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Epic Selfie Shaming': Seven Ladies Took Advantage of a Tragedy to Snap Photos. They Probably Never Expected to Wind Up on the Cover of the New York Post.
March 29, 2015
"Village idiots."
Now may be the time to retire your "selfie stick" — or at least learn when it's tasteless to use it.
The New York Post's Sunday cover blasted a group of women who snapped a selfie in front of a developing tragedy in Manhattan's East Village, giving the women a blunt title: "Village Idiots."
Today's Cover https://t.co/3UObzl3ZMA pic.twitter.com/iceVaaw2f9
— New York Post (@nypost) March 29, 2015
The photo popped up on Twitter in the aftermath of a massive Thursday explosion in New York City that destroyed three buildings, injured dozens and started a fire.
Many expressed shock that the septet of smiling ladies would pose for a selfie as fiery chaos raged behind them.
Friday night #eastvillage @evgrieve pic.twitter.com/8OpG1d6mPy
— EventPhotosNYC (@Eventphotosnyc) March 28, 2015
Please tell me this isn't real and is in fact a cleverly photoshopped parody of awful Millennials. pic.twitter.com/cjGM0Bck8i
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) March 28, 2015
Selfie culture must be destroyed pic.twitter.com/4zot1pVZXu
— Zach Hanover (@zhanover) March 29, 2015
The people gracing the Post's cover weren't the only one snapping selfies in front of the flames — they were joined by Christina Freundlich, who reportedly took a selfie in front of the fire Thursday and then set her social media accounts to private when the backlash hit, and a Univision reporter who had to put himself in the picture.
A reporter for @Univision snaps a selfie while covering East Village fire pic.twitter.com/ghuqyNPrEW
— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) March 26, 2015
The reactions on Twitter to the selfie-takers seemed uniformly negative, and many praised the Post for its "epic selfie shaming."
Epic selfie shaming. Give the Post the public service Pulitzer right now. RT @nypost https://t.co/YDWlRqjDVI pic.twitter.com/CD8HX0ncpz
— J. Freedom du Lac (@jfdulac) March 29, 2015
(H/T: Mediaite)
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