--- title: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lin-Manuel Miranda Are Friends description: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lin-Manuel Miranda have struck up an unlikely but delightful, GIF-filled friendship on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/4727865/lin-manuel-miranda-sarah-michelle-gellar-friends/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-05T22:15:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:35.211Z og:title: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lin-Manuel Miranda Are Perfect BFFs og:description: Their GIF game is also on point og:url: https://time.com/4727865/lin-manuel-miranda-sarah-michelle-gellar-friends/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lin-Manuel Miranda Are Perfect BFFs twitter:description: Their GIF game is also on point twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sarah Michelle Gellar's Unlikely Friendship Is Beautiful and Filled With GIFS > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 5, 2017 10:15 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 5, 2017 10:15 PM UTC There’s been [a lot of dissent on the Internet](http://motto.time.com/4726096/kendall-jenner-pepsi-protest-commercial/) this week, but in a delightful pocket of the web, an unlikely but beautiful Twitter friendship has developed between [_Hamilton_ savant Lin-Manuel Miranda](http://time.com/4300102/lin-manuel-miranda-time-100-video/) and [_Buffy_ star Sarah Michelle Gellar](http://time.com/3848772/sarah-michelle-gellar-danny-strong-buffy-reunion/). Their charming friendship began five days ago when Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted that he was taking a break from the social media platform “unless @SarahMGellar tweets or like, Colm Wilkinson sees Hamilton.” Sarah Michelle Gellar responded with a tweet of her own and a sassy and fitting GIF of herself because apparently that’s what you do when you have more than three decades of acting credits (and thus, excellent GIF material) to your name. > [](https://twitter.com/SarahMGellar/status/847986312653058048) Miranda, not to be outdone and holding true to his Twitter promise, replied with a GIF of his own, featuring himself as well. > [](https://twitter.com/Lin%5FManuel/status/848810373729964033) Which led to an epic GIF exchange that is still taking place today. > [](https://twitter.com/SarahMGellar/status/849355102708224001) > [](https://twitter.com/Lin%5FManuel/status/849366032800153601) > [](https://twitter.com/SarahMGellar/status/849727559726243840) The Internet can really be a beautiful place when there are the right GIFs. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4727865/lin-manuel-miranda-sarah-michelle-gellar-friends/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4727865/lin-manuel-miranda-sarah-michelle-gellar-friends/"},"headline":"Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sarah Michelle Gellar's Unlikely Friendship Is Beautiful and Filled With GIFS","datePublished":"2017-04-05T22:15:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:35.211Z","description":"Expect plenty of Buffy references","url":"https://time.com/4727865/lin-manuel-miranda-sarah-michelle-gellar-friends/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","twitter","lin-manuel miranda"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4727865/lin-manuel-miranda-sarah-michelle-gellar-friends/","name":"Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sarah Michelle Gellar's Unlikely Friendship Is Beautiful and Filled With GIFS"}}]}] ```