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In September 2019, a picture supposedly showing a group of people playfully gathered around their dead co-worker for a selfie went viral after it was shared on the website iFunny under the caption, Man suffers heart attack, dies at work, coworkers gather for group selfie thinking he'd fallen asleep. This is a genuine photograph, but the dead man isn't actually dead. He's just sleeping. The photograph was first posted online in 2016. It was originally shared in the TIFU (today I f*cked up) section of Reddit under the caption: TIFU by falling asleep at the job on my second day. This picture was then subsequently posted to PSBattles, a section of Reddit dedicated to photoshopping images, and quickly became a viral meme: Shortly after the picture went viral, this sleepy individual (a Redditor by the name of TheOrangeDuke) spoke with the Huffington Post about his internet infamy: CNBC also interviewed TheOrangeDuke, identified as Eduard Paraschivescu, in 2016:
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