At some point in the mid-2000s, the confluence of cheap digital cameras and the nascent world of social networking sites meant that a lot of people were trying to figure out how to take self-portraits. Alongside the still widely used "bathroom mirror with flash" technique, the world discovered the "MySpace Angle" — images taken from a high angle could hide a myriad of flaws. So why not use a special stick to take the image from even higher?
