Pizza Rat is an internet meme based around a viral video of a brown rat [1] carrying a slice of pizza down the steps of a New York City Subway station in Manhattan. [2] The video was first uploaded to Instagram on September 21, 2015, and a copy was uploaded to YouTube later.

Sep 21, 2015 · Pizza Rat wildly captured the imagination of Twitter on Monday, thanks to comedian Matt Little (h/t Jordan Sargent). Like any other rat in the Big Apple, it is hungry for life. Unlike the rest...

Sep 21, 2015 · Pizza Rat is an American anti-hero, battling the odds, staring down the maw of a thankless society, trying in vain to justify just one more slice of greasy pizza. We can all relate to this.

Nov 9, 2024 · Is Pizza Rat a real rat? Yes, Pizza Rat is a real rat. The video that made him famous was not staged, and the pizza-carrying rodent was a genuine resident of the New York City subway system.

Jun 29, 2022 · Pizza Rat is back — and this time, he brought friends. In the bowels of a New York City subway station, a family of rats opted for a late-night bite of pizza as onlookers boarded the L train...

Jan 30, 2025 · Pizza Rat is the nickname given to a rodent that became an overnight Internet sensation after it was spotted carrying down a slice of pizza down the stairs of a New York City subway platform in September 2015.

Dec 13, 2022 · A video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza down a flight of subway stairs nearly broke the internet when Matt Little posted the 14-second clip to YouTube in 2015.

Nov 19, 2020 · For the past two days, the internet has been enthralled by a viral video of a man dressed like a rat — complete with mousy brown suit, papier-mâché mask, long tail and whiskers — dragging a...

Sep 21, 2015 · A rat, that symbol of everything that is terrible and heartbreaking about New York, was scurrying downstairs carrying a slice of pizza larger than itself.

Sep 21, 2015 · The video, taken by Matt Little at the First Avenue L train station in the East Village, shows a rat attempting to carry a slice of pizza in its mouth while climbing down the stairway.