The 17 Most Important Selfies of 2014

Music worlds collided when Katy Perry shared this selfie with Adele.

A lot of things have to fall together when taking a selfie. This young man, for instance, happened to take his royal tour snap right when Kate Middleton looked into the camera.

We, of course, loved Lindsay Lohan's Mean Girls reunion with Daniel Franzese, but nothing can top the snap she posted with Tina Fey.

Germany national team soccer player Lukas Podolski tweeted this epic photo shortly after Germany won the World Cup.

A couple of months ago, Emma Watson gave a powerful speech about gender equality, and many male celebrities, including Tom Hiddleston, showed their support.

We've seen Kermit the Frog do a lot of things before, but we've never seen him take a selfie.

During the 2014 Oscars, host Ellen DeGeneres decided she wanted to break the record for most retweets on a single tweet. The subsequent, celebrity-packed selfie she tweeted not only shattered the record (it currently has over three million retweets), but it also temporarily shut down Twitter.

While everyone was freaking out about Ellen's record-breaking selfie that also broke Twitter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt shared an adorably goofy picture while backstage with Emma Watson.

Not all selfies are perfectly planned. One woman, in fact, thought she was taking a picture at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, but she was actually pointing the camera at her own eye.

These two Australian teens probably didn't think Queen Elizabeth II was going to pop up in the background of their selfie at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, but they were sorely mistaken.

Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at the infamous Oscars selfie in this photo with Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea Clinton, saying, "@TheEllenShow- No Brad Cooper but 3 Clintons & a Kimmel @BillClinton @HillaryClinton @ChelseaClinton #selfie."

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. are notoriously private about their relationship, which is why the sweet selfie Sarah posted was quite the adorable surprise.

What's the first thing you should do after surviving a potentially fatal plane crash in the middle of the ocean? Well, if you're this guy, you post a plane crash selfie, of course.

In one of those selfies you simply can't plan, this kid secured a snap with Paul McCartney and Warren Buffett.

The vice president had a very special guest for his first selfie on Instagram: President Barack Obama!

Colton Haynes took Halloween to the next level this year when he dressed up as Princess Fiona from Shrek. But first, he shared a sneak peek on his Instagram.

Michelle Obama and Jennifer Lopez both attended the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and NUVOtv's Unity Luncheon, and Jennifer, of course, couldn't help but tweet out a selfie with the First Lady.