This June 21st marks World Selfie Day, founded by DJ Rick McNally, to raise money for charities. Through these types of photos.

While selfies are a relatively recent fashion that has gone viral thanks to the advent of smartphones,It can be said that this is an invention of 1839, when Robert Cornelius, the owner of a lamp shop in Philadelphia, USA, took a self-portrait with the camera of that time.

Taking selfies in the first years of this new millennium was not an easy task as there were no front cameras. Celebrities like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears can be seen in famous magazines and TV channels like MTV trying to take selfies with the video cameras of that decade.

However, this activity became a trend when in 2014 the DJ duo “The Chainsmokers” released a song called “Selfie”, which was very successful at the time and today has more than 600 million views on YouTube.

The music video shows both celebrities and ordinary people taking selfies in various poses, as well as pointing out how mobile phones have influenced people’s social interactions.

Since then, self-portraits have become very popular among smartphone users, which has become quite a common activity. These are the most famous selfies in history:

1. Without a doubt, the most famous Twitter selfie so far was taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the 2014 Oscars with Hollywood stars.

And while Ellen invited the actors to take a famous photo, she grabbed the device and photographed Bradley Cooper. Other selfie artists included Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum, Meryl Streep, Ellen DeGeneres, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o and Angelina Jolie.

2. This is one of the most impressive selfies to date. Astronaut Mike Hopkins took a self-portrait in space in 2013 against the backdrop of planet Earth, specifically outside the International Space Station.

However, 2013 was not the first time an astronaut had taken a selfie of the planet Earth; in November 1966, space pilot Edwin “Baz” Aldrin Jr. had already achieved this by opening the hatch of the ship in which he was performing. Cult shot.

3. This self-portrait is considered by internet users to be one of the most gentle, it happened in 2011 when a nature photographer, David Slater, gave a monkey named Crested Macaques a game with a camera, the protagonist of the photo is called “Naruto”. And by that time he was living in the jungles of Indonesia.

Shortly after this fact, the photo gained titles because when the photographer published it under his authorship, the animal rights group PETA sued him for copyright in the state of California, claiming that the author belonged to Macaque and not to him. Camera owner ..

4. It was one of the funniest selfies on the internet, the self-portrait context occurred when Australian hockey players Jade Taylor and Brooke Percy were photographed, but Queen Elizabeth sneaked into the camera. With an evil smile.

5. The selfie with the most “likes” on Instagram, her characters are “former Disney girl”, Selena Gomez and singer, The Weeknd, who took a photo at the Coachella festival.

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