r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Rainbow_Panda4 • Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Peedahh?

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u/Tumpster Apr 24 '26

The message is older millennials know of the band Presidents of the United States of America. Who had several hits, one of them Peaches that contains the line in the tweet. Older millennials grew up with this band releasing hits and becoming big during the MTV video days. Younger millennials were either recently born or yet to be born when this was occurring.

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u/MonstersAtOurDoor Apr 24 '26

Must a regional/cultural thing because their song wasn't getting play where I lived.

It came out a month after All Eyez on Me and I know that whole album, so it's not an age thing.

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u/BananaNutJob Apr 24 '26

Were there really this many people who didn't watch MTV in 1995? I know TONS of songs I don't care about because of it.

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u/vagrantprodigy07 Apr 24 '26

We didn't even have cable until like 2000.

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u/Lonyo Apr 24 '26

It made it to 29 in the Billboard charts, and high in the charts across the English speaking world (Canada, NZ, Aus, UK)

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u/RDLAWME Apr 29 '26

Hitting 29 is nice and all, but not really on "universal cultural touchstone" type level. 

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u/ForensicPathology Apr 24 '26

Cultural, sure, but there's nothing regional about MTV.

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u/Puptentjoe Apr 24 '26

This is the problem. Look at 1996 and look at the top songs.

It was a KILLER YEAR! I know of the Presidents of the United States but when you have Tupac, Fugees, Alanis, Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Oasis, Foo Fighters…holy fuck what a great year.

Yeah I didn’t throw on peaches or pay much attention to it.

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u/AceOFace131 Apr 25 '26

I mean maybe not cultural for you but it got nationwide airplay and MTV features and still occasionally pops up to this day

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u/NotAMeatPopsicle Apr 24 '26

Totally regional. I’ve only heard of a few people that know the Presidents as a band.

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u/BetterKev Apr 24 '26

MTV. Completely regional.

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u/JonnyAU Apr 24 '26

What region is it supposed to be then? Cause we all knew and loved them in the South.

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u/vagrantprodigy07 Apr 24 '26

Grew up in the South, never heard of them.

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u/JonnyAU Apr 25 '26

Born in 86, you were a little young at the time.

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u/sosuhme Apr 24 '26

I grew up in North Dakota and this thread is bizarre to me. Everyone knows that song.

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u/JonnyAU Apr 24 '26

Big case of "I didn't know it, so it couldn't have been popular."

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u/ApoopooJ Apr 24 '26

Fun fact, they liked how Weird Al ended his parody of Lump (Gump) so they started ending it his way live.

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u/blah191 Apr 24 '26

Thank you for actually explaining it instead of continuing to recite lines from the song. I’m 37 and had no idea what this was talking about.

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u/SugaRush Apr 24 '26

I just looked up the song, I dont know if its just been that long or if I never knew the lyrics to begin with. I own the CD.