The event startup behind the viral Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest, which in turn sparked dozens of similar lookalike contests across the world, has banned contests to find other doppelgängers.
Partiful, the platform used to organize the legendary contest, tweeted on Tuesday that any more lookalike contests that people were trying to organize on Partiful would be deleted once the new year begins.
no more lookalike contests after december 31 2024 your partiful will be auto-deleted thank you https://t.co/YHte1FaWOt
— Partiful (@partiful) December 3, 2024
"no more lookalike contests after december 31 2024 your partiful will be auto-deleted thank you," the company wrote on X.
The announcement came in response to news of yet another lookalike contest being held in Los Angeles this weekend, this time for actor Barry Keoghan.
The iconic Chalamet lookalike contest was held more than a month ago on Oct. 27, drawing thousands of attendees in New York City. The actor himself even showed up to the contest for a brief period.
After the virality of the original contest, dozens of other similar contests popped up around the world, some of which included contests in London for Harry Styles, Dublin for Paul Mescal, San Francisco for Dev Patel and Chicago for Jeremy Allen White.
Partiful, which allows users to plan out events and send mass invites and reminders, initially appeared excited by the trend they had helped to start, as the company's X account would retweet other contests that had been organized using their platform.
another one, thank you 💅 https://t.co/CaOuUSIthk https://t.co/cCGOA7DYuB
— Partiful (@partiful) November 8, 2024
However, news of the alleged ban on lookalike contests was greeted with relief by many other users who have seemed to have grown tired of the trend.
"Thank you for showing courage Partiful," one user commented. "We needed this," another user wrote.
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