What Does This Mean?

Selfie

[ INSTAGRAM CULTURE ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]

FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Instagram CultureCLUSTER: Camera Interface Grammar

A photograph a person takes of themselves, typically with a phone held at arm's length or via a front-facing camera, one of the most widely adopted pieces of vocabulary smartphone cameras produced.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"She took a quick selfie before heading out the door."

LORE & ORIGIN

The term gained mainstream popularity in the early 2010s as front-facing smartphone cameras made self-photography trivially easy, becoming common enough to be named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2013.

FIRST SEEN

2010

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

Not established

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESselfie →Français fr-FRselfie →日本語 ja-JPセルフィー →한국어 ko-KR셀피 →Português pt-BRselfie →中文 zh-CN自拍 →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

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EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

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