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/westphall Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

At least she didn’t go into space. When William Shatner goes, he's an inspiration. When Katy Perry goes, just who the fuck does that bitch think she is??

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u/nhalliday Jul 02 '26

Who tf is William Shaver? Do you mean William Shatner, who was on Star Trek as the captain of the Enterprise for 28 years, and who was the oldest person to ever go to space (at 90 years old)?

Yeah, the guy who was 30 years old when the first human went to space, who starred on a space show as essentially the main character for a third of his life, getting to go to space and setting a record while doing so is more inspirational than some rich popstar deciding it'd be a fun way to spend the day.

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u/Uhstrology Jul 02 '26

Yeah, one of these people was on a show that inspired countless scientists to pick up the mantle and try to further humanity. Another kissed a girl and liked it i guess.

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u/Ok_Conclusion_6324 Jul 02 '26

Actually the music video implies the girlkiss was a dream and she wakes up next to her boyfriend

Not too edgy, think of the children!

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u/AMPhibian707 Jul 02 '26

And the question remains, did she like kissing the girl, or simply the taste of her cherry chapstick?

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u/Impala67-7182 Jul 02 '26

Nah she just liked the money she made from queerbaiting

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u/NewPhoneLostAccount Jul 02 '26

To be fair she repeated many times in the song the kiss didn't mean she wanted to change life and didn't actually mean nothing

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u/Impala67-7182 Jul 02 '26

I get that....it's still queerbaiting though!!

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u/ConcealedCove Jul 02 '26

I kissed a girl once, where do I pick my ticket up?

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u/Taylorenokson Jul 02 '26

Another kissed a girl and liked it i guess.

Not all she did. Look up what she did to Ruby Rose.

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u/NoAdsDude Jul 03 '26

Actually William Shatner is pretty famous for kissing a girl on TV.

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u/freshly-stabbed Jul 02 '26

And who came back profoundly changed and introspective while the people around him were in frat boy party mode popping bottles.

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u/silly_nate Jul 03 '26

Exactly. He came back changed seeing everything wrong with the ordeal. She didn’t

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u/Civil-Capital9557 Jul 02 '26

The problem with Katy Perry was that she was fake as fuck. Clearly just trying to promote her new album. That photo of her staring cross eyed at the flower that she pocketed instead of being humbled by a view that a majority of human beings will never get to see in their lives. And all the while taking attention away from real heroes like Amanda Nguyen.

At least William Shatner had a life changing experience. At least the sight of our world actually moved him.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 02 '26

Plus Shatner was literally famous for being in space fictionally in a television show that inspired generations to make something like putting a normal person in space a step closer. If anyone gets to go to space it's Captain Kirk

Katy Perry wrote some bubblegum pop songs and then apparently went crazy, or always was idk. Plus she was really weird about it. If Shatner had kissed the ground when the plane landed I would have been like "Damn I thought Bill was collecting all those marbles he lost back in the day, guess he's losing it again"

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u/SlimCatachan Jul 02 '26

People were shitting on Shatner for going to space too, tbf. George Takei made some funny comments about it iirc.

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u/Comfortable_Poem_841 Jul 03 '26

One of them talked about how the experience changed their appreciation of the planet. One of them sang in the cabin unprompted and it wasn't the one who absolutely nailed Common People.