With Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the new Democratic frontrunner after Joe Biden suddenly dropped out of the race on Sunday, her coconut tree meme has resurfaced and gone viral.

You've probably seen the viral video of Vice President Kamala Harris recalling a question often asked by her mother, "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" Here's where it came from.

From “brat summer” to “coconut tree,” it’s been a timeline full of Harris-related memes for many people since President Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race on Sunday.

For example, a 2023 study released by ECMC Group and VICE Media Group found that of more than 1,000 low-income, first-generation and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) high school ...

Harris made her “coconut tree” remarks on May 10, 2023 at the White House while swearing in the President’s Advisory ...

The “coconut tree” line originally comes from a speech Harris delivered at a May 2023 event for the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity ...

The clip where Harris' iconic "coconut tree" soundbite originated has since been remixed, memed and even used as inspiration for $5 "Piña Kamala Coconut Shots" at a bar in Washington, D.C.

Like all of us, the coconut tree moment exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. Which is to say, it's part of a larger set of memes surrounding Kamala Harris ...