Seventeen-year-old Kurt Coleman has garnered an enormous following online by posting selfies and boasting about his good looks.

The teenager, from Gold Coast City, Queensland, has become a web sensation with more than 172,000 followers on Facebook and 87,000 followers on Instagram.

Kurt has compared his pictures to the perfection of a lunar eclipse and jokes that he inspired Beyoncé Knowles's hit Flawless.

"I'm hot and I love myself," Kurt said. "People are really jealous of me, I can understand why, and I'll never change for anyone because I love myself."

He also describes himself as the 'Australian Paris Hilton', whom he idolises because "she doesn't care about anything, she just does what she wants".

Kurt appears to be revelling in his new-found fame:

I love how my face and name is everywhere right now, that's how I like it.
?????????????????????????????? — Kurt Coleman (@KurtJayColeman) April 18, 2014

When asked to share the secrets of his good looks, Kurt informed Studio 10, "every week I get a spray-tan and then I wash my hair every day...I just try and look amazing every day".

Kurt is particularly popular in Australia and there are even businesses which sell Kurt Coleman merchandise.

The Kurt Coleman Supply Company exists to promote 'the poster-boy to thousands of youth around the world for being who you are and not caring what anyone else thinks.'

"It's so funny, I can't believe it really," Kurt said.

"It's ridiculous, they're making money off my face, I'm going to get around to getting money out of them."

In a manner not dissimilar to Justin Bieber, the social media star polarises opinion. Some admire his beauty and liberating individualism but others lament the popularity of a modern-day Narcissus whose looks have stunted the development of his personality.

'Haters' regularly confront him in the street and the teenager admits to having been hit many times.

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澳大利亞一名17歲少年科特(Kurt Coleman)喜愛自拍，過度癡迷自己的臉蛋，光是臉書（Facebook）上就有10萬多張的自拍照，而他每天最大的煩惱是“照鏡子”，因為科特說，鏡子里完美無瑕的自己，使自己的視線無法從鏡子移開，而他過度自戀的情況導(dǎo)致其屢次遭受欺凌，最后休學(xué)在家但科特仍闖出自己的一片天?？铺貜男〉酱笾挥袃蓚€興趣就是自拍和照鏡子，而自稱是“上帝賜給地球的禮物”的他，被同齡的孩子認(rèn)為是怪胎，因此科特遭受排擠，最后只好休學(xué)。

不過，科特通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)闖出一片天，目前科特的臉書有18萬粉絲，因為他的名氣也吸引澳大利亞商人以科特的名義成立一家公司，專門販賣科特的周邊商品，而科特的媽媽則對自己的兒子感到自豪。

過份自戀的科特，不只在床尾擺著一面鏡子，為了一覺醒來就被自己帥醒，甚至臉書時常發(fā)文表示，“墨爾本幾乎是完美的，因為有我！”、“我愛上我自己”，甚至大放厥詞“月亮如果變成我的臉就是完美的”等等，一開始引起網(wǎng)友撻伐聲浪，但久而久之大家也都接受科特向世界散播帥氣。