I understand shitting on selfies, but can you explain the magical logic that makes turning a phone at your own face reverse the picture, but someone else turning their phone to your face wont reverse the photo? In both cases the left and right sides of the phone will be facing the same way. Unless of course you mean she took the picture alone in a mirror.
I can only think of two reasons to flip a photo: Copyright and to improve the composition. No idea which this was.
Plenty of cameras and webcams mirror footage because they are cheap (less lenses/mirrors) or that it barely matters in most cases.
Most people never notice their own webcams are reversed, and even fewer understand that camera lenses are not created equal and don't match how human eyes distort what we see.
Edit: Also another reason to flip images is to "fake" which hand is represented, skilled artists would make their characters left handed so when re-printed the characters would be right handed in the final product.
But those aren't analogue media, they're digital. Whether the image is reversed or not is purely down to software.
If somebody else was taking the picture they would be using the main camera on the rear of the phone, not the selfie camera on the front.
Women live and die by the selfie because they are vain... and stupid.
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