Halloween is going “full Karen” this year — but in a good way.
The very scary Karen-19 mask is a dramatic-and-unhinged caricature inspired by real-life events.
Several reports say the disguise is trending online as the year’s must-have costume, and no you don’t need to ask to “speak to the manager” to get one.
The handmade latex rubber mask, created by Los Angeles special effects artist Jason Adcock, is available on Etsy for $180, which includes free shipping.
The product description calls the mask “the scariest thing you can be on Halloween.”
Some may be asking, what took so long?
The disguise encapsulates the deplorable personality that has been witnessed in countless videotaped confrontations across the country in recent years, resulting in the name Karen becoming a pejorative term.
The stereotype calls out American white women who use an air of entitlement at the expense of others. The name has also become universally connected to episodes in which someone white calls authorities as a way of weaponizing the police against Black people.
One stark example was the case of Amy Cooper, the woman in New York’s Central Park on Memorial Day who called police on an innocent man, claiming “there’s an African American man threatening my life.”
After video emerged on social media proving Cooper had lied, she was fired from her job and was later charged with filing a false police report.
Adcock, meanwhile, is advertising his Karen masks on Instagram and is encouraging costume seekers to send him a private message for details on how to get one.
The one-size-fits-most mask looks ghoulish and unkempt with an alarming expression. It also has a blond hairstyle and rotten teeth. Small slits around the face allow air in to breathe.
The mask comes in two styles — one that looks sickly and infected and the other, well, let’s just say both are equally wretched!
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