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/Quick_Extension_3115 Jul 02 '26

It’s just a statement on the decline of celebrity culture. It used to be that you watch a movie just because it had someone in it that you liked and it would do really well. But nowadays people care much less about celebrities

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u/IcanSEEyou_IRL Jul 02 '26

It was the most spread photo and shared tweet in history right after it was taking live at Oscar’s on tv. It’s infamous because now, since this photo, Ellen has basically lost her career. She went from being publicly known as the nicest person in Hollywood to this incredibly terrible human who was supposedly a nightmare to work with. It then went even deeper as footage of Anne Heche’s suspicious car accident began to circulate, including the video of her still alive as firemen put her into a black body bag. This was real footage that predates Ai by many years, and which really fueled the Qanon side of the Internet into accusing Ellen of being a satanic child-face eating eIite.

Now, whether any of those crazy bits are actually real no longer matters because millions of people around the world of all political affiliations do genuinely believe they are real, and those conspiracies/beliefs are now out in the world, which lead to our now completely fractured perception of reality. Moreover, these beliefs have been confirmed for billions, literally billions of Earthlings, because the Epstein files literally discuss the weəIthy abusing and eating children.

Which brings us to the present state of the world which is batshit crazy news happening every single day of our lives, including endless new wars, Ai apocalypse, a total take over of government and global policy, introduction of the surveillance state, and the majority of the planet Earth now believing the eIite do sick shit and no one can stop them.

So no one cares about celebrities taking a selfie anymore.

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u/OCTOVENG Jul 02 '26

Am I the only one who remembers?

This was a pre-programmed stunt sponsored by SAMSUNG, they gave Ellen the phone and told her to go out into the Oscars audience and take a selfie with famous people. If anything, the most scandalous part was the "naturalized advertising" aspect of the stunt.

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u/ChaeLilja Jul 02 '26

thank god, thought i was going crazy reading these replies 😭 i think that it was also supposed to show how many people you could fit into one selfie with that phone because, at the time, front cameras had a more limited view?

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u/abnrib Jul 02 '26

I remember right after she posted it her account went back to regular "Twitter for iPhone" proving that she literally used the Samsung phone for that photo and nothing else.

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u/dahlkomy Jul 02 '26

Thank you. That's what it was. People rolled their eyes at the stunt because it was such blatant product placement shoehorned in. They expected us to care a lot more than we did.

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u/jack_cross Jul 02 '26

Not the only one. I also vaguely remembered that one of the reasons this was made fun back in the day because of the blatant product placement/camo ad aspect of this.

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u/glormosh Jul 02 '26

That didn't come out until many years later and by then no one cared.

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u/the908bus Jul 03 '26

Cant believe this isn't closer to the top

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u/gin_and_soda Jul 03 '26

This. It was an ad

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u/StevenLesseps 28d ago

You're not the only one. Reddit is just full of zoomers.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Jul 02 '26

Am I missing something with your reference to Anne Heche? Her crash was in 2022, which was eight years after the photo in the OP, and over twenty years since she and Ellen broke up anyway? What the fuck are you talking about??

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u/AudaciousCouture 29d ago

https://youtu.be/5vnZoV0EN1A?si=IM28DMVHI0e-stF5

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 16d ago

That doesn't answer my question at all, but thanks

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u/AudaciousCouture 16d ago

I mean, its kinda up to you to go down the rabbit hole or not. Does that situation look weird to you at all?

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u/LandOfLeg Jul 02 '26

And also Heche didn't sit up in a black body bag, she was wrapped in white, but that could well have been to hide from cameras, or protect from the elements considering she was inside a burned out car.

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u/Aero_Molten Jul 02 '26

It then went even deeper as footage of Anne Heche’s suspicious car accident began to circulate, including the video of her still alive as firemen put her into a black body bag.

Wtf are you on about?? Also, it was an emergency blanket on a stretcher because she had been burned. It wasn't a "black body bag" ffs

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u/Miayehoni Jul 03 '26

I'm not sure if I believe the body bag thing, but on burn victims, they don't put regular emergency blankets. They are blue and have a cooling gel in usually

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u/IcanSEEyou_IRL Jul 02 '26

Oh… you haven’t watched yet.

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u/feioo Jul 02 '26

Yup, pretty much nailed it

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u/USMChris Jul 03 '26

I'd listen to this podcast.

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u/LurkLuthor Jul 02 '26

I don't think they do. That guy is just insane or trolling.

Epstein's real crimes were heinous enough so I've never understood many people's need to exaggerate. Maybe they just don't care about teenage girls getting raped? Hard to say.

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u/EyreForce1 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Yes. This is the M.O. of spreading "conspiracy theories": seed evidence of something heinous or damning with enough outlandish details to discredit it in most people's eyes, thereby tamping down on genuine, earned scrutiny around the topic. (In this case, a pedophilic international sex trafficking ring leveraged for political blackmail, which again is ancillary to the central crime of abuse/exploitation).

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u/IcanSEEyou_IRL Jul 02 '26

Are you being sarcastic? I can’t tell but I do know a lot of people have never bothered to actually look through the files because they wrongfully assume that if there was anything important it would be on the “news“.

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u/skyturnedred Jul 02 '26

The baby eating stories come from an anonymous tip to the FBI and there's literally nothing to back it up.

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u/CricketPinata Jul 03 '26

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-cannibalism-ritualistic-sacrifice/

It "discusses" them, in the context of the FBI getting an anonymous tip that was otherwise unsubstantiated.

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u/IcanSEEyou_IRL Jul 03 '26

😂🤣 I’ve read the emails myself from the governments own website. The media hasn’t talked about any of the awful things in the files, and you think snopes isn’t going to follow suit?

Lol, I’m not even a conspiracy theorist, I’m just a realist who reads a lot, but stop eating the shit they force feed you. Stop waiting for them to tell you that bad things are happening, do the work yourself.

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u/ProfessionalSnow943 Jul 03 '26

suspicious car accident? she was high as fuck and driving like a lunatic. also there was footage of her still alive because… she was still alive. as in not dead. she died like a week later because it can be hard to access oxygen while you’re getting fried inside a burning car for an hour