Jackson Takes Selfie with Cranston, Selfie Trend

Samuel L Jackson stops to take a selfie with Brian Cranston. The stars posed on the red carpet for the Tony Awards on Sunday June 8th, 2014. The celebrities continued the selfie trend.

Ellen DeGeneres made history with her request for a selfie at the March 2nd, 2014 Academy Awards. The Oscar host gathered together A-listers, including the likes of Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, for a selfie. According to the AP, DeGeneres posted the selfie to Twitter crashing the social networking site. She set a record for the amount of re-tweets.

There could be meaning beyond the talk show host's antics. DeGeneres invited a pizza delivery boy to hand out pizza to the stars. This could be a possible move to honor people who serve food. This stunt and the star studded selfie became the talk of the Oscars.

The word selfie made it into the dictionary. While somebody taking photographs of themselves is nothing new, the word selfie appeared to pop up from nowhere.Where did the selfie trend begin? There is talk a drunken Australian man claims to have invented the snapshot back in 2002.