People Don't Recognize the Kermit the Frog Meme

Good Morning America tweeted about the Kermit the frog meme, mistakenly calling him #tealizard. Yikes!

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00:00 We're gonna talk about classic memes today, like "Smiley Girl," "Fashionable Guy," and

00:04 "Long-Talent Swamp Creature." "Good Morning America" tweeted to the young, hip

00:08 kids this morning. Does #CryingLeBron join other meme greats like

00:12 #TeaLizard, #CryingJordan, and #SmockingTheMask? Tweet us!

00:17 There's a lot going on here.

00:19 "Tea Lizard," of course, refers to Kermit the Frog drinking tea that's typically

00:27 called, "But That's None of My Business." So they really f*cked that one out.

00:30 And #Smocking refers to, I guess, a photo of the mask looking unhappy.

00:37 We dug around for #Smocking, and the only thing we could find was this

00:43 Twitter account @RealMaskParody who tweeted things like "Smocking" and "Smocking"

00:50 on 4/20, and hasn't tweeted again since 2015.

00:54 "Ooooh! Somebody stop me!"

00:58 So immediately, Twitter started smocking...well, mocking "Good Morning America,"

01:03 saying that those things aren't really things. And GMA tweeted a few hours later,

01:07 "Twitter has spoken. #CryingLeBron does not join other popular memes.

01:11 Sorry Kermit the Frog." So either this was an intentional comment about how

01:15 traditional media tries to relate to the younger kids, or the GMA Twitter account

01:19 really is run by an 80-year-old English literature teacher who typed memes into

01:23 lycos.com and went with whatever they could find. For more trends like this, go

01:27 to whatstrending.com.