Selfie Emoji

A mobile phone held up to take a selfie (photo of the person holding the phone or camera). Generally represented as a disembodied arm holding a mobile phone. This emoji is to represent a person taking selfie from their cameras or mobile phones. With the help of this emoji, special emphasis on making yourself happy by taking a photo of yourself is emphasized. It is usually said that photographs are for keeping the memories of your loved ones with you always. However, nowadays, caring for yourself through selfies have also become possible.

HISTORY:

With the release of the world's first front camera in the year 2003, the beginning and evolution of selfies and emojis representing them took place. However, even after getting introduced, the real popularity of this emoji started to rise between the year 2010 and 2013 & it got added in the Unicode in the year 2016.

USES:

Use of this “selfie” emoji is mostly done to signify that a selfie is taken. Mostly, when people take selfies and upload them on social media platforms, they use this emoji to tell others about the selfie that they have taken.