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I suspected it might be, the years are becoming a bit muddled together in my mind when it comes to culture.

I can say with confidence that only rarely were people taking photos of only themselves 15 years ago. Today its a regular occurence.

Whether that is the vanity that has increased, the ability and proliferation of photos that has increased, or just the normalisation of the expression I don't know, because as other have said, vanity has always existed, but certainly selfies themselves are way more regular and a self-interested culture appears more normalised.

Perhaps through all of time people would be stepping on an anonymous soapbox had it existed, but it's only available today?