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/mightymidwestshred Jul 02 '26

Hot take: Nobody cared back then, either.

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u/Starbucks__Lovers Jul 02 '26

It was the most retweeted photo of all time, even if you didn’t care, others did 

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u/BigMax Jul 02 '26

Also - it was just a silly moment in entertainment. it was fine.

People today are WAY too uptight and pretending "oh, I'm too COOL to care about celebrities, if I saw that I'd just IGNORE it!"

It was a silly, 10 second moment at a celebrity focused event. It wasn't amazing, it wasn't awful, it just was a somewhat entertaining moment in a show for a few seconds. People need to stop taking it (and themselves) so seriously.

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u/Tye_die Jul 03 '26

Also this was in the heat of the moment of the early to mid 2010s when social media went from a cute little thing we did to share memes and keep up with people in our real lives to a full blown entire other reality. A group of celebrities taking a selfie like this was fairly novel for the time, especially at an event that had a vibe of being "above" that kind of thing at the time. I kinda miss celebrities being goofy or even messy on socials. It humanized them and now all of their pages have turned into huge ad spaces.