Celebrity Look Alike Contest Poster Parodies

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About

Celebrity Look Alike Contest Poster Parodies or Lookalike Competition Posters refer to an exploitable meme format and parody trend that references the promo poster from the Timothée Chalamet Look-Alike Competition in which netizens replace the actor's picture with other celebrities or fictional characters. The parody posters went viral mainly on X / Twitter in late October 2024, also inspiring the phrasal template X Look-Alike Competition In My Bedroom in which fans added the names of their favorite artist they'd like to sleep with.

Origin

On September 20th, 2024, X^[1] user @lipbalmwhore shared a photo of a flier advertising the "Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest" that took place in Washington Square Park in NYC on October 27th. The post (seen below) amassed over 85,000 likes and 4,200 reposts in a month.

The earliest parody of the poster was uploaded by X^[2] user @girlflopping on October 27th, 2024, the same day as the Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest. The poster (seen below) advertises a Jeremy Allen White look-alike contest set to take place in Washington Square Park on November 17th, 2024. The prize was set to "2 packs of cigarettes of your choice and a 7 day metrocard." The tweet amassed over 72,000 likes and 4,700 reposts in three days.

Spread

Other parodies of Timothée Chalamet Look-Alike Competition spawned on X in the following weeks as netizens created versions of the flier featuring their favorite artists.

For example, on October 28th, 2024, X^[3] user @pascalcoded photoshopped a picture of Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal in the flyer, writing, "Pedro Pascal lookalike competition at my house tonight." The tweet (seen below) amassed more than 4,700 likes and 850 reposts in two days.

The memes also spawned a phrasal template on X in which fans wrote the location of the competition as their houses to suggest their attraction towards a celebrity.

For instance, on October 29th, 2024, X^[4] user @CAdreamboy posted a photo of a man covered in slime, captioning it, "Me after the Henry Cavill lookalike competition in my bedroom." The tweet (seen below) garnered over 45,000 likes and 2,400 reposts in a day.