To recap, two Fridays ago, Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC and my man-crush Baey Yam Keng Instagrammed a photo of himself next to a photo of someone who looks like him with the comment: “Someone sent me a photo of ‘me’. Can you tell which is the real me?”
The next day, he posted a collage of more doppelgangers and introduced a new hashtag: “More people sending me photos of #BYKlookalikes. Any more to contribute? I guess each of us can look like someone else from certain angles.”
Another collage of #BYKlookalikes was posted on Monday and then... it stopped.
No more #BYKlookalikes on Instagram.
I was disappointed. Who doesn’t want to see more guys resembling the person I once nominated as the Sexiest Man Alive?
But what also irked me was that a couple of the supposed lookalikes didn’t look like Mr Baey at all.
Heck, even I look more like the former managing director of Hill+Knowlton Strategies. I credit my facial hair.
That gave me an idea.
To keep the hashtag alive, I tried to recreate photos of Mr Baey but with me in my room instead and then share them on Instagram with the hashtag #BYKlookalikes.
Here are the results:
- Published in The New Paper, 20 April 2014
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