'Pizza Rat' Video Goes Viral [WATCH]

Some suspect this rodent is actually Master Splinter bringing home a slice for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to feed on.

A clip of a rat trying to drag home a slice of pizza more than twice its size has just become a trending talking point among social media users within the last few hours. It has also swiftly become the subject of many rodent-themed memes, stories, and allegories to the current human situation.

Take The New Yorker's piece on the rat in question - it spoke about the whole hoopla through the eyes of the now-famous critter.

"This afternoon, there I was, minding my own business, when I caught a glimpse of the Holy Grail: a perfect isosceles triangle, gilded in golden grease, and slightly congealed. I could tell it was from Vinny's-I can smell their sauce from ten feet away," the piece went. "You already know what happened next, because it's all over the g****** news."

"I did what any self-respecting New Yorker would do: I grabbed that pizza like I'd paid for it and I kept walking, real casual-like, making a beeline for the nearest cover-the L-train stop at First Avenue and Fourteenth Street," the article read.

"It was there that some dude whipped out his iPhone and started filming me," it went on. "I tried running but I was FREAKED OUT and lost my grip and dropped the slice. It was a monumental loss."

"I played it cool and strolled away, hoping no one would notice. It turns out everyone noticed. Some things are too good to be true," it said in conclusion.

The rodent has since been hailed as a hero and a dreamer, proving that dreams aren't impossible to achieve. Even US Olympic figure skater Alex Shibutani joined in the #PizzaRat hashtagging frenzy with this tweet: ""Be bold. Be positive. Be persistent. FIGHT FOR YOUR DREAMS!" - #PizzaRat

A number of others have deplored the viral phenomenon, with Entertainment Weekly asking: "Why do we allow this repulsive combination of words to ruin our Monday, already the most emotionally precarious of weekdays?"

"In its URLs and hashtags, Pizza Rat is disgusting," the entertainment news source went on. "The name alone is just cause for vomit."

EW went on to say that such a trend ruined pizza, rats, and the American dream, as the rodent, in the end, was not able to bring the pie home.

"Do we circulate his plight out of sympathy, or is Pizza Rat the Internet's next great experiment in schadenfreude?" it asked again.

Interestingly, this is not the first time that a pizza-loving rat has made it to social media. The previous instances did not turn into a viral phenomenon, though.

"Katla McGlynn caught another pizza rat earlier this year who appears to have finished the business that today's pizza rat abandoned," Vox said, noting the social media user's photo of a rat munching on a slice of pie on the subway tracks in New York back in April this year.

Apparently, New York rodents love pizza as much as the city's humans do.

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