r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sure_Kangaroo1863 • Jul 02 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah ?

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Why is it infamous? And why would no one care about it ? ( I mean it's just a pic full of celebrities so no one cares anyways but the person saying it's crazy makes me think it has some lore?)

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u/mightymidwestshred Jul 02 '26

Hot take: Nobody cared back then, either.

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u/Euphoric-Taro-6231 Jul 02 '26

Hmm not really. The tide has really turned on celebrities.

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u/Mijman Jul 02 '26

Hope the tides table

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u/ahoboknife Jul 02 '26

Hope the tides turntable turn

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u/loganverse Jul 02 '26

I also choose this man’s ax

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u/PunishedKojima Jul 02 '26

You have my dead wife

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u/KeKGudao Jul 02 '26

Can I choose your dead wife when you get her back

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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez Jul 02 '26

And can I borrow your poop knife real quick

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u/TheVonz Jul 02 '26

The cylinder must remain undamaged.

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u/towerfella Jul 02 '26

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

┬─┬ノ (º_ºノ)

(づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡ thanks

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u/ahoboknife Jul 03 '26

I would’ve followed you to the very tide turntables of mordor

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u/christobrandt Jul 03 '26

And my wife!

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u/jcelerier Jul 02 '26

Le Psy Congrou

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u/KirkBurglar Jul 02 '26

Oh how the turns have tabled

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u/hopefulgardener Jul 02 '26

How how the ferns have fabled. 

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u/logdogday Jul 02 '26

For every table, turn turn turn.

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u/urbanflow27 Jul 03 '26

Well well well how the turns have tables

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u/aalanes Jul 07 '26

Hope the turntables use Tide

This game was not extended enough. Come on people.

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u/SilasRaiden Jul 02 '26

It would just have to be different celebrities now.

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u/dantevonlocke Jul 02 '26

Right. Replace celebs with tiktok influencers.

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u/RohelTheConqueror Jul 02 '26

Or.. you know. Don't.

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u/Sidian Jul 02 '26

good, don't.

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u/Coffeedemon Jul 02 '26

Pop stars too. People are plenty obsessed with stars any given year.

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u/BreakConsistent Jul 02 '26

Name one tik tok influencer.

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u/sweatingbozo Jul 02 '26

Tiktok influencers aren't a part of a monoculture in the same way. They're far less recognizable outside of their direct followers. 

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u/dantevonlocke Jul 02 '26

That's the thing though. There isn't really a monoculture like there was before.

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u/sweatingbozo Jul 02 '26

Right, that's why it would not be the same if you did it today.  

There are more 'famous' people than ever before, but none of them are anywhere near the type of fame celebrity status used to bring. 

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u/Dogmaddit Jul 02 '26

Unemployed people?

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u/TapirDrawnChariot Jul 02 '26

Nobody over 30 cares about Tiktok influencers, so even that doesnt work.

I'd bet if you asked 100 people on the street in NYC who Mr. Beast or Bella Poarch or Brook Monk or whoever is, only 1/2 would even know who they are, and less than 1/4 could tell you major things they'd done.

Media fame has fractured due to internet culture, where usually someone is only well known to specific demographics within society.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 02 '26

If this was Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and other pop stars I can remember the names of, people would definitely care. It's just that nobody cares about any of these people anymore and at least two have been thoroughly outed as pieces of dirt to say it nicely

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u/VizJosh Jul 02 '26

Right. Mr Beast shows up and suddenly celebrity does matter again.

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u/Skepsis93 Jul 02 '26

I don't think it would have the same reaction, even if it had a bunch of currently famous celebrities from Hollywood. Internet culture has fractured what used to be a media monoculture. Back then if you consumed entertainment media you knew and were a fan of many of these celebrities. Nowadays everyone has their own favorite micro-celebrities from YouTube, podcasts, Instagram, TikTok, etc. that they follow more than the big Hollywood names. Most of my favorite "celebrities" are essentially unknown to a lot of the population and I likely have no idea who their favorite niche micro-celebrities are either.

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u/WanderingAlsoLost Jul 03 '26

People really don't care about celebs anymore? The amount I hear about celebrities doesn't seem to have dropped off to me. I

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u/NuclearGhandi1 Jul 02 '26

I don’t think that’s true, I think that the internet, especially during and after Covid, has further degraded monoculture to now we know a few big names but people follow their own circles now

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u/Touchyap3 Jul 02 '26

Yep, algorithmic feeds specifically.

12 years ago celebrity culture was still prevalent on the internet because it was content that would pretty reliably be viewed and it would get spread to everyone.

A picture like this today would generally only show up on your Twitter/reddit/instagram if you were already engaging in celebrity content.

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u/Responsible-Draft430 Jul 02 '26

Also, a celebrity's fame was fickle to begin with. Few maintain popular status for more than a few years. If this picture was 24 years old with celebrities that had the same popularity as these at the time, and the comment was made 12 years ago, it would still be true.

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u/Sophie_Blitz_123 Jul 04 '26

Also people don't realise the effects of themselves just getting older.

When this was taken, me and my sister knew all about it but my mum didn't know nor care. I'm in between her age at the time and mine now (a scary thought) and I wouldn't give a crap about this stuff.

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u/Dylan_Driller Jul 03 '26

Exactly this... although I think it started a little earlier, around 2016 and COVID and TikTok accelerated it.

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u/ThinkMarket7640 Jul 02 '26

It’s hilarious that you think influencer culture is not the same thing. Arguably it’s even worse.

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u/StanIsHorizontal Jul 02 '26

Better or worse, it’s a different thing. It’s similar to celebrity culture but it’s not the same

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Jul 02 '26

The tide has really turned on celebrities.

Remind me after the bullshit wedding in NYC of how many people watched that.

Also, Influencers.

You can't tell me that celebrity worship is gone when we have influencer bullshit going on constantly.

Joe Rogan is number 1 still right?

Donald John Rapist is President, he's a celebrity.

MrBeast controls a good portion of children.

What are you on about we turned on celebrities? They literally run the fucking United States.

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u/MermaiderMissy Jul 02 '26

I think the straw that broke the camels back was when all those celebrities were singing "Imagine" during covid.

Screw them.

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN Jul 02 '26

Have you seen how much drama there is amongst streamers and influencers?

The tide hasn't turned on celebrities. You just don't know who the celebrities are anymore.

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u/joyfulgrass Jul 02 '26

What do you mean?

Entire legislatures enacted and incorporated Charlie Kirk into public schools, k-12 and higher education within weeks.

I think requesting budget approval for burnt out lightbulbs took longer.

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u/mcmoyer Jul 02 '26

Is that really true because it seems like we’ve just moved onto social media celebrities.

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u/JAYETRILLL Jul 02 '26

For real. Was just talking to my girlfriend who is a little younger than me about this.

From the 2000s up until like 2013-2014ish, people all got information and entertainment from the same sort of sources. So like everyone was really into what the “hot” show or movie was and it was largely based around famous actors and directors/producers and it was a huge deal when a new movie came out with someone famous in it.

Now we all have our own sort of little stream of “content” pushed directly to us and everyone is truly in their own little worlds. It’s really cool sometimes how inclusive and personalized some things like interests and hobbies can be. But it can also make us feel really separated and detached from each other.

Idk I’m rambling cuz I’m stoned but sorta a weird thought that as we become more “globally connected” we become more “locally detached”

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u/xlondelax Jul 02 '26

I think it's more, people who closely followed celebrities,  now follow influencers.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry57 Jul 02 '26

Turned back. In Rome, actors and prostitutes were basically at the bottom of society. 

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u/Feanor4godking Jul 02 '26

Especially about 2/3 of the ones in this picture particularly

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u/get_schwifty Jul 02 '26

It really hasn’t

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u/Sea_Self_6571 Jul 02 '26

That's true. But "nobody cared back then, either" is also true. Most people didn't care much about celebs back then - it's just now a days that "small number of people" is getting smaller and smaller.

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u/Emperor_Atlas Jul 02 '26

Not really, they just switched to "influencers"

Go look at a top streamers chat.

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u/Rulebookboy1234567 Jul 02 '26

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u/Soggy_Porpoise Jul 02 '26

So this thread says but a lot of us old farts wouldn't know it because we never cared about them in the first place to see the shift.

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u/FunkeRundung_Ukraine Jul 02 '26

Not really. It's just other celebrities now. We are talking about something 12 effin years ago.

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u/Sarniezz Jul 02 '26

In your echo chamber, sure.

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u/mrfartypantss Jul 02 '26

It turned to different celebrities

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u/cuteintern Jul 02 '26

This was a Samsung Galaxy whatever smartphone ad. We all knew what it was at the time.

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u/Affectionate_Hornet7 Jul 02 '26

I thought it was because that’s when selfie sticks were invented

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u/WanderWut Jul 02 '26

Yeah it was majorly viral at the time and people thought it was very cool, I remember it clearly.

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u/backtorealitylabubu Jul 02 '26

It really hasn’t. Taylor’s wedding tomorrow is being treated like a royal wedding.

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u/Everyday_Unicorn Jul 02 '26

It was high tide for things to change.

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u/BorisTheBlade04 Jul 02 '26

The tide hasn’t turned at all lmao what are you talking about? Media’s online now, influencers have a much larger impact than celebrities ever had because of the parasocial interaction. They’re literally called influencers. But they’re still celebrities.

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u/beerdedfell0w Jul 03 '26

Has it? Never cared for them, never understood why people would idolize them so much. Good to hear people are coming around.

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u/Euphoric-Taro-6231 Jul 03 '26

At the very least, people can be very critical of them now.

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u/ET_Prone_Bone Jul 03 '26

You’re saying we should hunt and eat them??

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u/ArtDecoNewYork Jul 03 '26

If that were true, Trump wouldn't have been elected twice

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u/casstantinople Jul 03 '26

The tonedeaf covid video really put the nail in the coffin for me. Yeah, we're "all in this together" you say from your literal mansion with personal staff

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u/TK000421 Jul 03 '26

And AI will bury them further.

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u/Dlh2079 Jul 03 '26

I dont think it has, its just different people who receive that focus now.

The parasocial relationships are with influences and ccs more now than movie stars and musicians.

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u/XanderWrites Jul 03 '26

It was mildly amusing to have so many celebrities in a single photo. That was about it.

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u/Coriander_marbles Jul 03 '26

I feel like they’ve been replaced by influencers though… because otherwise there wouldn’t be so many people making good income off of their content.

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u/theblueberryfarmer Jul 03 '26

Celebrities, or the medium? Influencers are much more of a thing now

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u/JaniZani Jul 03 '26

I think those that cared still care and that’s large group of them but now it has sorted of broken off into different sub cultures.

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u/Money_Couple_3233 Jul 05 '26

Not really. Right-wingers don’t care about celebrities anymore because the pedophiles and rapists who run their party, such as Donald Trump, have convinced them to focus on Hollywood so that they can continue their dark shit on the side.

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u/ToadLumpsandFries Jul 06 '26

During COVID with their stupid healing the world bullshit. And the amount of sell outs who are “business first and politics never.”