Yes, well.
It seems life sometimes imitates… memes.
You see, Trishna Pema was taking a photo of herself, holding an icecream in Venice, when she noticed something in the background.
It… it… looked very familiar.
It’s basically the real life version of the distracted man meme.
Here’s the slow motion version for you:
Trishna then shared the photo in a group chat, and her friend Amahle Mnyamana, 16, shared it on Twitter.
"As we were walking along St. Mark’s Square we got some ice cream and my sister decided it was a good photo opportunity," 16-year-old Trishna told BuzzFeed News.
"She randomly snapped a couple photos of me," she said. "Later, we scrolled through the photos and noticed the couple in the background.
"We immediately noticed the similarity between the pic and the meme!"
The photo, of course, immediately went viral.
Here's how Twitter reacted:
Top Comments
And all this while I thought Trishna was holding an Ice cream cone. Silly me. BTW Krishna isn't eyeing Trishna. I think he's photo bombing. His gaze is at the camera.
He's not looking at the girl, he's photobombing... mugging for the camera.
Yeah, Trishna is assuming something happened when it didn't. He's looking at the camera, not her (or her gelato). Good job, though, Trishna, in embarrassing a guy for simply walking past while you were trying to get your obnoxious 'Gram on.
Assuming what? Her only comment is that her pic looks like the meme (which it does), not that he was looking at her or the icecream.
Yes, and? The photo still looks like the meme.
By making the comparison, she is likening the man in her pic to another who was pictured directly perving on a woman. Man in this pic doesn't warrant or deserve being lumped into the perve category - he clearly isn't looking at Trishna, nor objectifying her - so actually, it's like the meme, only without the punchline or narrative or context.