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"A selfie to brag about helping." Typically a American or European volunteer in Africa or Southeast Asia taking a picture of themselves with a child or children that are obviously poor, often showing the American or European offering help to the child or children, or implying such help. These photos are often used as Tinder profile pictures, and eventually are featured on Humanitarians of Tinder.

Also can be a photograph of a humanitarian aid worker in the act of helping a needy person, used in the context of fundraising for the humanitarian organization. As referenced in an official USAID response, "Small et. al 2007 has shown that well-lit photos and helpies generate more funding than text-based, and data-driven presentations of complex, global problems."
"She took a beautiful helpie of her and a child at the village school in Uganda where she volunteered for a week. Now its her Tinder profile picture and her organization is using that photo as a helpie in their annual report"
Helpie by JadedAid October 12, 2017
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HelpIess 

When The username "Helpless" is alredy taken so you use HelpIess instead

also keeps you from being banned from servers because they cant spell your name right
or when you just spell Helpless as helpIess by accident
HelpIess by HelpIess August 3, 2022
People who's sole purpose is to help you do the things you need done.
Where are all my helpies at? I seriously need a helpie right now to clean my house.
Helpies by nuttyirishman May 22, 2012
When you aren’t good at photography and definitely had someone else take your “selfie” for you...
Check out the angle on that picture - it’s humanly impossible to achieve such artistic dimension by oneself even with the aid of a timer and selfie stick. This has got to be a helpie.
Helpie by Verocello September 28, 2018
FIrstly I invented the word a couple of years ago, when a group of my wife's friends wanted to all have their mobile phone photograph taken and it could only be done with me taking the picture.

So I said, I will help you by taking the photo, so the whole group could be in the picture and I will call it a HELPIE.
A single person, or a group of people, who want their mobile phone / camera photograph taken, however they all want to be in the picture, so I offer to take the photo for them and it is a " helpie " A helpie is always a much improved photograph over a selfie.
helpie by Mr X November 24, 2018
Helpies is a Vers helpfull Person and she looks Vers sexy ans has a big botty.The Name Calls(if you translate it) hope.
Helpies is beautiful.
I Helpies that i win in the Lottery.
Helpies by Henaaaa January 2, 2017