It's a great idea for an essay frame. As I read your description of your Waluigi, I was reminded of a line from the movie "Match Point": "Hard work is mandatory. The rest comes down to luck." I wonder if you might use the doppelganger metaphor to explore the crucible of American success. Her personal details and history are interesting--Barry's, Coachella, a girlboss ethos--but I think there's something rich and profound in exploring the conditions that made her and continue to shape our shared, endlessly comparative, understanding(s) of "making it." Erik Baker's new-ish book, "Make Your Own Job" (https://www.erikmbaker.com/book), could provide a lot of theoretical/rhetorical scaffolding. I think The Baffler or The Drift might dig it.
It's a great idea for an essay frame. As I read your description of your Waluigi, I was reminded of a line from the movie "Match Point": "Hard work is mandatory. The rest comes down to luck." I wonder if you might use the doppelganger metaphor to explore the crucible of American success. Her personal details and history are interesting--Barry's, Coachella, a girlboss ethos--but I think there's something rich and profound in exploring the conditions that made her and continue to shape our shared, endlessly comparative, understanding(s) of "making it." Erik Baker's new-ish book, "Make Your Own Job" (https://www.erikmbaker.com/book), could provide a lot of theoretical/rhetorical scaffolding. I think The Baffler or The Drift might dig it.
I've never seen a paragraph go from Waluigi to child pornography that fast. Actually I've probably never seen it at any speed.
If Waluigi were to found a startup, I think it would look very similar to Passes.