> According to Argentinian resident Denise Sanchez (the girl from the meme) in multiple statements given to Know Your Meme in August 2022, the photo was originally of the group of people in front of her and her boyfriend, with the two only becoming the focus after the cropped image in the meme spread in 2019. Sanchez told KYM the photo itself was taken in 2018 while on a night out at a club called Chau Che Clu in Claromeco, Buenos Aires while she was singing a song to him
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/girl-explaining
Okay... On one side that's a big relief because I know the universe isn't sending me signals.
... But the ressemblance is so uncanny it now disturbs me even more. It is the second time in my life I find a clone of someone on the other side of the Earth. (The first was a store clerk in Germany that looked almost identical to, again, another guy I knew from high school - except for the nose, which was slightly differently shaped). Meanwhile here the hair, the clothes, the face and even the expressions are identical (my kind-of-friend was a master at pulling dead/annoyed faces like that).
I guess if the photo had been taken from a different angle I would have known it wasn't him... But without the context I could have sworn it was him.
It reinforces my belief in "there's always one identical stranger somewhere in the world". Which wasn't my belief at first - but when I confessed my "Germany store clerk" experience to my mother, she revealed to me she also had a bizarre experience like that - she went to join her best friend of the time at a mall, when she was a teenager, and she started talking to a girl there... who as it turned out wasn't her best friend (as she had assumed), but looked almost entirely identical to her. What made it even more disturbing is that when I mentionned the nose being shaped slightly differently, she confirmed to me that it was also the case for her "almost identical stranger" encounter - the nose was shaped slightly differently. But without this, and meeting her actual best friend latter, she could have sworn her friend as just pulling a prank on her by pretending not to know her.
The world is really weird sometimes.
