Overview

Timothée Chalamet Look-Alike Competition or Timothée Chalamet Lookalike Contest refers to a contest held at Washington Square Park in New York City in late October 2024 with a $50 cash prize for the most Chalamet-looking contestant. The event was announced in mid-September 2024, gaining viral attention in October after actor Timothée Chalamet snuck into the contest, spawning viral clips and memes on X / Twitter and TikTok. One of the actor's doppelgängers was notably arrested during the competition, which also became a viral topic on social media.

Background

On September 20th, 2024, X^[1] user @lipbalmwhore shared a photo of a flier featuring a QR code to a Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest hosted by user Gilbert, set to take place in Washington Square Park in NYC on October 27th, 2024. The post (seen below) amassed over 85,000 likes and 4,200 reposts in a month.

Developments

Timothée Chalamet Crashes The Look Alike Contest

On October 27th, 2024, actor Timothée Chalamet crashed his own look-alike contest, briefly posing for photos with his doppelgängers, some of whom dressed like the actors' memorable characters in movies like Wonka and the Dune. X^[2] user @itweetabttv posted a picture that same day showing Chalamet taking pictures with fans (seen below), writing "LMAOO TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ACTUALLY SHOWED UP TO THE TIMOTHEE CHALAMET LOOKALIKE CONTEST." The post amassed over 301,000 likes and 13,000 reposts in a few hours.

The actor's TikTok^[3] fan account @timhalchal posted a video of the moment he crashed the competition (seen below), amassing more than 183,000 likes in a few hours.

Timothée Chalamet Look alike Arrest

On October 27th, 2024, one contestant of the Timothée Chalamet look-alike competition was arrested and escorted away after a heated argument with officers. The @dailymail's^[4] TikTok account posted a video of the individual's detainment (seen below), which garnered over 4 million plays and 185,000 likes in a few hours.

Online Reactions

The contest quickly spawned memes and jokes on social media about the actor's look-alikes and the amount of people who gathered for the competition. For example, on October 27th, 2024, X^[5] user @JD_NYC1998 posted a video of the competition (seen below), writing they "witnessed history at the Timothée Chalamet look alike contest." The post received roughly 697,000 views and 24,000 likes in a few hours.

Also on October 27th, X^[6] user @NextBestPicture posted a Lisan al-Gaib clip from the Dune Part 2 film, captioning it, "Everyone in the crowd when Timothée Chalamet showed up to his own lookalike contest." The tweet (seen below) amassed more than 249,000 views and 13,000 likes in a few hours.

Related Memes

Celebrity Lookalike Contest Poster Parodies

Celebrity Lookalike Contest Poster Parodies refers to an exploitable image from the Timothée Chalamet Look-Alike Competition in which netizens replace the actor's picture for other celebrities. The parody posters went viral mainly on X / Twitter in late October 2024, also inspiring the phrasal template X Look-Alike Competition In My Bedroom, in which fans added the names of their favorite artist they'd like to sleep with.

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