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[The Last One]

Sorry, I had to create a thread for this, amazing.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...73850413696.246070.29534858696&type=1&theater

 

[dkeane]

Is it really considered a "selfie" if it's a picture of a group of people?

 

[Zeppeli]

homer simpson hasn't belonged at the oscars since season 9.

 

[Tesseract]

is selfi short for selfish?

 

[Dai101]

Ugh.......

 

[TUSR]

edit: i was wrong

 

[Fatalah]

Love the Sampsons!

 

[cacildo]

Ugh... simpsons-style stuff...

 

[Spider from Mars]

We have vastly different definitions of amazing

 

[The Last One]

I'm not a big fan of simpsons either, but I find this picture great!

 

[OverBlood 3]

Is it really considered a "selfie" if it's a picture of a group of people?

Nope, the Oscar 'selfie' is actually what you might call 'a photo of some people' or what it actually is an advert for samsung.

 

[bearythebear]

I really wish this didn't catch on. Now we'll have to suffer through more social media bullshit on tv

 

[xxracerxx]

I don't see Liza.

 

[Azuran]

Fuck Hollywood.

 

[NekoFever]

I'd struggle to recognise who any of those are supposed to be unless you told me. I might guess Ellen.

 

[Entropia]

Jennifer Lawrence looks like a real life version Lisa who is drawn as a Simpsons character.

 

[SJRB]

I prefer this one:

 

[jwk94]

Is it really considered a "selfie" if it's a picture of a group of people?

That's a group selfie.

 

[The Last One]

I prefer this one:

well, that's sad picture lol

 

[Tangeroo]

The selfie from above:

Poor Liza Minnelli.

 

[potam]

Seriously, what's the big deal about that picture? Why do people think celebrities in public settings acting goofy is so unbelievable?

Not to mention it was a Samsung advertisement.

 

[Regulus Tera]

My question is, why did the word selfie only catch on in the past few years when people have been taking pictures of themselves since portable cameras were invented?

 

[Tangeroo]

Seriously, what's the big deal about that picture? Why do people think celebrities in public settings acting goofy is so unbelievable?

Not to mention it was a Samsung advertisement.

Probably because it was during the actual Academy Awards with a shit-ton of Academy Award Winners.

My question is, why did the word selfie only catch on in the past few years when people have been taking pictures of themselves since portable cameras were invented?

Because we're finally at a point where just about everyone has a portable camera (aka cell phone with camera in it) and social networking.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

new simpsons looks so stale and cold

 

[wedward]

The Simpson's continued attempts to remain relevant are starting to get sad.

Just bow out already.

 

[NullPointer]

Poor Liza Minnelli.

That wasn't her trying to get into the shot, it was her falling over from the chronic vertigo.

 

[Cudder]

I prefer this one:

lmao

 

[Dawg]

The Simpsons managed to make Jared Leto look bad.

Congratulations.

 

[Deadstar]

Who hurt you Leo, who hurt you.

 

[botty]

 

[Guevara]

The really captured Jennifer Lawrence's je ne sais quoi

 

[teruterubozu]

 

[Tesseract]

is actors retarded?

 

[stormer]

i don't know why this is amazing.. meh

 

[lenovox1]

is selfi short for selfish?

It's probably a hypocoristic shortening of "self-portrait" first coined by Australians.

My question is, why did the word selfie only catch on in the past few years when people have been taking pictures of themselves since portable cameras were invented?

The popularity of the word is probably directly tied to the rise in popularity of Twitter, and then Instagram. The global reach of those services probably allow a word like "selfie" to permeate all forms of the English language at warp speed. Without them, the word would probably still be local, and most of us would be saying what we said before Twitter, "I took a picture of myself..."

 

[potam]

The really captured Jennifer Lawrence's je ne sais quoi

her groomed and managed ditsy girl-next-door persona?

 

[samn]

Selfies aren't really easy to do without smartphones that have front facing cameras.

 

[Wilsongt]

Somoene needs to shop Liza's head over Homer's.

 

[t-storm]

The selfie from above:

Poor Liza Minnelli.

I lol'd

 

[Fry]

Kevin Spacey's face is the greatest.

 

[Dr D Wayne Love]

 

[Broder Salsa]

The funny part is that even John Terry and his Chelsea has an Oscar. What's your excuse DiCaprio?

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I like that they took the effort to get Simpson-Spacey to have the same look on his face. Not bad.

 

[legacyzero]

Man...

J Law is a goddess.

 

[SystemBug]

I prefer this one:

for his next film, leo should play a character whos an actor, that is obsessed with winning an oscar. the character's obsession will be his eventual downfall.

wait I think i have seen that movie before.

wow leo really does play the same role over and over again.

 

[Acorn]

Terry muscles out a black dude again.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Seriously, what's the big deal about that picture? Why do people think celebrities in public settings acting goofy is so unbelievable?

Not to mention it was a Samsung advertisement.

I don't know, but a lot of people don't believe it. Hence the Jennifer Lawrence "schtick" complaints people always make.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Oh, huh. Bart's in there too. Didn't see that.

 

[akira28]

Poor Liza

 

[Madness]

Lupita's brother just jumps in with them and then basically covers up Angelina Jolie's face lol, all while she's so far in the back you barely see her.

That said, the amount of people who say it's the best photo ever taken just shows how celebrity obsessed America is.