He has quite a lot of worth on the “stalk” market.
A UK man claims he seems to be a lot like Joe Goldberg from the Netflix present “You” that feminine followers recurrently ask him to “kidnap them and lock them in cages.”
“Individuals actually love the thought of being stalked by Joe,” Nikita Darwin, 22, instructed South West Information Service of those macabre requests.
The Dover resident mentioned the phenomenon started after his family and friends observed his eerie resemblance to Penn Badgley’s well-read ripper, who’s notorious on the present for stalking, relationship and killing numerous uppercrust girls.
“I’ve quite a lot of household and associates say that I seem like Joe from You,” defined Darwin. “Lots of people inform me that I’ve a serial killer vibe, which is type of scary as I’m not making an attempt to be a serial killer.”
Regardless of initially discovering the comparisons “loopy,” the Goldberg doppelganger has since embraced his lifeless ringer standing — and even began posting movies of himself to TikTok parroting the “You” character’s costume and mannerisms.
Because the Brit began his web page in January, the slasher villain facsimile has amassed over 180,000 followers because of his killer seems to be.
“I get hundreds upon hundreds of messages each day of individuals telling me that I seem like Joe,” the inadvertent impersonator mentioned.
Typically the fandom can flip a bit creepy as properly. Darwin, who’s single, mentioned that he typically receives messages on relationship apps from feminine followers, who ship him their real-time location so he can “stalk” them.
“I get folks on relationship apps messaging me asking if I can put them in a glass cage,” exclaimed the inadvertent impressionist. “They don’t suppose I’m a catfish, they only suppose I’m a extremely good lookalike.”
He added, “I simply reply to them saying I’m his brother and their response is all the time a shock.”
Darwin mentioned he even will get stalking requests in individual when he leaves his home.
Regardless of being a fan of the present, whose fifth and closing season premiered on Netflix final month to combined opinions, Darwin mentioned he doesn’t perceive girls’s fascination with Joe Goldberg.
“In all honesty, I don’t suppose folks would take pleasure in it as a lot as they suppose they’d,” he mentioned. “I believe he’s actually unhealthy, however all the women appear to be fascinated by this serial killer, which is absolutely tousled.”
