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.

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.