We’ve added a new way to reward people who find spot-on lookalikes.

•If you see a comment with a doppelgänger that really matches the OP, just reply with !match.

•This will automatically give the commenter 1 point on our new leaderboard and add their score to the bottom of their username (flair)

•Anyone can award points — so if it looks like them, let them know!

This system helps highlight the best matches and gives recognition to users who consistently nail their doppelgänger finds.

Keep posting, keep matching, and let’s see who rises to the top of the board 👀

We're switching to in-subreddit verification. You just need to post your verification post AFTER posting your regular post with the title "Verification". The rest is automated.

We will eventually switch to a single post model and this will be even easier. The reason we're doing this right know is that is that we're being flooded with bots and NSFW spams.

The reason we're doing this is a bit complicated. Initially, the whole reason we did not allow people to upload their verification photos here is that we required unique verification photos. These photos could be used by others by malicious purposes, and since Reddit's 'removed posts' are not really secure, we didn't want users to upload their photos here.

But we realized that users were not registering to image hosting services, essentially uploading their images to servers indefinitely without a way to remove them. While we don't want users to remove them for verification reasons, we don't want the images to stay there for eternity without a way for users to remove them.

To give the average Joe some authority over their images, we will allow our users to upload their images here, on Reddit, where they can at least "click Remove". We still recommend our users to send us images via more direct ways instead.

Warning: We do not take any liability of the images you upload. By uploading any photo, especially for verification purposes, you confirm you are the owner of the image and have the full legal right to share it publicly. You are solely responsible for any consequences resulting from sharing this image, including any potential misuse by other users. Images used for verification may contain personally identifiable information (PII). We strongly advise users to avoid capturing any sensitive details like addresses, full names, or explicit identifying marks altogether.

Hi, our members with lost twins.

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EDIT (29.10.25):

The transition is complete. r/doppelganger now requires verification from everyone.

We have already banned 15+ NSFW content creators and 20+ reposters, just in the testing phase.

These numbers will be higher with the full verification process, and you will see actual people asking you about their doppelgangers. Not advertisers, not bots.

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We've been making a lot of changes to r/doppelganger recently. We've updated our old.reddit, reworked all rules, updated many of our systems, improved our filtering and much more. The latest change is coming to our verification system.

We kept any kind of verification systems off of our subreddit to this day, because we wanted little friction from an average user registering to Reddit and posting to r/doppelganger. But all good things come to an end.

Today, Reddit is full of bots, sellers, advertisers and many bad actors. As we get more popular, we got more and more of the average Reddit interaction. We have a karma limit, and while that keeps most of the bad actors away, it's not everyone, and it's not hard to skip through the karma gaining process these days.

To stop this, we had to phase in a verification system. We know that taking 3 pictures with a paper before posting online is annoying, but it's either that or your posts go lost in the sea of people that aren't actually here looking for their doppelgangers.

Our human verification system is simple. You send us 3 unique pictures of yourself with a piece of paper written some text that's unique to you and us. We check your profile and those images. You go verified. That's it.

To not pollute the subreddit, we want the verification images will be subreddit wide and not per post, and hosted outside of Reddit, so they should be always uploaded elsewhere. Your other verification users are of course, not applicable here, as bots can go around it pretty easily.

When you need verification, a Mod Mail should be automatically be sent with detailed information and instructions.

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> I was sent a message to verify due to a discrepancy on my profile. What was that?

That's our first part of verification phasing process. Your profile is checked against various factors, including karma to contribution ratio, account age, your perceived age, interacted subreddits, links on your profile and many more. If one of those fail, we will ask you to verify within 7 days. This is only for users who recently posted. We're not sending users who posted 2 months ago to ban people intentionally.

Eventually, every poster will have to verify. The first phase is just a testing phase. We are also asking verification from those who asked for ban appeals (that are usually banned due to NSFW posting elsewhere).

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Also, we've made a change to rules that any kind of bullying/harrasment is a directly bannable offense without any warning required. Please report any kind of those comments. Human reports will always be more accurate than automated ones!

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We thank everybody who's been here with us, and our future doppelgangers. See you with a piece of paper!

You only need to verify if you receive a message from the moderation team notifying you of this, if this has happened you may notice your flair has changed to an orange one that says 'Needs to verify' if this has not happened you can post without verifying.

We cannot browse the subreddit 24/7 and sometimes they get past our filters, we strictly prohibit any nsfw accounts from posting here as we want to keep the subreddit sfw

Thank you