Split image of the Bagel Boss man shouting in a shop and being pinned to the floor

Bagel Boss

2019viral videoclassic

Published August 10, 2026

Bagel Boss is the internet nickname given to Chris Morgan, a 5-foot-tall Long Island man who went viral in July 2019 after a misogynistic rant inside a Bagel Boss shop in Hicksville, New York ended with another customer tackling him. The clip spawned reaction edits, a Daily Mail interview where Morgan declared himself the 'modern day Martin Luther King' of short men, and a September 2019 celebrity boxing match.

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Overview

Bagel Boss is the nickname internet users gave to Chris Morgan, a 5-foot-tall Long Island man filmed launching into a misogynistic rant inside a Bagel Boss chain location in Hicksville, New York on July 10, 20191. In the clip, the 45-year-old divorced cleaning company owner screams at the female staff about being belittled for his height, insists women only use him for money, and gets tackled to the floor by another customer partway through2. The tackle is what pushed the video from ordinary rant footage into instant meme material.

The name comes directly from the shop where the meltdown happened, and Morgan quickly leaned into it, calling himself 'Bagel Boss' in interviews and slapping the phrase on t-shirts he tried to hawk on Twitter3. Beyond the tackle itself, the clip stuck around because Morgan's lines were oddly quotable, especially his shouted 'you're not god or my father or my boss' at one of the workers3. Internet sleuths dug up a pre-existing YouTube channel full of Morgan yelling at 7-Eleven employees, librarians, and dates under his real name, which fed a whole second wave of interest4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
@oliviabradley88
Date
2019

On July 10, 2019, Twitter user @oliviabradley88 posted the original clip with a caption calling out the 'misogynistic douchebag' who was allegedly degrading female staff and other patrons at a Bagel Boss shop that morning5. Within roughly 24 hours the video pulled in more than 226,000 likes and 48,000 shares, which put Morgan on the front page of nearly every meme aggregator by that evening5. Morgan later told the New York Post he lost his temper because the female workers were 'giggling' and 'acting like they were in high school,' insisting that the tirade was really about 'belittlement'1.

One of the women who filmed the encounter went on Instagram Live the same day to explain that Morgan had been muttering complaints about bad service before he thought a worker smirked at him, at which point he detonated5. Twitter user @spanishbawbiee_ later identified the customer who tackled him as her friend 'Stevo,' and said he intervened because Morgan kept asking her for a kiss5.

How It Spread

Reaction posts flooded Twitter within hours, with users trading favorite lines and building 'holy trinity' image edits pairing Morgan with other short male archetypes4. eBaum's World rounded up the best reactions into a widely shared listicle, which helped push the clip beyond the initial Twitter audience4. Chris Morgan's face was on Twitter's trending page and being ripped into TikToks and Instagram edits before the tackle video was even 48 hours old.

Mainstream coverage arrived fast. Daily Mail landed a rambling phone interview where Morgan called himself a 'prophet' and the 'modern day Martin Luther King' for short men, in the same breath saying he found all women to be 'stupid, gold digging liars'2. Eater sent a reporter to Bay Shore, Long Island, and got what might be the defining quote of the whole saga when a local pointed toward Morgan and said, 'If you're looking for the short guy who is angry, he's around the corner fighting with the homeless people'3. The New York Post found that Morgan was actually living out of a red 2008 Chrysler Town & Country minivan parked at Nino's Deli, which let him use its restroom1.

On July 15, 2019, Morgan signed with celebrity boxing promoter Damon Feldman for an Atlantic City fight, reportedly worth five to six figures according to TMZ5. The bout was confirmed for September 7, 2019, against former MLB All-Star Lenny 'Nails' Dykstra5. In mid-August, Morgan uploaded a follow-up video called 'Clout Chasers' showing a fresh casino brawl, which DramaAlert host Keemstar amplified with a retweet that pulled in over 13,400 likes in a day5.

How to Use This Meme

The template typically pulls a screengrab of Morgan mid-shout paired with one of his lines, most often 'you're not god or my father or my boss'3. The tackle clip itself is common as a reaction video, dropped into edits any time someone online is deemed to have earned a takedown4. Longer edits sometimes stitch the rant against a caption that swaps out the target of Morgan's anger for whatever the poster is upset about, keeping his voice track intact for the shock-value punchline.

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