"Do prisoners take cellfies?” was posted on Twitter by Michael Willits on August 27, 2013. “Cellfie” (cell + selfie) is a portmanteau word.

“party-in-the-morgue: party-in-the-morgue: What if prisons let prisoners take their own mug shots? Cellfies http://tmblr.co/ZBTZhw15_KJNi” was posted on Twitter by Jacki on January 31, 2014. “What if prisons let prisoners take their own mug shots? Cellfies” was posted on Twitter by s a m on February 1, 2014.

The “cellfie” joke has been printed on several images.


Twitter
Michael Willits
@mcgee468
Do prisoners take cellfies?
7:35 AM · Aug 27, 2013·Twitter for iPhone

Twitter
Jacki
@ello_sweetie
party-in-the-morgue: party-in-the-morgue: What if prisons let prisoners take their own mug shots? Cellfies http://tmblr.co/ZBTZhw15_KJNi
2:37 AM · Jan 31, 2014·Tumblr

Twitter
s a m
@thesarcasam
What if prisons let prisoners take their own mug shots?
Cellfies.
9:54 AM · Feb 1, 2014·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
champagne stepdad
@eazybakeroven
what if prisoners could take their own mugshots? they could be called cellfies. I know, it’s not that funny.
10:43 AM · Feb 4, 2014·Twitter for iPhone

Twitter
Brick Tamland
@Ch4BrickTamland
What if prisons let prisoners take their own mug shots? 
Cellfies
1:30 AM · Feb 22, 2014·Buffer

Twitter
milk
@miilkkk
What if prisons let prisoners take their own mug shots? 
Cellfies
9:01 AM · Jun 16, 2014·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
Yik Yak
@YikYakApp
“What if prisons let prisoners take their own mugshots?...Call them cellfies.” — UT
8:46 PM · Mar 27, 2015·Buffer

Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/P2EE May 8, 2015
If prisoners took there own mugshots they’d be called Cellfies.
COMMENTS
Bonig
Particularly if they took them with their cell phones. 

Twitter
Miss Leah
@LeahsLounge
Cellfies: Prisoners snap their own mugshots.
10:53 PM · Jan 9, 2016·Twitter for iPhone

Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Chrispin_Crunch August 4, 2017
If prisoners could take their own mugshots…
They’d be called CELLFIES
I’ll see myself out.

Twitter
Denton County DA
@DentonCountyDA
Goodnight twitter world:
If prisoners could take their own mug shots…
Would they be called cellfies?
#DadJokes
11:08 PM · Nov 18, 2018·Twitter for iPhone

Reddit—3amjokes
Posted by u/cyclopropagative June 2, 2020
If prisoners took their own mugshots,
They would be called ‘cellfies’.