Pizza Rat May Have Been the Work of a Rat-Training Performance Artist
LatestMagic in the form of a wily rodent dubbed “Pizza Rat” waltzed into our lives last fall, causing even the coldest hearts to be charmed by his carb-loving antics. He was soon joined by brothers-in-arms such as “Selfie Rat” and most recently, “Rat Rat.” But what if everything you knew about Pizza Rat and his comrades was a bold-faced lie? What if the whole thing was actually staged?
Pizza Rat truthers, brace yourselves. Gothamist put on their Sherlock hat and spoke to several people who claim that a woman named Zardulu is behind some of these rat videos. Eric Yearwood, an actor and member of Upright Citizens Brigade, told Gothamist he was paid $200 by Zardulu to star as the sleeping man in the Selfie Rat video. “She said she was a NYC-based performance artist and wanted help with a project and was going to pay me a little bit of money,” Yearwood said. In the video, Yearwood wakes up when he realizes a rat is crawling on him, then later discovers that the rat accidentally took a selfie with his phone. How whimsical.
A man named Don Richards had filmed the incident, which ended up going viral. Apparently this “Don Richards” character was also a ruse. I decided to turn to Anagram-Solver.net to see if I could crack the code myself.
Alas, nothing.