- Okay, so, I am much older than my coworker Eric,
but sometimes that just means I'm much wiser.
For example, Eric thought:
Say what you just said again.
- Paris Hilton invented the selfie.
- She didn't invent the selfie.
- Oh my God, yes.
Look, look.
Huh? Huh?
Eleven years ago today.
- [Sarah] Okay.
- [Eric] Paris Hilton and Britney invented the selfie.
There, they're taking the selfie.
- But in 2004, the movie "13 Going on 30" came out,
and that movie has a scene where they take a selfie.
- I've never even heard of that movie, so I doubt it.
- Hold on. I'm going to show it to you.
- [Eric] That's a camera though.
- [Sarah] That's like a selfie from 2004, so.
- I was doing work and now you got me invested in this,
and I need to know like who actually
invented the first selfie.
- I'm gunna find out.
- I need you to find this.
- Ten minutes, baby.
- I'm going to watch this movie for now.
- Wait, you're watching the movie?
- Ya, it seems really good, to be honest.
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- I had to find out who invented the selfie.
I mean I work at BuzzFeed, so it's like my job to do that.
It's not my job to do that specifically,
but I made it my job, today at least.
So, I called BuzzFeed's resident selfie expert.
Hey, Jazz!
- Taking selfies is like really important
to make sure that you're confident when you do it
because, you know, everybody's going to be seeing this.
You want to make sure you find some good lighting.
- Okay, so who?
- And like it's always good if you like
match your background, or like contrast
with your background, you know,
like play off the colors.
- So who invented the selfie?
- I would assume Paris Hilton, but I'm not sure.
- That's not who really invented it.
Like who really invented the selfie, like the first person?
- Is that what you wanted to know the whole time?
You could literally just Google it.
Just go on, type on your little keyboard,
"Who invented the selfie"?
- So I decided to Google it.
Turns out, there's not really a definitive answer,
at least not on the first like two pages
of my Google search results.
Not only did Paris Hilton have nothing to do
with inventing the selfie, she didn't even coin the term.
The first documented use of the term "selfie,"
at least, in print,
was in September 2002 when a user "Hopey" posted
a close-up of his busted lip, writing,
"I had a hole about one centimeter long,
right through my bottom lip.
And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie."
Christian, did you see my slack?
It's the first selfie.
Cool, right?
- That's not a selfie.
- It doesn't look like a selfie as we know it,
but it's just the lips, but it's still.
- Okay, so, Hopey himself says, "It was not a word I coined.
It's something that was just common slang at the time,
used to describe a picture of yourself."
- Okay, well then who coined the term?
- Coining it is different than inventing it.
Think about it.
Like artists for centuries were doing self portraits,
since like before the 1500s.
- Should have paid attention in art class.
According to James Hall, people in the 15th century
were manipulating their self-images,
sometimes making themselves appear younger,
and sometimes casting themselves in biblical roles
because branding is, after all,
the second oldest profession.
More so than, Hopey's busted lip,
these self portraits with their manipulated images
capture the spirit of the selfie.
Albrecht Durer, a self-portraitist
and a well known narcissist,
used to paint himself with long, flowing hair
to appear more Christ like,
although his actual appearance is more reminiscent
of a guy from the early 90s with over-plucked eyebrows
and permed hair, but honestly,
what's wrong with a little selfie manipulation?
When I post a selfie, my teeth are white,
my eyes are big, and my nose is practically non-existent.
I'm basically a Bratz doll.
Rembrandt, Courbet, Van Gogh, they all painted selfies.
Sadly, a few hours into the middle of my research,
I hit a bit of a snag.
It's between Rembrandt, Courbet, and Van Gogh.
- Before you do that, we have to figure out
if like paintings are selfies.
Like have you looked at a definition of what a selfie is?
- Ya, I looked at, of course I looked the definition.
- So, what did it say?
- I didn't look at a definition.
- Alright, so let's look up the definition real quick.
- Alright, good.
- According to Oxford it is a photograph that one
has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam
and uploaded to a social media website.
- A selfie has to be a photo.
Everything I've done to this point has been pointless.
- How much time did you put into this?
- We're going to have to time travel forward
a couple hundred years to the invention of the camera.
The first partially successful images were produced
around 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce,
but those negatives didn't even last long.
He used silver chloride,
which darkens when exposed to light.
Those images disappeared.
He was basically the 19th century SnapChat.
So, we can't really say for sure whether Nicéphore Niépce
took that that first selfie
because we don't have the photos anymore.
The Library of Congress believes
the first selfie taken in America
was a photographic portrait by Robert Cornelius in 1839.
Robert had to hold still for 15 minutes
to get the perfect selfie,
which is not too different than how long it takes
to get the perfect selfie today,
since we take like 80 photos on average, maybe 100.
Come here.
- You got the answer?
- Ya, come here.
That's my main man, Robert C. from Philly,
and he took the first selfie in America,
and that's it right there.
- Where's the camera?
- Well he had to like set it,
and then he had to run around and go.
Selfie sticks, that was not a thing.
- He used an Instagram filter and like took credit
for inventing the selfie.
- [Sarah] He didn't.
- It's called a colloidal wet plate.
- That's the filter?
- Paris Hilton is not even the first celeb selfie
because Anastasia Romanov took that in 1914.
- [Christian] Is that a duck face?
- So, she invented the selfie?
- Rob from Philly invented the selfie.
- Ya, well I wouldn't say he invented
the selfie either because actually.
The selfie isn't really an invention; it's a phenomenon.
The inventor isn't a particular person,
it's the Internet, social media,
our own vain narcissistic selves.
And goddammit, we don't want to waste our time waiting
for someone else to take it.
We can take the photo our God damn selves.
So, who invented the selfie?
It's you; you invented the selfie.
- No, no, stop.
I don't want it.
I didn't invent the selfie.
I don't want to start any drama.
- Like capital "you."
- The greater sense of "you."
- Yes, ya, thank you.
Like, ya, humanity, we all did together.
It's like a phenomenon; it's not a person.
- Is that the ending of this, is you just copping out?
- It felt deep when I wrote it.
- This is for a video?
- Ya, it's for a video.
- We are running out of ideas.
- Oh my God.
I guess I didn't really answer the question.
- [Eric] I just made 20 bucks off of Bitcoin.
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