What Muppet character is featured in the "But that's none of my business" sipping tea meme?

The Muppet character featured in the “But that’s none of my business” tea-sipping meme is Kermit the Frog.

The image comes from a 2014 Lipton advertisement titled “Be More Kermit,” in which Kermit is shown calmly sipping tea. Internet users later paired the image with captions implying that someone was making a pointed observation before retreating with feigned indifference. The phrase became especially associated with the Tumblr account Kermit the Snitch and spread across Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Kermit is a frog, not a lizard, despite the meme’s green appearance and a widely criticized 2016 “Tea Lizard” description. That mistake prompted discussion about both the character’s identity and the meme’s roots in Black internet comedy. The meme’s wording is commonly shortened to “none of my business,” but the longer phrase is the recognizable version.

Kermit was created by puppeteer Jim Henson and first appeared in 1955. His familiar tea meme is therefore a later internet use of a long-established Muppet character, not a scene from an original Muppet film or television episode.