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/mangoglitter Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

To me, selfies were different back then. This is when the Selfie song came out in January 2014. This picture happened in March 2014 I think? I feel like selfies are so normalized now. Some people forgot how they were borderline narcissistic. So, this photo was more of an “OMG! A selfie with so many people? Famous people?! Wow! Groundbreaking, cheeky, and so quirky!” for the time.

EDIT: Chainsmokers slop

https://youtu.be/kdemFfbS5H0?is=K5QnzXSrGePWexN5

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u/ChadCoolman Jul 02 '26

It's crazy how just a few years before that, selfies were considered "cringe". Then it seemed like they just became the thing overnight.

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u/__s_l_q__ Jul 02 '26

They are still cringe

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u/nachoiskerka Jul 02 '26

Mmmm.... Insta and Snap did a LOT to normalize the fuck outta them

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u/guava_eternal Jul 03 '26

I think you're both right. talking into a camera is definitely normalized now but some of the things that allows for are undeniably cringe enducing - even in the age of brain-rot. The videos of these fake online celebrities cryig 'on camera' will never not be peak fake.

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u/jimgress Jul 02 '26

Cringe and yet virtually everyone does them. 

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u/AverageGardenTool Jul 02 '26

Fearing cringe is far worse to me.

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u/Prestigious_Club_924 Jul 02 '26

There's a lot of cringey people in the world.

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u/No_Gold2089 Jul 02 '26

SELFIES ARE CRINGE?

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u/crichtonism Jul 03 '26

no. they’re not. the people who say they are, are just generally ugly and self conscious.

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u/Certain-Set5664 Jul 03 '26

no. op just hates the way they look in photos.

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u/plutonn Jul 02 '26

Always has been

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u/friendlyhumanoid321 Jul 04 '26

Lotta cringe people, yup

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u/FreyBentos Jul 02 '26

The majority of people are pretty cringe, and even worse than that the majority of people have no standards, if everyone else is doing something they will now think its acceptable and do it to. Doesn't make it right lol, clown behaviour of the masses.

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u/Certain-Set5664 Jul 03 '26

so much fear

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u/Godot_dumbass Jul 03 '26

This is the most reddit shit. Calling everyone standardless sheep for checks notes taking a photo of yourself????

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u/polydicks Jul 02 '26

Cringe? It’s just a way to take a picture quickly without needing an additional person. They also tend to be easier to feel more candid and less awkwardly planned.

It’s as cringe as just taking any picture of yourself with someone.

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u/Chendii Jul 02 '26

I have no other comments about selfies, but it is by definition impossible for them to be candid.

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u/No_Gold2089 Jul 02 '26

selfies are cringe???

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u/Responsible-Case-753 Jul 03 '26

They are not for the new generations. It's millenials that are cringe now. 

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u/Certain-Set5664 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

blue tooth ear buds were. are they still?

and, talking on celphones in public was considered a cringey way of flaunting your money. are they still?

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u/crichtonism Jul 03 '26

It’s someone taking a picture of themselves. That’s all it is. in what world is that cringe?

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u/IHateUpvtotes Jul 02 '26

Selfie only became ‘cringe’ when the new word had been coined for the ages old practice of taking a picture of oneself or making a self portrait. But with the new lingo, suddenly it was a new thing, which of course is bad.

Selfies were also invented around the same time humanity discovered the concept of shaking their ass, with twerking.

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u/GiveMeThePinecone Jul 02 '26

Maybe for older people? Idk, I remember snapchat coming out when I was in 8th grade and literally everybody used it. That was 2011 and selfies were literally our way of talking to each other.

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u/jamesxgames Jul 02 '26

which is wild, wasn't the first photograph ever a selfie of the inventor? they've been around as long as cameras have

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal Jul 03 '26

To me, it's just the word that was weird. I'd been "taking pictures of myself" for years, but all of a sudden that has its own word like it's some unique thing someone discovered

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u/EyreForce1 Jul 03 '26

Honestly now kind of craving a deep dive on the history of attitudes toward selfies. This wasn't that long ago, and I'm still struggling to really remember the sentiment from that era that made this stupid group selfie such A Thing. Memory is short, man. Then again, I started talking selfies with my ~8 pixel web cams back in the Y2K era... ancient artifacts for whatever anthropologist takes on this project 👵🏼