Amid the bared midsections and flawless smiles flashed all so often on the screen comes the explosion of the ugly selfie, a sliver of authenticity in an otherwise filtered medium.

Yet in a what's-your-status world filled with overwhelming pressure to look camera-ready at all times, it can be liberating to drop the facade and laugh at society's obsession with the exterior.

Thus, in the last few years, the ugly selfie — a selfie that's intentionally silly or unattractive — was born.

Everyone should post ugly selfies with heavy vignetting and become self proclaimed Self Portrait Artists.