She summed it up perfectly:

If the "Karen" thing were just a joke, we'd take turns. Mike makes a Karen joke, Karen makes a Steve joke, Steve makes a Mike joke. Instead, it's "First everyone laughs at Karen, then everyone laughs at Karen, then everyone laughs at Karen..." That's not ribbing. That's bullying.

@alexa99 Fears if my toddler son ever meets someone named Alexa: 1) he yells at her every 3 seconds while pronouncing her name wrong 2) he pokes her incessantly 3) he repeatedly asks her to play songs 4) he feels she is broken if she fails to deliver all requests immediately

I get so tired and dispirited, seeing my name used as a term of abuse. When I was born, my parents chose my name with love. It isn't yours to demean and if you do, think about what that makes you.

I have a FireTV with Alexa. I have a partner named Alexis. When I say Alexis name the TV suddenly wants to talk to me. My ridiculous solve? I plugged my Roku stick in the port and have resigned myself to having a FireRokuTV. Ugh.

man it was actually evil for amazon to use an actual, very common name for their spy mechanism. i knew so many girls named alexa in high school and that shit must be infuriatint

Me, when the name Alexa is spoken casually or in a video and that blue ring lights up:

Jonathan Kay Barbara Kay I feel bad for ladies named 'Karen'. It would suck to have media zombies coopt your name as a derivative slur.

Lol when you forget that people are also named Alexa.

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Imagine what it's like being in a relationship with someone named Alexa now.

Amazon has a history of ignoring pleas from parents. We know of several children who've been driven to suicidal ideation because of this corporation's persistence in using a real name to active half a billion @alexa99 devices. #RebrandAlexa

Every time the judges say something to Alexis on AS8, our Echo responds 🤪

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Speaking of "dystopian nightmares", there's plenty of *actual people* out there whose name is the activation sound for HALF A BILLION tech products. #RebrandAlexa

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