Man preserved at Pompeii goes viral

[47of74]

Ah, the Internet....

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/this-image-of-a-man-preserved-at-pompeii-has-gone-viral-for-obvious-reasons/

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But now one image of a man preserved at Pompeii has gone viral over the weekend for a slightly lower-brow reason. People have been speculating that he was preserved in one final act of self-love, because, well, it really does look like that might be the case.

The image appears to show a man lying on his back and holding onto the crotch region of his body. It's gone viral on Twitter, with people suggesting that the man saw his own death coming and rather than fleeing he decided to... well...

Here's one of the tweets concerning this dude...

 

[Cartmann99]

He was just scratching himself.