Vsauce's video: The History Of The Selfie

Get 50% off your first Curiosity Box with code BLACKFRIDAY: https://www.curiositybox.com/ follow me: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce SOURCES: White House tour social media ban: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tourist-selfies-white-house/story?id=32156132 Bek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bek_(sculptor) https://egypt-museum.com/stele-of-sculptor-bek-with-his-wife-taheret/ https://ib205.tripod.com/bek.html Chauvet cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave Selfie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie “Exploring the Selfie”: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-57949-8 https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/whats-the-difference-between-a-selfie-and-a-self-portrait/ https://museuminabottle.com/2015/01/22/whats-the-difference-between-a-selfie-and-a-self-portrait/ https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/sunday-review/my-selfie-myself.html https://blog.oup.com/2013/11/selfies-history-self-portrait-photography/ Chimp looking in water image: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Juvenile-chimpanzee-playing-with-his-own-reflection-in-the-water-Apes-are-known-to_fig1_7689692 Smithsonian Magazine article on Cornelius: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-is-the-first-selfie-ever-180948114/ Smithsonian archive page for Fitz’s selfie: https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_694883 Hippolyte Bayard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Bayard “Is Cereal Soup?” Vsauce video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ak89FwYeI MV Lobethal: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._V._Lobethal Mirror selfie from Ginnigan on reddit: https://i.imgur.com/zJJwQGF.png Byron extended arm selfie: https://vintagenewsdaily.com/these-amazing-self-portraits-by-joseph-byron-may-be-the-first-selfies-ever-made/ Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia https://pagesix.com/2017/04/25/anastasia-was-the-kardashian-of-her-day-says-broadway-star/ Perkins teenage self-portrait: https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/william-henry-perkin early selfie sticks: https://pastebin.com/Qr66ppGQ Byron “usie”: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026832/this-might-be-the-first-selfie-in-photographic-history Jhoane Baterna-Pateña: http://www.baterna-patena.com/ Historical images re-imagined as selfies: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/historical-photo-selfies_n_4310424 Vivian Maier: http://www.vivianmaier.com/ instant cameras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_camera https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/land-instant-photography.html Michael Collins’ reverse-selfie: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/a11_h_44_6642.html First selfie-stick patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4530580 Lester Wisbrod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSSuoZH8Gms https://www.vice.com/en/article/nekyq8/candid-photos-with-famous-people-by-the-unofficial-inventor-of-the-selfie Hiromix: https://sabukaru.online/articles/hiromix-shaping-the-identity-of-90s-japanese-female-youth https://www.teenagefilm.com/archives/teen-reads/seventeen-girl-days https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/16/style/IHT-young-women-behind-the-camera-craze-in-tokyo.html http://www.photoarts.com/journal/romano/hiro/ https://japanesephotoblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/blog-post-6-hiromix/ https://www.papercoffin.com/writing/articles/coerced.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromix First camera phone picture: https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/1997-birth-of-the-camera-phone-2/ “Here I Am Taking My Own Picture” (nytimes) 2006: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/fashion/sundaystyles/here-i-am-taking-my-own-picture.html Oldest recorded use of “seflie”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3061118/Australia-revealed-invented-word-selfie-2000-Aussie-phrases-words-added-Oxford-Dictionaries.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/11/selfie-etymology-an-australian-man-takes-a-photo-of-his-lip-after-falling-down-drunk-but-he-didn-t-coin-the-word.html (archive of forum post): https://web.archive.org/web/20040117090107/http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/archives/archive32/newposts/169/topic169861.shtm Aussie slang: https://daily.jstor.org/australians-obsessed-nicknaming/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutives_in_Australian_English https://www.abc.net.au/education/learn-english/australian-slang-soz-or-wuz/11335542 https://thebeast.com.au/other/australian-english-a-totes-amazeballs-lingo/ # “selfie” as word of the year: https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-24992393 Anachronym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misnomer “The Return of the Selfie” (New Yorker): https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-return-of-the-selfie Kardashian belfie pic: https://www.instagram.com/p/fjw59uuS7b/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=06354636-71c2-4f46-b660-6db9127561dd Belfie stick: http://belfiestick.com/ ALL MUSIC BY JAKE CHUDNOW: https://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow additional images: https://pastebin.com/ypBQHiG4