This Vincent Van Gogh Lookalike Can’t Shake Internet Fame

Vincent Van Gogh may have died in in 1890, but his lookalike lives on. This doppelganger, however, has both his ears, and a septum piercing. And because it’s 2016, someone discovered the resemblance, posted a picture on the Internet, and now Robert Reynolds is a meme.

According to BuzzFeed, back in April of last year, a Reddit user took a “creepshot” of Van Gogh/Reynolds on the New York subway. The shot quickly went viral on Reddit and other platforms:

Reynolds, who is an actor, capitalized on the attention. He posed for photos with a bandaged ear, and even starred in a web series as Van Gogh in contemporary New York. In this one, Van Gogh’s picture goes viral when someone mistakes him for Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

As with most memes, interest in this one died down, until someone accosted Reynolds in March at Starbucks, asking him if he knew he was Internet famous.

Anyway, here are some Instagram photos of Reynolds, if you were ever curious to see what Van Gogh might look like with a slight hipster vibe.

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Rapunzel realness.

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(via BuzzFeed)

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