A Kamala Harris meme imagines fake but funny campaign promises

What is Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy platform? The internet has some suggestions. 

A new meme has social media users floating whimsical, fake campaign promises from Harris that would satisfy the most niche desires of pop culture fans, from releasing Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” film on streaming services to bringing back Miller Lite vortex beer bottles.

The memes show an official portrait of Harris side by side with an image referring to the fake campaign promise and are written in the style of an official campaign announcement. Some say Harris would enact the promise within the first 100 days of her presidency or start with a breaking news label.

“Kamala Harris has announced that, if elected, she will sign into law a bill requiring Spice World to be available on Netflix,” said a tweet using the meme format, in reference to the U.K. girl group Spice Girls’ feature film. 

Since Harris’ campaign for the Democratic presidential nominee officially began Sunday after President Joe Biden announced that he would not run for re-election and endorsed Harris, instead, her popularity has surged online alongside memes created by young and progressive voters. 

An anecdote Harris shared with the line “You think you just fell out of the coconut tree?” echoed around the internet this week, while viral videos remixed clips of Harris with songs from the Charli XCX album “Brat.” 

Some stan communities, which refers to passionate fandoms, have thrown their support behind Harris already. A “Swifties For Kamala” page on X, launched Sunday, racked up more than 40,000 followers in four days.

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Harris is also re-introducing herself to voters on the campaign trail, which in part means she needs to lay out her policies for the country if she wins the White House.

The first popular post to use the “If elected” format was also a reference to Swift. Posted to X on Tuesday and viewed over 1 million times, the post says Harris would extend Swift’s Eras Tour in the U.S. and add the songs “the last great american dynasty” and “tolerate it” back onto Swift’s set list. 

One of the most-liked posts using the format says Harris “will ensure that your PS5 won’t beep loudly and show you that weird scary screen that says you turned it off the wrong way even though you totally didn’t.” 

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Harris’ official campaign has also leaned into the memes and pop culture references that have dominated online discussion of her candidacy. The official “Kamala HQ” X account for her campaign updates echoes the “Brat” album cover, and it posted a viral TikTok video with the Chappell Roan song “Femininomenon” alongside pictures of Harris and former President Donald Trump.

The “Kamala HQ” accounts on X and TikTok skyrocketed in followers and engagement after they were rebranded from “Biden HQ” after the president suspended his re-election campaign. The campaign has yet to refer to the “If elected” format, and a representative for Harris did not immediately respond to a request for comment.