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As Charles-Guillaume Étienne once said, "If you want something done right, do it yourself," and nothing can possibly go wrong if you're the one with your finger on the button...right? Well, not quite. While you might want to document every fun aspect of your everyday life, sometimes taking a funny selfie might go in a different direction. If you miss something in the background, that’s when an epic selfie fails. And this is a common issue for every online user. Even celebrities sometimes post bad selfies!
A bad selfie is the last thing you should worry about. Selfies lead to fatal accidents many times. Selfie trends have evolved since 1836. Traffic mirror selfies and those on a 0.5 distance were trending in 2023. Such poses can turn into funny selfies or fatal ones.
According to one research, the average age for deceased people is around 24.4 years old. India leads in incidents with 26.4%, followed by the USA at 10.3% and Russia at 8.7%. In the US, 62% of people have confirmed taking at least one selfie at some point. 82% of people in the age group 18 to 34 years old, 63% of people aged 35 to 54, and 44% of those 55 and above have taken selfies.
Check out this list of 72 hilarious, embarrassing selfies gone wrong. At Bored Panda, we love a funny moment—a funny selfie in this case. This collection of bad selfies should be a funny reminder to always double-check before posting instead of sharing failed pictures. Check the list of 72 funny selfies below - hopefully, there aren't any of yours.
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#1
Spider Photo-Bombs A Selfie
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#2
A Funny Selfie of a Man, a Baby and a Dog
#3
Even This Dog Is Sick Of Her Selfies
#4
Mama's Big Boy
#5
Probably The Best Photobomb Of All Time
#6
When You See It
#7
One of the Most Embarrassing Selfies Gone Wrong
#8
Mirror Selfie. Look Closely
#9
Reflection Fail
#10
This Traffic Ugh
John L Kelly 8 years ago
Let's see, holding the phone in one hand, and a drink in the other, eh? Brilliant!
#11
Australian Police Have Had Enough Of Your Shit
#12
I Took A Selfie And Saw Myself 20 Years In The Future
#13
Little Girl Selfie Gets Photobombed By Bear-Like Father
#14
You Could Have Left Something In The Shower
#15
Embarrassing Selfies Where a Horse’s Butt Grabs Attention
#16
Is the Baby In or Out of the Canyon? When an Epic Selfie Fails…
#17
One Wrong Move And It's Mine...
#18
Women Selfies Gone Wrong Can Be Pretty Hilarious
#19
Buddy Sent Us A Picture Of His Turf-Burn. When You See It
#20
Just Me, Myself And I
#21
When You See It
#22
Yeah Sis', Another Selfie... Great Idea
#23
So Happy With My New Hair
Denise Stark 8 years ago
If they did it on purpose, I hope they are still embarrassed about all that messy clutter all over the background. Sheesh!
adoracat 8 years ago
No accident. Also not a selfie. But he's pretty cute!
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DidiHoneyb Andeloe 8 years ago
The story supposed to be about a guy asking his girlfriend to send a selfie since one of them is out of town. She responded with something like "doing nothing babe, just here missing you". But it could be something else. Still the internet
Letmar Elliel 8 years ago
I want me one of those haircuts! :) does anybody know which salon did she go to? ;) #cheeky
Liz Rainey 8 years ago
Staged. if you look at the angle she is sitting and the person in the reflection, it's opposite. Also the woman in the reflection has pretty curly hair, the subject in this selfie has stringy straight hair.
#24
I Had This On My Refrigerator For 6 Years Before I Noticed It
Just a Purpler 8 years ago
Bahahahah I was so focused on the window light on the left, lol I was like "looks normal to me" and then I saw it ahahha
#25
Sneaky, Bad Selfie
#26
Little Brother Makes a Selfie Fail
#27
My And My Friend's Selfie In The Train
#28
Three People, One Webcam
#29
All Dressed Up For A Ke$ha Themed Birthday Party And I Couldn't Resist A Car Selfie
#30
I Know Voldemort Is In The Background
#31
Unfortunate Spelling
#32
Selfie Background Fail
#33
When You See It
#34
This Sneaky Shadow
#35
Mirror Reflection
#36
Busted
#37
Bae Caught Me Slippin'
#38
Had A Caption Until The Lady In The Background Nailed It For Me
#39
When You See It
#40
Selfie Background Fail
#42
Hate It When My Girlfriend Takes Pictures Of Me Sleeping
Amanda Panda 8 years ago
Him and the chick taking her own shower selfie, need to get together.
#43
Just A Quick Selfie Before I Start My Day
#44
Took A Selfie, Got A Surprise
#45
Went To Take A Selfie With The Dogs And...
Jeanne Deaux 8 years ago
The way the selfie is centered on the dogs? She totaly did this on purpose. You fail at selfie fail girl.
#46
My Friend Climbed A Mountain And Took A Selfie, Was Photo Bombed By Girlfriend Taking Selfie
#47
That's An Odd Table Centerpiece
Marcos Zamarripa 8 years ago
OMG all the girl have dildos or what? I have no see any guy with an iInflatable doll
#48
Selfie Background Fail
#49
My Friend Got His Tux In And Sent Me A Pic. I Had To Bring It To His Attention What Was Going On In The Background
#50
That "What A Hell Is She Doing?" Look
#51
My Friend Just Posted The Best Selfie I've Ever Seen
Hana Cheaib 8 years ago
Oh god why!! Can't you stop using your phone!! Why taking selfie while you're peeing!! Seriously! 😂😂😂
#52
Check Your Background Before You Post That Selfie
#53
That Mirror Reflection
#54
This Subtle Selfie
#55
Squad Selfie
#56
A Rat Among The Clutter?
#57
Selfie With Grandma
#58
Sexy Selfie Gone Wrong
#59
On An Amazon Review. Pay Attention To Your Reflections
#60
Selfie Background Fail
#61
Selfie Background Fail
Nomadus Aureus 8 years ago
As for my next picture, I'd like to demonstrate an example of natural selection.
#62
Bae Caught Me Slippin'
Lisa-Marie Saunders 8 years ago
It's never right to spend more time looking at yourself than you do looking after your kid in the bath! Although, she may be an older sister, considering that she looks about 10!
#63
Selfie Fail
Cheesybeansy 8 years ago
you don't assume that position unless you had something REALLY spicy or big. prepare for the long haul...
#64
Must Concentrate On My Pose
#65
This Sneaky Shadow
Heather Cox 8 years ago
Oh now that is unacceptable. I swear the next time I see someone in a public bathroom trying to take invasive photos I'm grabbing them out their hands and tossing them in the toilet.
#66
Selfie Background Fail
Katinka Min 8 years ago
Waaaaaah, PICK THAT UP! What is wrong with people?? Who has time to take selfies when you living rom smells like dog s**t?
#67
Selfie With Friends
#68
Make Mommy Look Sexy, Sweetie
#69
Selfie Fail
#70
Selfie Background Fail
#71
Girlfriend Caught Me Sleepin'
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What do you think ?
Arty 8 years ago
never understood this trend of selfies in cars or in front of your mirror... eventually if the surrounding is nice or a group picture with some friend. You know you face doesn't change every 30 minutes right?
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
well it does, depending on what duckface you make roflroflrofl :P these people are really narcissistic or way too desperate.
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AcousticGString 8 years ago
So many women taking pics with sex toys in the background, and so many dudes taking pics but a*s naked. tf is going on!? I'm must be doing selfies wrong!
Anna Kopeć 8 years ago
Real photo from polish selling site allegro (somethnig like e-bay). The tittle was "The kettle with a spout" czajnik2-5...f91dcb.jpg 
Katinka Min 8 years ago
Oddly, I now have the vague feeling that there aren'T enough dildos lying (or standing) about at my place...
Katinka Min 8 years ago
It shows how incredibly absurd selfies are - especially the ones you do to show off yourself to others. I get that we wanna keep a memory of happy times, but why WHYYYY would you spend all your holiday and so much of your spare time constantly grinning into a camera with noone behind it. Why not just being somewhere and enjoying yourself? Who cares if half world does NOT know what you did, what you ate and how you looked?
Thom Alascio 8 years ago
I am the guy who took the selfie and saw himself 20 years into the future. That selfie was the shock I needed to lose weight and get in shape. I lost 60+ pounds since then.
Willie D'Kay 8 years ago
I was going to ask if people really don't understand how mirrors work, but then I thought about the likely IQ of some of them.
Glynis Lailann 8 years ago
It is the age of :- I Love Myself, Me and My Image. No one or anything else matters. As in the Greek tragedy - Narcissus died gazing at his own image.
Jenny Bell 8 years ago
I don't see why most people would share these, the spider one is funny but there's no way you couldn't notice a horse's a*s in the background
Nicholas Korst 2 years ago
Selfies with girls making the puffy lip face, their tits are in the center of the photo, or placing a dildo in the background is just a desperate need for attention. And with guys showing off their a*s or they got their shirt off for no reason is to say look at me I need your attention. It’s all just sad and like they say a picture is worth a thousand words. So it can say a lot about a person. So if you ever see someone taking a selfie that’s not a normal picture then photo bomb them. We must fight back against these attention seekers!!
Smarty Panda 3 years ago
I e learned that guys take selfies with their @$$out & that girls have dildos that they just leave everywhere. Cool haha
Kathryn9 Spraker 3 years ago
I am proud of so many of my life's achievements. However, I am MOST proud that I have never, never, never never, NOT ONCE, taken a pic of myself in a fn bathroom.
Duncan 4 years ago
I fear for humanity. I take selfies with my daughter but not vapid self obsessed pictures to put on the internet. I just can't say the words I am thinking, this all just infuriates me because it just isn't going away. The news sites need to stop reporting the latest bikini nobody as news as well.
Jon Merlin 5 years ago
Selfie is a term coined in Australia. Paris Hilton wishes she had an original thought in her life, but sadly no.
Chuck Winter 7 years ago
I’m quite sure there are many iinfringements against privacy in this and many other series @BoredPanda. Not all of these pics were for distribution
Steven Chan 7 years ago
If thats a dildoe on 36's table then that girl must have some flappy bat wings down there. That s**t looks like a tennis ball container lol
Alan Kolkow 7 years ago
She's complaining about the traffic and she has no hands on the wheel whatsoever. Doe she even care that it is illegal?
Beth Taccia 8 years ago
I am shocked by the number of people that take pictures without pants on. Is this a thing? Am I just too old to understand? Also, sometimes I wont post a picture of my dog because something is out of place (messy) and I don't want anyone to see the mess.... what the actual f**k?
Steve Cowlishaw 8 years ago
I have a hard time believing people upload pictures without checking them. Like all these "bae caught me", they can clearly see themselves taking the picture through the mirror in the background. And then the spider thing in the first picture has to be planted by the girl taking the picture.
Toki Towairaito 8 years ago
On number #49 you can also see her nipple on her left breast poking out a bit. But holy c**p, if you're gonna take a "sexy selfie" make sure your dildo is nowhere in sight. XD
James Edwards 8 years ago
Mostly narcissistic young women UTTERLY FASCINATED that they got these BODIES they can play with or turn men on with! It's like, they have a new toy they don't KNOW what to do with!!
Brett Derochie 8 years ago
Has anyone checked to see if the baby is still in the cannon in photo 15?;) lmao
Selina Adams 8 years ago
So help a girl out here....what was wrong with #20? I couldn't see anything wrong with the picture 😕
Notchimine Mette 8 years ago
Generally, these people as just disgusting and common, and vapid...
Crystal Cason 8 years ago
How insecure can one be when your self worth is measured by how many pics you take of yourself? How lonely you must be when you can't get anyone to take a picture of you.
Crystal Cason 8 years ago
How insecure must one be to measure their self worth by the number of pictures they take of themselves? And how lonely can one be if you can't find a single person, even a stranger, to take a picture of you?
Saint Heretic 8 years ago
i think each and everyone of these people, and everyone in general can do whatever the f**k they want, i think its more sad 26.2k people sifted through this and talked s**t about the people enjoying theirs lives then it is people enjoying their lives! ask yourself who the sad people really are!!
Sarah Rogers 6 years ago
So the people in the pics can do whatever they want but people who want to make fun can't do whatever they want?
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Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago
On a side note, I like the change to BP format where it shows how many pages are in the collection. Very helpful. Thanks!
Larry A DeShane jr 8 years ago
did anyone at boredpanda take a second think that many of these may have been sent with the idea they were confidential or did you just think clicks...a******s
Larry A DeShane jr 8 years ago
I think that many of these selfies were intended and probably sent with the idea they were confidential or sent to a specific person who then decided to publicly humiliate these people. Not cool Boredpanda. You just added to their public humiliation for a few clicks.
Arty 8 years ago
never understood this trend of selfies in cars or in front of your mirror... eventually if the surrounding is nice or a group picture with some friend. You know you face doesn't change every 30 minutes right?
Margie Lazou 8 years ago
well it does, depending on what duckface you make roflroflrofl :P these people are really narcissistic or way too desperate.
Load More Replies... AcousticGString 8 years ago
So many women taking pics with sex toys in the background, and so many dudes taking pics but a*s naked. tf is going on!? I'm must be doing selfies wrong!
Anna Kopeć 8 years ago
Real photo from polish selling site allegro (somethnig like e-bay). The tittle was "The kettle with a spout" czajnik2-5...f91dcb.jpg
Katinka Min 8 years ago
Oddly, I now have the vague feeling that there aren'T enough dildos lying (or standing) about at my place...
Katinka Min 8 years ago
It shows how incredibly absurd selfies are - especially the ones you do to show off yourself to others. I get that we wanna keep a memory of happy times, but why WHYYYY would you spend all your holiday and so much of your spare time constantly grinning into a camera with noone behind it. Why not just being somewhere and enjoying yourself? Who cares if half world does NOT know what you did, what you ate and how you looked?
Thom Alascio 8 years ago
I am the guy who took the selfie and saw himself 20 years into the future. That selfie was the shock I needed to lose weight and get in shape. I lost 60+ pounds since then.
Willie D'Kay 8 years ago
I was going to ask if people really don't understand how mirrors work, but then I thought about the likely IQ of some of them.
Glynis Lailann 8 years ago
It is the age of :- I Love Myself, Me and My Image. No one or anything else matters. As in the Greek tragedy - Narcissus died gazing at his own image.
Jenny Bell 8 years ago
I don't see why most people would share these, the spider one is funny but there's no way you couldn't notice a horse's a*s in the background
Nicholas Korst 2 years ago
Selfies with girls making the puffy lip face, their tits are in the center of the photo, or placing a dildo in the background is just a desperate need for attention. And with guys showing off their a*s or they got their shirt off for no reason is to say look at me I need your attention. It’s all just sad and like they say a picture is worth a thousand words. So it can say a lot about a person. So if you ever see someone taking a selfie that’s not a normal picture then photo bomb them. We must fight back against these attention seekers!!
Smarty Panda 3 years ago
I e learned that guys take selfies with their @$$out & that girls have dildos that they just leave everywhere. Cool haha
Kathryn9 Spraker 3 years ago
I am proud of so many of my life's achievements. However, I am MOST proud that I have never, never, never never, NOT ONCE, taken a pic of myself in a fn bathroom.
Duncan 4 years ago
I fear for humanity. I take selfies with my daughter but not vapid self obsessed pictures to put on the internet. I just can't say the words I am thinking, this all just infuriates me because it just isn't going away. The news sites need to stop reporting the latest bikini nobody as news as well.
Jon Merlin 5 years ago
Selfie is a term coined in Australia. Paris Hilton wishes she had an original thought in her life, but sadly no.
Chuck Winter 7 years ago
I’m quite sure there are many iinfringements against privacy in this and many other series @BoredPanda. Not all of these pics were for distribution
Steven Chan 7 years ago
If thats a dildoe on 36's table then that girl must have some flappy bat wings down there. That s**t looks like a tennis ball container lol
Alan Kolkow 7 years ago
She's complaining about the traffic and she has no hands on the wheel whatsoever. Doe she even care that it is illegal?
Beth Taccia 8 years ago
I am shocked by the number of people that take pictures without pants on. Is this a thing? Am I just too old to understand? Also, sometimes I wont post a picture of my dog because something is out of place (messy) and I don't want anyone to see the mess.... what the actual f**k?
Steve Cowlishaw 8 years ago
I have a hard time believing people upload pictures without checking them. Like all these "bae caught me", they can clearly see themselves taking the picture through the mirror in the background. And then the spider thing in the first picture has to be planted by the girl taking the picture.
Toki Towairaito 8 years ago
On number #49 you can also see her nipple on her left breast poking out a bit. But holy c**p, if you're gonna take a "sexy selfie" make sure your dildo is nowhere in sight. XD
James Edwards 8 years ago
Mostly narcissistic young women UTTERLY FASCINATED that they got these BODIES they can play with or turn men on with! It's like, they have a new toy they don't KNOW what to do with!!
Brett Derochie 8 years ago
Has anyone checked to see if the baby is still in the cannon in photo 15?;) lmao
Selina Adams 8 years ago
So help a girl out here....what was wrong with #20? I couldn't see anything wrong with the picture 😕
Notchimine Mette 8 years ago
Generally, these people as just disgusting and common, and vapid...
Crystal Cason 8 years ago
How insecure can one be when your self worth is measured by how many pics you take of yourself? How lonely you must be when you can't get anyone to take a picture of you.
Crystal Cason 8 years ago
How insecure must one be to measure their self worth by the number of pictures they take of themselves? And how lonely can one be if you can't find a single person, even a stranger, to take a picture of you?
Saint Heretic 8 years ago
i think each and everyone of these people, and everyone in general can do whatever the f**k they want, i think its more sad 26.2k people sifted through this and talked s**t about the people enjoying theirs lives then it is people enjoying their lives! ask yourself who the sad people really are!!
Sarah Rogers 6 years ago
So the people in the pics can do whatever they want but people who want to make fun can't do whatever they want?
Load More Replies... Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago
On a side note, I like the change to BP format where it shows how many pages are in the collection. Very helpful. Thanks!
Larry A DeShane jr 8 years ago
did anyone at boredpanda take a second think that many of these may have been sent with the idea they were confidential or did you just think clicks...a******s
Larry A DeShane jr 8 years ago
I think that many of these selfies were intended and probably sent with the idea they were confidential or sent to a specific person who then decided to publicly humiliate these people. Not cool Boredpanda. You just added to their public humiliation for a few clicks.
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