NOT LOGAN PAUL has made a name for himself with his eerily similar appearance to influencer Logan Paul.
The lookalike star is well known online, boasting popular Instagram and TikTok accounts, and has also entered the world of boxing.
Not Logan Paul is a social media personality who found fame due to looking like Logan Paul.
The star, real name Rodney Petersen, began posting on social media in 2020.
At first, he shared aspects of his life like his love for music and pictures of his children.
But it wasn’t long until his followers began to make comparisons between Petersen and influencer and boxer Paul.
Petersen told Business Insider: “In early 2021, I’d never heard of YouTuber-turned-boxer Logan Paul.
“But when people started flooding my comments section saying they thought I looked like him, I googled him and discovered he’s a hugely popular influencer with a controversial past.”
Petersen, who shares four children with his wife, has enjoyed success from the comparisons but has admitted the reception isn’t always positive.
He explained: “I sometimes receive negative comments from viewers, such as from a person who commented ‘you and your brother are jokes of the world,’ as if I was actually Logan himself, which is so strange.”
Petersen is a big presence online and has many social media followers.
On Instagram he has 130k followers while on TikTok he has over 215k followers.
He also has a YouTube channel where he has over 3k subscribers.
It was the star’s wife who first convinced him to join TikTok back in 2020 but it was only once he began capitalising on being a Logan Paul doppelgänger that he found his follower count rising dramatically.
In just one year, Petersen went from having 7k followers to 130k after making a number of clips recreating some of Paul’s old videos and doing impressions of him.
Petersen said in 2022: “I’m happy to run with this Logan Paul doppelgänger bit as long as it keeps bringing me views.
“In a funny way, I’ve found that it’s allowing more people to find me and get to know who I am.
“People used to come up to me in the street because they thought I was Logan Paul, but now, they know that I’m his doppelgänger on TikTok, they know my accounts and real name, and they want a picture with the actual me.”
Petersen has also said that he would eventually like to go back to focusing on his dreams in martial arts and music.
Petersen’s net worth has been reported to be as much as $6 million, which is over £4.5 million.
The star has admitted in the past that “looking like Logan Paul is bringing me the extra cash I need.”
His lookalike Paul, meanwhile, has a reported net worth of $150 million, roughly £118 million.
Like many online personalities before him, Petersen has entered the world of boxing.
As of January 18 2024 he has won one match as a celebrity boxer.
Petersen made his debut at an Official Celebrity Boxing match in March 2023.
The star was then confirmed to be taking part in the Misfits Boxing 12 event in January 2024.
Petersen’s bout against Tristan Hamm was scheduled for Saturday, January 20th.
The event, which also signed Chase DeMoor and Ed Matthews for the line-up, will be hosted in Leeds’ First Direct Arena with the capacity being approximately 13,000.
Ahead of the match against Hamm, Petersen shared his excitement on social media.
In one Instagram post he shared a picture of the poster for the event with the caption: “Flying across the ocean and getting My second influencer boxing Win, 2024 is going to be amazing for us all.”
In another, he added: “Either they want to see me win. Or they wanna see me lose.
“Either way they are watching and it’s paying off $$$ I do greatly appreciate all of the amazing support. Staying positive and hard on the grind.”
