The phrase ‘You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’ is everywhere online. What does it mean? Where did it come from?
a speech Harris gave in May last year
Harris was trying to make a point about the need to focus on young people and their wider community at the same time, because “nothing exists in a silo”.She then quoted her own mother, who she says used to say “I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people, you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”
Harris delivered the line mid-speech with a hearty laugh, then a sombre tone of voice and pause that sounded heavy with the knowledge of all the world’s tortured philosophers.algorithm, proving perfect for online virality. A popular cut of the soundbite has over 18,000 TikTok videos posted to it, with some videos racking up hundreds of thousands of likes each.
The internet started self-identifying as brats, editing memes on to the brat album cover, rejecting the “clean girl” aesthetic and attaching aThe brat summer hashtag has nearly 1m posts on TikTok, neon brat raves have become all the rage, and anything lime-coloured is now brat, asVideo edits started flooding TikTok of Harris doing things to a backing track of Charli xcx’s song mixed to Harris’s coconut tree quote, making themnames have jumped in – Hank Green formatted Harris’s coconut tree line...
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