Twitter users are posting photos of their lookalike parents for viral thread

Do you think you look more like your mom or your dad? 

Almost every 20-something-year-old wonders just how much of their appearance is inherited. At family gatherings, friends and relatives might take an educated guess or offer judgment to satisfy the parent who asked. 

But why just settle for your family and friends’ takes when strangers on the internet can have a say, too?  

On Wednesday, Twitter user @haileylainee asked users to reply with three pictures: one of their mom when she was around their current age, a photo of their dad when he was younger, and then, most importantly, a recent photo of themselves. 

let’s start a thread on your parents and how you came out pic.twitter.com/ZQ6iE0e32H

— hails (@haileylainee) October 2, 2019

@haileylainee, known as hails on her account, then tweeted the reason behind the now-viral thread: “TWITTER DO UR THING! my father has 15 other children so if this looks like your dad too pls dm id like to meet all my siblings.”

The results were staggering. 

Nearly 7,500 Twitter users responded. If they weren’t following instructions and posting photos of themselves and their parents, they were giving their hot takes on which parent other commenters looked most like.

my parents were too fine >> pic.twitter.com/uytWt2orNk

— tyler johnson (@tylermadison20) October 5, 2019

Found love in a crackhouse and made me pic.twitter.com/iS9lw8im8R

— ⃠ Christopher ⃠ (@Chris_CStuckey) October 4, 2019

pic.twitter.com/P2zC7n8YAs

— im something (@kaygokream) October 3, 2019

pic.twitter.com/zRMKqZ9Fac

— the hot one in the boxers (@actuallycait) October 5, 2019

pic.twitter.com/PAv9YKBEM2

— Karla (@Karla_nshtx) October 3, 2019

two conservative catholics bore a non-binary, pansexual nomad w a cam modeling hussle. who woulda thought? (人 •͈ᴗ•͈) pic.twitter.com/jQCZ6uDeGr

— s t o r m (@megnoto) October 4, 2019

Of course, there were instances where the users looked nothing like one of their parents. There were also a few rare cases in which the child insisted they didn’t look like either their mom or dad. 

everyone says i look like my mom but tbh i feel like i dont look like either of my parents pic.twitter.com/7xSL9OqHNw

— ???????????? (@imactuallygia) October 5, 2019

I think they adopted me pic.twitter.com/oAY8l2hdu8

— Yağmur turns into snow (@findsomeb) October 4, 2019

For what it’s worth, we can’t tell if @haileylainee met the rest of her siblings (last she said, she only met four of them). But from the way the thread is currently blowing up, we hope it won’t be long before @haileylainee can finally meet the rest of her brothers and sisters.

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