{"id":346245,"date":"2026-03-18T21:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/346245\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:50:23","slug":"21-cringey-things-celebrities-did-at-the-beginning-of-the-pandemic-that-are-weird-to-look-back-on-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/346245\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Cringey Things Celebrities Did At The Beginning Of The Pandemic That Are Weird To Look Back On Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you’ve probably been seeing, it’s been six years since the p*ndemic began.\"Store<\/p>\n

Jeff Greenberg \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

This week, the internet “acknowledged” the six-year anniversary of Vanessa Hudgens’s “yeah people are gonna die” video.\"PersonBecause that era feels like a total fever dream\u2026let\u2019s revisit some of the most awkward celeb moments from six years ago:1. First and foremost, there was THE “Imagine” video:\"natalieIf you recall, Gal Gadot<\/a>, Kristen Wiig<\/a>, Jamie Dornan<\/a>, James Marsden<\/a>, Sarah Silverman<\/a>, Jimmy Fallon, Natalie Portman, Zo\u00eb Kravitz, Sia, Lynda Carter, Amy Adams, Leslie Odom Jr., Pedro Pascal, Chris O’Dowd, Dawn O’Porter, Will Ferrell, Mark Ruffalo, Norah Jones, Ashley Benson, Kaia Gerber, Cara Delevingne, and Maya Rudolph did their best John Lennon cosplay.\"mark<\/p>\n

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What a time!\"A2. Again, there was Vanessa Hudgens’s “respecting” the virus video.\"Vanessa“It’s just terrible, but like inevitable” lives rent free in my mind.\"Even3. There was the clapping-to-empty-fields trend.<\/p>\n

priyanka chopra clapping on balcony<\/p>\n

4. Naomi Campbell wore a hazmat suit (draped in a Burberry scarf) to the airport.\"A<\/p>\n

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5. Celebs like Katy Perry and Madonna thought people were singing their songs from balconies…\"Katy<\/p>\n

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…they weren’t.\"Video6. Ivanka Trump posed with a can of beans for some reason?\"Person7. Jared Leto was completely surprised by the pandemic, sharing that he was on a 12-day silent meditation in the desert when it happened, like what?!\"Jared<\/p>\n

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“Walked out yesterday into a very different world. One that’s been changed forever. Mind blowing – to say the least.”\"Jared8. Arnold Schwarzenegger blabbed about the importance of social distancing while puffing on a cigar in a jacuzzi.\"arnold<\/p>\n

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9. Madonna called the virus a “great equalizer” from her bathtub filled with flower petals.\"madonna10. Justin Timberlake ****** a lot of people off<\/a> by saying 24-hour parenting wasn’t human.\"Two<\/p>\n

Nbc \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

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11. Jennifer Lopez shared that her house was basically the one from Parasite.\"A12. There was also the selfie where a man looked like he was crying out for help in the background.We had so much time on our hands to notice things.\"Person13. Drake tried to be “relatable” by showing off his personal basketball court. This picture was captioned: “My life for the next however long.”\"Indoor<\/p>\n

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14. Kim Kardashian “showed” us how to “social distance” from across a table.\"Kim15. We learned that King Charles and Camilla had pretty much never clapped before in their lives.<\/p>\n

Related: Here Are 10 Celebs Who’ve Publicly Admitted The Reasons Why They Regret Ending Their Marriages<\/a><\/p>\n

16. Billionaires posted about quarantining on yachts.\"David17. Jaime King made a video literally thanking the virus, yes, thanking the virus!\"virus<\/p>\n

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18. Sam Smith showed us their meltdown.\"Person19. Sia posted this (now) iconic image.\"TheI still have no idea what it means. Like, we were the problem so why “<3” us?!?!\"closeup20. Kim Kardashian infamously flew her “inner circle” to a private island to “pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.”\"Tweet<\/p>\n

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21. And last but not least, Tom Hanks was dragged for the ridiculous amount of Vegemite he put on his toast after being diagnosed with COVID:\"Tom<\/p>\n

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Read it on BuzzFeed.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As you’ve probably been seeing, it’s been six years since the p*ndemic began. Jeff Greenberg \/ Getty Images…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,47904,1077,85,46,169086,22250,2004,62469,96474],"class_list":["post-346245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-gal-gadot","tag-getty-images","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jeff-greenberg","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-madonna","tag-naomi-campbell","tag-vanessa-hudgens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}