Petey is a bearded dragon.
Petey is a female.
Petey is now very famous.
That’s because Petey’s owner snapped this image of one very up-to-no-good lizard.
I think my lizard may have murdered someone pic.twitter.com/p6V7O6Ay2Q
— izzy (@danisnobunk) March 5, 2018
The image has been shared tens of thousands of times.
And everyone thinks Petey looks a lot like “Disaster Girl.”
The backstory of which can be read in full here.
But essentially a guy took a photo of his daughter during a fire training exercise more than a decade ago and behold, a meme was born.
this is like that photo of the little girl looking back at the camera from the burning building https://t.co/VIWis6i3kg
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And so, Petey’s owner, Isabella Mione of Chicago, obliged.
Kinda freaky.
— izzy (@danisnobunk) March 5, 2018
The internet loved it.
Cold-blooded
— christian (@gone_roguing) March 6, 2018
— Formerly known as (@carbideken) March 6, 2018
Evidence footage of him washing blood off his hands. pic.twitter.com/bzfSYkBuZM
— RunawayBalloon (@gnawteacake) March 6, 2018
And, that’s how you become internet famous.
petey got her own article, this is crazy 😅 https://t.co/VyOBdV6NVo
— izzy (@danisnobunk) March 7, 2018
Photo @danisnobunk/Twitter
