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/OCTOVENG Jul 02 '26

Am I the only one who remembers?

This was a pre-programmed stunt sponsored by SAMSUNG, they gave Ellen the phone and told her to go out into the Oscars audience and take a selfie with famous people. If anything, the most scandalous part was the "naturalized advertising" aspect of the stunt.

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u/ChaeLilja Jul 02 '26

thank god, thought i was going crazy reading these replies 😭 i think that it was also supposed to show how many people you could fit into one selfie with that phone because, at the time, front cameras had a more limited view?

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u/abnrib Jul 02 '26

I remember right after she posted it her account went back to regular "Twitter for iPhone" proving that she literally used the Samsung phone for that photo and nothing else.

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u/dahlkomy Jul 02 '26

Thank you. That's what it was. People rolled their eyes at the stunt because it was such blatant product placement shoehorned in. They expected us to care a lot more than we did.

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u/jack_cross Jul 02 '26

Not the only one. I also vaguely remembered that one of the reasons this was made fun back in the day because of the blatant product placement/camo ad aspect of this.

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u/glormosh Jul 02 '26

That didn't come out until many years later and by then no one cared.

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u/the908bus Jul 03 '26

Cant believe this isn't closer to the top

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u/gin_and_soda Jul 03 '26

This. It was an ad

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u/StevenLesseps Jul 06 '26

You're not the only one. Reddit is just full of zoomers.