This year has given us no shortage of fantastic TikTok trends, some more enduring than others. That’s all par for the course: during a year that’s given us nothing but no good, very bad news, we’re all taking to TikTok to blow off steam, speak truth to power, and most importantly, to get our silly on.
And thanks to one “Hamilton”-inspired trend, things are getting VERY silly indeed.
With the 10-year anniversary of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical fast approaching, people are taking another look at the show, and on TikTok, they’re getting very goofy with it. A new trend has a parade of (cis? straight??) women lipsyncing to Hamilton’s final words to his wife before meeting Aaron Burr for the duel that will cut his life short. In the show, the moment is intensely dramatic and bittersweet. On TikTok it’s…entirely something else.
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For whatever reason, women are dressing up as Lin-Manuel’s Hamilton—complete with drawn-on goatee and Founding Father attire—and doing absolutely anything to get away from Eliza before she wakes up and notices. What does “anything” entail, exactly? Taking off on a canoe, shooting down a water slide, and even climbing into an air vent.
To make matters even sillier, some TikTokers have Hamilton engaging in certain…private activities before getting caught.
Sometimes they even let their boyfriends play Eliza…
Obviously we have a lot of questions about this trend–such as, where is everyone finding these Revolutionary War outfits? Why are straight couples so excited to swap genders? And how long does it really take to draw on the perfect Lin-Manuel goatee?
Honestly, whatever’s going on here, we love it and we can’t get enough. Much may have changed in the 10 years since “Hamilton” first hit Broadway, but it remains the gift that keeps on giving, in hilariously unexpected ways.
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