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Arturinni, a random lurker

Jul 14, 2024 at 10:52PM EDT

Like it or not, this is going down as one of the most iconic images in recent history, on par with The Situation Room

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Piercless

Jul 15, 2024 at 01:53AM EDT in reply to Arturinni, a random lurker

It looks like a god damn renaissance painting

𝓢𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖊𝖑 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓒𝓔𝓞 𝓸𝓯 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓷𝔂

Jul 15, 2024 at 02:13AM EDT in reply to Arturinni, a random lurker

Tried googling "The Situation" and all I got was images of some generic stock-photo looking Mylar whos nickname is "the situation"

digital_m3m3

Jul 15, 2024 at 02:32AM EDT in reply to 𝓢𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖊𝖑 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓒𝓔𝓞 𝓸𝓯 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓷𝔂

because it's The Situation Room the white house crisis center created by order of JFK, specifically the photo of it during Operation Neptune Spear when Obama was waiting for confirmation of Bin Laden's death.

Kowai_Yume

Jul 15, 2024 at 02:36AM EDT in reply to 𝓢𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖊𝖑 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓒𝓔𝓞 𝓸𝓯 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓷𝔂

This is the photo Arturinni was referring to

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Timey16

Jul 15, 2024 at 08:06AM EDT in reply to Arturinni, a random lurker

See, I am questioning it because Social Media and meme culture means a lot of supposed "historic events" were forgotten within weeks. Like 9/10 "major historic events" end up being a blip on the radar soon after.

Hell people largely forgot the assassination attempt of Reagan back in 1981.

Historic events usually become historic by virtue of the context of the "before and after".

Remember the Panama and Paradise Papers, how they were the biggest investigative jorunalist masterpiece maybe EVER, YEARS of worth poured into it and yet completely forgotten almost in an instance? In an age without social media these Papers would have dictated public discourse for the better part of the year.

But thanks to social media, the public's attention span has been reduced to that of a goldfish.