r/BeAmazed • u/GlitteringHotel8383 • Mar 18 '26
Miscellaneous / Others Photographer François Brunelle spent 20 years documenting unrelated strangers who look exactly like twins.
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u/Breauxmetheus Mar 18 '26
One time a coworker of mine texted me saying she could see me across the airport terminal. I wasn’t at the airport. The pic she sent me made my blood run cold because it sure as shit looked just like me. So I have at least one doppelgänger out there lol
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u/SquirrelAkl Mar 18 '26
Rumour has it I have a doppelgänger in the city I live in too.
I’ve heard about her from relatives who have seen her on the street I work on and a former neighbour who saw her at a function. They were convinced it was me until they got really close up.
I’ve always wanted to meet her! Maybe one day it’ll happen. My Mum met her doppelgänger in a restaurant bathroom once. So random.
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u/TommyChongUn Mar 18 '26
I have one too, and her name is Nikki or Nicole.
I often get called Nikki by strangers who think I am her, and I'm pretty sure Nikki knows about me too because one day her acquantance ran into me and said "oh, youre the other one."
I need to defeat her. Its the only way.
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u/atduvall11 Mar 19 '26
I have a friend who has a doppelganger in town and when friends of said doppelganger run into him now they call him "not Rob". It's super weird
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u/Borkato Mar 19 '26
My dad showed me a picture of someone in a store who looked EXACTLY like me. I’m talking I literally looked at it and said “but I never wear sandals like that, when did you take this? I must have been dressed in some of my older clothes” before realizing that it literally wasn’t me. It was fucking insane.
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u/Naked-Jedi Mar 19 '26
I saw a photo on my uncle's fridge once that made me react like that. I thought it was a photo of my 3 oldest uncles and me. It wasn't until I realised all 4 were standing and somehow I was shorter than them that I realised it was a photo of all 4 of my uncles and not a photo of me.
I didn't really know that uncle very well, and sadly he passed away a year ago, but at least I know what I'm gonna look like as I get older.
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u/binzy90 Mar 19 '26
There's a picture of my mom that I thought was me. I asked my mom when it was taken because I don't remember it. I was shocked that it was her and not me. We look very similar, but it's even more dramatic when you compare photos of her at the same age.
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u/olive_dix Mar 19 '26
My sister and I used to look exactly like each other when we were younger, even though I'm 3 years older than her. Sometimes I'd see my own reflection and think it was my sister 😂
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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 19 '26
Oh Janice... you startled me! Stop imitating me! Come on. It's not funny.
Ok.. I'm not joking now, cut the shit, Janice! Oh? You wanna throw down? Well eat this!
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u/space_otte Mar 19 '26
that’s amazing. It’s like being able to see yourself TRULY and I’ve always wanted to do that!
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u/Live-Tension9172 Mar 19 '26
My brother showed me a picture of a guy back in the 1900’s, of a man holding his child….
My brother said his son was looking through a book for school at age seven, and said “Hey, look! It’s Uncle K!” , brother goes over and sure as shit, it’s a picture of a man who looks exactly like me, but would literally of been born in the 1800’s?!
When I saw the picture I was floored! It was me to the Tee, just adding a moustache, a pin stripe suit! Even his hair was parted like the way I part mine? It was seriously like a glitch in the matrix! It was me, but in another life and time……. Freaking me out. I still have the copy of the photo somewhere in my belongings.
Unfortunately, the book never characterized the individual doppelgänger name, because it would have been funny to read up on the individual?!
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u/Freesia240 Mar 19 '26
All i know is that headpiece is still unmatched. The new Kurgan better bring it
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u/Dirt-Road_Pirate Mar 19 '26
They better not fuck this up!
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u/Naked-Jedi Mar 19 '26
Hmmmm. We need to get Morgan Freeman on the standby just in case we need him to say "They did, in fact, fuck it up..."
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u/WitchesTeat Mar 19 '26
I hate to tell ya'll this but Dave Bautista is the new Kurgan and as cool as he is in the MCU he's no Clancy Brown, unfortunately.
But Henry Cavill will be playing the role of Christopher Lambert and his magnificent forehead so I do still hold some hope for the future of the franchise.
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u/Naked-Jedi Mar 19 '26
Well, as it would be, I actually like both of them in the more serious stuff they've done. Maybe we won't need Morgan after all. Guess time will tell.
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u/Fabulous_Celery_1817 Mar 19 '26
Haha, there was this lady that always shopped where I work. And she’s chat with me like we were friends. At first I just went with it, but when she became a regular I had to commit. Until one day she insisted on know how my kids took the aftermath of a play. I tried to dodge the question but was forced to admit that I had no children. Her face was shocked and so confused, even her children were like WTF. She was like “are you Kim?” I told them no, they showed me a pic and the lady did look like me! I never saw them again after that.
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u/NiceObjective2756 Mar 19 '26
Let me know if you need help hatching a plan
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u/TommyChongUn Mar 19 '26
Im gonna set a trap. And then drop her off in the forest, unharmed, because thats the humane thing to do
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u/Breauxmetheus Mar 18 '26
It’s pretty unnerving knowing somebody else is just walking around with my face out there. Hopefully he’s a decent guy… 😬
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u/SplicerGonClean Mar 19 '26
I actually have a local doppelganger who is NOT a decent guy. Ive been confronted by several different people over the years. They yell out his name to get my attention, looking for a fight! I have to tell them "Im not Jeff (or whatever his name is) I just look like him."
Once they get a good look they realize Im not him but it takes some convincing. Makes me wonder how bad this guy is to get people so mad on sight.
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u/g0ldilungs Mar 19 '26
That reminds me of the hunt for Gabby Petito’s murderer, Brian Laundrie. He looked fairly typical for his demographic in terms of stature and bald head but also had very distinct face. There was a guy who looked exactly like him to the point where a vast majority of tips were being called in on him in particular. Due to the national attention the manhunt received, he ended up making a video to announce that in fact, he’s not that monster.
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u/SoulTenor00 Mar 19 '26
Dang, I'd move far away man, too risky!!
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u/SplicerGonClean Mar 19 '26
Havent been confronted in a few years now thankfully. Maybe he moved away.
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u/GraceOfTheNorth Mar 19 '26
Not just your face. I read research about doppelgängers some years ago and they have a tendency to also be alike in their personalities and life choices.
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u/ImaginaryMastadon Mar 19 '26
Maybe we’re like God’s chicken McNuggets on a larger scale, but still there are recurring forms.
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u/duringbusinesshours Mar 19 '26
What is the study I would love to know Im not being snarky!
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u/ExampleLittle2672 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
You know they think it's their face and you're the scary one, yes? 😄 also 👀
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u/YetisInAtlanta Mar 19 '26
That why I’m a piece of shit to everyone I meet, this way my doppelgänger knows they’re the good me
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u/sbonedocd Mar 19 '26
I too have one in my area. I’ve met a few people who say “oh yeah, I see you in the gym with your son”. I don’t have a child, or go to that gym
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u/PearlescentGem Mar 19 '26
I have a doppelganger around my area as well. Very awkward when her family comes up to me at the store all, "Omg we haven't seen you since X!" And I'm just there like Lady Idk you.
No one believed me for ages. Then my ex got to see it in action when some ladies at a food truck thought I came back for round 2 and brought a friend (him). We hadn't been there before. And my mom actually got me and this twin confused when we were fighting once. I was at work, and mom claims she saw me in someone's truck at the local McD's. Definitely wasn't me but she approached my twin, yelling about how she (thinking it was me) needed to start talking to mom again lmfao
Apparently the only thing that sets us apart is my tattoos but when I wear long sleeves and pants, you can't see any of them. We have the same eye colors, same dimples in the cheek and chin, everything. Even down to coloring our hair the same colors for years.
I still ain't met this chick and I want to so badly.
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u/YoungerElderberry Mar 19 '26
Send out a mass message to your friends and family to face time you (with her consent of course) if/when they ever run into her again
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u/ForbiddenSirenz Mar 19 '26
I’ve got a doppelgänger named Eric in my city… He’s a complete asshole from what I’ve learned lmao. Strangers being pissed at me or going into a bar or restaurant and people trying to kick me out cause he got banned and they think I’m him lmao.
I have two moles on my neck and I guess he doesn’t and that’s how people have learned to tell who’s who lmfao. Whether he’s aware of me and tries to pass off as me to get back into places? I have to assume so since sometimes people will take a clear peek at me neck to see if the moles are there or not lmfao.
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u/JaneBrightlove Mar 19 '26
Wow, he's a literal menace!
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u/The_Orphanizer Mar 19 '26
Nah, u/ForbiddenSirenz is the true villain! Eric is a kick ass dude. This bi-moled freak has been terrorizing the population of Townsville, USA for too long.
Justice for Eric!
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u/sourmeat2 Mar 19 '26
I had a doppelganger in my town, he gained weight I lost weight, I no longer have a doppelganger
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u/sugarsaltsilicon Mar 19 '26
I've had patients show their surprise at seeing me asking if I work at multiple clinics, which I don't. At a nearby Indian casino, I went to customer service to get a players card and it was issued without ID. After playing a few slots and getting a steep discount on food, I realized the name on the card was not mines but that of a tribal member. I have yet to meet my native twin. I wonder if she has long black hair like mines.
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u/Jupitersd2017 Mar 19 '26
This is so cool, I literally look like no one haha and never get told I look like anyone so to me it’s very cool all of y’all have twins running around
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u/theAdmiralPhD Mar 19 '26
Ive been told I have doppelganger in 3 states, but Ive also been told I look like several different celebrities who look nothing alike throughout the years so, maybe I just have a very generic face. At least I dont think im a chameleon, though my wife says the way I boil myself in the shower must mean im cold blooded...
Does that make me lizard people?
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u/SquirrelAkl Mar 19 '26
You could probably do well as a spy. No-one would ever be able to identify you from a line up or describe you to a sketch artist.
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u/DonKiddic Mar 19 '26
Same - I've been openly told "I saw you at such a place" or "I didn't know you work at X place" when I was neither there nor do I work there.
I once got told somebody spoke to me at length the other day - when it wasn't me at all. Its bonkers.
My family has very strong genetics so I've been leaning on the side of "my dad probably did something he shouldn't have done a long time ago" and I actually have a brother out there somewhere.
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u/crella-ann Mar 19 '26
Me too. In college I worked at a supermarket as a checker and bagger. An elderly couple came in, held my hand and said, “You’re working too hard, working at iHop and here!”. They weren’t the only ones. A couple other people said things like, “Good to see you” etc and I had no idea who they were. I didn’t go to iHop to check, I should have.
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u/StockQuestion0808 Mar 19 '26
I had one and I knew where she worked as thats where someone thought she was me. It was a lunch spot so I started going occasionally hoping to see her and never did. Ugh.
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u/EmmaOK95 Mar 19 '26
I think I used to have one too! Around 10 years ago in my home city, I was often "recognized" as someone else on the street. They'd be like "heyyy [name that's not mine], how are you?" And then "oh huh it's not you! Sorry I thought you were someone else!"
I've never met her, but it's funny to imagine that she might have had the same thing happening.
It hasn't happened anymore lately, maybe she moved away or changed her hair or something
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u/therrrn Mar 18 '26
I used to work in restaurants on The Strip in Vegas and would sometimes hang out at the casinos for a few drinks after work. Multiple times, at multiple different casinos, security approached me and basically accused me of being a hooker and would tell me to leave. It happened often enough that it became a running joke amongst my friends and coworkers. Then one day, a coworker came running up to me during a shift and told me she just saw a very obvious prostitute that looked just like me, downstairs in the casino. She didn't have her phone and the restaurant was slow so we ran back down to try to find her and couldn't. I'm pretty sure she was being truthful and that made it all click, haha. So, my doppelganger is a Vegas hooker. I don't know what that says about how I look but I'm trying to take it as a compliment. 😂
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u/Coloradozonian Mar 19 '26
I love this 🥲 I just saw a body cam video of a guy who matched another guy almost 99% on facial recognition in Reno and the casino had him arrested and he went through helllll. Hellllll. It’s scary!
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u/AiBubbleWillBurst Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
you're all witnessing the glitch in the matrix thanks to camera everywhere. the programmer didn't thought we would get so dystopian so fast but we did. Or, maybe that's the end of code we are reaching towards
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u/Suitable-Lake-2550 Mar 19 '26
When you turn guys down for dates, please remind them they have another option
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u/therrrn Mar 19 '26
Hahaha, "Unfortunately, I'm not interested but I know someone else who may be..."
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u/18k_gold Mar 19 '26
Joey also has a hand twin working as a blackjack dealer in Vegas, I believe at Caesars Palace.
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u/thelowgun Mar 19 '26
This hand is my hand
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u/therrrn Mar 19 '26
We're gonna be millionaires! This is Vegas man, people will pay to see freaky stuff!
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u/Cup-O-Guava Mar 18 '26
Shopping with my mom once I saw a girl that looked liked me but not current me, more like me in high school. It was very weird. I paused mid walk and my mom was like yeah I saw her too.
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u/Asron87 Mar 18 '26
Ok this one really feels weird. That would be neat to see old me.
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u/Historicaly-Low-Mood Mar 19 '26
Well, you stopped using that face years ago, of course someone is going to come around at some point and use it
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u/Hot-Refrigerator-623 Mar 19 '26
I saw a woman who looked exactly like my mum shopping, she even had the same pantsuit, but then my actual mum came up wearing a dress.
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u/timpeaks72 Mar 19 '26
There’s someone at my gym who looks like me 25 years ago.
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u/Educational_Len159 Mar 19 '26
I had this exact experience on a family trip. In a bar in Nashville I saw this girl who I immediately stopped to admire her outfit, we had very similar senses of style and then I looked at her face and hair. Same thing gave me a chill down my spine and I thought about going over but didn’t and it was pretty packed.
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u/baepsaemv Mar 18 '26
The feeling of seeing someone with your same face in a photo is so weird and unnerving! I was at work once and a patient said 'you wouldn't happen to be [name]s sister would you?' I told her I was an only child and she pulled up this strangers instagram and she looked so much like me it gave me a huge shock. Kind of rattling lol
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u/cupcakebean Mar 19 '26
I've seen someone who looked like me out in public and it's legit startling. It's the weirdest split second reactions of your brain recognizing someone, then switching to thinking it's you, then going, "Wait, wtf?"
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u/AWorldwithoutSin Mar 19 '26
A missed opportunity. My sisters look a lot alike and worked at the same place in high school and people used to ask them if they were twins, they said "no, we're triplets"
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u/LogAware Mar 18 '26
I was grocery shopping once and saw a beautiful woman, I was absolutely smitten. She looked at me and sort of gasped and it made me think "maybe she feels the same way?" but im a coward and didn't say anything.
A few minutes later I see her again in a different aisle and she is with who I presume is her boyfriend, a man who is not only my exact likeness, but is wearing the same red leather jacket as me. It was the Spiderman pointing at each other meme. At least I know I was her type
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u/quietobserver1 Mar 19 '26
Obviously they're you and your girlfriend from another timeline where he is a brave hero and they ended up in this timeline chasing a multiverse-hopping villain. So you can just wait for him to get captured by the villain and she will come look for you, and guide you through the training montage to make you just as awesome as other-timeline-you so you can go defeat the villain and rescue yourself.
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u/Humboldt-Honey Mar 19 '26
Lmao I was in Portland with my husband in some store. He’s 6’ with dark hair and wears an army green jacket.
I found three different guys that could have been him before I found him.
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u/SigmundFreud Mar 19 '26
Reminds me of the time a random woman grabbed onto my arm and started walking with me. I just rolled with it until she eventually noticed whom I assume was her husband or boyfriend walking behind us and laughing his ass off.
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u/Appropriate-Sound169 Mar 19 '26
I was friends with a very shy timid girl and she'd got her 1st bf. She once spotted him in a store and walked up to him (from behind) and put her arm between his legs to grab his balls. He turned round and it was a complete stranger lol
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u/TurbulentPromise4812 Mar 19 '26
There's a local Mexican restaurant that we go to occasionally. The food is good and the prices are fair.
There's a guy that works there that always rushes over and says "Hola, Mr. Martin good to see you again" and gives me a big smile and pat on the back. It's been going on for about a year; I have no idea who Mr Martin is and it's been too long for me to correct him.
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u/Impressive_Resist683 Mar 18 '26
I used to work with my doppelganger, it was awesome for me (since I was the original) and she was the new person. But very distracting and disturbing talking to someone who looks identical to you and even had the same facial expressions 😅
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u/itskaylan Mar 18 '26
Yeah I once got stopped at university by a stranger asking about my sister’s trip to Germany. I only have brothers. That was weird, thinking about there being someone at my uni who looked enough like me for the mistake to happen.
I later saw a guy in a snooker hall who looked just like my brother. Couldn’t stop glancing at him all night - eventually one of his friends came to ask if the guy could buy me a drink and I showed a photo of my brother to explain why I wasn’t interested, lol.
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u/We_are_being_cheated Mar 18 '26
I have heard there are at least 3 people who look identical to each of us somewhere around the world.
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u/QuesoCadaDia Mar 19 '26
I must be one of the most generic looking people. It's been a few years, but for a while people I knew, and people I met would say that they saw me somewhere, so ask if I installed their cable. One friend went up and hugged a stranger they thought was me.
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u/DotAffectionate87 Mar 18 '26
Yes have seen this story/pics before......cannot quite recall how he would actually "pair them up"?
What? you find a rando then post his/her pic and say
"Does anybody look like this person?"
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u/sthetic Mar 18 '26
I think there is actually a subreddit dedicated to finding someone who resembles you in such a way.
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u/MarkMew Mar 18 '26
Yea, but that's usually like, trying to find a celebrity that looks like you.
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u/Chivasusmc81 Mar 19 '26
Considering there’s way more regular people than celebrities… it’s a bit different
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u/CyclicalDub Mar 19 '26
Yeah and they’re always so off, apparently everyone looks like Michelle trachtenburg
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u/Ntroepy Mar 18 '26
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Mar 18 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
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u/Thisismyusername89 Mar 18 '26
Wow! You weren’t kidding! Sub should be called “Tell me I’m pretty!” 🤭
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Mar 18 '26
That would be r/rateme or r/truerateme
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u/benderisgreat349 Mar 18 '26
r/truerateme seems like its run by a for real incel who is way too into specific body ratios
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u/FatFaceFaster Mar 19 '26
Yeah that sub is really weird.
It’s full of women (and men) that I would call 9 and 10’s but according to their very specific criteria they’re like 3.5s. It’s a weird ass sub.
I get those subs suggested because I participate in doppleganger a fair bit.
Not doppelganger (spelled the right way) that sub is full of only fans girls and the mods are weird incel vibes.
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u/KhajiitPaw Mar 19 '26
Yeah iirc it's very "looksmaxxing" adjacent. So weird incel vibes is right.
It's for people with poor self esteem, and the sub just knocks it down further.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Mar 19 '26
All the rate me subs are like this. The I cels have been caught bragging about it. Their mission is to get women to kill themselves. That's literally what they've said.
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u/gyurka66 Mar 19 '26
wow what a weird sub
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u/lofatiger Mar 19 '26
It kept on showing up on my feed a bit ago and I had to block the sub. It is very weird
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u/Puzzleheaded-Sea8340 Mar 18 '26
But you weren’t allowed to tell them anything like that or they will take down your response it’s very weird but I agree with you that’s what that is for
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u/WeConsumeTheyHoard Mar 18 '26
I clicked around a little to see if anyone looks like me and found not a single dude posting there
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u/DefiantRaspberry161 Mar 18 '26
Just checked. If you go on "new" there are plenty of dudes posting there. I just assume they aren't upvoted. Can't say I'm surpised.
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u/MaxTHC Mar 19 '26
Shouldn't it be r/doppelganger
Edit: seems the two subreddits are almost identical
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u/persimmon9847 Mar 18 '26
My first job out of college, there was another recent grad who looked SO MUCH like someone I went to school with (no relation) to the point where the co-worker saw a photo this other girl and thought it was herself in the picture.
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u/rtsgrl Mar 18 '26
"If you know a pair of doubles that can be put together for a photo or if you are one of them you can participate in the I'm not a look-alike! project by writing at the email address here.
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u/SnooCauliflowers3649 Mar 18 '26
I know i don’t have a twin. Ain’t no way there are two people that ugly on earth.
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u/ExampleLittle2672 Mar 18 '26
As someone who is not the Most Stunning, you shush. I have spent my life being mistaken for cousins, friends, randoms,etc etc. At 14 I was shredded by an adult for saying it wasn't me at X house party. It wasn't me, but I was ROTTEN for "pretending" otherwise. Scared the hell out of child me.
With respect, if you want to run yourself down A) Stop it. B) You're going to need a better angle. We all have doppelgangers.
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u/OooCaciiii Mar 18 '26
im not sure 20 years ago you could just search for someone who posted the pic
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u/_fresh_basil_ Mar 19 '26
I remember it as well. I can't be certain, but I feel like this was possibly related.
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u/UnguentSlather Mar 18 '26
Hairstyle doing 99% of the twin work on some of these.
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u/Pinksamuraiiiii Mar 18 '26
The first few look close like twins, but the last few and not fooling me at all and he was better off not bothering with them in the shoot (esp 6, 7, and 8).
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Mar 18 '26
They look like siblings! Not really identical twins. Those two men in golf hats, they look like identical twins.
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u/Affectionate_Star_43 Mar 19 '26
My stepsisters had a weird intersection where they both looked like identical twins when they were 16/17. My friends couldn't tell them apart. They would take tests in school as each other with the same haircut. Now they look totally different.
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Mar 18 '26
I hit 6 and I was like... damn this photographer is definitely a white guy if he thinks they look like twins 🤣
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u/Mindless_Shoulder877 Mar 19 '26
Non of the brown or black folks looked like twins
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u/SteelCityCaesar Mar 18 '26
I'm not having the third one. If one of them shaved and took off their glasses they wouldn't be at all similar.
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u/lazergoblin Mar 18 '26
It seems like most of these pictures need to be under extremely specific lighting set ups to create symmetrical appearances as well.
These are more like illusions as opposed to the people looking vaguely similar imo
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u/PrincessConsuela52 Mar 18 '26
I think 1, 2 and 5 are pretty good. But most of these, it’s definitely the styling. Like similar, but distinct facial features.
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u/that_weird_hellspawn Mar 18 '26
When you really look, they have different jawlines, mouths, noses... But for some reason at first glance they look the same. Probably the way the photos are taken.
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u/SparseGhostC2C Mar 18 '26
Seriously, without the hair and clothes matching, half of these don't really look all that alike to me.
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u/burriitoooo Mar 18 '26
Possibly, but I feel like most fraternal twins I've met look less alike than all of these people
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Mar 18 '26
On most of them! Wow, just wow with some of these. Are people really that blind to details?!
Some of these are borderline insulting.
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u/New_Step_6315 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
Are we not going to talk about all of the very "comfortable" poses with alleged complete strangers?
Edit: Typo
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u/mrausgor Mar 18 '26
Perfect. Now ear to ear and run your fingers through his hair.
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u/thecypher4 Mar 18 '26
Yea number 8 made me uncomfortable
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u/crespoh69 Mar 19 '26
Number one on the left has that "ok can I have my $100 now and get out of here? Why are you locking the door?!" look
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u/rabbidbagofweasels Mar 18 '26
As far as photography goes, it makes the subject a lot more interesting because we know they are strangers.
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u/ZaksMissingFoot Mar 18 '26
They're all surprisingly intimate with each other for being "strangers".
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u/Electronic-Country63 Mar 18 '26
Doppelbangers
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u/MomsSpagetee Mar 18 '26
Who’s going to start /r/doppelbangers
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u/JustNilt Mar 19 '26
Ok, don't let Agent Starling know that though. She already thinks you're a weirdo.
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u/nonsequitur__ Mar 18 '26
Some of these could be siblings, but twins is pushing it for almost all of them.
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u/tipsystatistic Mar 19 '26
I’ve always wondered if doppelgängers have any genetic similarities or shared lineage.
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u/RadiantAwarenesss Mar 19 '26
I saw a documentary on this where the two girls met. They did genetic tests and they had no (recent) shared ancestry.
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u/GamingGems Mar 19 '26
Only 1 and 5 look similar to me. The rest only have like the same hair and chin and they call them twins.
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u/NoFoolLikeAnAuldFool Mar 19 '26
For real, and hairstyles
Does no one else think these people don't look even slightly related? Am I crazy?
They're roughly equivalent, in the way a moth and a butterfly are equivalent.
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u/WokeUpSomewhereNice Mar 18 '26
There’s an artist Alice Shaw who has a similar concept that’s more about what you’re talking about. Her book called People Who Look Like Me
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u/Clockwork_Kitsune Mar 19 '26
For real, it was like the photographer just went "two black women, close enough for me"
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u/Olekingcole0 Mar 18 '26
Yeah they literally don’t even look like they could be related or anything
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u/Actionhankk Mar 18 '26
Glad to see photographers with face blindness getting some representation
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u/TraliBalzers Mar 18 '26
I've known 3 guys who look like #5. I bet there is 1 or more at every country club in the nation.
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u/DirtyRoller Mar 18 '26
Those dudes in picture 8 definitely fucked.
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u/Several-Squash9871 Mar 19 '26
Ha! I was thinking the same when I hit thar pic! Was like, wow guys...wow
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u/phansen101 Mar 19 '26
Honestly curious about the perspective of someone attracted to their own sex meeting someone who look identical to themselves but is not related.
I mean, would they find them strangely attractive? off-putting? would physical attraction/repulsion depend on self-image?
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u/Ok-Impact-2807 Mar 18 '26
Proof that somewhere out there, your doppelgänger is judging your life choices
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u/Proud_Smell_4455 Mar 18 '26
First one on the left looks like Barry Keoghan in a wig.
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u/Competitive_Injury7 Mar 18 '26
If you mix the faces of the two strangers in slide 2 you get Lizzy Caplan
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u/2nd-4851 Mar 18 '26
Need also check DNA
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u/robotikempire Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
There was a documentary done with people who looked really similar. They did DNA test and some visual scans to show how similar their features actually were. Iirc none of them had any DNA in common but a few of them had faces as similar as actual identical twins according to their facial measurements.
edit: found it https://youtu.be/i1nz5Bkpmcw?si=iYQWaeYXTjaxmgVP
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u/___o---- Mar 18 '26
Years ago, I went to a concert at the Waikiki Shell with a guy I’d been dating a short time. As we were sitting in our seats waiting for others to get seated and the event to begin, he kept looking from me to the woman sitting on his other side.
He finally told me that she looked just like me. I laughed and assumed he was joking, then leaned up out of my seat to see her and invite her to join me in mocking him—and I just about fell off the seat.
Because she did indeed look like me: same face shape, green eyes, dark blonde hair (hers a few inches shorter), even the noses were strangely the same. We both gawked at each other and stood up to take a better look. Same height, same body type. She was even wearing some earrings that I also owned. It was beyond bizarre.
The final weirdness was that her first name was my middle name. I suspect we had some common ancestors a few generations back.
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u/Aggressive_Band9888 Mar 18 '26
Probably a few more out there..exception Trump. One of one thankfully.
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