Which celebrity do I look like?
A few weeks ago, Burb emailed a bunch of us with a link to a website called My Heritage. Among the many things that the site offers is a place where you can upload a photograph of yourself (or anyone for that matter) and see what celebrities you/they most look like. I never got a chance to try out the site because I didn't have a picture of myself at work, and I kinda forgot about the whole thing. That is until I saw this wonderful clip from VH1's "Best Week Ever" in which a bunch of the BWE hosts post their pictures on My Heritage. After that, I decided to check out the site again, this time armed with a picture. I received the following results:
Steve Reich 67%
Heath Ledger 66%
Matt Leblanc 63%
Richard Hammond 56%
Frank Oz 56%
Robert Downey Jr 55%
George W. Bush 52% (scary!)
Benjamin McKenzie 51%
Dean Cain 48%
Jerry Bruckheimer 48%
Each person has a percentage next to their name, which I guess means the accuracy of the match. Now, to me, really none of these people look like me. But, as you saw in the video (if you watched it) this thing is not too heavy on accuracy. Well, in order to compare the results, I submitted another photo. This time without facial hair. Here are those results:
Chester Bennington 72%
Ricky Martin 57%
Jean-Paul Gaultier 53%
Joe DiMaggio 51%
Lance Armstrong 50%
Gael Garcia Bernal 49%
Diego Maradona 48%
Iam Somerhalder 48%
Forest Whitaker 47%
Jacques Offenbach 47%
Aside from not knowing who either of my top matches are (Steve Reich is "America's greatest living composer" and Chester Bennington is not--as his name suggests--a porn star but rather the lead singer of Linkin Park) I was confused to see that there were no repeated individuals between the first (haired) picture and the second (nude-chinned one). This leads me to even further doubt the accuracy of My Heritage. So, what have I learned from all of this?? Well, for one thing, I am both incredibly handsome and incredibly ugly. I am equally young and hip as well as old and crusty. I have the look to be an actor or, just as easily, the President of the United States. Mostly, though, I learned that without facial hair I look Latino.
Steve Reich 67%
Heath Ledger 66%
Matt Leblanc 63%
Richard Hammond 56%
Frank Oz 56%
Robert Downey Jr 55%
George W. Bush 52% (scary!)
Benjamin McKenzie 51%
Dean Cain 48%
Jerry Bruckheimer 48%
Each person has a percentage next to their name, which I guess means the accuracy of the match. Now, to me, really none of these people look like me. But, as you saw in the video (if you watched it) this thing is not too heavy on accuracy. Well, in order to compare the results, I submitted another photo. This time without facial hair. Here are those results:
Chester Bennington 72%
Ricky Martin 57%
Jean-Paul Gaultier 53%
Joe DiMaggio 51%
Lance Armstrong 50%
Gael Garcia Bernal 49%
Diego Maradona 48%
Iam Somerhalder 48%
Forest Whitaker 47%
Jacques Offenbach 47%
Aside from not knowing who either of my top matches are (Steve Reich is "America's greatest living composer" and Chester Bennington is not--as his name suggests--a porn star but rather the lead singer of Linkin Park) I was confused to see that there were no repeated individuals between the first (haired) picture and the second (nude-chinned one). This leads me to even further doubt the accuracy of My Heritage. So, what have I learned from all of this?? Well, for one thing, I am both incredibly handsome and incredibly ugly. I am equally young and hip as well as old and crusty. I have the look to be an actor or, just as easily, the President of the United States. Mostly, though, I learned that without facial hair I look Latino.
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