Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder mania has reached lookalike contest levels

Washington Square Park on Sunday midday looked akin a cross between a vigil, a company mixer, and a low-budget movie set.

It was, in reality, an Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder lookalike contest, as fandom concerning the documentary "You Can See Everything" spilled onto the streets. A small assemblage encouraged on the gaggle of blazer-donning blondes and graying fans wearing small headphones. Holmes wannabes milled around, their heavily lined eyes broad and fingers forming the "okay" hand motion connected alongside the Theranos founder.

Age was no object: One of the Holmeses appeared to be under 10 in a video on X, although she'd already mastered the founders' trait stare.

The award ultimately went to two adults, Joe Sivick and Nicole Travolta, the article said. Speaking into a megaphone, Sivick stated he lives in New York, is married, and has a cat. Travolta, who identifies as an actor and clown on Instagram, posted concerning her unexpected win, showing off a beaded turquoise coin purse that says "Delulu for life" in a video on her story. Typically a brunette, she appears to have invested in a wig for the big day.

Maddy West, a New York-based clown and Fielder fan, organized the event alongside a friend. Look-alike contests rosy in fame a few years ago, alongside celebrities from Timothée Chalamet to Glen Powell getting the doppelganger treatment.

The organizers had concerning a week to set up the event, from the prizes and the registration to securing the visitant judge, Kor Skeete, who starred in an event of Fielder's sequence "The Rehearsal." West stated additional than 200 group responded to a registration form on the event's Partiful invitation.

Neither Sivick nor Travolta wanted the $50 prosperity prize, West said, opting alternatively to keep a purse made by a local business. West stated Sivick's belief was so convincing, she momentarily idea he was Fielder himself.

"When he showed up to the event, I saw him from a distance, and he was wearing sunglasses. At archetypal glance, I was like, 'Oh my gosh, did Nathan Fielder really show?" West said.

Sunday's contestants aren't the lone ones investing in the documentary duo's wardrobe. TikTokers have posted concerning dressing up as Holmes and Fielder — or Holmes and her "drop of blood," in at smallest one case — for Halloween.

Fielder's documentary has made waves in the tech and movie worlds since it debuted before this month. The A24 movie tracks the period the clown spent alongside Holmes weeks before she reported to jail for defrauding investors, among another charges. Business Insider's Callie Ahlgrim described it as "part character study, part mental thriller, part surrealist idea experiment." "You Can See Everything" grossed $15 myriad in its beginning weekend following beginning in 855 theaters, doubling producers' expectations.

The movie is part of a string of latest releases concerning wealthy, hubristic tech founders — there's Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Reckoning," Elon Musk in "Musk," Sam Altman in "Artificial," and Sam Bankman-Fried in "The Altruists." The on-screen Silicon Valley backlash has coincided alongside real-life discontent concerning the AI buildout, which is becoming a additional potent matter for tech leaders and politicians alike.

This narrative has been updated alongside comments from event coordinator Maddy West.