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Selfie Culture Lacks Self-Awareness, by Noel Yaxley – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Girls take "selfie". By Fabian Centeno. Unsplash

By Noel Yaxley, Chronicles, February 4, 2026 

Noel Yaxley is a British writer who has contributed to The Spectator Australia, The Washington Examiner, City Journal, The Telegraph, and Compact.

Recently, a female skier in China was rescued from a mountaintop after being seriously injured in an attack by a snow leopard. But this was no random attack. The tourist, upon spotting the rare animal on her drive back to her hotel, somehow decided that it would be a good idea to get out of her car, approach the animal, and take photos. In video footage, she is seen lying motionless in the snow with the predator nearby. She was taken to the hospital, and it is believed her ski helmet saved her life. Apparently, the woman was credulous enough to believe that an unpredictable wild animal might take a break from its hunt for an Asiatic ibex to pose for a selfie with her.

Such reckless behavior is symptomatic of the attitudes that are all too prevalent in our modern era. The desire for validation, amplified by the dopamine hit of likes and retweets on social media, drives people to seek dangerous locations to capture that unique selfie. Unfortunately, this trend is swiftly thinning the gene pool. In recent years, selfie-related deaths have sharply increased—one study documented over 379 between 2008 and 2021, and by the end of 2024, the toll may well have reached 480. On average, 43 people die each year from selfie-related incidents. To put this in perspective, selfies kill far more people than shark attacks, which average just six deaths per year worldwide, but still manage to keep plenty of people on alert while enjoying a day at the beach. …

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