If you thought celebrity kids only inherited fame and trust funds, think again. Jimmy Kimmel just detonated the internet with one single Instagram post that has half of Hollywood doing triple-takes and the other half questioning whether cloning technology is already here.

The photo? Jimmy and his 27-year-old son Kevin Kimmel standing side-by-side at a family event, both wearing near-identical black T-shirts, both flashing the exact same half-smirk, both with the same dark hair, same jawline, same everything.

The caption was only four words long, but it broke the internet anyway:

“Like looking in mirror.”

Within minutes, the comments section turned into a full-blown meltdown.

“Is this allowed to be THIS identical?” “Jimmy Kimmel invented time travel and went back to 1997 to take a selfie.” “Someone call the police, this is theft of face.” One user simply posted the Spider-Man pointing meme twenty times in a row.

Even celebrities lost their minds. Sarah Silverman wrote, “I’ve known you for 30 years and I just gasped out loud.” Guillermo Rodriguez commented a string of crying emojis followed by “KEVIN ES TU GEMELITO.” Ryan Reynolds posted, “I refuse to believe this isn’t the same person at two different stages of eating carbs.”

But the resemblance isn’t new; it’s just never been this aggressively in-your-face before.

Kevin, Jimmy’s son from his first marriage to Gina Maddy, has spent most of his life staying deliberately out of the spotlight. While Jimmy’s younger kids with Molly McNearney (Jane and Billy have become late-night staples (complete with viral Halloween costumes and tear-jerking health updates), Kevin has always been the quiet one. He works behind the scenes in entertainment, keeps his Instagram private, and generally lets his dad do the talking.

Until now.

Sources close to the family say Kevin recently moved back to Los Angeles after a few years in New York, and the two have been spending more time together than ever. The photo that caused the chaos was taken at a low-key backyard barbecue last weekend, and according to one guest, “It was actually scary. You’d look at Jimmy, then look at Kevin, then look back at Jimmy, and your brain would just blue-screen. They even laugh the same way, same cadence, same little snort at the end.”

The internet immediately went full detective. Side-by-side photos from Jimmy’s early 2000s The Man Show era next to Kevin’s current selfies are now flooding TikTok and X, and the consensus is unanimous: it’s not just father and son. It’s copy-paste.

One viral thread compiled the evidence like a cold case:

Same eyebrow arch when skeptical
Same hand-through-hair move when nervous
Same exact way of tilting their head during photos
Even the same tiny scar on the left cheek (Jimmy got his from a childhood bike accident; Kevin got his falling off the same damn bike twenty years later).

Jimmy, never one to let a good meme die quietly, leaned all the way in. He followed up the original post with a throwback of himself at 1997 wearing the exact same expression, writing, “Wait till you see baby pictures. It gets worse.”

Then he posted a video of the two of them attempting the “guess who’s who” challenge with old photos. They got every single one wrong, including their own graduation pictures.

Molly McNearney, Jimmy’s wife, finally ended the spree last night with a photo of Jimmy and Kevin asleep on the couch in the same position, mouths open, one arm dangling off the cushion. Her caption: “I live with human photocopies and I’m not okay.”

As of this morning, #KimmelClone is the number one trending topic worldwide, and Etsy is already flooded with T-shirts that say “I paused Jimmy Kimmel Live! and thought it was a rerun from 2003.”

Kevin, for his part, finally broke his silence with a single comment under his dad’s post:

“Love you pops but I’m changing my face tomorrow.”

Jimmy replied instantly: “Too late. Already copyrighted it.”

In an era where celebrity kids are usually famous for being famous, Kevin Kimmel just accidentally became the most famous son in America, simply by existing while looking like the human version of Ctrl+V.

And somewhere in Los Angeles, two men with the exact same face are probably laughing the exact same laugh, wondering how long they can keep this going before someone demands DNA proof that time travel isn’t real.