Baby Yoda drinking soup is the latest incarnation of the 'sipping tea' meme - INSIDER

• In episode four of "The Mandalorian," the internet was gifted with footage of Baby Yoda drinking soup.
• Twitter users quickly turned the moment into a GIF and declared it was the new image for "sipping tea," or enjoying gossip.
• Over the last few years, an image of Kermit the Frog sipping tea has been the ubiquitous symbol for term.
• Like many popular internet slang expressions, "sipping tea" is an expression derived from black drag culture.
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In "The Mandalorian," Baby Yoda has yet to utter a full word — but on the internet, his actions speak volumes.

In the latest episode of the Star Wars series, "Sanctuary," Baby Yoda and Mando land on a planet with a human society that is defending itself from a mysterious horde of interlopers. Despite the conflict, Baby Yoda settles in and plays with the children on the planet, and is seen peacefully sucking on frogs and drinking soup.

Twitter users made quick work of the new fodder, creating a GIF to add to the internet's extensive library of images to accompany the words "sipping tea."

—Mando the Bounty Hunter (@AdoptedBabyYoda) November 29, 2019

—Malzar (@VoiceOfMalzar) November 30, 2019

—Daniel Spielberger (@quepaso_daniel) November 30, 2019

For years, "sipping tea" has been been an expression for enjoying gossip online, often accompanied by an image of Kermit the Frog sipping tea.

—benji with the good hair (@sevenbenjisins) November 30, 2019

The phrase has a much longer history, though.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, 'tea,' the root of the expressions sipping and spilling tea, is one of many popular expressions —including "shade" — that have been taken from black drag culture.

Merriam-Webster points to an early print usage of the expression in John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" to elucidate its definition.

When interviewing a drag queen about her dating life, she explains that she avoids certain men because of the reaction when they "find out her T."

"Yeah, my T. My thing, my business, what's goin' on in my life."

Other early usages of "T" or "tea" refer to it as gossip.

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