Tea Lizard

In June 2016, Good Morning America made a Twitter post that referred to the famous Muppet character Kermit the Frog as "Tea Lizard". This garnered several negative reactions from users and journalists, the phrase eventually turning into its own internet meme. New York summarized the controversy:
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The post described Kermit as #tealizard, which garnered extremely negative reactions from numerous Internet users and journalists. ' additionally criticized the post's mention of a meme with very little popularity, #smockin, in comparison to much more well-known memes. Charles Pulliam-Moore, who wrote an article about Good Morning America and its reasoning of backlash due to its association with a meme that its black founders never got credit for, wrote on Twitter that the American Broadcasting Company, the channel that aired Good Morning America and a one-season that was cancelled three months before the Good Morning America post, had "dissed" its own property and didn’t understand how reptiles and amphibians were different. some journalists wrote that the reason for the negative reactions toward towards the use of the Kermit The Frog image in Good Morning America ' s Twitter post in addition to the use of #TeaLizard is because the image was previously well known with a meme that, according to Fusion's Charles Pulliam-Moore, despite being the "symbol for the comedic brilliance born out of black communities on the internet," its black creators had never been credited for when it spread. The picture is a screenshot from a one-minute and 30-second-long Lipton advertisement featuring the muppet, titled “Be More Kermit.”
ABC tried to ignore the controversy as "just basic internet stuff"<ref name = "Mediaite"/> and issued an apology on Twitter an hour after they made their #TeaLizard post: "Twitter has spoken: #CryingLeBron does not join other popular memes. (Sorry, @KermitTheFrog.)"<ref name = "Dazed"/>

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