“Totally looks like,” also known as “separated at birth” memes have been around since the dawn on the internet, but noticeably gained popularity in the mid-aughts. For example, you’re likely familiar with the comparisons of then-Twilight star Taylor Lautner to an alpaca or any number of real-life Peter Griffins from Family Guy.
In fact, there are entire websites, Tumblrs, and subreddits devoted to the theme. Recently it’s been repackaged as “same energy.” Because these days, everything apparently seems to require some kind of energy, “big dick” or otherwise.
It appears that the meme may have started on Korean Twitter (or at the very least, picked up steam there) as a proliferation of examples related to BTS, the massively popular K-pop boy band.
https://twitter.com/visualsjisung/status/1051174949484945408
same energy pic.twitter.com/GTxODu6tjb
— claire⁷// (@Randomsplashes) October 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/Oppar_Yah_Chan/status/1050952930902376450
same energy pic.twitter.com/x9ZY3ZA0xa
— ًpipay (@jeonierals) October 9, 2018
But the meme isn’t exclusively for things that look exactly alike, as you can see from this example which compares the scene in Twin Peaks: The Return when (spoiler alert!) Special Agent Dale Cooper finally snaps out of it, to a still of Jerry’s self-aware grinning in Seinfeld.
same energy pic.twitter.com/80sLApHJlN
— FilmBart (@FilmBart) October 14, 2018
Or this example that takes a scene from the 2000 teen horror flick Gingersnaps and puts it alongside the big reveal scene in the original 1996 Scream:
https://twitter.com/JillJacksoff/status/1051283881310253056
And then this example mashes up model Cara Delevingne’s controversial yet eye-catching tuxedo outfit at the recent royal wedding of Princess Eugenie of York and Jack Brooksbank with an image of “Pearl” from Steven Universe.
Same energy pic.twitter.com/wNKCevC0BX
— Albhedo (@albhedoo) October 13, 2018
And then there’s this one that puts Tom Hiddleston alongside a cat being held at knife-point, for some reason:
https://twitter.com/StabbyLoki/status/1051629582355316736
And here are just a handful of other random examples, many involving anime:
same energy pic.twitter.com/RhoPPwHa1W
— big dick is back in town (@shsl_capuche) October 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/PirateKingHaki/status/1049327842167803904
https://twitter.com/JJtheGamerGuy/status/1048407419599118336
THESE PHOTOS SHARE THE SAME ENERGY pic.twitter.com/zInZQ866s9
— cait (@TORTUREDP0ET13) October 5, 2018
same energy pic.twitter.com/WPWIdcDfkM
— ˗ˏˋteganˎˊ˗ (@S0ULEATR) October 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/slytherbabe/status/1051167032077631488
https://twitter.com/ohlalalisa_m/status/1050747576973066240
“Same energy,” “totally looks like” … whatever you want to call it, as long as it involves Justin Timberlake circa late-’90s and a brick of Ramen noodles, we’re good. Old memes never die, they just find new generations of internet-savvy goofballs.
