# Tucker Carlson Tucker Carlson is the Fox News host who became a reliable meme subject starting in late 2016, when fans launched a subreddit for him and a YouTube channel began posting MLG-style remixes of his show titled 'Can't Cuck the Tuck.' His December 2018 immigration monologue triggered an advertiser exodus, and a February 2019 shouting match with Dutch historian Rutger Bregman produced the widely circulated 'go fuck yourself' clip. ## Origin Carlson had been a cable fixture since joining CNN's Crossfire in 2001, and his first brush with internet notoriety came from Jon Stewart's October 15th, 2004 Crossfire appearance, where Stewart called the hosts 'partisan hacks' hurting America[3]. YouTuber Alex Felker uploaded the clip on January 16th, 2006, and it pulled in more than 8.4 million views[3]. Carlson and political advisor Neil Patel launched The Daily Caller on January 11th, 2010[3]. The meme era proper began after Tucker Carlson Tonight launched on Fox News. A Facebook page for Carlson was set up in May 2014, drawing roughly 183,000 likes within three years[3]. The /r/tucker_carlson subreddit went live on November 22nd, 2016, and the High Energy YouTube channel posted the first 'Can't Cuck the Tuck' MLG remix the following month[3]. - **Platform:** YouTube / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview The meme output around Tucker Carlson falls into a few recognizable buckets. The 'Can't Cuck the Tuck' series, first uploaded by the High Energy YouTube channel in December 2016, laid MLG-style edits (airhorns, Mountain Dew, Doritos overlays) onto clips from Tucker Carlson Tonight, with 17 more volumes added over the following months[3]. Fans on /r/tucker_carlson paired those remixes with screencaps of Carlson's trademark squint-and-furrowed-brow reaction face, used as a confused-pundit image macro[3]. A second strand came from on-air blowups. The February 2019 segment with Dutch historian Rutger Bregman produced the quotable 'tiny brain moron' and 'go fuck yourself' lines after Bregman called Carlson 'a millionaire funded by billionaires' and refused to drop the point[1]. NowThis published the uncut footage Fox declined to air, and the clip spread as shorthand for a cable host losing the plot mid-interview[1]. Separately, the December 2018 'poorer and dirtier' immigration monologue produced its own round of mockery and an advertiser boycott that fed meme content for weeks, including screenshots of brand accounts tweeting their disavowals[2]. ## How It Spread Carlson's meme output stepped up in December 2018 after a Fox News segment in which he said admitting poor immigrants would make the country 'poorer and dirtier and more divided'[2]. The following day, December 14th, Pacific Life, whose ad had run during the segment, tweeted that it would pause its spots and reevaluate its relationship with the show[2]. HuffPost's Kyle Griffin kept a running tally of advertisers dropping the program; the count hit 19 on December 19th and 21 by the next day[3]. CNBC reported Minted and NerdWallet as part of the exodus, with NerdWallet saying the show's content didn't align with its values[2]. The February 2019 Rutger Bregman interview produced the Carlson clip that outperformed almost all the earlier remixes. Bregman had gone viral weeks earlier at Davos for telling attendees to 'stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes'[4]. Fox invited him on, Carlson lost his temper when Bregman called him a bought-off millionaire, and NowThis released the full exchange Fox had declined to air, including the 'go fuck yourself' kiss-off[1][6]. The video was posted to Twitter on February 20th, 2019[6]. An earlier flashpoint had been the @SmashRacismDC protest at Carlson's Washington home in November 2018, which was reposted to /r/ChapoTrapHouse where many users praised it; Carlson told The Washington Post his wife had hidden in the pantry thinking it was a home invasion[3]. Twitter user @KrangTNelson posted a widely shared tweet mocking those who denounced the protest[3]. ## How to Use The 'Can't Cuck the Tuck' format typically takes a short clip of Carlson smirking or firing a one-liner on Tucker Carlson Tonight and layers it with MLG tropes: airhorns, pitch shifts, Doritos crumbs, Mountain Dew bottles[3]. The reaction-image side of the meme usually crops a confused-looking Carlson still frame from his monologues and pairs it with a caption describing something baffling. The 'go fuck yourself' audio is often clipped as a punchline reaction to a guest or opponent being told off[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Tucker Carlson? Tucker Carlson is an American political commentator and former host of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight who became a recurring meme subject through MLG-style remixes and viral on-air blowups[3]. ### Where did Tucker Carlson come from? The meme traction began with a May 2014 fan Facebook page, a November 22nd, 2016 subreddit, and the High Energy YouTube channel's 'Can't Cuck the Tuck' remix series starting in December 2016[3]. ### What does Tucker Carlson mean? As a meme, Tucker Carlson refers to the body of edits, reaction images, and quotable blowups built around the Fox host, including the 'Can't Cuck the Tuck' MLG videos and the 'go fuck yourself' clip from his Rutger Bregman interview[1][3]. ### How do you use Tucker Carlson? People typically share 'Can't Cuck the Tuck' MLG remixes, post his squinting reaction face as an image macro, or clip the 'go fuck yourself' audio as a punchline reply[1][3]. ### Is Tucker Carlson still popular? The meme peaked around the 2018 advertiser boycott and the 2019 Bregman clip, both of which drove heavy coverage at the time[2][6]. Activity around the 'Can't Cuck the Tuck' series slowed after the initial 18 volumes[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18233556/tucker-carlson-rutger-bregman-nowthis-dutch-historian]() 2. [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/18/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-faces-backlash-over-immigration-comments.html]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tucker-carlson]() 4. [https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/30/18203911/davos-rutger-bregman-historian-taxes-philanthropy]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE]() 6. [https://x.com/i/status/1098282209834950657]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVWu94JVHtk]() 8. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tucker%20Carlson]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/tucker-carlson Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library