Teens on TikTok have begun mercilessly mocking Lin-Manuel Miranda. Here's a look at why Gen Z turned on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hamilton playwright
And indeed, even some of the teens who have posted these TikToks claim to still stan the musical, insisting they harbor no ill will toward its creator whatsoever. “A lot of people think I hate him or have something against him, but I really just think it’s a silly picture. it’s no different than any other meme,” 19-year-old Nicholas, one of the progenitors of the lip-biting meme, told Insider. But that’s not entirely true.
To teens and early-twentysomethings, Miranda is “sort of like the ultimate millennial,” says Joseph Longo, who covers Gen Z culture and wrote about the l . That’s not just due to his overly earnest, goofy, high school-teacher demeanor, but also to the praisegarnered during the Obama era for its diverse cast and hip-hop influences, both of which were, at the time, unprecedented in lily-white Broadway. “He created a musical that is valued for its representational politics,” says Longo. “And that feels very millennial in the same wayWhat Longo is referring to here is an emerging consensus onis problematic, or at least not entirely beyond reproach.
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