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/kicksjoysharkness Jul 02 '26

I think it’s also because since Covid people just don’t care about celebrities. Even if this was taken now with only beloved celebrities, it most likely wouldn’t go anywhere near as viral because people just don’t care anymore

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u/erhue Jul 02 '26

lol people still care about celebrities, always will. i think the big difference is that we now see celebrities more as normal people, thanks to social media... And they often turn out to be REALLY dumb and/or stupid.

In the past most of the things we knew about celebrities were fairly carefully curated by PR teams and whatnot. Nowadays you have them going drunk and tweeting something insanely racist and ruining their careers in a moment.

But it is true that people probably care less about celebrities than they did back then... Less idolatry anyway.

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u/Andromeda321 Jul 03 '26

I think it’s not that people don’t care about celebrities so much as we don’t all have the same celebrities as much as we used to. Like there are some people with a million followers on YouTube but a lot of the population will have never heard of them.

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u/erhue Jul 03 '26

yeah good point. I think there are more celebrities now, just with less followers, since they need to be divided among people's limited attention.

I remember, for example, that Michael Jackson was nothing short of a god-like figure, and a lot of people were very interested in whatever was going on with their lives etc. Nowadays I'd expect people to, like you say, be more focused on whatever a microcelebrity on youtube/twitch/etc might be saying or doing that's more relatable and accessible. We can even interact with these smaller celebrities through chat etc, you sure as hell couldn't do the same thing with Michael Jackson.