The Doppelgänger Week.

In case you didn’t know, this week is official Doppelgänger week, and in case you don’t know what that means, I’ll tell you. Doppelgänger week is the week where all participants change their profile picture on Facebook to a picture of a celebrity that they have been told they look like. When the week started, as in, on Monday, I didn’t even know of Doppelgänger week, I mean I had never ever heard of it before. I saw a few people on my friends list change their default pictures to celebrities but the phrase Doppelgänger week was something that I was yet to hear, or at least register in my mind. It was when I saw people changing their defaults, but also changing their status to ‘Participating in Doppelgänger week. Change your profile picture to someone famous (actor, musician, athelete) you have been told you look like. Be sure to post this as your status.’ It was then when I realised the existence of Doppelgänger week, and it was also then when I realised that the guy who wrote that chain status originally can’t spell athlete.

Whether it is spelled athelete in America and athlete here I don’t know, but all I know is that when I type it in spelled like athlete, it doesn’t have that ugly red underline that comes up when I type in athelete. Moving on, the day reached Thursday and I didn’t think that I would bother changing my default to someone that I have been told I look like. I mean I just didn’t think that I could really get that good of one, and if I couldn’t get a good one I didn’t want to bother changing it at all. It then got to the stage where I spent, as in this was still on Thursday, there were multiple stages on this one day, anyway it got to the stage where I was just looking at people’s Doppelgängers, and I was thinking... yeah I just really wanted to have one, they were great.

I remember back a while ago, I logged into Facebook to receive a wall post from Nick Cirillo saying that I look like John Belushi and he enjoyed looking at me because he likes John Belushi. I don’t know if you know this about me but I actually love John Belushi. Animal House is one of my favourite movies ever and well, he is in it and he is amazing. When I got that wall post it made me so happy, I mean it’s not like it was a compliment, I mean John Belushi isn’t exactly an amazingly attractive person, well he’s dead but that’s not what I meant, like when he was alive, he wasn’t exactly like a male model or something, but you know, he’s great.

I decided to change my default picture to the most Nick Cosma looking John Belushi that Google images came up with, and that one is the picture that is used for this blog. I received positive feedback on it, as most people have. Some people laughed, probably no one cried, some people said I had the best one and some people said that they had never seen the resemblance until now. All I know is that Doppelgänger week is fucking great, and I don’t know when it ends but if it acts like any other week it probably ends on Sunday or Monday or you know, like the midnight break in-between those two days... Sunday night slash Monday morning, you know. If you haven’t changed your picture already, you still have time to get in on this funny as thing. Whoever invented Doppelgänger week, you’re great.