People are less likely to complain about a landlord's bad paint job when moving into a new apartment after seeing a viral photo tweeted by @chellzyeah.
The Twitter user took a photo of a wall presumably coated by a fresh new coat of paint and an unfortunate cockroach who had a paint brush with fate after being at the wrong place and time.
"My landlord painted over a f'king roach," she tweeted.
@chellzyeah/Twitter
To date, the tweet of the roach entombed forever in white paint racked up over 39K retweets and 356K likes.
And with that, a prime opportunity for meme-ing was born.
Was it a kickline member gone rogue?
hello my baby, hello my darlin, hello my ragtime gal pic.twitter.com/nLyMRm8okl
— Rat Bastard (@Beanshit72) September 5, 2021
pic.twitter.com/3g9mnG3yUl
— I.Am.CannaBull (@CannaBullAz) September 5, 2021
Definitely doing the Cancan. pic.twitter.com/W3yfSRXADd
— Picaro Byte (@__picaro8) September 5, 2021
Dammmmn you had one of those Joe's Apartment fancy dancin type roaches pic.twitter.com/sFD6ohOvKi
— Mixtrix (@MixtrixFix) September 5, 2021
pic.twitter.com/zm7vhBu4MM
— krystall.eth (@krystallschott) September 5, 2021
References to Star Wars were made, particularly with the mention of Han Solo frozen in carbonite at the end of Empire Strikes Back.
pic.twitter.com/btHQD5TIA0
— The Discourse Lover (@Trillburne) September 5, 2021
The landlord pic.twitter.com/VcavWxvvjf
— Privatize the Moon (@privatizedmoon) September 5, 2021
With the extended leg appearing like a self-defense move, perhaps our crunchy friend was a formerly trained martial artist.
“Wax on Wax off Roachy San" pic.twitter.com/Uf99yzGnii
— ΔDΔΜ (@AdaaamE77) September 5, 2021
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— Justin🦩Boldaji بلداجي (@justinboldaji) September 5, 2021
pic.twitter.com/pQt2tNGtSQ
— John Cougar Colleencamp (@BillTouspille) September 5, 2021
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— Izaille (@Izaille1) September 6, 2021
One user thought it might be long-lost hieroglyphic.
Roach Hieroglyphics pic.twitter.com/T9BhL5EFMZ
— Mika (@MikaNindo10) September 5, 2021
Others saw the immobile cucaracha as no laughing matter.
I just know this is in nyc and the landlord is charging a pet fee for this roach
— venesa (@Venesaf) September 5, 2021
Why is everyone laughing? This was his people's Pompeii. He paid his life to save his friends and family and now everyone is just laughing at him 😢😢
— lizard king ACAB (@biabetic) September 5, 2021
Given its likely immortal tendencies, perhaps it's best to leave this fella in its final resting place.
For all we know, that raised leg could have been a new development as it tries to free itself from the vertical tomb.