I’m Ready For My Close Up: This Is What Happens When You Let A Baby Sloth Play With A Camera

Remember back in the day when MySpace was popular and the whole ‘selfie’ photo craze started? In virtually every picture, you’d have your right arm extended because you were holding a camera.

At the time you thought it was ‘cool’ and ‘arty’ however, over the years it lost its appeal and the dreaded Facebook ‘duck face’ took over. 

Nowadays, ‘selfies’ are starting to get a little bit rarer (mainly because all your friends will call you a poser if you post one on Facebook or Twitter) but we came across the best one ever today.

Just check out the little cutie above! This adorable sloth couldn’t resist jumping on the selfie bandwagon and his snapshot has gone viral online.

Now, we know that this is totally staged (chances are he just grabbed onto a photographer’s lense at exactly the right minute) but it’s so adorable, we’re willing to overlook this fact.

We don’t know about you but this picture definitely brought a smile to our faces. Sloths. They’re just too cute for words (as Kristen Bell has demonstrated for us before) and they also love being in pictures. Exhibit A:

The ultimate photobomber