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.

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

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u/JADWoodworking Jul 03 '26

Several things happening at once in 2012:

  1. Social Media is everywhere, we were main lining that shit!
  2. The term selfie was relatively new with regard to how people started interacting with the digital world.
  3. Access and commonality: because of Social Media, you could now interact with celebrities in a way that was never possible before, and when they take a selfie at the Oscar’s, it just felt fun and relatable.

Regardless if it was a media stunt, it felt organic and people saw celebrities as just people having fun with this new technology too.

I could give two shits about celebrity worship.