Parmigianino, a 21-year-old Italian artist, painted himself using a barber's mirror.

一位 21 歲的義大利藝術家 Parmigianino 借助理髮廳的鏡子描繪了自己。

He gave it to the Pope as a gift, so even at the beginning, it was established:

他隨後將畫作當禮物送給教宗，所以就連在初始時，這個概念也確立了：

Selfies are for sharing.

自拍是拿來分享的。

In terms of drawing, Rembrandt put together this pretty great duckface self-portrait in 1630.

就繪畫而言，1630 年 Rembrandt 畫了這幅不錯的嘟嘴自畫像。

The first photo self-portrait was taken by Robert Cornelius, a chemist from Philadelphia.

首張自拍照片出自費城一位化學家 Robert Cornelius 之手。

He had to take off the lens cap, run into frame, sit for one minute, then run back and cover up the lens.

他當時得拿掉鏡頭蓋、跑到畫面裡、坐一分鐘，然後跑回去把鏡頭蓋上。

Selfies used to take that kind of commitment.

以前的自拍是需要那種程度的投入。

The modern selfie began with the first true camera phone, which was made by Sharp and released in Japan in November of 2000.

現代的自拍始於第一部真實的相機手機，由夏普公司製作，並於 2000 年 11 月在日本推出。

It had a mirror next to the lens, so was basically designed for selfies, even though that term wouldn't be coined until 2002 in Australia,

它在鏡頭旁邊有一個鏡子，基本上是為自拍而設計，即便「自拍」這個詞一直到 2002 年才在澳洲被創造出來。

where they have a habit of adding the suffix "-ie" to things, like "barbie" for barbecue and "Aussie" for Australian.

澳洲人習慣在字的後面加上 "-ie" 這個字尾，例如 "barbie" 是指燒烤、"Aussie" 是指澳洲人。

In 2011, Jennifer Lee became the first person to use the hashtag "#selfie" on instagram.

在 2011 年，Jennifer Lee 成為第一位在 Instagram 使用 #selfie 這個標籤的人。

Since then, it's been used more than 80 million times, but there aren't just many selfies posted as you might think.

從那時候開始，這個標籤已被使用超過 8 千萬次，但上傳的自拍照可能比你想的還要少。

Only about 5 percent of Instagram pics are selfies.

只有大約 5% 上傳到 Instagram 的照片是自拍。

The city with the most Instagram selfies per capita is Manilla in the Philippines.

以每人平均而言，菲律賓的馬尼拉擁有最多 Instagram 自拍照。

Number two is New York City, three is Miami, and at number four, Anaheim, California.

第二是紐約市、第三是邁阿密，而第四是加州的阿納海。

Thanks to Disneyland, the fourth most magical place on earth [to] take a picture yourself.

多虧迪士尼，它是世界上第四個神奇的自拍地點。

Across the world, women take way more selfies than men.

在世界上，女人自拍數量比男人多得多。

They also tilt their heads more, at 12.3-degree tilt for women versus only 8.2 percent for men.

女人們歪頭幅度也較大，大約傾斜約 12.3 度，而男人只有 8.2%。

The average selfie photographer is 23.7 years old.

自拍攝影者的平均年齡是 23.7 歲。

But in the over-40 selfie crowd, photographers are more likely to be male than female.

但在超過 40 歲的攝影者中，男生比女生多。

As you probably know, selfie was the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of The Year in 2013,

你大概已經應該知道，selfie 這個字是牛津英語詞典 2013 年的年度單字，

a year that included the first-ever Pope selfie and President Obama's selfie at Mandela's memorial service.

那年出現了第一張教宗自拍照和總統歐巴馬在曼德拉追悼會上的自拍。

But it wouldn't be until 2014 that Ellen's Oscar selfie blew up Twitter and became the most re-tweeted tweet ever.

但直到 2014 年艾倫的奧斯卡自拍照出現，才風靡推特，讓那則自拍成了史上最多轉推數的貼文。

In the grand scheme of things, selfie history is still in its infancy.

就宏觀而言，自拍歷史還處於起步階段。

Will [it] continue to evolve, or is it already in decline?

它將會繼續發展，或是已經在走下坡呢？

What do you think?

你怎麼看？