Sue You Are Shouting At Tea

About

Sue You Are Shouting At Tea is a phrase turned hashtag that was made by the Yorkshire Tea Twitter account in response to an angry Twitter user in February 2020. After tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak shared an unsponsored photo of himself next to a bag of Yorkshire Tea, the company faced backlash on Twitter by many leftists. Yorkshire Tea responded to a Twitter user named Sue, in particular, reminding her that she was fighting with tea which led to the repetition of the phrase online and the discussion of what was dubbed Yorkshire Tea-gate.

Origin

On February 21st, 2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak posted a photo of himself to Twitter^[1] next to a bag of Yorkshire Tea with the caption "Quick Budget prep break making tea for the team. Nothing like a good Yorkshire brew." (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 7,700 likes in six days. The post was met with some backlash from those who do not agree with Sunak. On February 24th, @YorkshireTea^[2] tweeted, "So it's been a rough weekend. On Friday, the Chancellor shared a photo of our tea. Politicians do that sometimes (Jeremy Corbyn did it in 2017). We weren't asked or involved – and we said so the same day. Lots of people got angry with us all the same" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 53,700 likes and 8,200 retweets in three days.

The next day, Twitter user Sue Lane or @sulaAlice^[3] tweeted a thread of complaints to which @YorkshireTea responded "Sue, you're shouting at tea. Please do look after yourself and try to be kind to others. We're going to mute you now" (shown below). The tweet accumulated over 63,800 likes and 10,200 retweets in two days.

Spread

On February 26th, 2020, Twitter user @DJKSaunders^[4] posted a screenshot of #YorkshireTeaGate and #SueYoureShoutingAtTea trending with the caption, "To an outsider, this must look like the most British thing that's ever happened ☕" (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 1,300 likes and 300 retweets in a day. That same day, Twitter user @dancooledaily^[5] tweeted a photo of Carrie Bradshaw with the caption, "And as I typed yet another 240 character rant to yet another blameless company about something that had nothing to do with either of us, I took a pause and a long breath before asking myself; was I Sue shouting at tea? #SueYoureShoutingAtTea" (shown below, right). The tweet received over 600 likes in a day.

Other Twitter users like @2Invidious^[6] (shown below) continued to use the phrase and add it to image macros. The DailyDot^[7] published an article on the matter.

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