a way that didn’t give her a whole lot of room to talk—they said it looked like a nightgown.

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Another compared the gown to a cartoon character from the well-loved children’s program, “The Proud Family.”

“Not her dressed like Suga Mama from the ‘Proud Family!’” the commenter wrote.

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Being that they were all eating in a Panera, this commenter questioned why the older woman thought there was a dress code for the fast-casual restaurant.

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Other commenters thought the woman should have been minding her business, and that she had no reason to criticize her.

“IDK what you were wearing but I don’t have to see it to know it’s no one else’s business,” they wrote. “When are these Karens gonna learn to [Mind Your Own Business]?”

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Others still commented on what the woman said to @amiri.xo—that young people have no respect for their elders. They pointed out that her own behavior was less than respectful.

“‘You young people have no manners,’” one commenter wrote. “*proceeds to go out of her way to insult a stranger she doesn’t know for absolutely no reason*”

The Daily Dot has reached out to @amiri.xo about the video.


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