Facebook users around the world are changing their profile pictures to those of the celebrities they resemble most. Being dubbed “Doppelgänger week on Facebook”, this may just be as large as the Facebook bra color trend which exploded weeks ago. While my feed isn’t filled with friends who switched their profile photo, a quick search for “doppelganger” uncovered a bunch of friends who posted their look-a-like photos.
Many of the photos that I found were surprisingly close to the users. To join in on the fun I’ve posted the closest doppelganger I could come up with for myself below. So where did this new viral Facebook trend start? According to The Huffington Post, an individual named Bob Patel, who works at his company’s I.T. department, was responsible for the trend.
How The Huffington Post found the source of the trend is unknown. That’s like me claiming that I’m the originator of “your mother” jokes. The message that’s being sent around to users is:
It’s Doppelgänger week on Facebook; change your profile picture to someone famous (actor, musician, athlete, etc.) you have been told you look like. After you update your profile with your twin or switched at birth photo then cut/paste this to your status.
While brands are not supposed to launch campaigns that encourage users to change their profile photos, there’s nothing stopping users from doing so. A quick search on Facebook shows that hundreds of users are updating their profile photos every minute. Are you getting in on the action? Who’s your celebrity doppelganger?
Feel free to post links to your doppelganger photo in the comments! Also check out CrowdCampaign’s celebrity doppelganger tool.
Interesting, yes! Serious? I’m having my doubts.
All those Q&A alley-oops already had me questioning the legitimacy of this, but… an author comment on the linked HuffPo story:
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More than a few people have questioned whether this interview and Bob Patel are real. Bob Patel is absolutely real. He lives across the street from Santa Claus, just around the corner from The Easter Bunny. Geez…
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This isn’t any different than last week’s ‘change your photo to your future you’ or ‘change your photo to one of you ata wedding, yours or someone elses’ or the previous week’s ‘change your photo to one of you as a kid’. I’m sure you’ll see one every week as the MySpaceification of Facebook continues. This isn’t related to the bra meme.
Nice - I have been seeing people do this! I think I’ll put up a pic of a celeb myself.
P.S. Check out the Download Photos App. You can download tagged images and entire albums of your friends!
Ah I forgot to leave the app link
Here is the Download Photos App:
http://apps.facebook.com/savephotos/index.php
Weird… I thought that the myheritage guys came up with this, their website doppelgangerweek dot com was live minutes after this broke out
this one works the fastest for me and had like 12 results
whatcelebritydoilooklike(dot)blogspot(dot)c o m
I see nooooo resemblence whatsoever on the last photo. Its actually pretty funny by how far apart they look
Use myheritage.com to find your celeb lookalike.
Sadly I believe many got a miscommunication and thought it said change it to the Star you Like Most
NOT the Star you look like most.
i seen one woman who had a pic of Jannet Jackson in a Bikini and I jjust had to look at her photo .Umm Yea She truly missed the mark by a LONG shot. Another thinks she looks like Toni Braxton LOL Toni has never been that old and umm overweight. I seen a Few Angelina Jolies Wow poor woman a Maddona tsk tsk
Yep some folks truly got a mis-written message
But fun as heck watching them make umm booties of them selves
No mention of it being illegal to steal copyrighted photos and upload them to facebook? And the fact that it is a violation of the fb Terms of Service too.
Hmmm, who would I put, people say I look like Uma, but I don’t see it