cigarettes

Move over, Pizza Rat! You've got some seriously stiff competition! A few days ago, Twitter user Tom Kretchmar uploaded a video of a cigarette-toting cockroach flirting with a subway grate. The video quickly went viral, gaining over 3.7 million views in as many days. Twitter users were quick to put their own spin on the tweet, making jokes about artsy New York college students, and other animals with a nicotine addiction. The responses are almost as good as the video itself.

The origin of these sad cigarettes is unclear, but this picture showed up on the Photoshop battles subreddit and the experts there took the opportunity and ran with it.

You know the old trope, a grizzled former great person gets approached by the young hero. Cigarette in hand he says, "I haven't heard that name in years". Kinda like this: