ADVENT CALENDUH! numero duo

The rise of lookalike competitions!

pretty sure he offered me this vape in the Infernos smoking area last Friday night 

I love how 2024 became the year where lookalike competitions became an accepted form of social gathering. My sister Pom and I have a God-given gift of pinpointing people's lookalikes. We will bestow A-Listers and family friends with their doppelgangers, plucked from pools of A-Listers and Z-Lister faces a like- all shitmixes of faces are created equal. It's a bittersweet symphony seeing a man from Leicester get applauded on his gene pool simply because he bears a lukewarm resemblance to Harry Styles. It's genetic engineering but make it organised fun! It's silly fun and a perfect opportunity to find a boyfriend that is a low rate Timmy Wonka Chalamet. Or even bag yourself the real thing if it's anything like the lookalike event where the real Zimmy Zimmy made a cameo! 

There have also been Harry Styles, Heath Ledger, Zayn Malik and Dev Patel contests to name a few.

this Harry Styles contest line up if The Vamps and The Wanted got a freebie

There has been a Paul Mescal lookalike competition where in true rat king culture, the winner won 20 euro (or 3 pints).

if this was a party shop unofficial costume for Connell from Normal People, the outfit would be labelled 'handsome irish fella who has mental elf issues but is troubled in a hot way TV character'

There's been a recent influx in these lookalike contests that have seemingly sprung up from nowhere.  Stuart Heritage offers a few meaty theories that might explain this sudden trend: 
-good publicity for the celebrity in question (or, I suggest, great publicity and 5 seconds of fame for the contest winner)
-an external protest against the increasingly sinister rise of AI and deepfakes
-just a bit of wholesome fun amidst a storm of globally troubling times

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/12/celebrity-lookalike-contest-chalamet-mescal

Fun! I fear if there was a lookalike contest for me, a load of Micheal Jackson lookalikes who just happened to be in the local area would pop along and give it a go xxx