Pizza rat, the costume: From Internet meme to your Halloween party in 2 days. Alyssa Bereznak, National Correspondent, Technology. Tue, October 27, 2015 at 5:36 PM UTC .

Pizza Rat is, per Internet consensus, many lofty things: a spirit animal, “all of us,” a parable of life in New York City. But as the Internet’s latest viral Phenomenon, in the big-P sense ...

Left Shark, "the dress" and pizza rat were among 2015's top memes. As always, cute animals ruled the Internet much of the year. CNN — ...

We’ve Reached the Part of Pizza Rat’s Meme Lifespan Where Everyone Wonders If It Was All a Dream. By Claire Landsbaum. Jan. 7, 2016. save d. Save this article to read it later.

In 2015, the iconic Pizza Rat sprung to subway stardom when a video of the rodent carrying a slice of ‘za went viral online, eventually becoming one of the most infamous Big Apple memes.

Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees, not to be confused with the Staten Island Yankees, er, Pizza Rats, ... The three stages of going viral in 2015, according to the Pizza Rat meme.

There have been Rally Monkeys and a Rally Mantis and a Rally Pigeon. So of course in New York, there needs to be a Rally Rat (and before you send that angry tweet about me making fun of New York ...

The mod is likely inspired by the ‘halo 3 rat’ meme that went viral last month, and which has rapidly become a big Reddit in-joke.