Japanese Girls Caught Posing for Google Street View Spark Fan Art Trend of Anime Characters Crossing the Street

Welcome, anime fans and stans. Have you ever been lucky enough to catch a Google Street View vehicle driving around, taking pictures, and mapping an area? The car has a sphere on top consisting of several cameras that snap pictures every few seconds or so. A software stitches the images together and with the help of GPS, creates the maps we know, love, and depend on. There are all sorts of purposeful easter eggs and accidental hilarious snapshots found on Google's Street View feature. You can even catch glimpses of celebrities caught on camera — such as Dancing with the Star's Sasha Farber trying to pick up an overturned trash can.

If you spot the Street View car coming towards you, you can pose as you would for any photo and become a meme on the internet. The Japanese girls pictured below struck such an iconic pose that people started making fan art of their favorite anime with it. Scroll down for a mini gallery of the best!

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The photo that started it all…

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02
Higurashi When They Cry

If you've seen this anime, you know how cursed this image is.

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Yuri Yuri

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04
Love, Chuunibyou, and Other Delusions

Seriously underrated anime.

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05
Girl Band Cry

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06
K-On!

This is so in-character for them.

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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

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08
Nichijou

This totally fits their personalities!

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09
Lucky Star

The meme show becomes the meme.

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Mob Psycho 100

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Nanakuza Nazuna (Call of the Night), Power (Chainsaw man), Himiko Toga (My Hero Academia)

All the crazy girls in one pic.

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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

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13
Spy x Family

Why are Yor and Loyd hiding?

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14
Black Clover

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Pokemon

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Mushoku Tensei

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17
Genshin Impact

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Genshin Impact

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Ranma 1/2

This is kind of heart-warming.

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20
Steins;Gate

In another universe…

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Digimon

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Re:Zero

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