After the photograph was compared to a Renaissance painting, Twitter-users got to work to create a series of spoof versions of the scene.
Hughes tweeted the picture with the caption: "So much going on this pic of New Year in Manchester by the Evening News. Like a beautiful painting."
One user was inspired to Photoshop the blue-shirted man on to Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, which was painted in 1511. The man's outstretched arm mirrors that of God's reaching out to Adam in the masterpiece.
Others were inspired to extend the artistic comparison. One Photoshopped the same man into George Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres, with him reclining leisurely in the Parisian scene. The original was painted in 1884.
"This is our Mona Lisa," added another.
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