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    if something like this came out today it wouldn't break the internet like it did 14 years ago, why is that?
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    if something like this came out today it wouldn’t break the internet like it did 14 years ago, why is that?


    if something like this came out today it wouldn’t break the internet like it did 14 years ago, why is that?

    Posted by bigus-_-dickus

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    1. Perfect-Zebra-3611 on

      We are less collectively a culture than we were then, and celeb worship overall has gone down i feel. Same with care for awards shows

    2. CopiousCool on

      Because we know too much about them and the lifestyle they usually lead and after all the scandals and the fact NO-ONE from the Epstein files has even been charged let alone prosecuted (Bar Ghislaine)

      Before MeToo we had a mostly positive view of the majority of stars but since then, it’s just been a constant deluge of one scandal after another and it got to the point that friends and I were playing guessing games as to which favorite celeb would be the next to be outed

    4. bigus-_-dickus on

      here’s my thoughts on it

      -the rise of TikTok, celebrities being “candid” is no longer something special and mystical, we see their morning routine

      -a lot of them have been involved in too much controversies since then, metoo, Epstein..etc

      -people became more class conscious, eat the rich and whatnot

    5. Ready-Valuable2602 on

      Yeah I agree, everything’s so fragmented now that we don’t really have “one” pop culture anymore, just a million tiny fandoms. Also once we saw behind the curtain with social media and PR plants and blind items, the mystique died. Like why would I care about an Oscars campaign when I literally saw your publicist begging stan accounts to trend you yesterday 💀

    6. LeviHolden on

      well it wasn’t just the amount of celebs in the photo, this was widely considered a new subgenre of photography back then; the word selfie entered the dictionary in 2013. taking a self portrait was less common before digital cameras and smartphones,and the phenomenon was just a very notable and novel part of the zeitgeist.

    7. theo_died on

      As an aside, it is *hilarious* how badly this picture has aged. Hilarious in a dark way, but I feel like it’s going to end up in sociology textbooks

    9. PhilbertAlbert on

      Liza Minnelli was at the back of that crowd but was too short to get in the picture. As a short person who loves old Hollywood, this breaks my heart a little.

    10. Lazy-Entertainer-459 on

      Honestly i remember it being viral because the oscars was very formal and casual photos were rarely taken. The selfie was a very new format of photos that trendy and seen as a young persons thing.

    15. Dependent-Bid1391 on

      half the people in this photo have been publicly exposed since it was taken. that’s why

    16. booksandbenzos on

      I think we’re so oversaturated with celeb stuff that there’s less mystique and therefore excitement about something like this because we see them constantly, often through them posting things themselves or publicly saying things.

    17. 40_Love on

      No. People would call them annoying AF.

      Nightmare Blunt Rotation would be the #1 trend on twitter, though.

    19. Beneficial_Tap_256 on

      This wasn’t 14 years ago. It was 12 years ago. Unless we’ve time travelled to 2028 since I fell asleep last night.
      This was 2014

    25. KoreanFriedWeiner on

      It still would, but for very different reasons.

      Although, the internet has evolved quite a bit in the last 14 years. More resilient now.

    26. moonshad0w on

      So many things: the death of the monoculture, moving away from celebrity worship, general disdain for the ultra wealthy, [gestures vaguely at everything]