--- title: Woman Takes Over Subway for Selfie Photoshoot in Viral Video description: A resourceful woman on the NYC subway commandeered an entire train to stage an elaborate self-timer selfie photoshoot. canonical: https://time.com/5656545/subway-selfie-video/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-20T15:11:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:59.320Z og:title: Woman Takes Over Subway for Selfie Photoshoot in Viral Video og:description: A hero and an icon og:url: https://time.com/5656545/subway-selfie-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17e30b185edce7cc/698a01ac22fb850f03e29b50/subway-selfie-self-timer-viral-video.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Interior of subway train, New York City, New York, United States og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Takes Over Subway for Selfie Photoshoot in Viral Video twitter:description: A hero and an icon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17e30b185edce7cc/698a01ac22fb850f03e29b50/subway-selfie-self-timer-viral-video.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Taking Over a Subway for Her Glamorous Selfie Photoshoot Is the Latest Example of Knowing One's Worth  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 20, 2019 3:11 PM UTC  Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 20, 2019 3:11 PM UTC What lengths would you go to capture [the perfect selfie](https://time.com/4921599/why-americans-are-obsessed-with-turning-art-into-selfies/)? For Twitter user @jessiica\_george, it meant commandeering her busy subway train, setting up [the self-timer on her cellphone](https://time.com/3393333/how-the-selfie-stick-is-killing-the-selfie/) and then balancing said phone on a subway seat to get the perfect shot. In a now-viral video captured by Twitter user @benyahr, Jessica can be seen for nearly a full minute giving good face and working her angles, even as people board the train and the subway is in motion (not an easy feat!) The video has received over 8 million views since it was posted on Saturday and Jessica herself has weighed in on the moment via Twitter, where she thanked Ben for “making my day.” She also posted the content that everyone was dying to see: the glamorous selfies that she took during her subway self-timer selfie session. “i am overwhelmed by the kind words expressed by everyone and i just want to say THANK YOU to all ‼️ let’s spread this positivity and continue to uplift one another,” she wrote on Twitter. See Jessica’s subway selfie moment below. > [](https://twitter.com/benyahr/status/1162847464036024320) > [](https://twitter.com/jessiica%5Fgeorge/status/1162947388471951360) > [](https://twitter.com/jessiica%5Fgeorge/status/1163133078023344129) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5656545/subway-selfie-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5656545/subway-selfie-video/"},"headline":"Woman Taking Over a Subway for Her Glamorous Selfie Photoshoot Is the Latest Example of Knowing One's Worth","datePublished":"2019-08-20T15:11:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:59.320Z","description":"A hero and an icon","url":"https://time.com/5656545/subway-selfie-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17e30b185edce7cc/698a01ac22fb850f03e29b50/subway-selfie-self-timer-viral-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17e30b185edce7cc/698a01ac22fb850f03e29b50/subway-selfie-self-timer-viral-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Interior of subway train, New York City, New York, United States","caption":"Interior of subway train, New York City, New York, United States","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5656545/subway-selfie-video/","name":"Woman Taking Over a Subway for Her Glamorous Selfie Photoshoot Is the Latest Example of Knowing One's Worth"}}]}] ```