Okay! A poll:

Is a selfie:

A: Specifically a photo taken from holding a camera/phone pointed at yourself

B: Any photo where the poster is the primary subject

?

Because I feel like the word originally meant A but is starting to be used to mean B a whole lot of the time.

@starkatt A, until it's associated by context with "a picture of me" so often in someone's mind that they forget there's another word for it. Then it becomes B.

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