Yahoo Lifestyle Lookalike Contests Are Going Viral Everywhere, So Here Are 13 Hilarious Tweets About Them
If there's one trend we're going to look back at in 10 years as deeply representative of 2024, it might just be the ongoing celebrity lookalike contests. Last month, a rather unassuming competition was held in New York City's Washington Square Park to see who looked most like Timothée Chalamet.
Well, the contest blew up online after Timothée attended his own lookalike contest.
This spurred similar competitions across the globe, including one for Harry Styles in London, Paul Mescal in Dublin, and Dev Patel in San Francisco.
The trend is catching on like wildfire: Jeremy Allen White in Chicago, Jack Schlossberg in Manhattan, and Zayn Malik in Brooklyn to name a few more.
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According to Pop Crave, there's even a Zendaya lookalike competition scheduled for Nov. 20 in her hometown of Oakland, California.
So, in honor of the trend before it inevitably dies down and becomes 2024's version of the ice bucket or mannequin challenges, here are some of the best lookalike competition tweets:
1. Lots of Carmys from The Bear and not enough Lips from Shameless.
the most fucked up part about the chicago jeremy allen white lookalike contest is that there was no homage to lip gallagher. just the aprons and white t-shirts. shameless used to mean something
— eli manning fireworks (@cooldetat) November 16, 2024
@cooldetat/Twitter / Via Twitter: @cooldetat
2.You know who needs a good lookalike contest? Washington, DC.
3. This tweet is too loud.
some of you all need to try to win the person who has a job lookalike contest
— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) November 17, 2024
@DPD_/Twitter / Via Twitter: @DPD_
4. Now, for a deep tweet about a very un-deep trend:
i think the lookalike contests trend is, like the current surfeit of reboots remakes and sequels, a symptom of contemporary society's troubling obsession with similarity, a fatal repetition compulsion that tediously and non-dialectically guarantees the foreclosure of the New
— josef k hole (@poeticdweller) November 17, 2024
@poeticdweller/Twitter / Via Twitter: @poeticdweller
5. Third space supremacy!
these celebrity lookalike competitions will end the lack of third spaces crisis
— Amina (@Am1na1992) November 12, 2024
@Am1na1992/Twitter / Via Twitter: @Am1na1992
6. ...are the lookalike contests a public good?
third spaces (e.g. libraries, bars, community centers, celebrity lookalike contests) https://t.co/TRjIvRMwpj
— the great clown snorman (@iamschvitzing) November 17, 2024
@iamschvitzing/Twitter / Via Twitter: @iamschvitzing
7.Wish Zayn would've shown up to his lookalike contest TBH.
8. LOL
i just snagged the gold at the my dad lookalike contest
— bald ann dowd (@ali_sivi) November 17, 2024
@ali_sivi/Twitter / Via Twitter: @ali_sivi
9. Community first!
you know what? these lookalike contests are really nice for bringing strangers together and possibly making connections even if for a brief moment
— jeremy (@then0wnow) November 18, 2024
@then0wnow/Twitter / Via Twitter: @then0wnow
10. LMAO
living for all the lesbians entering the male celebrity lookalike competitions NOW WERE COOKING WITH GAS
— Homo Honey (@DixPeyton) November 17, 2024
@DixPeyton/Twitter / Via Twitter: @DixPeyton
11.I'm sensing a trend.
12.Say it again!
13.Finally, Jeremy Allen White, you're needed...but not at your own lookalike contest.
What do you think of the lookalike contests, and who do you think needs one? Let us know in the comments below!
