This is definitely not the first selfie ever taken

I know I was being a bit /s - it’s 1966. He did take some cool pictures there though.

Absolutely. Those guys have all been some places and seen some amazing things.

If you open up the original screenplay for Wes Andersons Darjeeling Limited its just a copy of this photo.

The second photograph ever taken was a selfie of the inventor. 😉

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woosh

I think I knew that but you reminded me of a good film. I love George ❤️

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100% didn’t invent the selfie

Ahh, when the Beatles grew mustaches

They look so contemporary now, they’d fit right in with the hipsters.

Well, Ringo and John were the hipster types it seemed back then anyway

Have you seen the sports player who is said to look like all of them combined? 😎

What?!

https://preview.redd.it/vrkferdyeika1.jpeg?width=707&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=fe26568373213b9492481bd9be90b250de2a30bd

Mostly like Ringo I think?

Holy shit

I know lol

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Op just telling lies.

OP is a big ol phony

I wonder why he didn't ask one of the ladies with him to take his picture? I don't know what's going on with them, but it looks like there are two of them with him?

Maybe he just wanted to take it himself? It’s just striking to me that he’s taking it the same way that people take selfies now.

This is definitely the most modern looking one I’ve seen thats from before the 21st century (if you told me this was taken yesterday, I’d 100% believe you), and it’s actually a selfie as opposed to just a self portrait.

Ehhh. That’s really pushing the definition of a selfie I think. I think a selfie is something that can only be done with a portable camera digital camera or smartphone that the subject is holding. Otherwise, it’s just a well timed self portrait. When someone says “selfie”, what usually comes to mind is a picture of yourself in which the camera is obviously at the end of an extended arm or pair of arms.

And you don’t think that can be done with a regular film camera?

I meant to say a portable camera, not just digital or smartphone but my brain wasn’t working. Obviously you couldn’t do that with the type of early camera that guy was using all the way back in the mid-19th century.

The first portable camera (obscura) was invented in the 1600s which was a refinement of a five hundred year old invention. Portable cameras were used in the American Civil War.

You’re trying to make a cultural argument and that’s fine.

But you’re also making historically inaccurate claims as well. If you really want to argue that a handheld camera as being the sole requirement for a selfie that would be the 1880s.

Give it up as a well intentioned misunderstanding? 😉

You can't fool me OP. I've played Life is Strange. Selfie's were popularized by the French photographer Louis Daguerre inventing and popularizing daguerreotypes.

It was meant to be a bit /s but I know you have to be careful of subtle sarcasm on here. Yes, I know George Harrison did not invent the selfie, but it would have been his 80th birthday yesterday 😎🎂

Ps just don’t popularize stereotypes, that’s bad 😱

That’s exactly what I was thinking here .

Thanks! That was the point of the obviously somewhat s/ post :)