Why everyone is going nuts for these pictures of Kamala Harris holding random records

A new website that lets you generate an image of Vice President Harris holding any album you can think of is meme culture at its finest.

You can now generate an image of Vice President Kamala Harris holding your favorite album. The new one-off site Kamala Holding Vinyls shows an image of Harris outside a Washington, D.C., record shop she visited in 2023 and includes a search bar to enter your album of choice. Click search, and voilà, it’s Harris holding anything from Charli XCX’s brat or Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter to any Kid Rock album you’d like.

Harris visited HR Records in Northwest D.C. in May 2023. The records she actually bought that day were all jazz: Let My Children Hear Music by Charles Mingus, who is “one of the greatest jazz performers ever,” Harris said; Roy Ayers’ Everybody Loves the Sunshine, which she called “a classic” and “one of my favorite albums ever”; and Porgy and Bess, a collaborative album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.