It may be the third day of the new year, but New Yorkers have already found their 2019 replacement for the ever-so-popular "pizza rat," who originally went viral in 2015 and may have made a reappearance three years later.
The 7-second clip made it to Twitter January 2 via NY lifestyle account @whatisny and has amassed over 400,000 views since!
After the camera zooms in to get a closer view, the chubby squirrel is seen snacking away on the once-discarded egg roll without a care in the world.
Seeing this squirrel as someone who lives by the "free is for me" motto, many Twitterers immediately found him very relatable.
User @BeckyBurchphd offered a photo of another roll-loving rodent, showing this may be a situation of nature leading to nourishment!
Others felt bad for the fella, knowing their own experiences with Americanized Chinese food.
Twitterer @vidiot_ questioned if the squirrel was true to New York.
One particular netizen decided to capitalize on the squirrel's newfound fame by securing the handle @EggrollSquirrel.
User @chillmage declared "egg roll squirrel" the rightful successor to pizza rat.
It'll take quite the phenomenon to knock this squirrel out of the top spot!