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human
Eli5: why was the photo of The Beatles crossing the street so significant and famous to this day? What made it so iconic?

I'm 24 so The Beatles were before my time, but I see the famous photo everywhere on a regular basis, what makes it so legendary?
gpt
Two things:

1) It was the cover to what would become the Beatles' most popular album

2) There wasn't any text on the outside of the album.  You were just supposed to recognize "oh that's a picture of the Beatles" and figure out that it was the new Beatles' album.  This resulted in it becoming a kind of pre-internet meme because the uniqueness of an album without any text of the cover got people to show it to one another and generally share information about it.

So a lot of people who were alive at the time owned the album, thought it was the best album in their collection, learned to recognize it solely from the cover image, and shared it in a fashion that was similar to an internet meme.