“Where are you?” a girl at Washington Square Park yelled into her phone. “I said, Where are you? Get your ass over here. The Timothées are here!”

On a very sunny Sunday afternoon, just off the NYU campus where Timothée Chalamet was once enrolled, a few hundred people gathered under the Washington Square Arch waiting for people who looked like Chalamet to arrive and compete against one another. In the hour that led up to the event, questions and confusion abounded: What was the competition going to entail? Who organized this thing? Who was judging? Would Chalamet himself make an appearance?

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