27 articles
Crime
Woman ‘takes selfie’ while allegedly stealing jewelry package at California FedEx
Police in Irvine, California, are looking for a woman accused of swiping boxes of jewelry worth thousands of dollars from a local FedEx stor...
Carl Samson
China
Woman ignites fury online for taking selfie with injured, unconscious person in the background
Social media users are criticizing a Chinese woman for taking a selfie with an unconscious person in the background during a tour of a state...
Bryan Ke
Government
Pentagon releases selfie of U-2 pilot with Chinese spy balloon taken before shootdown
The Department of Defense has released a selfie taken by the pilot of a U-2 spy plane showing the Chinese spy balloon before it was blown to...
Chandler Treon
News
AI’s prediction of what last selfies on Earth would look like are total nightmare fuel
A TikTok account that shares “disturbing” AI-generated images recently uploaded a video predicting what the last selfie on Earth could look...
Rebecca Moon
Economy
Indonesian college student becomes millionaire after putting his selfies up for sale as NFTs as a joke
Indonesian college student Sultan Gustaf Al Ghozali, 22, earned over $1 million by selling his selfies as NFTs. Ghozali took daily photos ...
Ryan General
Asia
Tourists May Be Sentenced to DEATH for Taking a Selfie at This Thai Beach
Tourists may face the death penalty for entering an area of Mai Khao beach in Phuket, Thailand that will soon be closed over safety concerns...
Instagram
Chinese Goths are Posting Selfies to Protest Woman Who Was ‘Too Scary’ to Board a Train
A Chinese subway station sparked furor online after refusing to let a goth woman board a train because her makeup was allegedly too scary. A...
Children’s ‘Group Selfie’ Goes Viral For Not Being a Real Selfie
A “group selfie” capturing a moment of awe-inspiring innocence has gone viral on social media. The image shared by Indian photographer Atul ...
Uncategorized
Swedish Blogger Covers Face in Menstrual Blood in Controversial Selfie in Bali
A Swedish blogger is making everyone’s stomach turn after she posted a controversial selfie showing her face and parts of her upper body cov...
NFL Player Posts Racist Facebook Selfie ‘Chinky Eyes Yoa Ming’
Indianapolis Colts cornerback Arthur Maulet recently posted a photo of himself with a racist term embedded on the image. The 25-year-old fo...
Entertainment
‘Butt Over Back’ Selfies are Trending On Instagram With Filipina Celebrities
The selfie trend which highlights the arches of the female body has only recently taken over Instagram feeds of followers of many Filipina c...
Indonesian Teen Gets Skull Cracked By Train While Taking Selfie With Friends
A 16-year-old girl miraculously survived after a speeding train hit her head, cracking her skull wide open while she was taking selfies with...
Japan’s 89-Year-Old ‘Queen of Selfies’ is Getting Her Own Exhibit in Tokyo
Kimiko Nishimoto is adored the world over as the undisputed “Queen of Selfies” for her creative, unconventional, and at times, h...
Woman’s Selfie Attempt Destroys $200,000 Art Installation Near L.A. Chinatown
A woman who was posing for a photo inside a Los Angeles gallery accidentally knocked over a pillar, sparking a domino effect that ruined an ...
South Korea Just Got the Most Epic Selfie Studio in the World
If you want to take your selfie game to the next level for National Selfie Day, you’ll have to travel all the way to South Korea. Life Studi...
Khier Casino
How Kawaii Japanese Girls Have Taken Photos for the Last 300 Years
We must admit, many staple selfie poses we see today are pretty much inspired by the photo poses popularized by the Japanese. From the iconi...
Thieves Can Actually Use Your Favorite Asian Pose to Steal Your Identity
Selfie addicts take heed: a security researcher from Japan is now warning against doing a particular picture pose that is very popular among...
What’s Going to Happen to the North Korean Athlete Who Took This Selfie?
A photo of a North and South Korean gymnast taking a selfie at the Olympics has raised more than a few brows. Olympic gymnast Lee Eun-Ju of...
Laura Dang
Cat Learns to Use GoPro, Takes the Most Amazing Selfies
Somewhere out there is a cat named Manny who, without a doubt, takes better selfies than most humans. Manny’s owner, identified by the Insta...
Sarah Lesnar
Why You Hate the Way You Look in Photos
OK, so all of your pictures are ugly. What gives? To be attractive, society says your face needs to be symmetrical. However, most real peopl...
This is What a $160 Billion Selfie Looks Like
Consider it the selfie sequel to September’s $200 billion photo. A selfie of French President Francois Hollande taken with some of China’s r...
Editorial Staff
Lifestyle
This Bot Has an Algorithm That Determines How Good (or Bad) Your Selfies Are
Need another opinion your latest selfie? A new bot trained to scientifically evaluate selfies is dishing out grades on Twitter. Selfie Bot (...
Boy is Caught Taking Selfies in the Trunk of a Moving Car on a Chinese Highway
Kids nowadays are willing to do just about anything to get the perfect selfie. It’s no wonder some kids have died “doing it for ...
Technology
Ridiculous Invention Allows You to Take the Perfect Selfie With Your Dog
Taking the perfect selfie with a dog can be a challenge. Dogs squirm, look the other way, or simply just won’t do anything at all R...
One Thing We Do on Our Phones Kills More People a Year Than Sharks
It is sad but true: More people have died attempting to take selfies than were killed by shark attacks in 2015. People are imagining more cr...
Man Tries to Take a Selfie With Rattlesnake, Racks up $150,000 Hospital Bill
// San Diego local Todd Fassler almost lost his life trying to take a selfie with a rattlesnake. ...
New ‘Selfie Arm’ is the Ideal Product For People With No Friends
You do it all the time. And you do it alone, all by yourself. We’re talking about selfies, of course, and how popular they’ve become. But th...
Augustine Reyes Chan
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