# Girls That Look Like Skrillex > Girls That Look Like Skrillex is a 2011 Tumblr blog documenting women sporting electronic music producer Skrillex's signature shaved-side hairstyle, part of a viral celebrity lookalike trend. 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 internet[5]. At its peak, the blog became a go-to reference for how deeply Skrillex's signature look had penetrated festival and scene fashion culture. ## Origin The Tumblr blog "Girls That Look Like Skrillex" went live on April 2nd, 2011[1]. The very first post was a call for submissions, asking viewers to send in pictures of women they knew who looked like Skrillex[1]. That same day, four photos of women with one side of their head shaved were published, establishing the blog's format immediately[5]. 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, 2010[5]. 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 posts[5]. 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 piercings[3]. 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 boom[3]. - **Platform:** Tumblr - **Creator:** Unknown (anonymous Tumblr blogger) - **Date:** 2011 ## 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 Skrillex[5]. 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 points[3]. The blog reads like "flipping through a yearbook full of photos of just one person," as Phoenix New Times put it[2]. Some posts feature straight-up doppelgängers, while others include meme-style image edits and humorous commentary[2]. 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. ## 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 photos[5]. That same day, Skrillex himself posted a link to the blog from his official Twitter account, giving it a massive signal boost[5]. 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 undershave[5]. 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 LA[4]. On November 8th, 2011, YouTuber ElectricValentineVid uploaded a music video called "You Got Skrillex Hair," with lyrics about men rejecting women for the hairstyle[5]. 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 hours[5]. 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 blog[6]. A Facebook page for GTLLS launched on January 10th[5]. 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" blog[5]. 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 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 kids[3]. 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 festivals[3]. 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 Tumblr[4]. The fact that Skrillex tweeted the blog himself suggested he was in on the joke, or at least didn't mind it[5]. Samavai noted the irony that Sonny Moore had been a style icon in two completely different music scenes: post-hardcore and EDM[3]. ## Fun Facts - Skrillex personally endorsed the blog by tweeting a link to it just two days after it launched[5]. - 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 blog[3]. - The blog title uses the abbreviation GTLLS in fan communities[5]. - Phoenix New Times called the blog "a gem" while also noting they were annoyed at how much attention they'd been giving Skrillex[2]. - 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 DJ[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Girls That Look Like Skrillex? Girls That Look Like Skrillex is a Tumblr blog that collects user-submitted photos of women whose hairstyle, particularly the shaved-side undershave, resembles electronic music producer Skrillex[1]. ### Where did Girls That Look Like Skrillex come from? The Tumblr blog launched on April 2nd, 2011, following the trend of celebrity lookalike blogs started by "Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber" in 2010[5]. ### What does Girls That Look Like Skrillex mean? It's a humorous observation that Skrillex's signature hairstyle (long on one side, buzzed on the other) was so widely adopted, especially in festival and scene culture, that an entire blog of lookalikes could be maintained[3]. ### How do you use Girls That Look Like Skrillex? The original blog accepted submissions: users would send in photos of women with the Skrillex-style undershave, and the blog would publish them[1]. ### Is Girls That Look Like Skrillex still popular? The blog was most active from 2011 to 2012, when dubstep and Skrillex were at peak cultural saturation. It has since gone inactive as the hairstyle trend faded[5]. ### Did Skrillex know about the blog? Yes. Skrillex posted a link to the Tumblr from his official Twitter account on April 4th, 2011, just two days after it launched[5]. ### What was Skrillex's real name? Skrillex's real name is Sonny Moore. Before his EDM career, he was the lead singer of post-hardcore band From First to Last[3]. ### What other celebrity lookalike blogs existed? The format was popularized by "Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber," which launched in March 2010 and had nearly 1,800 posts by mid-2012[5]. ### Did anyone write about accidentally looking like Skrillex? Yes. Vice published a first-person essay by Shriya Samavai, who shaved the side of her head at 17 and didn't realize she looked like Skrillex until someone pointed it out over a year later[3]. ## References 1. 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