{"id":14175,"date":"2026-04-18T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:15:21","slug":"death-of-the-monoculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/18\/death-of-the-monoculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of the Monoculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Last Time Everyone Watched the Same Thing<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

No one knew it at the time, but 2014 \u2014 more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres’ star-studded selfie moment \u2014 marked the peak of a monoculture that no longer exists. The numbers show a long decay ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0RICK PORTER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remember when: Ellen DeGeneres poses for a selfie taken by Bradley Cooper with Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o, Angelina Jolie, Peter Nyong’o Jr. and Bradley Cooper during the 86th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2014.\u00a0GETTY IMAGES<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the 2014 Oscars, best supporting actor nominee Bradley Cooper took a selfie with host Ellen DeGeneres and a bunch of A-listers, among them Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Lupita Nyong\u2019o and Jennifer Lawrence. DeGeneres\u2019 Twitter account posted it immediately afterward, and it became the most retweeted post in the platform\u2019s history at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selfie was an instantly viral moment in a telecast that drew the Academy Awards\u2019 largest audience in 14 years \u2014 43.74 million people. The photo (for which Cooper used a phone made by Samsung, a major Oscars sponsor) became a dayslong news cycle unto itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one knew it at the time, but in retrospect the selfie moment feels like the last stand of a shared popular culture that no longer exists. Monoculture didn\u2019t die with Cooper\u2019s selfie, but that night may have been its last peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Hollywood Reporter The Last Time Everyone Watched the Same Thing No one knew it at the time, but 2014 \u2014 more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres’ star-studded selfie moment \u2014 marked the peak of a monoculture that no longer exists. The numbers show a long decay ever since. BY\u00a0RICK PORTER At the 2014 Oscars, best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14176,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}