About quarter-hour earlier, an off-the-cuff occasion marketed as a “Timothée Chalamet lookalike competitors” had devolved into curious pandemonium. We’d arrived shortly earlier than 1 pm—the beginning time listed on the promotional flyers, which promised a $50 money prize, that appeared across the metropolis in late September—to an already-raucous hoard of onlookers. (These posters, in addition to a public Partiful occasion, went viral to the tune of 1000’s of retweets, numerous native and international information reviews, and even an unique “human-interest” precursor characteristic by the New York Publish. There was even a cell-phone photograph of Chalamet himself strolling by one of many posters whereas he was filming the upcoming Josh Safdie challenge Marty Supreme in Decrease Manhattan.)
Everybody had gathered right here on this sunny Sunday afternoon at Washington Sq. Park, the aorta of New York College’s campus, to admire the various good-looking folks—principally younger males with mops of darkish curls, aquiline noses, and sky-high cheekbones—that got here to compete. Although the entire occasion exhibited little semblance of construction, its 23-year-old organizer, a well-liked stunt-happy YouTuber named Anthony Po (although he generally goes by “Gilbert”), had supplied the standard contest ephemera—a shiny six-foot-tall trophy, a humongous $50 test made out to “Greatest Tim,” and a briefcase stuffed with fun-sized Halloween sweet.
