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Retail Karen squares off against Social Media “Influencer” at Penn Square Mall…

Who wins this battle of the Internet’s most annoying people?

10:15 AM EST on December 7, 2022

A few days ago, the all-mighty and powerful Twitter algorithm decided that I wanted to see a clip of a confrontation between a Forever 21 manager and an aspiring local social media “influencer” named “Jon The Don” at Forever 21 in Penn Square Mall. 

Because I’m home today taking care of a sick and sneezy 4-year-old and have nothing better to do than write weird ledes and headlines, I thought I’d subject you to it as well.

Check this out:

Listen. I know in today’s tribal day and age we’re supposed to take sides on anything and everything, but is it wrong that I want everyone in this video to slip on an Auntie Anne’s pretzel? 

Seriously, if you were to compose a March Madness-style bracket of the most annoying people on this planet, there’s a good chance that Authoritarian Retail Managers and aspiring Social Media Influencer Divas who film anything and everything would be Top 4 seeds. Granted, archaic bloggers who then sardonically cover the confrontations for cheap clicks and page views would also make the field, but I’m not the one on trial here.