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Use This App to Find Your Museum Portrait Doppelgänger

By: Jill Layton | January 16, 2018
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Google's Arts & Culture app has a new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting, and people can't seem to get enough of it. For some, the app is pretty dead on when it comes to finding look-a-likes, but for others, the matches couldn't be less match-y. But the ridiculousness of it all is what makes it so fun and addicting.

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To get your doppelgänger, download the app (iOS or Android) and scroll down until you see this:

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credit: Google Arts & Culture/screenshot

Click "Get Started," which will take you to a message from Google explaining that your photo will be sent to Google to find artworks that resemble you, and your photo won't be used or stored. If you accept, click "Accept."

Your camera will then pop up and you'll snap a selfie, which is how the results are gathered. Find out if you look like the Mona Lisa or some other super obscure person from a painting you've never heard of.

You can either keep the results for your own personal reflection, or you can be like everyone else and share them on social media. Even if they're not so accurate.

Here are some examples of some surprisingly spot on matches:

A post shared by Avren Keating (@mxavren) on Jan 12, 2018 at 7:59am PST

A post shared by Tony Jacobsen (@iamtonyjacobsen) on Jan 15, 2018 at 9:56am PST

A post shared by Tim (@teebilly) on Jan 15, 2018 at 9:10am PST

And some, well, less spot on matches:

A post shared by kristen bell (@kristenanniebell) on Jan 14, 2018 at 3:26pm PST

A post shared by Kelly Ripa (@kellyripa) on Jan 15, 2018 at 8:01am PST

A post shared by @sarahkatesilverman on Jan 14, 2018 at 4:12pm PST

And for the record, it also works on babies and dogs. The feature currently only works in certain parts of the country, however, but will hopefully become available to everyone soon.

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