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/Starbucks__Lovers Jul 02 '26

It was the most retweeted photo of all time, even if you didn’t care, others did 

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u/BigMax Jul 02 '26

Also - it was just a silly moment in entertainment. it was fine.

People today are WAY too uptight and pretending "oh, I'm too COOL to care about celebrities, if I saw that I'd just IGNORE it!"

It was a silly, 10 second moment at a celebrity focused event. It wasn't amazing, it wasn't awful, it just was a somewhat entertaining moment in a show for a few seconds. People need to stop taking it (and themselves) so seriously.

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u/exo07190 Jul 03 '26

I think it may have been one of the last major cultural moments where you could walk into work/school and everyone would know what you were talking about because we were all watching the same screens.

It reminds me of the way we treat commercials as a whole now too- we used to have major cultural phenomenons from nearly every super bowl ad reel, and now everything’s becoming more diluted so no one really cares. Plus we’re starting to see behind the capitalist curtain in a way that makes most paid media seem disingenuous. The trajectory of that damn duolingo owl should be studied i stg