I look like a hot serial killer on TV women beg me to kidnap them and lock them up

He has a lot of value on the “stalk” market.A UK man claims he looks so much like Joe Goldberg from the Netflix show “You” that female fans regularly ask him to “kidnap them and lock them in cages.”“People really love the idea of being stalked by Joe,” Nikita Darwin, 22, told South West News Service of these macabre requests.The Dover resident said the phenomenon began after his friends and family noticed his eerie resemblance to Penn Badgley’s well-read ripper, who’s infamous on the show for stalking, dating and killing various uppercrust women — like “Dexter” meets “Gossip Girl.”“I have a lot of family and friends say that I look like Joe from You,” explained Darwin.“A lot of people tell me that I have a serial killer vibe, which is kind of scary as I am not trying to be a serial killer.”Despite initially finding the comparisons “crazy,” the Goldberg doppelganger has since embraced his dead ringer status — and even started posting videos of himself to TikTok parroting the “You” character’s dress and mannerisms.

Since the Brit started his page in January, the slasher villain facsimile has amassed over 180,000 followers due to his killer looks.“I get thousands upon thousands of messages every day of people telling me that I look like Joe,” the inadvertent impersonator said.Sometimes the fandom can turn a bit creepy as well.Darwin, who is single, said that he often receives messages on dating apps from female fans, who send him their real-time location so he can “stalk” them.“I get people on dating apps messaging me asking if I can put them in a glass cage,” exclaimed the inadvertent impressionist.

“They don’t think I am a catfish, they just think I am a really good lookalike.”He added, “I just respond to them saying I’m his brother and their reaction is always a surprise.”Darwin said he even gets stalking requests in person when he leaves his house.Despite being a fan of the show, whose fift...