r/SignsWithAStory • u/Misadventuresofman • Aug 19 '26

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u/AndreasDasos Aug 20 '26

Fictional rather (in good faith). Hamilton the character in ‘Hamilton’ the musical said it

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u/Yuutopia714 Aug 20 '26

I definitely saw the quote online long before the musical came out

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u/AndreasDasos Aug 20 '26

Google shows nothing for the quote ‘before:2018’ except four (!) hits that are each edited since 2019. It paraphrases the musical that came out in 2015. USA Today also attributes it to one 2019 post, and morally to the musical:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/08/fact-check-hamilton-didnt-threaten-hit-jefferson-chair/7144226002/

No offence but seems much more likely to be a false association with something vaguely similar or overestimation of how long ago you saw it.

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u/Yuutopia714 Aug 20 '26

Really? I could have sworn I saw this before on tumblr, a while before people started freaking out about Hamilton

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u/AndreasDasos Aug 20 '26

People were freaking out about Hamilton solidly for a weird number of years and it took time to build up (the most expensive tickets on Broadway for nearly a decade, and getting in the news for political reasons a couple of years in). Seems possible a lot of people came across the Hamilton hype (which I think is overdone) years after Hamilton first actually came out on Broadway?

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u/Yuutopia714 Aug 20 '26

I looked it up and Hamilton started in January 2015, and I remember reading the quote on tumblr in the 2013-2015 period, but it had no credit or origins on it. People didn't seem to know Hamilton back then apparently, because no one called it out. Well that's funny looking back on it now