Timothee Chalamet Showed Up At The Timothee Chalamet Lookalike Contest In New York City (But Did Not Win)

Here's a great example of "shit being soOoOoOo crazy in NYC." Timothee Chalamet has been filming multiple movies in the city for the past few months. More recently, fliers started showing up downtown boasting a Timothee Chalamet lookalike contest in Washington Square Park and hilariously, Timothee himself ended up in a photo with one of the fliers, between filming scenes:

After this, fans online were going nuts hoping that he would actually show up. The likelihood of that was always zero. Imagine Timothee himself walking into a crowd of people who are cosplaying as him? Ridiculous! Probably unsafe! And yet......

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HE SHOWED!!!! Even GQ covered the story of the crowd going wild, a Timothee lookalike getting arrested, and all in all how Timmy himself didn't win the grand prize of $50. 

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What a day, what a moment in time. Who knew that all it would take to get a little bit of spirit in this city was to summon Lisan al-Gaib himself in the best way we know how….essentially holding up a mirror.