Do you look like (insert male celebrity here)? Could you use $50? A lookalike contest might be in your future.

After a competition organized by YouTuber to find the man from New York who most resembled Timothée Chalamet went viral on social media (leading to a huge event that Timmy himself attended), copycats have been popping up all over the world. From a Paul Mescal lookalike competition in Dublin at a Dev Patel lookalike contest in San Francisco, it’s never been a better time to be someone who (kinda, kinda) looks like a hot, famous guy.

The entirely grassroots movement seems to be happening completely organically and is a rare example of a viral internet moment translating into an IRL event. Here’s everything you need to know, in this edition of TL;DR.

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After a competition held in New York to find the man who most resembled Timothée Chalamet went viral, similar lookalike events for various other male celebrities are popping up around the world.

Wait, I need more. What is the context here?

As Charm reported last month, the NYC Timmy contest first began spreading as a viral Partiful invitation online and via posters hung around the city IRL (it turned out the contest was the brainchild of original idea of YouTuber Anthony Po).

The event, which offered a trophy and $50 to the most Timmy boy of all, became the rare phenomenon where an Internet meme had the same impact in real life. The lookalike contest attracted tons of participants, leading to four arrestsand Chalamet himself has been there.

Since then, popular movements to crown equally exact look-alikes have swept the nation and the world.

Just last week there was a Harry Styles lookalike competition in London…

A Dev Patel lookalike contest that attracted “hundreds” of people San Francisco…

And a Paul Mescal lookalike competition, where the hopefuls came dressed in his iconic shorts:

Also, if you’re wondering, there is no big entity in charge of these contests, and there is no clear way to determine a winner outside of, it seems, cheers and thirst of the gathered crowd.

So this is truly a democratic popular election that is essentially pure anarchy. This… maybe what we need right now?

What does the Internet think?

Of course, everyone is obsessed.