Alolan Exeggutor

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Alolan Exeggutor is the towering Grass-Dragon regional Pokémon revealed for Pokémon Sun and Moon on August 1, 2016. Its absurdly long palm-tree neck became instant meme material within hours, spawning Twitter fanart, 4chan edits, and a dedicated /r/exeggutormemes subreddit.

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Overview

Alolan Exeggutor is a regional variant of the original Pokémon Exeggutor, redesigned as a Grass-Dragon dual-type with a comically elongated palm-tree neck for Pokémon Sun and Moon1. Where the Kanto version was a squat, stumpy creature, the Alolan form towers well above the trainer character and grew a small extra tail-head near the base of the trunk1.

The joke is entirely visual. The tree-necked sprite looked so out of scale with the rest of the game that fans treated it as pre-made shitpost material within hours of the reveal, spinning off photo edits, fanart, and stretched-Pokémon parodies3.

How It Spread

Japanese Twitter caught it first. The hashtag ナッシー, Exeggutor's Japanese name, climbed to roughly 329,000 tweets on the day of the reveal, and "exeggutor" trended on English-language search at the same time2. Twitter user @sameanko posted an illustration stretching other Pokémon into the same absurd proportions and pulled over 12,000 retweets and 8,000 likes in under 24 hours4.

The edits jumped fast to 4chan's Pokémon board /vp/, where a thread collected dozens of stretched-Pokémon mashups from anons riffing on the format6. On Reddit, fans launched /r/exeggutormemes as a dedicated subreddit for the joke, gathering 136 subscribers within its first 24 hours5. Forced-perspective photos of real palm trees and Photoshop composites of the Pokémon looming over cityscapes kept the format going in the weeks after the launch trailer3.

How to Use This Meme

The format typically involves stretching a subject vertically to absurd proportions or grafting Alolan Exeggutor's palm-tree silhouette onto other Pokémon, characters, or objects4. Common conventions include forced-perspective photos of tall palms, cropping unrelated Pokémon sprites into skyscraper-tall versions, and captions poking fun at the Alolan form's surprise Dragon typing1.

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Alolan Exeggutor

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Alolan Exeggutor is the towering Grass-Dragon regional Pokémon revealed for Pokémon Sun and Moon on August 1, 2016. Its absurdly long palm-tree neck became instant meme material within hours, spawning Twitter fanart, 4chan edits, and a dedicated /r/exeggutormemes subreddit.

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Overview

Alolan Exeggutor is a regional variant of the original Pokémon Exeggutor, redesigned as a Grass-Dragon dual-type with a comically elongated palm-tree neck for Pokémon Sun and Moon1. Where the Kanto version was a squat, stumpy creature, the Alolan form towers well above the trainer character and grew a small extra tail-head near the base of the trunk1.

The joke is entirely visual. The tree-necked sprite looked so out of scale with the rest of the game that fans treated it as pre-made shitpost material within hours of the reveal, spinning off photo edits, fanart, and stretched-Pokémon parodies3.

How It Spread

Japanese Twitter caught it first. The hashtag ナッシー, Exeggutor's Japanese name, climbed to roughly 329,000 tweets on the day of the reveal, and "exeggutor" trended on English-language search at the same time2. Twitter user @sameanko posted an illustration stretching other Pokémon into the same absurd proportions and pulled over 12,000 retweets and 8,000 likes in under 24 hours4.

The edits jumped fast to 4chan's Pokémon board /vp/, where a thread collected dozens of stretched-Pokémon mashups from anons riffing on the format6. On Reddit, fans launched /r/exeggutormemes as a dedicated subreddit for the joke, gathering 136 subscribers within its first 24 hours5. Forced-perspective photos of real palm trees and Photoshop composites of the Pokémon looming over cityscapes kept the format going in the weeks after the launch trailer3.

How to Use This Meme

The format typically involves stretching a subject vertically to absurd proportions or grafting Alolan Exeggutor's palm-tree silhouette onto other Pokémon, characters, or objects4. Common conventions include forced-perspective photos of tall palms, cropping unrelated Pokémon sprites into skyscraper-tall versions, and captions poking fun at the Alolan form's surprise Dragon typing1.

Frequently Asked Questions