The British prince and Afghanistan war veteran rejected a girl’s request to pose with her as he greeted fans at the start of a four-week military stint Down Under.

Harry's anti-selfie pronouncement might convince current practitioners to think twice before extending their arms or raising their selfie sticks, social media experts and art critics said.

Young people should view Harry's stance against selfies as "words of wisdom," University of Melbourne social media researcher Lauren Rosewarne told Agence France-Presse.

"Young people need to be reminded as many times as possible that what you put online stays online, even if you delete it," Rosewarne said. "He knows probably better than anyone ... how these images will never go away."

Harry's statement may even help eradicate the art form that's the opposite of work by true portrait masters, Jonathan Jones, art critic for The Guardian, wrote in a laudatory editorial Tuesday.

"Selfies deny and erase a fundamental human self-consciousness," Jones wrote. "We are in danger of losing our sense of awkwardness, embarrassment, of being an individual. The selfie is actually an attack on the moral self."

-NY Daily News