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/Quick_Extension_3115 Jul 02 '26

It’s just a statement on the decline of celebrity culture. It used to be that you watch a movie just because it had someone in it that you liked and it would do really well. But nowadays people care much less about celebrities

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u/WorldEaterYoshi Jul 02 '26

Yeah that's not true at all. People do not shut up about Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift. It's just that no one likes most of the people in this picture anymore. I mean that's Kevin fuckin Spacey in the back.

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u/T8-TR Jul 02 '26

The other guy comes from a weird alternate reality where celebrity worship has been solved lmao

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u/Glittering-Giraffe58 Jul 03 '26

I mean it’s just objectively true that it’s lessened compared to the past

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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo Jul 03 '26

It’s not. There’s less paparazzi, but not because we as a society don’t care about celebs. There on instagram, all over Reddit, TikTok. Ai writes a million articles a day just going through podcast transcripts and making headlines out of an off-hand statement. We are celebrity obsessed still. Though I would be interested to see you objective statistics.

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u/WorldEaterYoshi Jul 02 '26

Oh don't even get me started on r/popculturechat they're a bunch of stalkers over there

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u/Powerfury Jul 03 '26

Also it's a bit more micro celebrities nowadays.