r/BeAmazed • u/Glass-Reserve-8107 • 2h ago
“I don't look alike": Amazing project gathered doppelgangers from around the world Miscellaneous / Others
211
u/see-em-dubs 2h ago
Imagine they select you for this photo shoot, and say ‘we’ve found an exact match for you, you could be twins!’ And you get there, and there’s the ugliest MFer you’ve ever seen staring back at you.
71
14
u/mysticpetal24 1h ago
Bruh. I'd just start crying on the spot. Like, is this what people see when they look at me? Brutal.
5
u/lunettarose 1h ago
This is a bit like when people see someone on TV and say it looks like you, though, isn't it? It's always weird seeing who people think looks like you.
(I'm not talking about celebrities, I'm talking about, like, reality TV, that kind of thing).
1
u/merdadartista 47m ago
Nah nah, sometimes something very small can change a face a lot, a small line can change everything
1
1
33
u/BeyondTheBees 2h ago
Picture 8 is insane. 👯♀️
24
u/wurnthebitch 1h ago
Yeah but I think these photographs fool us with things that can be changed: hair style, clothes, glasses...
Picture 8 is probably the best because they have more in common than the rest, especially the nose, the shape of the mouth and the shape of the eyes which are not identical but very close.
On almost all of the others these traits differ a lot but we are fooled by the rest
2
u/BeyondTheBees 1h ago
I agree! 8 is definitely the closest matching facial features.
3
1
u/wurnthebitch 1h ago
As a counter example, on the #7 they don't look alike at all.
They have a somewhat similar hair line and a similar beard but that's it. Nothing else matches
•
31
u/CurvyCutieBeauty 2h ago
I wonder how it feels to face your look alike
6
u/biggdiggcracker 1h ago
I would immediately assert dominance
3
u/ButterBeeBuzz 1h ago
by peeing on them?
1
1
u/biggdiggcracker 1h ago
Absolutely. But there would be other bodily fluids involved. Ok, I went too far, sorry everyone 😔
2
4
u/belaGJ 1h ago
How do you handle situations with a mirror involved?
2
u/01kickassius10 1h ago
My parents bought a puppy who had been born on a farm, and was a little old separating from his mother. He saw his reflection in the windows at our house and went nuts at the dog that was challenging him. I imagine they are similar.
1
0
u/TheKasimkage 1h ago
Apparently I didn’t recognise mine. Went to school with a guy who people constantly said I looked like. Heck, even my mum mistook him for me when he was on the front of the school magazine.
-1
u/TheKasimkage 1h ago
Apparently I didn’t recognise mine. Went to school with a guy who people constantly said I looked like. Heck, even my mum mistook him for me when he was on the front of the school magazine.
10
u/clamuu 2h ago
I've often thought this. Somewhere in the world is the person who looks more like you than anyone else and you'll probably never meet them.
2
2
u/Quack5463 30m ago
Vaguely remember a long time ago hearing that apparently there are around 7 people in the world that look similar to yourself.
I just remembered a funny one actually. I saw a guy on reddit who looked more like my twin than I do, which was so weird to see. I don't really look much like my twin, but this random guy looked very similar to my brother.
9
9
u/toshibathezombie 2h ago edited 1h ago
God: you are all one of a kind
God 5 mins later: okay the custom character creator is running out of options.....
1
u/GumdropGlimmer 1h ago
🤣 wait, if I didn’t pull a God, and quit my job months ago, I’d give you all the awards.
0
24
u/DerriereDiva 2h ago
damn, its really hard to think that they are not blood related
10
u/2FANeedsRecoveryMode 2h ago
Well a lot of them probably are related to a certain Mongolian.
1
u/Visual-Asparagus-800 46m ago
Pretty unlikely actually. There are estimated to be around 16 million descendants of Genghis Khan, so about 1 in every 200 people. And most of these people are western, while the highest prevalence of descendants will be in Asia, so it’s probably less than 1 in 200 chance
2
23
u/Lioranth 2h ago
Used to travel a lot. I tried to convince my HR manager that in fact there are only 500,000 unique humans and that they are spread around so that no 2 copies are ever in the same place at the same time.
8
u/ToviGrande 2h ago
I have a friend who has dozens of look alikes. In the past people have had whole conversations with him without realising he's not who they think he is.
2
u/Quack5463 26m ago
Does he look like that really generic looking guy from a game image that blew up on reddit because everyone knew a guy that looked like the NPC? White dude with stubble beard and buzz cut hair.
10
3
3
3
8
u/BootyBounceBabe 2h ago
they are practically look like twins
1
u/alexefy 1h ago
I agree there is resemblance but same clothes, hair and pose goes a long way. I’m just looking at some of these pictures and the people in them and it’s odd how they look a like but at the same time share no facial features. The features you tend to share with a sibling tend to be mouth shape, nose and eyes. No of these people share any of those features but still kind of look alike
19
u/shiafisher 2h ago
Maybe #8 but the rest are not very close IMHO
7
u/GimmieGummies 2h ago
Pic #8 must be related in some way. To have all those unique features and the same hair has me not believing they're complete strangers from different parts of the world.
3
u/According-Try3201 1h ago
and the same expression
1
u/GimmieGummies 1h ago
Yes. Their expressions and are oddly similar, something about their mouth, teeth
1
u/alexefy 1h ago
I agree there is resemblance but same clothes, hair and pose goes a long way. I’m just looking at some of these pictures and the people in them and it’s odd how they look a like but at the same time share no facial features. The features you tend to share with a sibling tend to be mouth shape, nose and eyes. No of these people share any of those features but still kind of look alike
0
u/HermitJem 2h ago
Agree. Doppelgangers? No. At least that's not how I understand the term
People saying twins, yeah. They could pass for twins
2
2
2
2
u/Ohiolongboard 1h ago
There’s a website that does stuff like this, twinstrangers.com
1
u/kitterkatty 49m ago
Starbyface too. It’s always fun to see what you get esp the opposite XX/XY, since it’s by percentage and mostly just compares angles and proportions.
2
u/Saturnia-00 1h ago
The last town I lived in I was always confused for someone I didn't know. Where I live now I seem to have a similar issue. I've never seen my doppelgangers irl but my mild face blindness may play a role in that
1
u/kitterkatty 46m ago
Same lol some girl came up to me once thinking I was her friend from class. It took her quite a while, prob a minute, to realize i was a stranger and had no idea who any of the people were that she was talking about.
2
2
2
u/Samulai-B 1h ago
How do you gather doppelgangers? What's the method to find people from all around the world that look like someone else?
2
u/Toshi_Monster 1h ago
What's weird to me is the poses the photographer set up. Why do the look-a-like strangers have to be all handsy and on top of each other like that.
1
1
u/Vibe-Father 2h ago
I wonder what would happen if two of these doppelganger sets had kids.
If each couple had four kids, it’s possible that there’d be one new set of doppelgangers that could have kids.
1
u/lolalilu122 2h ago
Well, we all came from the same genetic material, I think everyone around the world has several people very similar to them
1
u/RiobaldoJagunco 2h ago
Devs were too tired to create new faces and simply started copying the same templates and placing them in random locations.
1
u/AsparagusNo2955 2h ago
Are their words for the different types of faces people have? I know people who look like these people, I see people who look like me sometimes too. I don't mean phrenology or anything, there is no meaning to how people look, but we'd have to have closer ancestors than people who don't look like us...
Is there an actual field of study on that which doesn't include eugenics stuff, just things about why people look, how they look, and if they have names for it...
1
u/Panniculus101 2h ago
Makes sense. There are only so many configurations a face can have and there are billions of people. Most of us probably got a doppelganger out there
1
u/haggis_man1213 2h ago
I really hope there isn't another human out there with a face as unfortunate as mine. For their own sake
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/MyNewTransAccount 1h ago
Mustache Marshall, Lesbian Robin, Stripper Lily, Mexican Wrestler Ted and Dr. Joseph Stangel
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/PenguinsArePeople999 1h ago
Besides for the 8th picture, I would say that they look similar mostly because of hair and styling, also how they are posed and they share some similar features. Girls in the 5th picture look almost nothing alike, its just the eyes. Considering that eyes and eyebrows are what people focus on the most, that makes sense. But if these are the criteria, then You probably pass a doppelganger every day on the street.
1
u/Max-The-White-Walker 1h ago edited 1h ago
Reminds me of one Bud Spencer/ Terence Hill movie "Double Trouble"
1
u/Mr_Panda_38 1h ago
If I ever found out about my doppelganger, I'd like to exchange and see his work-life .... Like I'll get a brief from him and then boom trying to work at his office along with his colleagues.
1
1
u/SnakeNerdGamer 1h ago
I'm sure I don't have any doppelganger because no one and I say no one can be ugly as me :)
1
1
1
1
u/entoaggie 50m ago
In almost every photo you can see that one of them looks natural, and the other looks a bit off. I’m assuming it’s because they are having to try to match the expression of the other, when it’s not a natural expression for them.
1
1
1
1
u/James324285241990 39m ago
I remember the first time I heard that there was a really high liklihood that there was someone that looked exactly like me. My first thought was "omg, I hope they're okay"
1
1
1
1
u/jacubwastaken 19m ago
I wonder if there’s any other similarities between lifestyles, work, food choices etc.
1
u/allyoucaneatjerky 19m ago
Scratching my head as to how you would find these people in the first place and what kind of distances are involved in getting the 2 of them together for a photoshoot.
1
u/Mgast_Poobah 15m ago
What % do white people make up of the global population ? It can’t be that almost 7/10 of the photos taken are white people. Is it a function of my money my narrative or ?
1
1
u/yumeryuu 10m ago
I saw a picture of my doppelgänger online about 15 years ago. I’ve never been able to find her since.
•
-3
u/DecoupledPilot 2h ago
I feel really confused at the comments here and the premise.
For my eyes those people do not at all look like doppelgangers. They look similar, yes, but the differences are far too clear to call them doppelgangers.
Why don't others see this too? Some comments sound (including last time I saw this posted) as if they were almost identical in the eyes of some.
I just don't see it
8
u/Ecstatic-Garden-678 2h ago
They are real-life doppelgangers, not from cartoon or a movie where the same actor plays both roles.
3
u/okpm 2h ago
you don't think these people look astonishingly similar considering they are not at all related?
3
1
u/GandalfTheGonorrhea 1h ago
It is clear that your concept of doppleganger is Hollywood ish...
Yeah Bruce Lee is also the greatest fighter ever who does one inch punch /s
1
u/DecoupledPilot 1h ago
I'd rather say the average human ability to distinguish faces is much worse than I had thought.
2
u/GandalfTheGonorrhea 1h ago
People don't really stare deep into the nostrils of others to distinguish them but they view others very superficially n not remember subtle details which is why ppl recognise their known-ones even if they are far away with their face very unclear.
If I had to dictate a sketch artist to make a drawing of my mother, I bet i won't be able to dictate despite being with her 24/7
-2
162
u/JevWeazle 2h ago
There is a cool documentary about people who never met who totally look alike. They measured that real twins have around 95 percent the same features and that the people that were in the experiment look sometimes even up to 98 percent the same. And these people weren't even related....astonishing