Kristen Bell's Dinner Photo

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Kristen Bell's Dinner Photo is an image of several Hollywood celebrities at a dinner hosted by actress Kristen Bell. After the image was shared by Bell on her Instagram in early July 2023, it was reposted on Twitter, 4chan, Reddit and various gossip blogs, with people posting jokes about the supposed lack of racial diversity in the photo.

Origin

On July 7th, 2023, Hollywood actress Kristen Bell posted an Instagram slideshow captioned "Idaho, chapter 1🏔️🧡" The slideshow contained a photo showing Bell, John Mulaney, Jimmy Fallon, Courteney Cox, Adam Scott and various other celebrities sitting at a long dinner table, reportedly at Jimmy Kimmel's South Fork Lodge.^[1]

The image was reposted to Twitter on July 7th by @coledelbyck, where it gathered over 30,000 likes in three days.^[2] Several people then noted the lack of non-white people at the table in the replies to the tweet.^[3][4][5]

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On July 8th, 2023, Twitter^[6] user @moveablejaw reposted Kristen Bell's dinner photo with the caption, "The English department (tenured faculty only) and their spouses at an end-of-year celebration hosted by an associate prof whose husband is an investment banker." The post gathered over 5,900 likes in two days (seen below, left). Also on July 8th, Twitter^[7] user @Camille_U_Adams posted the image with the caption, "When the masthead looks like this, I don’t submit 😶‍🌫️," gathering over 1,600 likes in two days (seen below, right).

On July 8th, user Choco Cherub posted the image to the gossip forum Lipstick Alley with the caption, "Kristen Bell Said No Ethnics Allowed."^[12]

On July 9th, 2023, Twitter^[8] user @alwaystheself posted the image with the caption, "The people who run the entire diversity, equity and inclusion industry," gathering over 6,200 likes in a day (seen below, left). Also on July 9th, 2023, Twitter^[9] user @Jairo_I_Funez posted the image with a caption that read, "Decolonial scholars conspiring to decolonize the world," gathering over 10,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

A 4chan /pol/ thread discussing the image was created on July 9th, 2023.^[10] On July 9th, Redditor^[11] DelusionalRational posted the image to /r/Wallstreetsilver with the caption, "These are the people who lecture you on diversity," gathering over 900 upvotes in a day (seen below).

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