It’s DOPPLEGANGER week on facebook. And if you don’t know what I mean by that, clearly you need to get a life.
Doppleganger week is where people on Facebook replace their profile picture with a picture of the celebrity they look like.
Like this,
or this,
or even, this,
Right away I notice a disturbing trend. All my attractive friends are posting profile pictures of these super-duper hot models and celebrities. And I find myself thinking, “you know, she kind of DOES look like Christie Brinkley.” And then I read the comments where everyone says, “You TOTALLY look like Christie Brinkley” and I start feeling like I want to throw up.
The thing is, I’ve never been told I look like a celebrity.
Probably because I don’t. And that wasn’t even one of my ISSUES until this blasted doppleganger week had to hit Facebook like a tsunamai and give me ONE MORE THING to feel inferior about.
But then I remember this fancy little widget-wadget-whatchamacallit that I played with a couple years back where you could upload your picture and it would tell you which celebrities you look like.
I decide to give it a try, secretly hoping that it will come up with Jennifer Aniston or if I’m lucky, Angelina Jolie.
I upload my picture, like so:
And I wait for the MAGIC.
It spins…
And spins…
and THEN!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!
DO I REALLY LOOK LIKE THIS GUY?
Alexander Lukashenko
the President of Belarus?
AND IS THAT EVEN A REAL PLACE?!
I’m sorry, but I refuse to see the resemblance.
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January 30, 2010 at 9:51 pm
rest assured that you have much better hair. MUCH better.
(I don’t look like any celebrities that I want to know about either).
January 30, 2010 at 9:55 pm
I don’t see it either- but thanks for the best laugh I’ve had all week!
January 30, 2010 at 11:26 pm
don’t feel too badly. that stupid application told me i look like elton john. :P
January 31, 2010 at 12:09 am
You are adorable! Of course you don’t look like that guy! But, I really did have to LOL! And, I’m going to have to give it a try myself & see what it throws my way!
January 31, 2010 at 7:40 am
well, alls i can figure is that you are both smiling. instead of the usual celebrity pout. perhaps try again, but this time look like your son left his light sabers at a friends house and you are so sad to be missing out on the fun of the battle.
January 31, 2010 at 12:56 pm
You’ve still got it my friend. HILARIOUS!
January 31, 2010 at 1:17 pm
That’s messed up.
I refuse to participate in that facebook thing. Re.fuse.
I have never been told I looked like anyone famous.
January 31, 2010 at 1:51 pm
OMG I had the exact same reaction! I even tried to use the my heritage thingy. (With seriously depressing results as well) And NO I don’t see the resemblance!
January 31, 2010 at 9:03 pm
You look a bit like Maura Tierney from E.R. to me!
January 31, 2010 at 9:04 pm
What I want to know is, who came up with “Doppelganger Week”?? Those who follow celebrities and those who follow doppelgangers (of the “Battlestar Galactica” variety, anyway) would seem like mutually exclusive groups. Perhaps they got together for a powwow in Belarus recently …
February 1, 2010 at 10:23 am
LMAO!
Omg. That’s hilarious. No, you don’t look like him.
And that stupid thing is driving me nutso too. I hate meme’s and I hate crap like doppelganger week. I call it the Sheep Effect. Everyone blindly follows like sheep.
Add to it that I’ve never been told I look like a celebrity, either. I always get told I look like someone’s cousin, sister, etc. One guy said, “You look my sister in law, but she’s pregnant.” Gee, thanks. I know I’m fat but you could’ve left off the “she’s pregnant” part.
February 1, 2010 at 11:28 am
I haven’t laughed that hard at a post in a long time. I fail to see the resemblence. Maybe this guy’s like the last kid picked for kickball. No one ever looks like him (cuz, let’s face it, he kind of looks like a nut) and they felt sorry for him so they just matched him up with the next person that logged in. Really, this is more about his shortcoming than yours.
February 1, 2010 at 2:25 pm
I can agree with the Maura Tierney comparison, but I don’t think you look like an angry male president. Really.
February 1, 2010 at 4:42 pm
I’ve never been told I look like a celebrity either, and when I did that stupid application last year it told me I look like Adam Frickin’ Sandler.
February 1, 2010 at 4:43 pm
I’ve never been told I look like a celebrity either and I did that same website thing a few years ago and it said I look like Hugh Jackman. So, yeah, you’re not the only one.
February 2, 2010 at 9:24 am
I tried it… and apparently I look like Hugh Grant, Kevin Kostner and Gene Wilder. WITH A MOUSTACHE!
February 2, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Ha!! What a great laugh! But you know who you really look like?? Laura Linney!
February 3, 2010 at 8:14 am
My condolences. Who came up with this word “Doppelganger,” anyway? WTF? It sounds porn-y.
February 3, 2010 at 8:30 am
I was almost in tears. Thanks for that lift today (even if it was at your expense). By the way…yeah…don’t see it either.
February 3, 2010 at 8:45 am
ha! I’m actually working on a post about this right now.
because I??
look like goddamn GEORGE BUSH.
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February 3, 2010 at 10:43 am
OH.MY.GOD. This made me laugh SO FREAKING HARD.
Thank you for the laugh!!!
February 3, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Is that even a real place? HA! (I don’t see it either.)
February 4, 2010 at 8:30 am
@ Bejewel: Doppelganger is a German word. It means someone who looks just like you, literally ‘double-goer’. Originally it specifically meant a sort of ghost version of yourself. It was bad news if you saw your doppelgänger.
February 6, 2010 at 1:12 pm
ha ha, I was going to try that myself but now I’m way to scared!!
February 7, 2010 at 12:12 am
This made me laugh so hard….
Darin’s my heritage look-a-like was MR. T….LOL. Did we tell you he recently got a mohawk?
February 7, 2010 at 11:01 am
Oh my God. Laughing my nerdy dry heave laugh. Too funny. And no. You do not look like the president of Belarus. A little like Jodie Foster maybe? Anyone ever said that?
February 11, 2010 at 10:13 pm
I have to say that I litteraly laughed out loud. I know exactly what you’re thinking about and I’ve taken that quiz. I remember being disgusted with the out come. I just don’t think I’ve ever admitted that to anyone. FYI- You are a thousand times better looking then your “look alike”.
March 9, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Everyone looks like celebrities in their dreams! Down with Doppleganger week.
May 28, 2010 at 12:31 am
I think you kinda look like Julianne Moore….
June 27, 2010 at 8:25 am
I was thinking Maura TIerney!! She’s gorgeous!!
June 28, 2010 at 4:09 pm
lol! love your blog :D and btw you definitely 100% more like jennifer aniston. Infact I was thinking this as I scrolled down. Honestly didnt expect that XD
going to try this beast myself :D
xx