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The best visual equations by Facemath

Kel Mitchell + Charles Barkley + dreadlocks = Waka Flaka Flame. 

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Take Totally Looks Like, add some simple algebra, and you’ve got Facemath: the new facial recognition craze that’s traversing the Web.

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For those of us without Prosopagnosia (that’s “facial blindness” for those of you without Wikipedia access), Facemath does unbelievable things with the nose-eyes-mouth area and will convince you that basically everyone is related.

While launched in May, the Tumblr has seen a recent spike in activity, posting a total of 14 visual mash-ups, which have received hundreds of thousands of likes and reblogs.

Here are some of the site’s best (and worst) celebrity equations .

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Add a dash of that guy from Whose Line Is It Anyway?, a squeeze of A-Lister Matt Damon and you get someone I literally cannot identify. But does it really matter? Look at that brow!

A drip of obscure brunette, a half-gallon of Justin Long’s gorgeous smile and you get Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein. Spot on.

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I think this is my favorite, as I’ve been personally trying to identify Waka Flocka Flame’s lookalike for weeks now. Alas, it’s Kel Mitchell (of Kenan & Kel) mixed with a rotund Charles Barkley (and a head of dreads, natch.)

Yeesh, let’s not even go into detail here.

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Blond + adorable baby from Dinosaurs = Another, more famous, blond. 

Photos via Facemath

 
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