The National Selfie Day is celebrated every year on June 21, 2020. Cell phones and social media have transformed our lives beyond any measure or comparison. With the advent of social media platforms like Instagram, that invoke the photogenic self hidden in all of us, selfies have become more popular than ever. Here is everything you need to know about National Selfie Day.
National Selfie Day History and Significance:
Selfies are the most recent form of self-portraiture, but self-portraiture is a timeless art. Since the invention of the film camera in 1885, humans have been drawn the allure of their own image. The first-ever Selfie in the world was created by Robert Cornelius, an American chemist, who also became the founding father of photography.
In 1839, Cornelius had to sit still for 10-15 minutes to create the first intentional self-portrait. He used the daguerreotype method for creating his selfie, which was the first commercially successful photographic process. Since then artists and photographers kept on defining and redefining self-portraiture for years. However, the scenario changed in 2002 when mobile phones with cameras became widely available. Suddenly everyone who owns a phone with a camera could become a self-portraiture artist. But smartphones with improved camera megapixels took this to a whole another level.
Amongst millennials, the term selfie and the concept became more widespread after Selfie song and the video was released by Chainsmokers in 2014. It was around the same time that Instagram was becoming wildly popular among millennials. Selfies aren’t just as means of self-portraiture any more, people the front camera from their phones for huddled group photos as well. Hence, selfies along with the ability to view, like and comment, became a widespread phenomenon.
National Selfie Day Caption for Instagram:
1. Believe in yourselfie
2. Trust yourselfie
3. Crazy about myselfie
4. Practice some selfie love today
5. Love yourselfie
6. You should go and love yourselfie
7. Don’t be afraid to let yourselfie dream
8. Have faith in oneselfie
9. Never give up on yourselfie
10. Stop being so hard on yourselfie
11. “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.” — Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
12. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
13. “What? Like it’s hard?” — Elle Woods, Legally Blonde
