"These Lookalike Competitions Are Just Beauty Pageants For Men": People Are Seriously OBSESSED With The Celebrity Lookalike Contests

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Timothée Chalamet, Harry Styles, Dev Patel, Paul Mescal...who is next?

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.

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Well, the contest blew up online after Timothée attended his own lookalike contest.

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This spurred similar competitions across the globe, including one for Harry Styles in London, Paul Mescal in Dublin, and Dev Patel in San Francisco.

Person holding a cutout of someone with curly hair, smiling outdoors

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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.

Person in intricate, strappy gown and white coat poses at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2024 event backdrop

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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.

Tweet by Colleen Grablick expressing concern about a male celebrity being entered in a DC lookalike contest

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

7. Wish Zayn would've shown up to his lookalike contest TBH.

Tweet by Winter Santiaga saying, "The Zayn Malik lookalike contest was just a hot brown guy contest and im not mad about it."

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.

 "begging the internet-savvy lesbians to start organizing if we must continue doing this lookalike thing I'm tired of seeing hordes of men"

12. Say it again!

 "These lookalike competitions are just beauty pageants for men" with a crying emoji

13. Finally, Jeremy Allen White, you're needed...but not at your own lookalike contest.

Tweet expressing opinion that Jeremy Allen White would excel in a Gene Wilder lookalike contest

What do you think of the lookalike contests, and who do you think needs one? Let us know in the comments below!

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