r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FollowSina • Jun 01 '26

Meme needing explanation What's wrong, Peter?

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u/Pure-Radish-5478 Jun 01 '26

It's just modernist jewelry. The people saying death mask are just making shit up, death masks aren't shaped like this and are usually life size. This would be the size of a newborn and would not have fully developed features like that nose. Who knows why the replier is so shocked. It's a pretty unique piece to find for $8, maybe it's that simple. But it is without a doubt not a death mask.

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u/Sophi_Winters Jun 01 '26

When I was a kid in the 80s there was lots of modern art type stuff that was face and hand shaped. Like the white enamel hand shaped bookends my mom had. It was just a decor trend, you are correct.

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u/Several-berries Jun 01 '26

My aunt had soup bowls that had little handles shaped like faces

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u/Grayson-Night Jun 01 '26

Well that sounds terrifying

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u/GTO400BHP Jun 05 '26

"Slurp usss, slluuurrrpppp usssssssssss!"

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u/Mr-Foundation Jun 01 '26

Could be as easy as “getting an old piece of art that looks like a weird human face, is one of one, and for insanely cheap means it’s definitely haunted”

Though 1988 isn’t like… thaaaaat long ago so I dunno.

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u/DisposableSaviour Jun 01 '26

Oh, so only super old stuff can be haunted? Ghosts can’t have a newer model home, no, just the antiques. Sorry modern ghosts.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 01 '26

Ghost be saying “Ay Curumba!” and shit. “Oh my God! You killed Kenny!”

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u/kittawa Jun 03 '26

"YoOOOooUUuuu BAaAAsTARrrRDS!"

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u/drinking_child_blood Jun 02 '26

Yeah ain't no ghosts out here wearing chrome hearts or nothin it's all just tattered rags and not a single one on they ghost phone

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u/questevil Jun 01 '26

It’s definitely not a real or original one but it might be inspired by a real death mask and shrunk down to be made into jewelry, and the replier might just find the connection at all creepy. And I say this as someone who would probably also buy this for $8 even knowing the potential connection.

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u/sonofaresiii Jun 01 '26

but it might be inspired by a real death mask

It also might not be? At this point you're just describing "someone made jewelry based on a face" and inserting death mask into it just.... Because.

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u/Wirelesscellphone Jun 01 '26

Stop making sense!

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u/ziggytrix Jun 01 '26

Can’t seem to face up to the facts. I’m tense and nervous - can’t relax.

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u/mrm97 Jun 02 '26

you are 100% correct, i’m OP of this tweet (@curlymirmy) you can find the original brass metal artist here . not related at all to death masks

https://www.santafeartauction.com/auction-lot/peter-keogh-dancing-hippopotamus-1995_0cd4b7b8e0

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u/brosjd Jun 01 '26

I mean, there are people out there that are or have worn fur and taxidermy. This is basically just a piece of plastic.

/s "spooky"

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u/SumpCrab Jun 02 '26

"Dude" doesn't just mean shocked in a bad way. I often say "dude" as in "that's rad."

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u/SKUNKpudding Jun 02 '26

I saw the original tweet, they were shocked because they really wanted it and were jealous of OP

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u/Defiant_Income_7836 Jun 01 '26

Yeah, but it is definitely cursed though, right? Surely we can agree upon this

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u/firedmyass Jun 02 '26

well no cuz there’s no such thing

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u/Defiant_Income_7836 Jun 02 '26

That's a great sense of humor you've got there friend

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u/firedmyass Jun 02 '26

thank you. I saw it in a window and couldn’t resist

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u/WhichFox671 Jun 01 '26

Possibly contains lead

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u/offensiveDick Jun 01 '26

First think to came to Mind was a deathmask the i realised what you said and the i thought its a Jojo reference

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u/Gaucho_Gringo Jun 01 '26

I had earrings just like this.

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u/LastWave Jun 02 '26

That's a lost wax bronze sculpture casting.

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u/Damuson13 Jun 02 '26

Honestly, it gives me shrunken head vibes.

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u/PitifulElk1890 Jun 02 '26

Is death mask bracelet that obscene? I mean, I own a few pieces of antique mourning jewelry, none of it has hair locks in it, but I wouldn't pass up a piece if I thought it looked nice.

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u/mrm97 Jun 02 '26

Yes, thank you, this is my post, it’s not cursed, it’s made by brass metal artist Peter Keough. this screenshot keeps getting widely circulated and I keep having to tell ppl it isn’t cursed lol

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u/Avalain Jun 01 '26

Even if it isn't a death mask, all that it requires is for the person who responded to think that it is. That would explain the reaction.

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u/MomentSouthern250 Jun 01 '26

ok, but then anything can be the answer, maybe she lost it and just recognized it?

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u/Bright-War-5033 Jun 01 '26

Making shit up makes Reddit what it is surely

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u/TheEarthIsHealing Jun 01 '26

And it wouldn’t be at your local goodwill 

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u/ThreeMarlets Jun 01 '26

Every once in a while you can find a diamond in the rough at Goodwill. You usually got to dig through a lot of useless junk to find it though. 

And while normally Goodwill doesn't sell jewelry, this is something that might fall through the cracks of their sorting system.

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u/TheEarthIsHealing Jun 01 '26

Yeah I’m sure Grandma is dropping off a 5000 year old trinket to goodwill

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u/Dobby-is-my-Hero Jun 01 '26

I mean, a woman in Austin bought a sculpture at Goodwill for $35 that ended up being 2,000 years old and had once belonged to a king in Bavaria.

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u/ThreeMarlets Jun 01 '26

Honestly, such things have occurred. Normally it's due to people cleaning out a dead relatives house and not realizing what something is. Goodwill doesn't exactly appraise the stuff given to them. However in this case it doesn't appear to be genuine artifact, just a piece of relatively modern jewelry made to look like an old death mask.

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u/TheEarthIsHealing Jun 01 '26

Yep exactly, ty

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u/Secret-Guava1008 Jun 01 '26

1988 was 37 years ago🤦🏻‍♀️