Lin-Manuel Miranda Lip Bite

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Lip Bite refers to pictures of Broadway composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, best known for composing and starring in Hamilton and In The Heights, biting his lip, an expression generally associated with a person trying to be sexy (ex: Girl Biting Lip, Fuckboy Emoji). The pictures were parodied on TikTok in a series of videos where people expressed how the pictures were cringeworthy.

Origin

On November 12th, 2018, Lin-Manuel Miranda^[1] concluded a Twitter thread showing different crews that helped the Hamilton stage production by posting a selfie in which he is biting his lip (shown below, left). Miranda posted another lip-bite selfie on December 13th, 2018 (shown below, right).

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On July 13th, 2020, TikTok user okayelisabeth posted a TikTok video in which her phone has dozens of pictures of the lip bite, gaining over 175,000 likes (shown below, left). The same day, user kcmbrly posted a video that showed off multiple pictures of Miranda's lip bites, gaining over 124,000 likes (shown below, right).

Other popular TikToks mocking Miranda's lip bites include a post by j.breazy that gained over 276,000 likes (shown below, left). Another by szerotonin gained over 687,000 likes (shown below, right). The parody videos were covered by Junkee.^[2]

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