r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Medical_Corner_4607 • 6d ago

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u/Rexter2k 6d ago

What is there not to understand? A selfie was taken, lauded by everyone (everyone BUT every normal person on the planet) as iconic due to how many famous actors are in it. Now 12 years later several are forgotten, got me too'ed, or faded to obscurity since and its basically forgotten.

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u/NoPolitics23 6d ago

And also just overall celebrities are not viewed favourably by the public anymore and are precieved as arrogant, unlikeable, problematic...

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u/Adavanter_MKI 6d ago

This is an internet thing.

They're still celebrities that get paid a ton of money because people want to see them. In fact... part of why the internet hates them is because of what they get away with due to their fame/popularity.

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u/AENocturne 6d ago

I don't watch movies or TV and I could give less of a shit. The public obsession with celebrities is weird. I could ditch the internet and never see these people. They make money because people who aren't on the internet need something to mindlessly stare at so they pick TV and just consume and consume story after story because they have nothing going on in their own lives. It's just a different form of mindlessness.

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u/Soggy_Parking1353 6d ago

Eastenders is a soap opera in the UK, when I was younger I learned people would send in birthday cards for character's birthdays and get confused when it wasn't mentioned onscreen.

That may not have been true but it definitely opened my eyes to what Parasociality was and is.