The internet says Kamala Harris is ‘brat,’ and her campaign is embrac
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The “brat” trend joins another Harris viral meme – audio from a 2023 speech that was pilloried before by critics but is now embraced by Gen Z as a sort of existential philosophy.
“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” Harris asks in the speech, quoting what her mother used to say, before laughing and then growing serious. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”
The Internet hive mind has adopted a coconut emoji as an unofficial campaign symbol for Harris. TikTokers have used sound from the “coconut tree” speech in at least 3,000 videos, according to TikTok.
Harris’s membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha – the first Black Greek-letter sorority – at Howard University in Washington, DC, is also sparking viral engagement online.
“Listening to the opposition knowing we have 22,190,813 members in the D9 abt (sic) to vote for Kamala!” says one video on TikTok featuring two women, one of which is in the AKA colours of pink and green. D9 refers to a group of nine historically Black fraternities and sororities.
To be sure, Harris has her share of haters online. Critics have pushed clips aimed at portraying her in a negative light, including compilations of her boisterous laugh after Trump himself referred to her as “Laffin’ Kamala”.
Younger voters, who overwhelmingly vote Democratic, had so far been unenthusiastic about a presidential race between Biden and Trump, 78 years old.
“It’s very hard to understand Gen Z unless you’re Gen Z,” said Chris Mowrey, a Democratic social media influencer with 340,000 TikTok followers, referring to the generation born between 1997 and 2012.
Internet moments can translate to the ballot box, Mowrey added: “Young voters vote significantly more based on just personality and, like, vibes”.
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