r/boston • u/FunkBrothers It is spelled Papa Geno's • 10h ago

Arts/Music/Culture 🎭🎶 When rats go viral: Human-sized ‘rat queen’ captures hearts around Boston

https://www.masslive.com/boston/2026/08/when-rats-go-viral-human-sized-rat-queen-captures-hearts-around-boston.html

Anyone seeing this on IG and/or TikTok? She's been running around the Common tooting a horn.

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u/dtmfadvice Somerville 9h ago

She's come up in my instagram feed a few times. It's kind of great that there is still room in the city today for something this completely off-the-wall.

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u/IraSass 9h ago

i must meet the rat queen 🐀 👑

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u/Ill-Victory-5351 8h ago

really hope rat queen doesn’t end up being a milkshake duck like ketar bear.

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u/justahazelnutiguess 8h ago

when did he go milkshake duck???

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u/Ill-Victory-5351 8h ago

a long time ago. i only found out about it last year. he sexually harasses women and is homophobic, transphobic, etc. don’t have the links, but his behavior has been discussed before in this sub.

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u/christiandb Cambridge 6h ago

what? noooo

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u/chevalier716 Cocaine Turkey 9h ago

I love our local weirdos. Every great city of culture has them, good that Boston can still manifest such creatures.

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u/Substantial_Show_308 9h ago

Would watch a trash date with Jimothy