Girls That Look Like Skrillex

2011Single-topic blog / photo collectiondead

Published March 30, 2026

Also known as: GTLLS

Girls That Look Like Skrillex is a single-topic Tumblr blog launched on April 2nd, 2011, that collects photographs of women sporting the same shaved-side hairstyle as electronic music producer Skrillex (Sonny Moore)1. The blog rode the wave of celebrity lookalike Tumblrs that started with "Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber" and quickly caught the attention of Skrillex himself, music publications, and forums across the internet5. At its peak, the blog became a go-to reference for how deeply Skrillex's signature look had penetrated festival and scene fashion culture.

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Overview

Girls That Look Like Skrillex (often abbreviated GTLLS) is a Tumblr blog that curates user-submitted photos of women who, intentionally or not, bear a strong resemblance to electronic music producer Skrillex5. The defining visual element is the undercut or undershave hairstyle where one side of the head is buzzed short while the rest of the hair hangs long. Big glasses, particularly stolen 3D movie theater glasses, are bonus points3.

The blog reads like "flipping through a yearbook full of photos of just one person," as Phoenix New Times put it2. Some posts feature straight-up doppelgängers, while others include meme-style image edits and humorous commentary2. The appeal is simple: Skrillex's look is so specific and so widely copied that an entire blog's worth of lookalikes was never hard to fill.

Origin & Background

Platform
Tumblr
Creator
Unknown
Date
2011

The Tumblr blog "Girls That Look Like Skrillex" went live on April 2nd, 20111. The very first post was a call for submissions, asking viewers to send in pictures of women they knew who looked like Skrillex1. That same day, four photos of women with one side of their head shaved were published, establishing the blog's format immediately5.

The concept wasn't entirely new. The trend of opposite-gender celebrity lookalike blogs started over a year earlier with "Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber," which launched on March 2nd, 20105. That blog mocked Justin Bieber's androgynous appearance by collecting photos of women with similar side-swept hairstyles, and by June 2012 it had racked up 1,794 posts5. GTLLS applied the same formula to Skrillex's EDM-era aesthetic.

Skrillex (real name Sonny Moore) had made a dramatic style shift between his time as the lead singer of post-hardcore band From First to Last and his solo electronic career. In his FFTL days, he was a poster boy for the MySpace "scene" look: flat-ironed rainbow hair, raccoon eyeliner, facial piercings3. When he reemerged as Skrillex around 2010, he kept the long hair on one side but shaved the other clean, creating a look that became inseparable from the dubstep boom3.

How It Spread

Things moved fast after launch. Just two days later, on April 4th, 2011, the GTLLS Tumblr got linked in a thread on the electronic music forum Plur Life, where members piled on with more photos5. That same day, Skrillex himself posted a link to the blog from his official Twitter account, giving it a massive signal boost5.

By fall 2011, music publications were paying attention. On October 24th, LA Weekly published "Top Five Girls Who Look Like Skrillex," highlighting notable women who wore the undershave5. The post proved so popular that LA Weekly later ran a sequel, "Five More Girls Who Look Like Skrillex," timed to coincide with Skrillex's six-night performance run in LA4.

On November 8th, 2011, YouTuber ElectricValentineVid uploaded a music video called "You Got Skrillex Hair," with lyrics about men rejecting women for the hairstyle5. The meme had crossed from photo blog to original music content.

December 2011 through early 2012 saw the blog spread to new communities. On December 20th, BodyBuilding Forums member ShortStacks posted a thread titled "Girls that Look Like Skrillex (I dont even)," which pulled in over 40 replies within 24 hours5. On January 2nd, 2012, the pop culture blog Stuff You Will Hate published a post criticizing the hairstyle trend, calling the women "hipster trash"5. Five days later, The Chive published a 28-photo compilation from the blog6. A Facebook page for GTLLS launched on January 10th5.

The blog hit another peak on February 11th, 2012, when Noisey (Vice's music vertical) uploaded a video titled "Girls That Look Like Skrillex" featuring people discussing the blog alongside the related "Cooking With Skrillex" blog5. Four days later, a Redditor named BrianTheLady posted the Tumblr to r/Skrillex, calling it "one of the best tumblrs ive seen"5.

Phoenix New Times named it their "Tumblr of the Week," praising it alongside its spiritual predecessor "Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber" and noting the blog's entertaining links, including NME's "Five Reasons Why It's OK To Stop Hating Skrillex Now"2.

How to Use This Meme

The blog format is straightforward:

1

Find or take a photo of a woman whose hairstyle resembles Skrillex's signature undershave (one side buzzed, the other side long).

2

Submit the photo to the Tumblr blog (when it was active).

3

Oversized glasses, 3D movie glasses, or rave accessories increase the resemblance factor.

Cultural Impact

The blog captured a specific moment in early 2010s fashion where EDM culture, scene aesthetics, and festival fashion were all colliding. As Vice's Shriya Samavai wrote, Skrillex brought scene fashion to EDM when he entered the club scene, and "somehow, it stuck"3. The undershave wasn't just a Skrillex thing. It was the hairstyle of a new breed of festival-goer that emerged when the scenesters of 2007 merged with the electro kids3.

Rave fashion before Skrillex was defined by day-glo, LED gloves, phat pants, and pacifiers. After Skrillex, scene hair and 3D glasses became standard issue at festivals3. The GTLLS blog documented this shift in real time, serving as an informal census of how widely one DJ's look had been adopted.

LA Weekly's coverage treated the blog as legitimate pop culture commentary, not just a joke Tumblr4. The fact that Skrillex tweeted the blog himself suggested he was in on the joke, or at least didn't mind it5. Samavai noted the irony that Sonny Moore had been a style icon in two completely different music scenes: post-hardcore and EDM3.

Fun Facts

Skrillex personally endorsed the blog by tweeting a link to it just two days after it launched5.

Vice writer Shriya Samavai didn't realize she looked like Skrillex for over a year after shaving her head. She found out when a college acquaintance in New York asked if she'd heard of the blog3.

The blog title uses the abbreviation GTLLS in fan communities5.

Phoenix New Times called the blog "a gem" while also noting they were annoyed at how much attention they'd been giving Skrillex2.

Some people in the LA Weekly feature were so convincing as Skrillex lookalikes that strangers would ask them for photos, thinking they were actually the DJ4.

Derivatives & Variations

"Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber"

— The spiritual predecessor, launched March 2010, which established the celebrity lookalike Tumblr format. It accumulated 1,794 posts by mid-2012[5].

"Cooking With Skrillex"

— A related Tumblr blog discussed alongside GTLLS in Noisey's 2012 video feature[5].

"You Got Skrillex Hair"

— A November 2011 YouTube music video by ElectricValentineVid with lyrics mocking the undershave trend[5].

LA Weekly's "Top Five" lists

— Two separate LA Weekly articles ranking the best Skrillex lookalikes, drawing from the blog's submissions[4][5].

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