Ellen DeGeneres’ famous Oscar night selfie racked up millions of retweets, but it also raked in the cash; phone maker Samsung donated a dollar to charity for every retweet. DeGeneres donated $1.5 million of the take to the Humane Society, which opposes seal hunting, a practice DeGeneres on her website calls “one of the most atrocious and inhumane acts against animals allowed by any government.”
The National Post reports that many of Canada’s Inuit are pushing back against that characterization by posting their own “sealfies.”
@TheEllenShow I am an Inuit seal meat eater, and my fur is ethical, humane. #sealfie vs. #selfie pic.twitter.com/tI4c3NxbEY
— Alethea Arnaquq-Baril❄️ (@Alethea_Aggiuq) March 26, 2014
Group in #Iqaluit gathering in front of RBC at 5:30 p.m. to take a #sealskin #Sealfie in response to @TheEllenShow #cbcnorth
— Emily Ridlington (@EmilyRidlington) March 27, 2014
Iqalummiut take a #sealfie at Four Corners in their best seal skin gear. #cbcnorth pic.twitter.com/n4XLXyrp5x
— Emily Ridlington (@EmilyRidlington) March 27, 2014
Best #Sealfie ever #aleqahammond @UN_Spokesperson pic.twitter.com/Kz4JYhxbJA
— Kevin McGwin (@kevin_mcgwin) March 27, 2014
@TheEllenShow #Sealfie with my sealskin kamiks. Ready for the cold winters! pic.twitter.com/N0kjn9Hsep
— Papatsi Kotierk (@PapatsiKotierk) March 27, 2014
Hey, @TheEllenShow, I support the sustainable harvesting of seal. #sealfie #mitts pic.twitter.com/OYAUsubKUM
— Taabai طه تابش (@taabai) March 27, 2014
This girl loves and respects nature and knows that meat & fur comes from dead animals #sealfie @TheEllenShow pic.twitter.com/QnPSjONJmw
— Naaja Nathanielsen (@Naaja_N) March 27, 2014
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2-year-old Riley Savikataaq #sealfie in a 1 piece seal skin snowsuit made by his great-great grandmother. #cbcnorth pic.twitter.com/xK0hwYzeB4
— Emily Ridlington (@EmilyRidlington) March 27, 2014
Learning is fun! Maybe you can learn NOT to be ethnocentric @TheEllenShow #educate #sealfie pic.twitter.com/BZXhOpPdMk
— Nadia Mike (@nudji) March 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/genevakimberly/status/449398975809200128
taken a cpl of weeks ago at parliament hill protesting how important seals are to us Inuit #sealfie @TheEllenShow pic.twitter.com/LzKppWCrLD
— Nicole Hachey (@nhachey17) March 28, 2014
This seal fed a family before its pelt became the warmest winter boots I ever owned. #sealfie @TheEllenShow pic.twitter.com/gneCarRm9l
— Janna MacLachlan (@MacJanna) March 28, 2014
My #Sealfie pic.twitter.com/1i6tLsGVDa
— ᑯᐹᒃ ᐅᒃᑯᖅ ᑕᑦᑐᐃᓂ (@tattuinee) March 27, 2014
@theellenshow: Happy to #showsomeskin in a #sealfie to support the sustainable and humane seal hunt #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/cp2KQM2c5G
— Erin Filliter (@ErinFilliter) March 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/SuperSandiii/status/449041029971202048
#sealfie #eatsealwearseal @TheEllenShow beautiful #sealskin coats that @Qajaaq and I are wearing pic.twitter.com/bOW8GRrKAO
— Sandi (@SuperSandiii) March 27, 2014
Here's my #sealfie What's yours? @TheEllenShow pic.twitter.com/KJa5YzvmRr
— Bacalao (@BacalaoCuisine) March 28, 2014
We R few in number BUT have lived 4 thousands of YRS without Ellen! #sealfie #showsomeskin @TheEllenShow sewing seal pic.twitter.com/Q2invrCx5M
— Inuk #WaterIsLife (@Inuk360) March 28, 2014
I Support the Inuit traditional / sustainable / ethical hunting of Seal #sealfie
— Jordan (@whyterabbits) March 27, 2014
This #sealfie phenomenon is one of my favourite things I have seen on twitter in a long time!
— urbantomato (@urbanTomatolady) March 27, 2014
I am a very proud Canadian today. The men and women who still chose to hunt seals, get bullied a lot. Cheers to supporting them #Sealfie
— Leila Beaudoin (@LeilaBeaudoin) March 28, 2014
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