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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  • @besmart
    @besmart  Před 5 lety +3619

    If someone else has your face you should probably ask for it back. I'm on Twitter and Instagram at @DrJoeHanson and @okaytobesmart
    Thanks for watching, smart people!

    • @oakskid01
      @oakskid01 Před 5 lety +9

      Caldwell from Drawfee us your doppelganger..

    • @shivajoshi9068
      @shivajoshi9068 Před 5 lety +15

      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

    • @lara_8736
      @lara_8736 Před 5 lety +6

      It's Okay To Be Smart my twin has my face 😂

    • @scrilla4047
      @scrilla4047 Před 5 lety +6

      Please do one on how we recognize voices!! Great video😁

    • @besmart
      @besmart  Před 5 lety +31

      PS - Amanda's real instagram is @4mandagreen just so you can go say hi, she's really cool

  • @ben1301
    @ben1301 Před 5 lety +25212

    shout out to the unfortunate people who have my face... i'm so sorry y'all

  • @edwardnygma.
    @edwardnygma. Před 4 lety +7807

    EVERYONE has a doppelganger. Just not all doppelgangers are alive at the same time.

    • @MK-hj9de
      @MK-hj9de Před 4 lety +358

      Oooooooh.

    • @jorydn1136
      @jorydn1136 Před 4 lety +249

      woah

    • @Toxic88088
      @Toxic88088 Před 4 lety +101

      Right!
      pro football player, Mesut Özil exactly look like young Enzo Ferrari.

    • @Tacritto
      @Tacritto Před 4 lety +22

      Ohhhh... Could be true 😱👌

    • @justapersonontheinternet1515
      @justapersonontheinternet1515 Před 4 lety +50

      Milk Fic my doppelgängers was born the same time as me.... I have a twin.
      Anyone else?

  • @BANANADOGE
    @BANANADOGE Před 3 lety +2747

    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 😂

    • @pipi_1309
      @pipi_1309 Před 3 lety +41

      😂😂

    • @mohammedubed7000
      @mohammedubed7000 Před 3 lety +44

      But face I'd unlock because of retina not face. I guess retina should be different in twins but I don't know

    • @thirtythreehz
      @thirtythreehz Před 3 lety +135

      @@mohammedubed7000 no it reads more than just retina

    • @itsanemmamergency7623
      @itsanemmamergency7623 Před 3 lety +39

      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

    • @2trappy2
      @2trappy2 Před 3 lety +9

      That tends to happen when your a identical twin

  • @TheRealestBubby
    @TheRealestBubby Před 2 lety +731

    This guy: "did you even notice we swapped their photos?"
    Me who just didnt remember their names: "wow."

    • @meatus3575
      @meatus3575 Před 2 lety +20

      relatable

    • @joeruby5144
      @joeruby5144 Před 2 lety +36

      He didn't swap photos just the name so defeats the purpose of his point

    • @pinkajou656
      @pinkajou656 Před rokem

      yeah I was gonna say lmao

    • @bluesherbet2741
      @bluesherbet2741 Před rokem +4

      Me who didn't look at their names: WOW.

    • @briondalion3696
      @briondalion3696 Před rokem +3

      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.

  • @ctsilver_1642
    @ctsilver_1642 Před 4 lety +4040

    I’ve actually met my doppelgänger, he was walking by me in a hotel and we saw each other and pulled a double take.

    • @katelyn2046
      @katelyn2046 Před 4 lety +407

      i mean if it counts, my distant cousin is my doppelgänger. same exact face, the only noticeable differences are skin tone and hair color.

    • @angellerosettev.8560
      @angellerosettev.8560 Před 4 lety +82

      Katelyn wow that’s crazy

    • @voxellor6229
      @voxellor6229 Před 4 lety +304

      lol that reminds me of that spiderman meme

    • @deathbysunset1318
      @deathbysunset1318 Před 4 lety +13

      Voxellor omd

    • @DaEpicGamer321
      @DaEpicGamer321 Před 4 lety +94

      CTsilver _ Plot twist: it was just a mirror

  • @JoaoPessoa86
    @JoaoPessoa86 Před 5 lety +4935

    "Does Someone Else Have Your Face?" I'm an identical twin, the person with my face lives in my house.

  • @rubygregory1992
    @rubygregory1992 Před 2 lety +657

    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!! 🤣

    • @tornadodee148
      @tornadodee148 Před 2 lety +49

      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

    • @starflight8177
      @starflight8177 Před 2 lety +37

      @@tornadodee148 depends on the tattoo though

    • @upinskyy2025
      @upinskyy2025 Před 2 lety +6

      @@tornadodee148 you mean Heroin?

    • @tornadodee148
      @tornadodee148 Před 2 lety +4

      @@upinskyy2025 for example

    • @lockey4262
      @lockey4262 Před 2 lety +8

      @@tornadodee148 She might have been underage at the time...

  • @barone2326
    @barone2326 Před 3 lety +63

    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

  • @birb9147
    @birb9147 Před 5 lety +2617

    God have mercy on the person who has my face

  • @jesscaballero8808
    @jesscaballero8808 Před 3 lety +3194

    normal person: Everyone has a doppleganger!
    me, an identical twin: OoOoOoOh

  • @nonow1353
    @nonow1353 Před rokem +44

    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...

    • @randomdudeontheinternet5901
      @randomdudeontheinternet5901 Před rokem

      I think I read or watched a story similar to this one except their wifes has the same first same also what is ET

    • @nonow1353
      @nonow1353 Před rokem

      ET by Steven Spielberg don't ask my first and only recurring nightmare

    • @river3604
      @river3604 Před 10 měsíci +1

      ​@@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

    • @Sweat_Tyler12
      @Sweat_Tyler12 Před 3 měsíci

      Doppelgängers want to kill you and take over ur life I hear on google

  • @doczero1296
    @doczero1296 Před 5 lety +3204

    To my twins out there. I feel you.

  • @kashyyyk
    @kashyyyk Před 5 lety +1828

    Do I have someone else’s face? Yes. And their body? That’s in my basement.

    • @cedrick25
      @cedrick25 Před 5 lety +109

      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.

    • @mars_7673
      @mars_7673 Před 5 lety +8

      Too Many Warning Labels creepy ; v ;’

    • @gachanikki6451
      @gachanikki6451 Před 5 lety +19

      Your name fits

    • @DblTap317
      @DblTap317 Před 5 lety +7

      Words are fun

    • @alinacreativereset5701
      @alinacreativereset5701 Před 5 lety +5

      @@cedrick25 ummmmm

  • @pumpkincheesecake1236
    @pumpkincheesecake1236 Před 2 lety +94

    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.

    • @xoxodelphi
      @xoxodelphi Před 2 lety +13

      take their picture and your picture from when you were younger, start analysing the details, you might find something

  • @suha.14
    @suha.14 Před 3 lety +116

    “Hey! Give me back my face!”
    Edit: I don’t think Meredith and Amanda look alike 🤨

  • @TheDGomezzi
    @TheDGomezzi Před 4 lety +1425

    Her husband said they didn’t look alike so he wouldn’t get in trouble

    • @rishabh.pandey
      @rishabh.pandey Před 4 lety +53

      Exactly what I was thinking 😂🤣🤣

    • @lollerich
      @lollerich Před 4 lety +78

      They don't at all alike. They have completely different lips and noses.

    • @jobwesleycoxjr5103
      @jobwesleycoxjr5103 Před 4 lety +66

      They look really different, only alike from a glance

    • @floridagator1765
      @floridagator1765 Před 4 lety +8

      Smart man

    • @SL-pg4dh
      @SL-pg4dh Před 4 lety +38

      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.

  • @stocktonnash
    @stocktonnash Před 3 lety +1904

    “Did you notice we swapped their faces?” 6:20
    No you didn’t, you swapped their names.

    • @Sophie.Punter
      @Sophie.Punter Před 3 lety +23

      Yes!

    • @SebastianUrs
      @SebastianUrs Před 3 lety +10

      He didn’t do that either

    • @Nabooze
      @Nabooze Před 3 lety +41

      @@SebastianUrs did u even watch-

    • @SebastianUrs
      @SebastianUrs Před 3 lety

      @@Nabooze i was saying that he didnt switch before he said it, obviously I did see that he did change it after

    • @Nabooze
      @Nabooze Před 3 lety +4

      @@SebastianUrs oh sorry then-

  • @valiroime
    @valiroime Před 2 lety +8

    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.

  • @letyourlightshine7131
    @letyourlightshine7131 Před 3 lety +17

    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.

  • @daliacapellan
    @daliacapellan Před 5 lety +1471

    I hope the other "me" is having a way better love life than I am.

  • @sarahcraze2183
    @sarahcraze2183 Před 4 lety +2197

    Imagine being the uglier doppelganger

  • @LegionarioCruel
    @LegionarioCruel Před 2 lety +25

    Short version: no, we are just worse than we think at telling faces apart.

    • @Sweat_Tyler12
      @Sweat_Tyler12 Před 3 měsíci

      So Doppelgängers ARENT real?

    • @LegionarioCruel
      @LegionarioCruel Před 3 měsíci

      @@Sweat_Tyler12 There are no identical matches, as many people tend to believe.

  • @strangelola
    @strangelola Před 3 lety +219

    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.

    • @dongsicheng170
      @dongsicheng170 Před 2 lety +32

      Exactly. They look nothing alike.

    • @lolk7726
      @lolk7726 Před 2 lety +7

      fr doe

    • @Ryantheman17
      @Ryantheman17 Před 2 lety +8

      Yall don't get it they don't have to be indentical to be similar yall stupid asf

    • @goldflannel2968
      @goldflannel2968 Před 2 lety +23

      @@Ryantheman17 but they aren't similar, they don't look nothing alike

    • @TertiaryQuota
      @TertiaryQuota Před 2 lety +10

      @@Ryantheman17 lmfao like the video said ppl like you always willing to start arguments over stupid things 😂

  • @TravelwithLea
    @TravelwithLea Před 4 lety +1907

    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

    • @HighSpeedNoDrag
      @HighSpeedNoDrag Před 3 lety +122

      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.

    • @nayeb2222
      @nayeb2222 Před 3 lety +12

      @@HighSpeedNoDrag lol u lucky

    • @HiHi-oo8xf
      @HiHi-oo8xf Před 3 lety +12

      That's amazing

    • @mahid9594
      @mahid9594 Před 3 lety +64

      @@HighSpeedNoDrag Wow. Sounds like something straight out of a movie!! Lovely story.

    • @Marlene5018
      @Marlene5018 Před 3 lety +23

      TravelwithLea You found an unknown dimension where one side of you soul is rich and other poor, in which one are you?

  • @lemonblesssed3753
    @lemonblesssed3753 Před 5 lety +2353

    When your doppelgänger is the facial recognition lady in this video 😂

  • @GodsJoseph13
    @GodsJoseph13 Před 3 lety +26

    "You come for the science but you stay for the pop culture references" - yes yes we do 😂

    • @shotaholic1
      @shotaholic1 Před 2 lety

      says the guy with a Batman avatar 🤨

  • @Mr-Neven
    @Mr-Neven Před 4 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @mysticm1561
    @mysticm1561 Před 5 lety +1243

    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.

    • @kandy1643
      @kandy1643 Před 5 lety +14

      Mysticm1 same but I noticed the matching kid right away

    • @RSClassicAngel
      @RSClassicAngel Před 5 lety +27

      Yeah, the nose is a giveaway. Different shape.

    • @palacinkasmarmeladou
      @palacinkasmarmeladou Před 5 lety +5

      Same. The matching kid was just way too fast to find it.

    • @bluenergy9283
      @bluenergy9283 Před 5 lety +7

      but the names were swapped, not the pictures

    • @NakMTLKane
      @NakMTLKane Před 4 lety

      900th like

  • @andrearupe8094
    @andrearupe8094 Před 4 lety +1270

    "It was like yanny and laurel".....oh my god I cant believe how fast the internet moves I forgot that happened

    • @TheWormzerjr
      @TheWormzerjr Před 3 lety +3

      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

    • @cookiecakeeater6340
      @cookiecakeeater6340 Před 3 lety +31

      @@TheWormzerjr you must be joking

    • @cookiecakeeater6340
      @cookiecakeeater6340 Před 3 lety +27

      @@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

    • @oafmondombeano1477
      @oafmondombeano1477 Před 3 lety +4

      @@TheWormzerjr what are you on could I have some it seems to be pretty good

    • @SHRIIMPSUCKS
      @SHRIIMPSUCKS Před 3 lety +6

      can we talk about how people swore they heard laurel it's like the black and blue dress thing again

  • @ashleynoble2880
    @ashleynoble2880 Před 2 lety +7

    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

  • @DeKitten
    @DeKitten Před 2 lety +7

    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.

  • @evoun96
    @evoun96 Před 5 lety +723

    I dont wanna lie.
    The first time I saw you, I thought John and Hank had a third Green.

    • @greymind9815
      @greymind9815 Před 5 lety +11

      They do have a third green

    • @samuelschonenberger
      @samuelschonenberger Před 5 lety +18

      Joe Green

    • @hennamaedelosreyes9070
      @hennamaedelosreyes9070 Před 5 lety +14

      Yes they do have a third brother they don't really talked about much xD

    • @lilimo1384
      @lilimo1384 Před 5 lety +5

      We finally found Dave's secret youtube channel!

    • @rach_laze
      @rach_laze Před 5 lety +3

      Mei Rede you sure you're not thinking about the carlin brothers rather than the greens

  • @chass6764
    @chass6764 Před 5 lety +541

    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.

    • @m_-.430
      @m_-.430 Před 5 lety +37

      My best friend and I look alike so much to the point that people think we're twins

    • @iggyterino9864
      @iggyterino9864 Před 5 lety +3

      Same! My doppelganger was in the same school! The same age! Well, at the time

    • @thephilosopher1663
      @thephilosopher1663 Před 5 lety

      same my doppelgänger also has the same name as me

    • @benjaminacuna8013
      @benjaminacuna8013 Před 5 lety

      The happened to the actresses Jessica chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard

    • @UniqueGeekFreak
      @UniqueGeekFreak Před 5 lety +2

      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.

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 Před 3 lety

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

  • @boomergeezer5941
    @boomergeezer5941 Před 3 lety

    This was very fascinating! Very good and informative video.

  • @meleileen2960
    @meleileen2960 Před 3 lety +473

    I don't even remember my own face when I'm not looking at it

    • @m_artroom
      @m_artroom Před 3 lety +32

      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 :^

    • @renenuam
      @renenuam Před 3 lety +6

      same

    • @eclecticsoffy
      @eclecticsoffy Před 2 lety +19

      Like, most normal people who rarely see mirrors will not remember, myself included

    • @Idk_4742
      @Idk_4742 Před 2 lety +1

      Same

    • @Aya_riiia
      @Aya_riiia Před 2 lety +1

      S A M E

  • @UnboxingTVofficial
    @UnboxingTVofficial Před 3 lety +976

    "Because it's the internet and people will argue about anything"
    So true :D

  • @klaushermann6760
    @klaushermann6760 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @saybman7976
    @saybman7976 Před 2 lety +8

    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.

  • @shangelahasapointapoint9368
    @shangelahasapointapoint9368 Před 5 lety +835

    If someone does have my face, what a poor unfortunate soul...

    • @jrlopez1027.
      @jrlopez1027. Před 5 lety +7

      Lmao

    • @jocao2831
      @jocao2831 Před 5 lety +7

      Than you are unfortunate too if you have that person's face, the joke is dumb...

    • @catharinaventer1232
      @catharinaventer1232 Před 5 lety +25

      *Those poor unfortunate sols, in paiiiin in neeeeed*

    • @shangelahasapointapoint9368
      @shangelahasapointapoint9368 Před 5 lety +34

      @@jocao2831
      Thats the point, Karen. Im ugly so if another person has my face they're unfortunate😒😒
      Gosh, GET OFF THE INTERNET GRANDMA!

    • @worstusernameintheworld9871
      @worstusernameintheworld9871 Před 5 lety +3

      Its even worse if someone was unfortunate to have my abomination of a "face".

  • @Shin-uc7gh
    @Shin-uc7gh Před 5 lety +608

    Amanda and Meredith look absolutely nothing alike to me, even at a glance I'd be able to tell they're different people.

    • @arbn6898
      @arbn6898 Před 5 lety +91

      They look like sisters but not like the same person

    • @bannasqaudppl9433
      @bannasqaudppl9433 Před 4 lety +17

      The only thing similar I see is the nose and eyes I could see a big difference

    • @toduno927
      @toduno927 Před 4 lety +24

      They look nothing alike to me, Meredith has a more "model like face to me"

    • @johgu92
      @johgu92 Před 4 lety +8

      They look totally different.

    • @emmaoof3335
      @emmaoof3335 Před 4 lety +17

      Bruh they don't even look related to me

  • @brickbot2.038
    @brickbot2.038 Před 3 lety +5

    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.

  • @Suzzers
    @Suzzers Před rokem +5

    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.

  • @anastasiachristina
    @anastasiachristina Před 5 lety +479

    *You come for the science but you stay for the pop culture references.*
    _It's Okay To Be Smart in a nutshell_

    • @besmart
      @besmart  Před 5 lety +36

      the VERY CURRENT pop culture references thank you

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- Před 5 lety +5

      Not me I'm here for science only

    • @hirayuuu
      @hirayuuu Před 5 lety

      Why are you everywhere Lmao

    • @anastasiachristina
      @anastasiachristina Před 5 lety

      @@hirayuuu I'm basically a fan of everything

    • @BeeZombee
      @BeeZombee Před 5 lety +1

      @@USSAnimeNCC- It was really cringy when they used the drake meme...

  • @nyangata7278
    @nyangata7278 Před 5 lety +517

    Can somebody help me find my doppelganger? I owe them an apology...

    • @matildanorbury3348
      @matildanorbury3348 Před 4 lety +55

      Well actually they might owe YOU an apology

    • @nyangata7278
      @nyangata7278 Před 4 lety +16

      @@matildanorbury3348 Hmmmmmmm

    • @itsleaax
      @itsleaax Před 4 lety +7

      I owe mime too a apology

    • @mauricethegecko9700
      @mauricethegecko9700 Před 4 lety +6

      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

    • @rosegach5831
      @rosegach5831 Před 4 lety

      Matilda Norbury lol

  • @arctic_fox05
    @arctic_fox05 Před 3 lety

    Great video, Hank!

  • @MeMe-tw4xb
    @MeMe-tw4xb Před 3 lety +3

    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

  • @BB-bq5eg
    @BB-bq5eg Před 4 lety +996

    His doppelgänger: Keith Habersberger

  • @brgsnakeinsunglasses8907
    @brgsnakeinsunglasses8907 Před 4 lety +424

    "Does someone else have your face?"
    *me looking at my twin sister*

    • @sarahlauner8300
      @sarahlauner8300 Před 4 lety +8

      Noob Mirim same haha

    • @xLittleulipx
      @xLittleulipx Před 4 lety +12

      Same 😂

    • @bababobo281
      @bababobo281 Před 4 lety +3

      BrgSnake in Sunglasses bruh same

    • @IrisSnow
      @IrisSnow Před 4 lety +7

      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

    • @mariabelengilruiz8703
      @mariabelengilruiz8703 Před 4 lety +6

      @@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

  • @boontarin
    @boontarin Před 2 lety +2

    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.

    • @anna820x6
      @anna820x6 Před 2 lety

      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.

  • @Ascertivus
    @Ascertivus Před 3 lety

    The science and the story share din this video are so fascinating to me!

  • @josiah8040
    @josiah8040 Před 5 lety +554

    Funny because I saw the thumbnail and thought you were Keith from the try guys.

    • @claire3558
      @claire3558 Před 5 lety +20

      I'm not the only one who thought that he was keith, thank god 😂

    • @hailstorm324
      @hailstorm324 Před 5 lety +6

      Also Hank Green

    • @thisemopersono-o7331
      @thisemopersono-o7331 Před 5 lety +3

      I thought it was Brendon Urie

    • @elisekate3283
      @elisekate3283 Před 5 lety +1

      It's the blue checkered shirt and glasses that do it, I think

    • @LadyDoloris
      @LadyDoloris Před 5 lety +3

      I think he looks like Johnny Knoxville honestly.

  • @mariasilina7326
    @mariasilina7326 Před 5 lety +500

    Artists that do portraits are very good at telling people apart - maybe scientists need to go this one

    • @MissSchnickfitzel
      @MissSchnickfitzel Před 5 lety +84

      yep, as an artist i can confirm. its just because we analyze the specific features rather than the whole face i think?

    • @Emma-wq4nu
      @Emma-wq4nu Před 5 lety +31

      Yeah, you have to get tinny bits right or they look like totally different people.

    • @akariovo7505
      @akariovo7505 Před 5 lety +12

      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.

    • @aokimika9249
      @aokimika9249 Před 5 lety +11

      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.

    • @sprinkleofsuga7186
      @sprinkleofsuga7186 Před 5 lety +9

      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.

  • @icecol22
    @icecol22 Před 8 měsíci

    This was an interesting video.I enjoyed it!!

  • @41052
    @41052 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @katienicole356
    @katienicole356 Před 4 lety +672

    “this person” jade west has been DISRESPECTED

  • @Insorainity
    @Insorainity Před 4 lety +186

    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*

    • @im70water93
      @im70water93 Před 3 lety +7

      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

    • @kayllenstarships9009
      @kayllenstarships9009 Před 3 lety +2

      @@vuedanto8576 Man they're joking

    • @Ascertivus
      @Ascertivus Před 3 lety +2

      That's so frickin' cool! Thank you for sharing this. /g

    • @horseoperamarker
      @horseoperamarker Před 3 lety

      @@vuedanto8576 ...they're joking

  • @That1Knife
    @That1Knife Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @mamba3968
    @mamba3968 Před 3 lety +4

    0:46 Cool, i could be the algorithm used on nearly every social media page.

  • @zoealexa9662
    @zoealexa9662 Před 4 lety +2970

    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

    • @IamBatmanOg
      @IamBatmanOg Před 4 lety +98

      Identical twins aren't 100% identical. Maybe only clones can be 100% identical (a big maybe though).

    • @unknownuser2897
      @unknownuser2897 Před 4 lety +76

      MLBB GAMING Identical twins are clones.

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 Před 4 lety +20

      I heard that a lot of twins thought to be fraternal proved to have identical DNA.

    • @Dumb_Killjoy
      @Dumb_Killjoy Před 4 lety +60

      @@IamBatmanOg They are from the same egg cell, they are literal clones

    • @IamBatmanOg
      @IamBatmanOg Před 4 lety +21

      @@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.

  • @mysterym2269
    @mysterym2269 Před 5 lety +623

    I feel bad for the person having the same face as me lmao

  • @hatchera
    @hatchera Před 3 lety +1

    From someone who thought they looked nothing alike this video was really confusing until Lucas came to help.

  • @mostofakamal4315
    @mostofakamal4315 Před 3 lety +1

    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

  • @Litchi91
    @Litchi91 Před 5 lety +833

    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

  • @jena_rese
    @jena_rese Před 5 lety +302

    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?

    • @candygamingcat3243
      @candygamingcat3243 Před 5 lety +59

      Jenna Marmalade I know I think I look completely different in mirrors and pictures even if I do the mirror effect filter

    • @anti-ethniccleansing465
      @anti-ethniccleansing465 Před 4 lety +43

      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.

    • @DMK48906
      @DMK48906 Před 4 lety +23

      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!

    • @nirzara7176
      @nirzara7176 Před 4 lety +11

      Candy gaming Cat324 i dont know why. But this scares me.

    • @pugmommy9865
      @pugmommy9865 Před 4 lety +21

      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.

  • @acoatl8454
    @acoatl8454 Před 2 lety +3

    Meredith is like “don’t compare me to that”

  • @santiagogonzalezbenjumea9880

    I love this channel.

  • @vonsakamoto
    @vonsakamoto Před 4 lety +333

    "Hey smart people"
    Me: Im dumb but thanks anyway

  • @koibubbles3302
    @koibubbles3302 Před 4 lety +408

    “Is there someone with your face?”
    “I hope not.”
    “Yeah, nobody would ever want a face like that.”

  • @tantrika.exotica
    @tantrika.exotica Před 2 lety

    THANK YOU THORN!!!

  • @arthorim
    @arthorim Před 2 lety

    I have been confused for others several times. I just go with the flow

  • @rachelleanndeleon5629
    @rachelleanndeleon5629 Před 4 lety +238

    Ohhhh so that's why Steve Harvey and Mr. Potato share the same face.

  • @therogue9000
    @therogue9000 Před 5 lety +730

    when I took my picture with Google's new app, every portrait was of a woman.
    ....I'm a guy

  • @MaryAnnNytowl
    @MaryAnnNytowl Před 3 lety +1

    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!

  • @GehennaGates
    @GehennaGates Před 2 lety +4

    Her husband is smart. He knew if he told her they look the same he would be in trouble xD

  • @randomeggthatworksforthefb7172

    *Ear* me out, *eye* must *face* it, because no one really *nose*

  • @stopandlisten6070
    @stopandlisten6070 Před 3 lety +724

    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.

    • @jennaye8142
      @jennaye8142 Před 2 lety +2

      Not all men suck, but this man for sure.

    • @banana-uo3be
      @banana-uo3be Před 2 lety +14

      It was a joke

    • @bloodredrain
      @bloodredrain Před 2 lety +26

      @@jennaye8142 stfu

    • @jennaye8142
      @jennaye8142 Před 2 lety +2

      @@bloodredrain oh did I hurt your ego? :(

    • @balzaqi
      @balzaqi Před 2 lety +24

      @@jennaye8142 nah, I don't think you hurt his ego. you're just a k-pop stan, thus you kinda have to stfu.

  • @wfbn
    @wfbn Před 10 měsíci +1

    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!😭😭

  • @tvland1407
    @tvland1407 Před 3 lety +1

    I FINALLY FOUND THIS VIDEO, I WAS SEARCHING FOR IT SINCE 3 MONTHS AGO

  • @ma5tercraft19
    @ma5tercraft19 Před 5 lety +156

    "Mom told me it's my turn to use the face!"

  • @johnnyfavorite1194
    @johnnyfavorite1194 Před 5 lety +167

    *I recently had an opportunity to meet my doppelgänger,* but I chickened out and so did he... I was afraid he might kidnap me, leave me stranded on a desert island, and proceed to take over my life....
    Meanwhile, he was probably thinking the same thing🤔

    • @bodyofhope
      @bodyofhope Před 4 lety

      Um... the plot to a Jake Gyllenhaal movie? 😳

  • @malcolmdale9607
    @malcolmdale9607 Před 6 měsíci

    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.

  • @kemaichijou8999
    @kemaichijou8999 Před 2 lety

    I subscribe because I learn new things, congrats 👏🎉

  • @lilbihxxx1234
    @lilbihxxx1234 Před 5 lety +492

    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.

    • @alaralpaca1486
      @alaralpaca1486 Před 5 lety +2

      Liz reminds me more of lindsay as a child. Strange way to think of it but yeah.

    • @slushpuppie19
      @slushpuppie19 Před 5 lety

      All this video did was make me crush on this Liz Gilles chick lol

    • @user-uc6hl6pr1j
      @user-uc6hl6pr1j Před 5 lety +1

      Same

    • @madisonbertrand217
      @madisonbertrand217 Před 5 lety

      “i’ve been watching her on tv for 9 years” we get it, you watched victorious

    • @nefer9256
      @nefer9256 Před 5 lety

      when i first saw her 9 or so years ago first thing that came up to my mind was she looks like lindsay lohan

  • @juliaabreus
    @juliaabreus Před 4 lety +482

    I wanna be friends with someone who has my face, it would be so cool!

    • @FR-wg1jf
      @FR-wg1jf Před 3 lety +6

      @@draco5277 this is so true what

    • @Zaire82
      @Zaire82 Před 3 lety +7

      Easy. Make someone get plastic surgery.

    • @Zaire82
      @Zaire82 Před 3 lety +4

      @@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.

    • @am32074
      @am32074 Před 3 lety

      @@Zaire82 but plastic surgery doesn't always look natural like you can somehow tell :(

    • @Zaire82
      @Zaire82 Před 3 lety

      @@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.

  • @peopleshowerbecauseitsatre1596

    "Hey smart people" girl I thought I clicked the wrong video

  • @lapiswolf2780
    @lapiswolf2780 Před 8 měsíci

    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.

  • @erin.x
    @erin.x Před 3 lety +233

    I think it’s slightly challenging to tell whether it’s the same person when they wear makeup. I mean, we all know we can change brow shapes, eye shapes, lip shapes, where your bone cheekbones appear to be, etc with just makeup

  • @timtech254
    @timtech254 Před 5 lety +744

    next iPhone: Ear ID

  • @chaunceyfeatherstone6209
    @chaunceyfeatherstone6209 Před 3 lety +2

    Thirty years ago I was in my local 7-11 in Edmonton, Alberta. As I approached the till, something on the magazine rack caught my eye. It was an inset picture on a People magazine of some guy from Florida. He looked enough like me that even I had to admit the remarkable similarity, to the point that I felt compelled to show the cover to the cashier and say, "This is NOT me!" The cashier understood why I would want to make that distinction. The guy was a suspect in multiple murders and still at large.

    • @charlie-obrien
      @charlie-obrien Před 2 lety

      If I were to commit multiple murders in Florida.....Alberta would be the place I'd hide out.
      So, your story seems a little fishy to me.

  • @laanaalove
    @laanaalove Před rokem +3

    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! 😢😂😅

  • @danii9844
    @danii9844 Před 4 lety +150

    Whoever has my face, give it back I need that

  • @chrislloyd415
    @chrislloyd415 Před 4 lety +162

    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!!!

    • @thetruegavinator
      @thetruegavinator Před 3 lety +3

      Stats lie my guy!

    • @lutfunnaharnahar1105
      @lutfunnaharnahar1105 Před 3 lety +2

      @@thetruegavinator not true

    • @danielawesome36
      @danielawesome36 Před 3 lety +1

      @@thetruegavinator But this ain't stats???

    • @thetruegavinator
      @thetruegavinator Před 3 lety +4

      @@danielawesome36 thi meant that statistics that this will never happen or blah blah are absolutely not representative of real life situations

    • @danielawesome36
      @danielawesome36 Před 3 lety

      @@thetruegavinator _O h . . ._
      My bad.

  • @MAbuRowais
    @MAbuRowais Před 2 lety +3

    I am among those who pays automatically more attention to details when I have see faces more than I would pay with other things. Because of that I would not be easily fooled with faces.

  • @FlubberGamer
    @FlubberGamer Před 2 lety

    It seems like a mixture between our ability to distinguish faces and something similar to convergent evolution. We look for obvious patterns and as a result see similar features, but like convergent evolution, the two similar features came about from different “sources” or have different fine features that allow you to distinguish “doppelgängers”.

  • @oyinking
    @oyinking Před 4 lety +76

    The fact that I could have looked like someone from the past spooks me differently

  • @shishirpoudel8222
    @shishirpoudel8222 Před 5 lety +62

    you did not switch photos. you just switched names

  • @Axxidous
    @Axxidous Před 2 lety

    This is one of those videos that are super fascinating and you learn a lot, but also have a lot of objections simply because they ignore certain things.
    For example, saying that people who think Amanda and Meredith look nothing alike maybe being able to see differences that others can’t. POSSIBLY. Or people who think they look alike maybe seeing similarities that the nay-sayers can’t.
    Supposedly they only looked alike because of distance and all that crap. But for me, I didn’t think they looked exactly alike but at least looked similar enough for someone to overlook the differences. Like their eyes which felt very similar.
    Another is that maybe some people look more identical from certain angles and vastly different from others. It doesn’t always have to be that they look alike all the time either. They might style their eyebrows differently (Amanda’s eye brows literally looked like they were that shape because they were plucked while Meredith’s seemed more natural. So that could have been mimicked) the nose looked the same to me too but only in certain photos. In others, her nose looked different. It was also explained that we don’t look for as many nuance differences as an expert might. But that’s just the thing. When ppl find their doppelgänger, I feel like they generally know that there’s a difference, just very mild. The similarity in their appearances are still astonishing enough to Marvel over. I can understand knowing someone less meaning they are more likely to think they look alike. But when a person acknowledges a lookalike that means they, who know themselves and their own face the most, thinks this person looks like them. And that tends to happen.

  • @MaraMara89
    @MaraMara89 Před 2 lety +2

    A few years ago I was in Rome with my friend. We were walking some street when a group tour came in from the opposite direction, they were looking at us and yelling to person at the end ... it turned out that girl who was walking last looked almost the same as my friend (different hair cut) that was bizzare