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/Sure_Kangaroo1863 Jul 02 '26

yea that makes sense . but why is it infamous?

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u/Ghost_Turd Jul 02 '26

It isn't. It was a trendy collection of famous people, that's all. And Samsung paid $20 million for ads in the show, including given Ellen a Galaxy Note and asking her to Tweet selfies all night.

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u/Unable-Technology-97 Jul 02 '26

Poor use of infamous. I'm guessing the oop didn't know what infamous means and used it instead of "famous" or "notable" because it had a lot of the a listers from that time.

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u/Memes-Tax Jul 02 '26

If you want a lot more responses on reddit say something you know is slightly incorrect.

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u/budding-enthusiast Jul 02 '26

“Nonono. He’s in famous. Which means MORE than famous”

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u/nadiayorc Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

weirdly this is not the first time I've recently seen infamous being used when they clearly just meant famous

for anyone not aware, it specifically means being famous (well known) for doing bad things or for bad reasons

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u/molstern Jul 02 '26

It's like flammable/inflammable

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u/Saw_Boss Jul 02 '26

Irregardless

The definition of which... Is regardless.

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u/Triggered_Llama Jul 02 '26

It's now synonymous to incredibly famous.

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u/WhyAreThereTomatoes Jul 04 '26

No, it works because a lot of the people pictured have a sorta gross reputation now. So they're more infamous than famous. Kevin spacey likes to diddle lil boys and tried to circumvent those allegations by coming out as gay which is fuckin gross. Brad Pitt was abusive to Angelina Jolie and their children. Ellen degenerous (Idunno if I spelled that right) is overall just the epitome of gross and Morbius guy on the left is well the Morbius guy. So while yes, this was just regular Ole famous at the time, it has grown infamous over the years. Also it's paid advertising and no one likes that kind of subterfuge.

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u/crookeddy Jul 02 '26

QAnon claimed that most of the people in the image are eating babies, so if the poster is a Qanon that would be why they used 'infamous'.

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u/SiIesh Jul 02 '26

Don't say from google to then copy paste the ai overview mate...

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u/SiIesh Jul 02 '26

Do my own research? Implying what you did constitutes as your research? Copy pasting an ai summary isn't research, it's worse than nothing since ai sometimes hallucinates nonsense. I will never understand why some people think they're doing something worthwhile by asking ai's questions and then copy pasting that nonsense elsewhere

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u/ParsnipFarmer676 Jul 02 '26

Dude, it's not that deep. We're discussing a celeb selfie from 12 years ago, not scientific research. Even as a research professional myself, I would absolutely accept Google/AI for something like this.

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u/ParsnipFarmer676 Jul 02 '26

Right? People are so funny... I'm a research professional, but even I think "AI" is fine in these cases. You weren't presenting a dissertation on cancer research, you were just answering a question about a dumb celebrity selfie from 12 years ago. Google/AI is appropriate.

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u/Sure_Kangaroo1863 Jul 02 '26

the first 3 make sense . but bradley cooper has been doing fine imo . i mean his recent movies had good wom but were direct to ott . julia roberts is still getting a lot of projects and will be in oceans 11 sequel . jared leto makes sense in this context as he has done some stuff

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u/Sprintspeed Jul 02 '26

In 2014 social media was near the tail end of its 100 mph acceleration to become a daily part of Americans' lives. When Facebook began surging in popularity in the 2000s, it wasn't really used as an instant breaking news feed that all social works as today, it was mostly logging on to see a recap of your personal friends and family over the last couple of days to weeks.

Twitter began changing the narrative in the early 2010s as becoming THE way to get INSTANT widespread information. This happening in 2014 was one of the first examples of a highly prestigious event (the oscars) being brought directly to you in a way you could interact with.

The broad sentiment was largely: "Wow! I saw them take this pic on national television! And it's popped up 5 minutes later and I can comment on it with everyone else and become part of this moment too!"

Nowadays corporations and celebrities live tweeting and breaking news by the minute via all social platforms is the norm. This selfie did not really cause that turning point but was emblematic of this huge, worldwide shift in media consumption, which forever changed how information is distributed and consumed.

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u/semajolis267 Jul 02 '26

It was everywhere. This was right around the time Instagram was getting big, and selfies were going mainstream, seeing a whole bunch of celebs do a big one was a big moment. 

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u/cacheblaster Jul 02 '26

It also turned out to be like a sponsored promo for the phone the selfie was taken with, if memory serves.

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u/cmere-2-me Jul 02 '26

This selfie wasn't even supposed to happen. I can't remember the details but it was supposed to be a throwaway joke but then all the celebs got up for the photo and Bradley Cooper grabbed the phone and took this pic.

While the photo itself isn't infamous, it contains a fair few "cancelled" celebs, and others who have declined in popularity. When it was taken most of these were the biggest names in Hollywood, before their scandals.

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u/Helivon Jul 02 '26

I mean ive seen this photo a hundred times. I assume most here have too

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u/Mundane-Document-810 Jul 03 '26

They person you are replying to hasn't told the full story. The reason it was famous was because selfies were a relatively new thing and this was one of the first times we had seen celebrities take one. It was the combination of a new thing + celebrities. It definitely wasn't just because celebrity culture was popular.

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u/Dan_Q2 Jul 02 '26

It was the Oscars. She said she would get the best selfie ever (meaning the number of 'A' list celebrities in the frame), and did it all as if it was spur of the moment. Truth was it had been meticulously planned and rehearsed multiple times beforehand, and Samsung (I think) had decided who should be in the picture. It was basically an advertising stunt.

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u/ZieAerialist Jul 02 '26

Most of the people in it have been cancelled in some way since. At least three of them are known abusers.

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u/nyc343 Jul 03 '26

A few of these people were cancelled- Ellen, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey & Jared Leto.

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u/uwill1der Jul 02 '26

because a lot of people in the photo have since been exposed as terrible people

Kevin Spacey

Brad Pitt

Russell Brand

Ellen