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[cakefoo]

Can anyone tell me why "Selfie" is so popular? It isn't even a new thing. People have been taking pictures of themselves and posting them online for years. Goes all the way back to MySpace.

I just don't understand why people treat it as a new "trend" or a new thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie



Some of the most significant headlines:

Mars Curiosity "Selfie"
"Selfie" was added to the English dictionary last August
Oxford Dictionary word of the year
"Selfie" and "twerk" most annoying words in school
Ellen's Oscars selfie

TLDR: Aliens started it.

 

[Ken Masters]

That's the general idea

you'll get far around here with grade A humor like this

 

[DiipuSurotu]

We used to call these group photos...

A selfie is when the photographer is a photographee.

 

[Monkey_Plunkett]

 

[SquiddyCracker]

lol no

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble

I wish

 

[rouken]

I really, really hate celebrity worship...

I find Game Developer worship much more disturbing than celebrity worship.

example: that amy hennig thread on gaming side.

 

[RoninChaos]

Julie Roberts looks like she is going to kill someone with those teeth.

Jennifer Lawrence is fucking adorable, as usual.

Also, J. Law apparently said this right before the selfie:

 

[The Real Abed]

My favorite is still Benedict Cumberbatch's U2 photobomb.

 

[Play-Stay-Tion]

screw these actors

leo dicaprio master race

 

[Replicant]

Source please

Sorry didn't see this until now. But here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QYYbjKEm08

And bonus LEGO Last of Us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab8ds7NmigE

 

[sparkzero]

in the meantime this is already in the making:

I guess he will be invited to Ellen soon.

 

[Trent Strong]

Now that's just bad.

 

[MacNille]

https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/440637605885915137

I feel bad for laughing at this.

 

[MIMIC]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie

"The first known selfie, taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839"

I can't tell if this is serious or not.

 

[WordAssassin]

Can someone explain to me why matt groening drawing a bunch of actors taking a group selfie is a big deal?

Maybe it's because of how completely awful the caricatures are? I mean seriously, that's the Simpsons version of Bradley Cooper? Jesus fuck.

 

[overcast]

This is awful. In a lot of ways. How has the Simpsons art gotten so shit, my god man.

The selfie isn't so bad, it's really corny, but whatever.

Kind of related, but man am I really tired of Jennifer Lawrence's "so quirky, so much like us" bit.

 

[NekoFever]

Maybe it's because of how completely awful the caricatures are? I mean seriously, that's the Simpsons version of Bradley Cooper? Jesus fuck.

That one's amazingly bad. A lot of them I can kind of see the resemblance if it's pointed out, although I'd struggle to identify them unaided. But that's just some guy with a beard.

 

[The Maverick]

This reminds me that American Hustle was such a good movie.

And that Julia Roberts is woman of the forever. Still would.

 

[Stevetopsy]

Just think of all the selfies they're going to take next year after the success of this thing.

 

[Aquamarine]

There's always one. Well one for thing, it was retweeted 2.3 million times in record time, and has been by many many millions more.

Popular things on the Internet continue to astound me. It's some random celebrities...in a photo that one of them took. Not like they haven't been in thousands of photographs in the past or anything.

OH MY GOD BUT ONE OF THEM TOOK THE PHOTO AND NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER THEY'RE JUST LIKE US GUYS OMG OMG OMG