What Consitutes a Selfie?

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It is a photograph that an individual takes of him or herself, and or with someone else typically taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.

"Perhaps the emotive selfie is simply the currency of communication for a new generation, and an increasingly valuable one as face-to-face communication." - New York Times

"Selfie? There's an app for that." - USA Today

"Selfie is for people to be able to share life’s everyday moments rather than a filtered, curated view of a life that seems perfect." - NBC News

So if this definition is correct, how do we explain this pix. Images from the past.