The $63.2 Billion Selfie

OMAHA, USA: Eat your heart out Rihanna, Lukas Podolski and Ellen De Generes. This year’s most valuable selfie award has been scooped by a 16-year-old kid from Nebraska.

Tom White was at the eCreamery ice cream parlour in Omaha when he spotted Warren Buffett and Paul McCartney sitting on a park bench.

After taking a snap he posted it on Instagram – and not surprisingly it went everywhere.

But then, as Happy Place reports, “the combined wealth on that bench is $63.2 billion ($62 billion for Buffett, a paltry $1.2 billion for McCartney).”

The website notes too that the teenager might have stopped for some financial, or even some musical advice from the pair rather than taking a selfie.

But you could forgive him for being a little intimidated by two of the planet’s most successful men hanging out eating ice cream together.

As for Mashable, they’ve already elevated the story to legend status by providing the selfie’s backstory – a minute by minute account of the build up to the selfie, involving Tom and his three Beatles obsessed mates who had rushed to the ice cream shop after a tip off. It’s worth noting that Tom and his fellow Omahans took photographs but generally kept a respectful distance from the pair.

They’re a polite bunch in Nebraska, apparently.