Everyone is talking about #tealizard on Twitter thanks to LeBron James and an embarrassing mistake

The hashtag #tealizard is currently circulating online right now — if you have no idea what it means, this breakdown is for you.

On Sunday night, LeBron James led the Cleveland Cavaliers to defeating the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. James was so happy with the win that he started crying, and pictures of #CryingLebron soon became a hashtag on Twitter.

Some people even thought it could join the ranks of memes the internet has grown to love like #CryingJordan.

Then on Monday, James wore a hat with the Kermit sipping tea meme when he brought the NBA trophy home to Cleveland and posted it on his Instagram.

If you’re not familiar, Kermit sipping on tea has become a well-known meme that stands for "But that’s none of my business." As Know Your Meme points out, it’s a "sarcastic expression used as a postscript to an insult or disrespectful remark said towards a specific individual or group."

Basically, people post a picture of Kermit or an emoji of a frog with an emoji of tea to diss somebody else. Here are some examples:

Got it? Cool.

So then on Tuesday morning, Good Morning America’s social media team thought it was a good idea to tweet out a question to the show’s three million Twitter followers to ask if #CryingLebron is going to join other great memes like #CryingJordan and Kermit sipping tea.

The problem? Whoever sent the tweet misidentified Kermit the frog sipping tea as "#tealizard" — a weird thing no one has ever said, ever.

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According to Mediate, insiders at ABC said that the error occured when the social media person was looking around for possible memes to include in the tweet and saw an account refer to the Kermit meme as "tea lizard." Unfortunately for them, it was a parody account.

And also unfortunately for them, people quickly took notice of the mistake:

And then it became it's own meme:

So now, because of a confused social media editor, the world now has #tealizard. At least GMA apologized to Kermit.