“Selfies at Funerals! A page on Tumblr has been creating quite an uproar," says a man on Good Morning America while reading a script, clearly not uproar’d himself. But this scary man seems quite upset indeed: 
 
 Terrifying, right? Perhaps you have some questions. 
 
 Why is all this text here in blue? 
 
 It’s the Tumblr template and I don’t know how to change it. I hate it too. 
 
 Why did you— 
 
 Sorry to I interrupt but I see where you’re going. Please check out the press page, and in particular, listen to the interviews on "Q” and “The List,” which should provide plenty of context. 
 
 Will you keep updating this Tumblr? 
 
 Probably not. I like to think of it as a standing statement: Everyone who’s ever visited will have seen the exact same thing (except for this post, which came a few weeks after launch.) But if someone wants to offer me a lot of money to keep it going—or to do anything else, I suppose—you have my full attention. 
 
 So what now? 
 
 Follow me on Twitter. Or, take a selfie at a funeral and be mocked globally. Those are your only two options. ||||| Because your body will simply shut down once it realizes it's being forced to share the same plane of existence with the kind of people who think it's completely normal to snap selfies at funerals and upload them to social media sites with the caption "love my hair today, hate why I'm dressed up" and the hashtag "#funeral." 
 
 And then one of your snot-nosed relatives will snap a selfie of themselves at your funeral, and upload it to Twitter with the caption "depressing funeral selfie" and the hashtag "#sadday." 
 
 It's the circle of YOLO. 
 
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– One of the buzzier Tumblr entries of late is called "Selfies at Funerals," which compiles teen photos posted to Twitter or elsewhere that were taken at, yes, funerals. The ridicule has been fast and furious—oh, today's incredibly narcissistic and shallow teens—and totally out of line, argues PJ Vogt at OntheMedia. At least consider the possibility that this isn't about narcissism and is instead a classic case of an older generation not getting a younger one. "I suspect that for a lot of young people, a selfie is more like a public diary entry than it is a chance to show your friends how hot you look," writes Vogt. For those doing the mocking, "is this the kind of adult you wanted to be?" he asks. "A person who has no curiosity about why young people might do things in a new or different way from you." Besides, think of how grown-ups act at a funeral. Maybe, Vogt suggests, it's time for a Tumblr called "Adults In Suits Eating Hors d'oeuvres Near A Corpse." Click for the full column.