Twitter loves Pizza Rat, the rat who loves Pizza

Pizza Rat is a rat. A rat that was simply trying to move a slice of pizza when comedian Matt Little decided to videotape it and told it to “live your best life.”

Expressions of real (joke) solidarity.

https://twitter.com/chillmage/status/646032653053988865

https://twitter.com/JessicaKRoy/status/646043561356619776

Commentary on the other news of the day:

https://twitter.com/SeanRMoorhead/status/646062823869583360

Especially political news of the day.

https://twitter.com/drewpiddy/status/646064328421019648

There is adoration.

Blasé New Yorker-ness.

And refusal to engage.

Brands already want a slice of the Pizza Rat fandom:

#pizzarat might need this… pic.twitter.com/144weutx5C

— Claire's (@claires) September 21, 2015

Since it’s Twitter, the same joke was also made a lot.

Even when it was a slightly different joke.

https://twitter.com/DothTheDoth/status/646067340791160832

But here is the most truly prescient tweet:

Congratulations pizza parlors, a rat just made your day. Erect this in its honor:

Ethan Chiel is a reporter for Fusion, writing mostly about the internet and technology. You can (and should) email him at [email protected]