Of course, the internet at large is choosing to respond to this decennial anniversary with the most randomly hilarious trend possible: a TikToks where women dressed in colonial drag sneak out a window and lip-sync to the song “Best of Wives and Best of Women” and insinuate that Alexander thinks his wife is like, so annoying for having the gall to catch him sneaking off to his (spoiler alert) death.
The trend began when TikTok user actuallyhamilt0n posted their hilarious interpretation of the scene. Instead of the tragic irony that accompanies the knowledge that Alexander is slinking off only to meet his death, we get an Alexander who literally can’t even deal right now with his annoying, nagging wife.
One commenter on the video wrote, “this isn’t a hamilton cosplay, this is a lin manuel miranda cosplay”:
Another said, “imagine looking out your window to see how peaceful the night is then you see alexander hamilton is your neighbour and is halfway through a window 😭😭”:
And the History Channel wrote, “this is our first impression of u and we love u”:
People quickly jumped on the trend, and each video is cracking me up in its own way. The facial expressions in this one are absolutely perfect:
“This is the best one I’ve seen, how did u know how to act like an inconvenienced man so well,” asked one commenter. The creator replied, “Cuz I’ve been inconvenienced by men.” Dying.
“You really capture his essence of not wanting to be around his wife,” one user wrote.
Another person said, “The ‘I know’ smile is killing me.” Hard same.
He might be the worst husband in the world — this commenter wrote, “you perfectly capture the ‘I hate my wife and have no emotion when talking to her’ look in his eye.”
“It’s seeing the moment you realized how high that window was but also you not breaking character,” one woman said.
Or, more to the point, “THE WAY YOU’RE SILENTLY PANICKING.”
Of course, the trend (and the effort put in) only got more ridiculous from there. This example is particularly funny:
And I was evidently not the only one wondering why everyone has a colonial outfit ready to don.
People were joking about how horrible of a husband Alexander truly was:
As time went on, the sets and costumes somehow grew so much more elaborate — for example, see this one with a horse:
One user wrote, “The budget increase as I scroll thru this trend is sending me.”
“Not the horse side eyeing her,” said someone else:
And another person said, “I like the implication that she was sleeping in the stall.” Me too, random internet user. Me too.
This Alexander was particularly committed to a hilarious location. Walking straight into the water is frying me:
“When you turned around with the goggles on I LOST ITTTTTT,” a commenter wrote.
“We finally made it out the window goddamit,” another person quipped.
This Alexander opted for the most amazing, creepy, funny mask I have ever seen instead of the typical drawn-on goatee, and I am obsessed with that choice:
One fairly composed user replied to that by saying, “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT,” expressing my own thoughts more eloquently than perhaps I ever could.
Another commenter (who happens to be Staples) wrote, “please stay in the chimney I’m scared.” Hard agree.
This person referenced the song lyric, “I’ll be back before I know I’m gone,” and said, “please don’t.”
And this person pointed out that “AI could never replicate this art.” True.
This creator had the genius idea of setting their video in a water slide. “Hamilton will do literally anything to get away from Eliza,” they captioned the video.
“This is the best I’ve seen so far,” commented a user named Sean.
And as a bonus, here are some other Hamilton videos inspired by this trend that I thought were absolutely hilarious:
And finally, what may be my favorite video to date. Between the outfit and the facial expressions, this one has me absolutely dying:
The internet is a weird place — I wouldn’t have been able to predict this trend in a million years, but now that it’s here, I think it’s so funny. Tell me your favorite video (or just your thoughts in general) down in the comments below!
