Gay Twitter Serves Up Endless Kamala Harris 'Coconut Tree' Meme Remixes

From her hearty laugh to her iconic "coconut tree" line, Kamala Harris is taking over the queer pop scene one meme-enhanced remix at a time.

From the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" to Mariah Carey's "Emotions" to Ariana Grande's "nasty" to Beyonce's "Heated," remixers on Gay Twitter have been Kamala-izing hit songs by dropping in bits of a speech Harris gave on education in May of 2023.

The meme features Harris "ijboling" – which stands for "I just burst out laughing" – before she asks, "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."

The line originated in a speech Harris gave for the President's Advisory Commission on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics. It's a potent summation of how the classroom experience cannot be extricated from the rest of a student's experience: life at home, in a community, and in the nation as a whole.

But there's no serious topic Gay Twitter can't turn into a good time. Users on X (formerly Twitter) have taken a clip from that speech, which Harris made in May of 2023, and made the ijbol moment into a meme with serious legs by dropping it into an abundance of remixed pop hits, some with an eye to supporting the Biden/Harris ticket in this year's historically crucial presidential election. Have a look at some of the results!