The belief in selfies obscures how capital has subsumed community and selfhood.

Evidence

We make a claim that seeks to demonstrate our method and approach to influencer culture: there is no such thing as a selfie, and the belief that there are selfies has served to obscure broader changes in production in which community and selfhood have become subsumed by capital. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 60

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading goal’s core inversion: person takes the form of company, so the seeming self-expression of selfies actually masks production.