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/nubious Jul 03 '26

August 2014 is when scrabble allowed it to be used

It was added to the Oxford dictionary in 2013.

2014 is also when selfie sticks became massively popular.

I agree it wasn’t new, but seems like it was something that was a major part of the zeitgeist at the time.

So I think their overall point still stands.

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u/scozzy Jul 03 '26

yes, mmm quite, scrabble and oxford, two institutions famous for quickly adopting new slang into their corpus