Does Someone Else Have Your Face? Doppelgängers Explained!
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They say everyone has a doppelgänger, but is that really true? This week we meet a young woman who found her own look-alike, and figure out how we actually recognize faces.
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Acknowledgements:
Dr. Teghan Lucas, University of New South Wales
Dr. Martin Eimer, Cambridge University
Dr. Michael Sheehan, Cornell University
Amanda Green (her real Instagram is @4mandagreen)
Ruben van der Dussen/Thorn
Cheng et al. (2017). The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain. Cell 169, 6 (1013-1028. dx.doi.org./10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.011
Huckenbeck (2013). Identification of the Living. University Clinic Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany. Elsevier Ltd.
Johnson et al. (1991) Newborns’ preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline. Cognition. 40(1-2):1-19.
Lucas et al. (2016). Comparing the face to the body, which is better for identification? International Journal of Legal Medicine. 130(2):533-40 DOI 10.1007/s00414-015-1158-6
Lucas et al. (2015). Are human faces unique? A metric approach to finding single individuals without duplicates in large samples. Forensic Science International 257 514.e1-514.e6
Parr (2011) The evolution of face processing in primates. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. 366, 1571. DOI doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0358
Robertson et al. (2016). Unfamiliar face recognition : Security, surveillance and smartphones. The Journal of the Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center. (14-21).
Thomas (2013). Forensic Anthropology of the Living. Human Skeleton In Forensic Medicine (408-435).
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Caldwell from Drawfee us your doppelganger..
Maan! I u proved
my question (assumption ) correct it was....
There is a limited gene set and limited combinations soo the probability of ppl. Having same faces mustn't be that rare…ty
It's Okay To Be Smart my twin has my face 😂
Please do one on how we recognize voices!! Great video😁
PS - Amanda's real instagram is @4mandagreen just so you can go say hi, she's really cool
EVERYONE has a doppelganger. Just not all doppelgangers are alive at the same time.
Oooooooh.
woah
Right!
pro football player, Mesut Özil exactly look like young Enzo Ferrari.
Ohhhh... Could be true 😱👌
Milk Fic my doppelgängers was born the same time as me.... I have a twin.
Anyone else?
I’ve actually met my doppelgänger, he was walking by me in a hotel and we saw each other and pulled a double take.
i mean if it counts, my distant cousin is my doppelgänger. same exact face, the only noticeable differences are skin tone and hair color.
Katelyn wow that’s crazy
lol that reminds me of that spiderman meme
Voxellor omd
CTsilver _ Plot twist: it was just a mirror
Im a identical twin and I can say that our faces is very identical by the fact that we can unlock each others Face ID in our phone 😂
😂😂
But face I'd unlock because of retina not face. I guess retina should be different in twins but I don't know
@@mohammedubed7000 no it reads more than just retina
This the kind of stuff that makes me wish my little brothers were identical (they are twins also but not identical) because I would laugh so hard at the sight of them turning off a phone and taking turns opening it to the point the phone crashes
That tends to happen when your a identical twin
This guy: "did you even notice we swapped their photos?"
Me who just didnt remember their names: "wow."
relatable
He didn't swap photos just the name so defeats the purpose of his point
yeah I was gonna say lmao
Me who didn't look at their names: WOW.
I was looking for this comment. I was like, okay, he's been talking about someone named amanda and someone named meredith but my brain refuses to match up the names to the face. Or I'm not paying attention. It takes a lot of energy for me to pay attention at one time.
shout out to the unfortunate people who have my face... i'm so sorry y'all
ben 😂😂😂😂😂
Same
😂🤣🤣🤣
Omg 😂😂😂
Same
Imagine being the uglier doppelganger
i am the ugly doppelgänger
@@zeexyrze me too
i feel bad for anybody who looks like me, i hope im the ugly one, if im not thats very suprising
Story of my life
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I once ran across a picture of a girl online that looked just like me. The girl had a large tattoo on her neck though so I played a joke on my mom and sent her the pic and said “look at my new tattoo mom!” My mom was angry and totally thought it was me!! 🤣
still she shouldnt be angry just for a tattoo. its your skin, you do whatever the heck you want with it :) they are wayyy worst things you can do than get a tattoo, trust me XD
@@tornadodee148 depends on the tattoo though
@@tornadodee148 you mean Heroin?
@@upinskyy2025 for example
@@tornadodee148 She might have been underage at the time...
God have mercy on the person who has my face
Name lol 😂❤️
that!
The names in this thread are wild 😂 Sorry I kind of ruined it with mine.
@@thesleepydot it's a whole ass lifestyle😂
Lmfao
To my twins out there. I feel you.
I feel like you are going to get sued for inappropriately feel your twin or something.
Jayamila Persson
Don’t worry DocZero didn’t feel me.
Triples? What about them?
lol
Jayamila Persson lol
If a mom had 5 twins and they found their dopplegangers, theoretically, they could literally play a game of basketball (5x5) with only their faces on court
I've seen my doppelganger! I saw them when I was younger, in a Halloween makeup book.
My mum sat me down all serious and asked me if anyone had taken pictures of me. They even had the same damn hairstyle as me. Legit completely identical.
I still have the book, and it's bloody creepy.
The other child wasn't named, so I have no idea who this doppelganger actually is, or if we still look the same.
take their picture and your picture from when you were younger, start analysing the details, you might find something
"Does Someone Else Have Your Face?" I'm an identical twin, the person with my face lives in my house.
I bet Dr. Teghan could tell you apart no problem!
Same!!
This was great, thank you!
Me too
@@magiinunes então tu tens uma doppelganger?
I hope the other "me" is having a way better love life than I am.
Dalia Capellan right
How, you look hot!
@@Roseeeebabe ok
@@AbiKolapo ok
@@kiwiyt5423 ok
I worked for my Doppelganger for awhile, everyone mixed us up, even his wife and mother...his daughter is the only one who never did. The similarities aren't just that, both born in March, raised on boats, fishing and surfing enthusiasts...those are predictable but the weirdest thing we share is a a genuine and lingering childhood fear of ET...
I think I read or watched a story similar to this one except their wifes has the same first same also what is ET
ET by Steven Spielberg don't ask my first and only recurring nightmare
@@nonow1353 i remember the first time I saw ET I was probably around 6 or 7 years old, I walked into the room when my parents were playing the film I saw ET come out of a bush and was so terrified I've never actually seen the movie since so that part of your comment was pretty relatable haha
Doppelgängers want to kill you and take over ur life I hear on google
I don't have the slightest idea of who Amanda and Meredith are but I do know they don't look alike at all xD.
Exactly. They look nothing alike.
fr doe
Yall don't get it they don't have to be indentical to be similar yall stupid asf
@@Ryantheman17 but they aren't similar, they don't look nothing alike
@@Ryantheman17 lmfao like the video said ppl like you always willing to start arguments over stupid things 😂
Her husband said they didn’t look alike so he wouldn’t get in trouble
Exactly what I was thinking 😂🤣🤣
They don't at all alike. They have completely different lips and noses.
They look really different, only alike from a glance
Smart man
They really didn’t look alike. And this is coming from a black person who often find ppl of different races to look alike. The differences between the two women are just too great for me to say they look alike. Under no circumstance would i confuse the two.
Do I have someone else’s face? Yes. And their body? That’s in my basement.
Can you help me? Some dude chopped off my head, and i saw him take my body to his house.
Right now i'm having my friend type this, and i'm being kept alive in a freezer.
Too Many Warning Labels creepy ; v ;’
Your name fits
Words are fun
@@cedrick25 ummmmm
“Hey! Give me back my face!”
Edit: I don’t think Meredith and Amanda look alike 🤨
same-?
I'm lucky, I see both how similar they are and how different they are
@@eclecticsoffy same
@@okay6558 Hello then
I passed by my doppelganger in O'Hare about 15 years ago. We were walking in opposite directions in the B terminal. He was a bit older maybe 5 years or so. We both nodded realizing the situation but never said a word.
“Did you notice we swapped their faces?” 6:20
No you didn’t, you swapped their names.
Yes!
He didn’t do that either
@@SebastianUrs did u even watch-
@@Nabooze i was saying that he didnt switch before he said it, obviously I did see that he did change it after
@@SebastianUrs oh sorry then-
When your doppelgänger is the facial recognition lady in this video 😂
Lol really??
hahaha
She really does look like you :0
Oh lol !
Pretty sure thats Hannah Gadsby
Back in the ‘80s, I kept getting mistaken for someone else. When I finally met the person, there really wasn’t much of a resemblance.
I saw my "twin". It was fascinating, scary and weird all in one. She didn't have my birthmark near my dimple, but that's it. I was too afraid to approach her.
A few years ago, we discovered my boyfriend (at the time) had a doppelgänger living in the same city. What’s even weirder is that his dopplegangers girlfriend looked pretty similar to me too! Bumping into them was a funny circumstance
Okay, please read my story posted above which occurred back in 1987, 1988. Since then, I believe there is a person that looks just like me where I live now. I friend I know whom is from this town thought he encountered me and asked me why I did not speak to him at gas station at the edge of town. I said are you sure it was me and he said yes. I asked the day and general time he thought he encountered me and there was no way I was in that part of town, etc. Fast forward 2 years later at a popular breakfast restaurant, a man approached me and started talking about the Property Owners Association where he lives and seemed to assume I knew what he was speaking of. I told him I did not live there and he proceeded to tell me I looked exactly like a near by neighbor, etc. The neighborhood from where this man was from and commenting on P.O.A. issues was in very close proximity of the gas station where a friend greeted whom he thought was me but was not.
@@HighSpeedNoDrag lol u lucky
That's amazing
@@HighSpeedNoDrag Wow. Sounds like something straight out of a movie!! Lovely story.
TravelwithLea You found an unknown dimension where one side of you soul is rich and other poor, in which one are you?
normal person: Everyone has a doppleganger!
me, an identical twin: OoOoOoOh
Lol me too
Same
Sameeee
Yes
Lol are you not a normal person?
Short version: no, we are just worse than we think at telling faces apart.
So Doppelgängers ARENT real?
@@Sweat_Tyler12 There are no identical matches, as many people tend to believe.
"You come for the science but you stay for the pop culture references" - yes yes we do 😂
says the guy with a Batman avatar 🤨
I didn't think they looked the same. They looked kinda similar but there was clear differences. I immediately noticed when their pictures were swapped. Couldn't pick out the matching kid though.
Mysticm1 same but I noticed the matching kid right away
Yeah, the nose is a giveaway. Different shape.
Same. The matching kid was just way too fast to find it.
but the names were swapped, not the pictures
900th like
"It was like yanny and laurel".....oh my god I cant believe how fast the internet moves I forgot that happened
This video is trying to let the masses think there is no such thing as clones or body doubles being used in hollywood and in government. there is. and any youtube channel with over 1/2 million subs and still has a channel is a sell out to the satanic system
@@TheWormzerjr you must be joking
@@TheWormzerjr you realise that we have movie technology to help make someone look like someone else right? It’s still getting better as far as I’m aware but eventually it should be pretty good
@@TheWormzerjr what are you on could I have some it seems to be pretty good
can we talk about how people swore they heard laurel it's like the black and blue dress thing again
As an artist, one of the things that can completely change the way a person is perceived is the distance between their nose and mouth. It's a weird detail that no one consciously thinks about
I could pick apart the mashups and flip-arounds, and see the girls look similar and not the same.
Took the Cambridge Face Memory Test. My result:
Your accuracy in the experiment was: 93%
The average score on this test is around 80% correct responses for adult participants.
A score of 60% or below may indicate face blindness.
Makes sense. I grew up drawing portraits.
I dont wanna lie.
The first time I saw you, I thought John and Hank had a third Green.
They do have a third green
Joe Green
Yes they do have a third brother they don't really talked about much xD
We finally found Dave's secret youtube channel!
Mei Rede you sure you're not thinking about the carlin brothers rather than the greens
I don't even remember my own face when I'm not looking at it
Same- it’s even worse for me since I’m a different nationality then everyone I live around, so if I do look in the mirror I’m like, oh yeah, that’s what I look like :^
same
Like, most normal people who rarely see mirrors will not remember, myself included
Same
S A M E
This was very fascinating! Very good and informative video.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Amanda and Meredith look absolutely nothing alike to me, even at a glance I'd be able to tell they're different people.
They look like sisters but not like the same person
The only thing similar I see is the nose and eyes I could see a big difference
They look nothing alike to me, Meredith has a more "model like face to me"
They look totally different.
Bruh they don't even look related to me
Can somebody help me find my doppelganger? I owe them an apology...
Well actually they might owe YOU an apology
@@matildanorbury3348 Hmmmmmmm
I owe mime too a apology
Me: can I have my face back
Doppelganger: I'm 82 tive me back my face back
Me: wait how to I look like someone who is like 8.2 times older than me
Matilda Norbury lol
I love faces, specially beautiful faces. I can drawn and paint portraits professionally, I really love doing it when I feel the urge. A beautiful face melts my heart.
Finally, a video that explained my situation. I always told everybody that I can't really remember my parents' faces even we still live together. lol
But this video explained that I didn't really remember the face but actually remembered the pattern.
It also explains the time I was trying to remember and imagine a classmates face I see every day and I thought it was weird that I could change the nose shape and it would still feel correct but if I changed the height of her mouth it really felt incorrect.
"Because it's the internet and people will argue about anything"
So true :D
False!
@@CollaredDom actually I think it’s true!!
Noooo your all wrong..
It's true but not true
I really wanna start an argument right now😠
Everyone in this reply section are fools. Only I’m the right one
False >:(
If someone does have my face, what a poor unfortunate soul...
Lmao
Than you are unfortunate too if you have that person's face, the joke is dumb...
*Those poor unfortunate sols, in paiiiin in neeeeed*
@@jocao2831
Thats the point, Karen. Im ugly so if another person has my face they're unfortunate😒😒
Gosh, GET OFF THE INTERNET GRANDMA!
Its even worse if someone was unfortunate to have my abomination of a "face".
I do what she does unconsciously!! Like I tell everybody I’m great with faces, if I meet you once I’ll probably be able to recognize you again even when I forget your name.
Maybe there is a correlation between people who could tell Amanda and Meridith apart and their ability to pay attention to details. These people might also tend to be more self-conscious (hence a tendency to pay closer attention to their own and others' facial features). I think these two might be good hypotheses to test.
I go to school with someone that looks so much like me that I see her in pictures and wonder why I was hanging out with those strangers.
My best friend and I look alike so much to the point that people think we're twins
Same! My doppelganger was in the same school! The same age! Well, at the time
same my doppelgänger also has the same name as me
The happened to the actresses Jessica chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard
Me and my best friend looked nothing alike yet ppl always thought we reminded of each other and called us twins because we were inseperable, i think it's because your facial features mimics each other and thats why ppl look like each other after having spent much time with each other best friends, (husband & wife) etc.
His doppelgänger: Keith Habersberger
omg that is literally what i thought! lmaoo
The Try Guys. Your post was appreciated
I knew he looked like someone
No! They don't look same
I was thinking Paul Welsh
I’ve always found it weird that I always think that identical twins look different. I know a few pairs growing up in the same school and I could always tell them apart. Even in this examples, I can see why people say those 2 girls look alike, but they’re nowhere near being the same person
I have seen a doppelganger of my best friend from high school (who, at that time, was hundreds of miles away, so I knew it wasn't her), and it was crazy! And I've been told that someone else saw my doppelganger at a restaurant across the state from me, when I was at work on the other side of the state, LOL!
It's an amazing how the doppelganger effect works!
*You come for the science but you stay for the pop culture references.*
_It's Okay To Be Smart in a nutshell_
the VERY CURRENT pop culture references thank you
Not me I'm here for science only
Why are you everywhere Lmao
@@hirayuuu I'm basically a fan of everything
@@USSAnimeNCC- It was really cringy when they used the drake meme...
“this person” jade west has been DISRESPECTED
😂😂😂 Don't wanna be there when Jade finds out
thinking the same thing
elizabeth gillies *
Omg Phandom
lizz gillies
My friends and I have, collectively over the years, have found at least a dozen doppelgangers in person. Each of us have maybe had 3-5 doppelgangers found by each other. I was even asked if i was at a local supermarket when I was actually out of the country.
The science and the story share din this video are so fascinating to me!
"Does someone else have your face?"
*me looking at my twin sister*
Noob Mirim same haha
Same 😂
BrgSnake in Sunglasses bruh same
Even identical twins have slight differences though... I've known a good amount of identical twins and I've found that when it's a set I don't know then I can't tell them apart but once I've gotten to know them even from a bit of a distance you can tell who is who. Identical twins are really really similar but their fingerprints aren't the same and neither are their faces
@@IrisSnow yeah I'm an identical twin, but because I'm so used to my face and my twin's face I think that our faces look really different but I do get that we have "the same face" because everyone except our best friends think we look exactly the same
I feel bad for the person having the same face as me lmao
Damn. To bad
Relatable
God cursed your doppelganger
Same
Oof me too
This reminds me of a picture my Mom took of a cashier at Walmart... He literally looked exactly like how I imagined I'd look in 6 years. Although I think it was less of the face, and more of the expression that was identical.
This was an interesting video.I enjoyed it!!
Funny because I saw the thumbnail and thought you were Keith from the try guys.
I'm not the only one who thought that he was keith, thank god 😂
Also Hank Green
I thought it was Brendon Urie
It's the blue checkered shirt and glasses that do it, I think
I think he looks like Johnny Knoxville honestly.
Artists that do portraits are very good at telling people apart - maybe scientists need to go this one
yep, as an artist i can confirm. its just because we analyze the specific features rather than the whole face i think?
Yeah, you have to get tinny bits right or they look like totally different people.
I only find that people look the same if there eyes, noses, eyebrows, and lips look the same. I usually don't pay attention to where they are.
We were once at a mini park(amusement park) and there was a guy sitting there who would draw you and exaggerate your prominent features. That was 4 years ago and it's still hanging over the kitchen table.
I'm an artist too and I was literally just thinking of this! The fine details of the face talked about in the video are also really crucial to get right in making accurate portraits. If I'm drawing someone and if I make their nose slightly too wide, their eyes slightly too big, etc, it instantly doesn't look like the original person to me anymore. Likely because I study faces all the time, Amanda and Meredith didn't look alike to me.
In this trilogy of movies I absolutely love, the heroine looks almost exactly like me. Same mouth, nose, we even smile kinda similar. Her face shape in the first movie resembled mine currently the most, but even in the third movie our face shapes are nearly identical. It freaks me out but I also love that my doppelgänger is the heroine in my favorite movies.
To everyone who thinks they are ugly, chill out, your face is unique, some people might call it ugly, but if you think of it, your face is beautiful in its own way, its own shape, and its own unique features, so chill
this sounds a bit condescending but thank you
6:21 "Did you notice we just switch their photos?" No you didn't you just switched their names and to be honest I forgot their names from this point in the video so it didn't matter... so you proved nothing there
yeah
Litchi I noticed, so some proof there. Idiot
Litchi lol I notoced that too
@@KalleJon10 word flex, but okay
Yup im terrible with names lol
To ME Amanda and Meredith look NOTHING ALIKE
Monica Banda ikr
SAME
Same lmao
I agree
Ik
A court in my country has put a death sentence on a guy referring to only one eyewitness statement. This really needs to be stopped.
I had a doppelganger go to the same college that I did. A few of my friends mentioned that they saw me and said hi to me and I ignored them, but I'd not been around at the time. They thought it was me. It was weird, until I ran into the guy and realized that was why!
“Is there someone with your face?”
“I hope not.”
“Yeah, nobody would ever want a face like that.”
Don’t worry we’re all ugly in our own way
•Unicorn_water• •-• and we’re all beautiful on our own way. :D
agreed
*Ear* me out, *eye* must *face* it, because no one really *nose*
@patch caya you missing a couple of a's as well. It should be caayaaa because I know everything.
eye see what you did hair
Hahahaha 😂
@@jona1119 i no its bean thrive months butt nice pfp 🙃🙃
butterbung naked huh?
I remember when I was about ten and I saw a book with a kid on the cover that looked exactly like me. Same haircut and everything. However that book was easily ten years older than me, kinda keeps me up at night wondering if that kid look likes currently what I will look like in ten years.
I was walking in London many years ago when three people I didn't know came up and enthusiastically said "hello Pat!" I had difficulty persuading them that I didn't know them and I am not Pat.
So she blamed her husband for being terrible at faces, however his brain is one that processes more details, thus being better at viewing faces.
Not all men suck, but this man for sure.
It was a joke
@@jennaye8142 stfu
@@bloodredrain oh did I hurt your ego? :(
@@jennaye8142 nah, I don't think you hurt his ego. you're just a k-pop stan, thus you kinda have to stfu.
Ohhhh so that's why Steve Harvey and Mr. Potato share the same face.
Haahha
U R FUCKED UP FOR THAT🤣🤣🤣
Someone will get wooshed here but it hasnt happened yet not when i wrote this
Great video, Hank!
I have been confused for others several times. I just go with the flow
I heard that if you saw a clone of yourself you wouldn't be able to recognize them because you've only seen yourself in mirror and pictures, is that true?
Jenna Marmalade I know I think I look completely different in mirrors and pictures even if I do the mirror effect filter
Jenna Marmalade
I've seen one doppelganger of myself in my 44 years on earth. It was in a Facebook picture of someone else that I randomly stumbled upon. They were hunched over laughing just like I would - the expression was ME. She had glasses like me and everything. It was crazy - and others I shared it with expressed that it looked just like me too. I am willing to bet that if I saw the other female in person though, I probably would not see the similiarity as striking as I did in the photo.
I was 44 when I saw a picture of my brother that my parents put up for adoption. I couldn't figure out who he looked like as he didnt look like my parents or my brothers. It wasn't until I saw a picture of him and I together that I realized he looked like ME!
Candy gaming Cat324 i dont know why. But this scares me.
Ya when I look in different mirrors and pictures I look different. One mirror I look thin, the other I'm less thin. Also cameras bring out all the discoloration on my face while mirrors don't. I don't think I'll ever know what I actually look like.
next iPhone: Ear ID
Ear id
Lol.
😂
Earwax ID lol
Lol why do people act like Apple is innovative.
One of my ears is bigger than the other
As someone who is slightly uncomfortable “looking people in the eyes” unless I know them or am comfortable around them I’ve noticed that no matter how well I know someone, if I look at their face for a bit I’ll begin to notice “new features”. Nothing that drastically changes my mental image of how they look, but novel enough to make me become more aware of the uniqueness of their specific facial features. Personally it’s most noticeable in their eyes, skin texture/color, the shape of their face, and their mouth/teeth. The eyes are especially noticeable to me because you begin to notice the coloration of their irises like specks of green or yellow in lighter color eyes, or darker and lighter specks of brown or specks of an almost yellow in brown eyes. I always thought there had to be some explanation besides me just being inattentive of facial features when meeting new people, but as I began to notice this I realized that it happens to everyone I know regardless of familiarity. Knowing how immensely unique each feature is and especially how unique specific combinations of features are along with our brain being a sort of biological pattern recognition software makes this experience I’ve had make so much sense. It’s like trying to recreate an image from memory with only occasional flashes of the original image to build off of. Our initial “mental recreation” starts off somewhat accurate depending on our individual ability to recognize and memorize certain novel features while simultaneously still largely relying on our previous experiences of certain similar features to build upon. As we then focus on specific features, those “educated guesses” are replaced with the more accurate information that then subtly changes our mental image of that person. I don’t know how many people can relate to this experience because I personally had to work to build the “skill” of noticing these subtle shifts in my own perception, but it’s fascinating that this experience is rooted in our brains pattern recognition ability and it’s tendency to “fill in” incomplete, inaccurate, or flawed information. It’s especially fascinating to me how smoothly this process seems to happen in order to create a complete image because it shows just how well suited our brains are at identifying/creating faces with even a tiny fraction of the information available. Brains are amazing!!!
Omg, I do this too. I find for me it mostly happens with people in TVs or movies because I’m not really paying attention to what they look like, I’m more paying attention to the story. It’s also the reason I often confuse two characters that look nothing alike. I’ll just be watching a show when I decide to look closer at an actor’s face and I’ll realise a couple small details I didn’t notice before and suddenly they look like a completely different person!
From someone who thought they looked nothing alike this video was really confusing until Lucas came to help.
I met my doppelganger in class.... *my mom literally took a picture of us* she sent it to my dad *and called her my twin*
Yes, darling, I know it's tuff but I and your dad had to do this, for your own safety, we hope you understand this with time
@@vuedanto8576 Man they're joking
That's so frickin' cool! Thank you for sharing this. /g
@@vuedanto8576 ...they're joking
"Hey smart people"
Me: Im dumb but thanks anyway
It shows
@@siyacer lmaoo
I’m already Sans Undertale lol says the person whose name is sans
He was nice to you.
@@anormalandnon-suspiciousbo5290 says the guy pretending to be a box
Due to a brain injury, I actually have acquired facial blindness, an almost total inability to distinguish different faces from one another! For example, if you are a 30-something blonde female, you look like literally every other 30 something blonde female (to me)
I even have a hard time recognizing people I've known for years. The worst thing about it is that pretty much every few new faces I see, I can't shake the feeling that I KNOW THEM FROM SOMEWHER, causes me to sometimes walk up to strangers and hug them or try talking to them in order to figure out if I know them or if they're literally just a random person, It's very embarrassing! 😢😂😅
I once read a saying, scientist or researcher I forgot who.
What he said goes like: there are 4 or 5 people that look like you on this earth. But the chances of you meeting them is 1 in a million.
I used to think this whenever I see someone who looks like someone I've known or have already met.
you did not switch photos. you just switched names
when I took my picture with Google's new app, every portrait was of a woman.
....I'm a guy
The Rogue Clone me, except it’s vice-versa
James Charles problems
I guess not any more...
Or are you
You are transgender
This topic sparked my interest when I noticed that people who are different nationalities look the same. Im talking mexican vs west african and not something like chinese and korean. This has happened more than a few times for me where even the head shape look the same.
0:46 Cool, i could be the algorithm used on nearly every social media page.
It's crazy.A few years ago my mom was googling herself and came across another lady with her same name. When she clicked on the link in the search results she found out that the lady lives on the other coast and is a Professor with published books. My mom checked one of the books out on amazon and when she saw the author pic she was floored! The lady was a copy of my mom in looks too. It was so weird! My mom bought the book and contacted the lady. She showed me the pic and sure enough, it was my mom. Except my mom's never been to Ireland before where the picture was taken, so it wasn't my mom. It was just some random, unrelated woman on the other side of the country that not only shared my moms face, but first and last names, as well. The universe is weird!!!
Stats lie my guy!
@@thetruegavinator not true
@@thetruegavinator But this ain't stats???
@@danielawesome36 thi meant that statistics that this will never happen or blah blah are absolutely not representative of real life situations
@@thetruegavinator _O h . . ._
My bad.
I wanna be friends with someone who has my face, it would be so cool!
@@draco5277 this is so true what
Easy. Make someone get plastic surgery.
@@draco5277 That sentence is so horribly structured. I got lost and had to start again like, 3 times.
This is why grammar is valuable. _"It's too much effort, this isn't an essay"_ isn't an acceptable excuse.
@@Zaire82 but plastic surgery doesn't always look natural like you can somehow tell :(
@@am32074 Sometimes, yes, but honestly it'd still look more similar to a person than doppelganger cases like that one.
I wouldn't mistake those two for each other unless they were far away or I just woke up and my eyes weren't working yet.
To my doppelgangers: good luck getting a boyfriend with that face🥲
I feel u
same
I FINALLY FOUND THIS VIDEO, I WAS SEARCHING FOR IT SINCE 3 MONTHS AGO
I subscribe because I learn new things, congrats 👏🎉
I didn't realize Liz Gilles looked like Lindsay Lohan until the thank u, next video. I have been watching her on TV for 9 years.
Liz reminds me more of lindsay as a child. Strange way to think of it but yeah.
All this video did was make me crush on this Liz Gilles chick lol
Same
“i’ve been watching her on tv for 9 years” we get it, you watched victorious
when i first saw her 9 or so years ago first thing that came up to my mind was she looks like lindsay lohan
Did you really call Elizabeth Giles “this person”
Who?
disrespecteddddd
I think she got jaded...
What I was thinking
Mira Chakravarthy Who is -Ariana Grande?
One time I tried smiling in front of my friends facial recognition computer, and I was seen as his dad, and we don't even look alike like at all.
That situation always happens to me in my High School where some freshmen people always mistake me for a name of my freshmen classmate who was always obsessed with classical music and linguistics all because of similar hair and facial features!! 😅 This classmate would always get bullied for how he acts. I would constantly hear a name of my classmate in a bullying way!😭😭
"Mom told me it's my turn to use the face!"
Yeah you gotta cover that thing up
Whoever has my face, give it back I need that
Danielle Actually you know what? You can keep mine it’s kind of ugly
Why do you need that? You already have a face lol
Nah, I’m keeping it...
@Bewolf6 *doge's
Lol they could say the same thing 2 u😂
6:26
People with excellent observational skills such as artists are good at seeing the slightest details in faces, especially portrait painters.
I want you to know that I literally thought you were Hank Green for, like, 10 videos on this channel that I was binging until I saw one where you said "I'm Joe" and it broke my brain
I’m sorry to my doppelgänger, he’s unfortunate
Yeah... hopefully my doppelgänger has clear skin lol
What if your doppelganger lives much better than you do? So you're unfortunate not because of your face, but because of your character?
Pee
whos your pfp
@Miki Maki Ikr
Him: the probability of two people having the same face are about 1 in a trillion
Identical twins: are we a joke to you
Edit: I know identical twins aren't actually identical
Identical twins aren't 100% identical. Maybe only clones can be 100% identical (a big maybe though).
MLBB GAMING Identical twins are clones.
I heard that a lot of twins thought to be fraternal proved to have identical DNA.
@@IamBatmanOg They are from the same egg cell, they are literal clones
@@Dumb_Killjoy Dude... My two youngest siblings are identical twins. They don't even look alike...at all.
100% identical happen only in the movies...not in real life.
I've been curious about this for the longest time aswell like I've literally seen people from different races who look identical to friends I have