Selfie Olympics

About

Selfie Olympics, also known as Trick Shot Selfie, is a photo fad that involves taking a mirror-shoot selfie in a bathroom while posing in a physically challenging manner or partaking in an unusual activity.

Origin

On November 21st, 2013, FreeOnSmash blogger Rock Burgundy^[1] tweeted a photograph of a young man taking a mirror-shot selfie while holding his phone with both hands to the side of his head, coining the hashtags #trickshotselfies and #AND1selfieleague.

im cryin… niggas taking trickshot selfies… AND1 selfie league pic.twitter.com/OBB40qbnyj
— rock burgundy! (@itsRockB) November 21, 2013

Spread

On the morning of December 25th, 2013, Twitter user YungTumbleweed shared a selfie of a young man in a climbed position around a door. The tweet quickly spread beyond the user’s followers, accumulating more than 2,300 retweets and 1,600 favorites in the first week.

When ya whole outfit dope pic.twitter.com/7l9lhvumcK
— yung tumbleWEED (@yungheelymesiah) December 25, 2013

Later that same day, LittleMissSunshine tweeted another selfie of a young man posing on top of the bathroom sink while supporting himself against the wall, using the hashtags #And1SelfieLeague and #TrickShotSelfies.

The GOAT RT GoYungDJ</a>: Look what you started my nigga <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23And1SelfieLeague&src=hash">#And1SelfieLeague</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TrickShotSelfies&src=hash">#TrickShotSelfies</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/itsRockB">itsRockB I'm pissed pic.twitter.com/Vut9U0OcHE
— LittleMissMoonshine (@steenfox) December 25, 2013

On January 3rd, 2014, the Twitter account SelfyOlympics was launched to curate a variety of mirror-shot selfies taken in all sorts of challenging poses. Within hours of its creation, the hashtag became a trending topic on Twitter.