velfie
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editvelfie (plural velfies)
- (neologism, chiefly India) A video selfie.
- March 2015, Digit, Siddharth Parwatay, "From Selfies to Selflessness", p. 3:
- There are duckface selfies, velfies, melfies, and what have you.
- 7/10/2015, Voice of Asia, Peter Hutchison, "When a selfie is not enough: India abuzz over 'velfie' craze", p. 14:
- Move over selfie, India is embracing the "velfie" with Bollywood stars, sporting heroes, and even politicians taking and posting videos of themselves online using a range of new mobile apps.
- 10/26/2015, Pakistan Today, "Peace call goes viral", p. 2:
- In the winter of 2014 the writer and ad filmmaker had spun off the first Indian velfie (video selfies) movement with a three-minute film titled Pause that compared the Indo-Pak boundaries to walls between homes and led to a movement called Dear Neighbour that is currently on the trending charts with a spate of #ProfileForPeace messages on its wall.
- March 2015, Digit, Siddharth Parwatay, "From Selfies to Selflessness", p. 3: