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  • Let's, uh, let's take a moment to talk about selfies.

  • They're the top way to show people

  • what parts of your body are on fleek.

  • Uh... yeah, for me personally, it's my elbow.

  • Uh, or, as I like to call it, my arm-knee.

  • But, um, as innocent as the selfie craze may seem,

  • it can have real-world consequences.

  • And for more on this we're joined by

  • senior technology correspondent Ronny Chieng, everybody.

  • -(cheering, applause) -Hey. Hey, everybody.

  • Thanks, Trevor.

  • Selfies used to be a harmless way

  • to show everyone how #blessed your life is.

  • But as it turned out, looking at pictures of your own head

  • all the time can actually start to mess with it.

  • REPORTER: In this age of the selfie

  • there's been a surge in lip augmentation procedures,

  • the love affair with lips

  • leading to a record number of lip jobs last year.

  • Doctors say because we see so many images of ourselves,

  • almost constantly, on social media,

  • we're much more aware of how our lips look.

  • Are you serious? People are having surgery to enhance

  • their lips just to look better in selfies.

  • What happened to just doing duck face, hmm?

  • Always works for me.

  • Yo! No one's judging your lips, okay?

  • We're judging your double chin and your weird nose.

  • I guess what I'm trying to say is that why are you stopping

  • at your lips? Just face your whole fa... fix your whole face.

  • And not only are selfies blowing up lips,

  • they're also shrinking bank accounts.

  • NFL prospect Laremy Tunsil should have been celebrating

  • being drafted into the NFL last night.

  • REPORTER: Tunsil was projected to go, uh, six

  • to the Baltimore Ravens, ended up falling to 13.

  • That drop right there cost him about

  • $8 million in salary over the next four years.

  • REPORTER 2: Minutes before the draft opened,

  • a two-year-old video posted

  • to Tunsil's Twitter account showing him taking

  • a massive bong hit out of a gas mask.

  • Come on. How do we even know that's Laremy Tunsil?

  • It could be anyone! It could be a time-traveling

  • World War II soldier.

  • It actually took days of investigative journalism

  • to figure out his identity.

  • They had to go through the video frame by frame.

  • And it also helped that he took

  • his mask off and showed his face.

  • Yo,

  • if you're recording yourself doing something illegal

  • and you're already wearing a mask,

  • just leave it on!

  • That's what masks are for.

  • Also, why does the NFL even care if players smoke pot?

  • Oh, oh, wait, I get it.

  • 'Cause marijuana could cause brain damage,

  • and brain damage is trademarked by the NFL.

  • (cheering and applause)

  • But, hey, at least Tunsil was just doing something stupid

  • and not dangerous, like Snapchatting while driving.

  • REPORTER: A new lawsuit filed against Snapchat

  • and 18-year-old Crystal McGee.

  • Snapchat has a feature called a speed overlay filter,

  • and it measures how fast users are moving

  • while they are taking a photo or video.

  • REPORTER 2: The man is suing the social media giant claiming

  • that an 18-year-old drove more than 100 miles an hour

  • and crashed into his car while she was using the app.

  • Snapchat used to be about dick pics, okay?

  • Now you're encouraging people to take selfies while speeding?

  • I never thought I'd say this, but, Snapchat,

  • I liked you better when you were just sending me dicks.

  • All right? And, well, hey,

  • at least this woman is okay and she learned her lesson, right?

  • REPORTER 3: But even the crash didn't stop McGee

  • from Snapchatting. Attorneys say McGee sent out this selfie.

  • Strapped to a gurney, she types, "Lucky to be alive."

  • (groaning, laughter)

  • She sent a Snapchat

  • right after sending a Snapchat nearly killed her?

  • That's like having an allergic reaction to shellfish

  • and then, on the way to the hospital,

  • swinging by Red Lobster for the Seafood Trio, all right?

  • Also, what adamantium phone case are you using?

  • Like, your car gets totaled

  • and somehow your phone magically survived.

  • Meanwhile, my phone shatters if I drop it on a pillow.

  • Unfortunately, selfies aren't just addictive.

  • According to some people, they are a God-given right.

  • A South Carolina man learned the hard way

  • that trying to take a selfie with Amy Schumer

  • is no laughing matter.

  • The comedian says that she was scared

  • when this man ran up to her and started recording video.

  • I told her this is America. I said in America,

  • when you see a celebrity, you go and take a selfie.

  • This is America!

  • That dude says it like it's in the Constitution, right?

  • Listen, nowhere does it say, "We hold these truths

  • to be selfie-evident."

  • Look, when we see famous people,

  • we all want to take a selfie with them, all right?

  • I want to take a selfie with Trevor right now

  • so I can get a ton of likes, all right?

  • Not as many likes as if I took it with Amy Schumer

  • but, hey, still a lot, all right?

  • But you know what? I resist the urge.

  • That's what being human is about,

  • resisting your base impulses, all right?

  • That's why I'm not humping this desk right now.

  • So, go ahead

  • and keep taking selfies.

  • Just understand there's a time and a place, all right?

  • And everyone else stop acting like narcissism

  • is just a millennial thing, okay?

  • Old people, you would have done the exact same (bleep)

  • if you had access to the technology.

  • What's weirder, taking two seconds to snap a selfie

  • or spending six months painting yourself?

  • I know.

  • I mean, look. Look how easy it is to just do one of these.

  • -Look. -I thought you said you weren't gonna take a sel...

  • -What are you doing? You're taking a selfie. -Yeah.

  • I also said I wasn't gonna hump the desk, but, you know what,

  • you got to do what you got to go, all right? So...

Let's, uh, let's take a moment to talk about selfies.

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