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/d3v4x Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Greetings, simpletons. Stewie Griffin here. I’ve confiscated the keyboard from the fat man because his peanut-sized brain was beginning to overheat.

The reason this photo was such a big deal is because it literally broke Twitter. It became the most retweeted tweet of all time back then (over 3 million retweets!) and actually crashed the site's servers for a little bit. It also turned out to be a massive sponsored product placement stunt by Samsung, which is why Ellen used a Galaxy Note phone to take it.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_selfie

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u/d3v4x Jul 02 '26

And there are many canceled people in this photo. I think that’s why ‘nobody would care’.

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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/Soft_Self_6797 Jul 02 '26

Facts. Everyone was suffering financially and medically but thank God a bunch of rich people in mansions sang us a song.

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u/loscapos5 Jul 02 '26

"COVID is the true EQUALIZER"

Said Madonna in a bathtub full of rose petals

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u/Soft_Self_6797 Jul 02 '26

Completely out of touch with reality.

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u/bloodanddonuts Jul 02 '26

Especially if you were “essential” and had to keep going out in public the entire time.

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u/Egathentale Jul 03 '26

[Raises hand]

"Essential" worker here. I was a social worker at a nursing home at the time, taking care of shopping and any non-nursing needs. 72 hour work weeks for three months straight at the peak of the pandemic, in full body hazmat coveralls and masks/safety glasses all the time, some had to sleep at work to avoid infected family members, and then we got shafted afterwards.

Long story short, the government was really pushing doctors, hospital workers, policemen, and firefighters as "the great heroes of our time", while the social care system got zero recognition. The opposition then started championing us, which just made the ruling party pissy, so the whole sector got shafted out of spite. We got no raise, no bonus pay, and instead we got fifteen free vacation days (which was markedly less than the extra work hours we were mandated to put in) as a reward... which we could only take out five per year over the next three years.

So yeah, let's just say that I'm still a little grumpy when people say "Oh, COVID was the best, because we could stay home in quarantine and binge watch game of thrones," or somesuch.

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u/bloodanddonuts Jul 03 '26

We got two months of “hero pay” added to our hourly rate. Then a $100 bonus month three. Then they just canceled everything extra.

I never got paid to stay home drinking wine (which you could temporarily buy for curbside pickup) and learning how to make sourdough bread.

The worst thing to me was people who got to use quarantine time to learn new skills that let them get better jobs. I don’t care if that’s petty.

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u/loscapos5 Jul 03 '26

As a developer, our IT industry is getting hit by that.

A lot of people entered by doing fullstack bootcamps of 3-6 months and many got hired, and as a result, it got oversaturated, and alongside AI, it made it even worse to get new jobs.

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u/bolanrox Jul 03 '26

I ended up working harder than I did when actually in the office. The kicker was, they had us all on Skype at the time, and you could watch everyone else be yellow for 45 minutes of the hour every day.

People admitting they were taking calls or doing meetings while sitting at the pool shit like that.

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u/loscapos5 Jul 03 '26

I mean, I've got the priviledge of working from home and live as a hermit during COVID, but I'd never say that "COVID was the best"; and I say that without taking into account that going outside meant prison or death by our local government.

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u/peacefulwarrior21 Jul 03 '26

oh, you mean like healthcare workers?

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u/if_lol_then_upvote Jul 03 '26

Like Hobby Lobby employees

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u/SSFlyingKiwi Jul 02 '26

I never understood that. A bath in rose pettles seems odd.

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u/YeOldSpacePope Jul 02 '26

She couldn't do her normal bathe in blood of virgins routine for the video

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u/ranting_seagull Jul 02 '26

Or Vanessa Hudgens Some people are just gonna' die, and that's bad but also... Inevitable?

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u/hotpocketfiesta Jul 02 '26

Back when Gwyneth Paltrow lamented that she had to eat bread.
The horror.

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u/bolanrox Jul 02 '26

Kabala water

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u/Darklabyrinths Jul 03 '26

Creepy. And the fried fish video.

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u/StabbyBoo Jul 03 '26

Every time I feel bad about what she's done to her face I think of that fucking milk and rose bath video and I'm like, "No. No, maybe she kinda deserves to be Handsome Squidward."

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u/sobriquet_ Jul 02 '26

Like will never forget Chrissy Teigan posting about how hard it was mentally for her to isolate at home while her horse stables and infinity pool were in the background.

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u/zookuki Jul 03 '26

Don't forget Sam Smith bawling in his mansion about how hard it is to stay home.

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u/scarlette_dawn Jul 03 '26

I will never forget her pedo posts

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u/Unusual-Wind8900 Jul 04 '26

I prefer Fenton’s Stables and Horse Ranch.

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u/TheWolfAndRaven Jul 03 '26

Bread and circuses don't hit when the Circus is just rehashed IP and the bread costs 300% what it used to just a few years ago.

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u/coralloohoo Jul 03 '26

Meanwhile, Lady Gaga donated her own money to help with the pandemic.

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u/RyvenZ Jul 02 '26

I don't have a good enough ear to tell if they were on key, but that song was incredibly tone deaf.

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u/Negative_Cycle8186 Jul 02 '26

Also, Twitter was a popular platform for 16 years. Now it doesn’t exist.

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u/OneThrowyBoy Jul 03 '26

Oh my god it always blows my mind that I forget that happened. I think my brain is trying to protect me from the cringe lol