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Twinfluencers Are Taking Over the Internet

Why so many famous YouTubers and Instagram stars are twins
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You’re not imagining it: Influencers really are multiplying.

There are the Dolan Twins, a pair of square-jawed 19-year-olds who have amassed more than 10 million subscribers on YouTube and millions more on Instagram. They are joined by the , t, , and —massive YouTube stars, all. At this point, every up-and-coming YouTube star seems to have a body double, and every category of influencer has its own set of famous twins: who , who create exercise videos, . The popular YouTuber Jake Paul just welcomed a new set of twins, the , into Team 10, his YouTuber collective; they replaced the Martinez Twins and the Dobre Twins, who in 2017. Twin content is inescapable.

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