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It's hard to know which is sillier: a girl spending minutes taking the perfect selfie, or the woman filming her for the ridicule of the whole internet.

Filmed in an unknown location, the video of a girl posing for selfies has gone viral after it was uploaded to YouTube on the weekend.

In a Meta moment, the bikini-clad lady spends so long trying to catch the right angle that another woman decides to film her.

Is this a good angle? The girl in the video did not stop taking photographs of herself. Photo: YouTube

"Seriously this chick has been doing this for so long, I was able to grab my phone, take a couple of pictures, and now this video of this ridiculousness," says the woman filming the spectacle.


In the minute-long video uploaded by Canadian Thoma Daneau to his YouTube channel Perd Ton Temps - which roughly translates as Waste Your Time - the girl doesn't stop taking selfies and tries a number of different angles to get the perfect picture.

She holds the camera close, then arm length, and angles the camera to include her boobs and toned stomach.

The woman filming begins to loose her cool as the selfie-taking girl goes for a low angle to include her behind in a shot.

So intent on getting the perfect angle, the girl almost falls backwards while she's trying to get a good shot from down below.

"Oh my god, are you f…..g kidding me, she's going to take one from down there," says the woman filming, starting to lose her cool.

It's ironic that the woman is going crazy over another woman taking selfies, while she wastes minutes of her life filming and photographing the whole thing.

To make it even more Meta, the video has more than 1.6 million views on YouTube - that's 1.6 million people who have watched a video taken by a woman watching another woman take photographs of herself.

One commenter on YouTube points out that if it was a guy filming the young woman, people's reactions to the video would be very different.

"If a guy was filming this chick, he would have been labelled a pervert and a stalker," Chanel Greer points out.

"However, because it's some insecure chick doing it, no one bats an eye."

Other YouTube viewers agree with the sentiment.

"Yes, I found this woman very creepy too, the girl may looked silly for spend 1 mins on selfile [sic]," writes Kee Yip, "but really it is not other people business, who has the right to judge her silly or ugly?﻿"

Another commenter says both the women involved are silly.

"This video just shows two girls making fools out of themselves. One is the selfie girl and the other one is the filming one," writes Wolfafe.

Many commenters thought the girl's actions were funny but far from abnormal or offensive, so hardly deserving of public ridicule.

"Man, the lady taking the video needs to calm down ... what's the big deal? Just taking some selfies. Just let her do it. Swear man people take things so seriously," writes 2cool0.

"I mean, yeah, it's weird and super awkward that she's taking selfies like that there and all but still just let her do it."