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Cameron Tucker Smiling refers to a series of memes featuring actor Eric Stonestreet posing as the character Cameron Tucker from the American sitcom Modern Family, wearing a lilac button-up shirt and dark blue jeans. The images originate from a promotional shoot for Modern Family, and grew popular on X in late September and early October 2023. The meme is similar to the Kevin James Smirking Getty Image trend.

Origin

On June 13th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @harrier.dubois made the earliest notable post using images of Eric Stonestreet posing for promotional pictures as Cameron Tucker from Modern Family. The post gathered over 590,000 plays and 122,000 likes in four months (seen below).

On September 27th, 2023, X^[2] user @mxddiboo made a post using an image of Stonestreet, gathering over 4,000 likes in two weeks (seen below).

Spread

On September 29th, 2023, X^[3] user @fabyollaverass posted an image of Stonestreet playing Cameron Tucker, gathering over 5,000 likes in two weeks (seen below, left). On October 5th, X^[4] user @adaciousy posted pictures of Cameron Tucker as well, gathering over 2,000 likes in four days (seen below, right).

On October 6th, X^[5] user @Kermeq posted an image of Cameron Tucker looking at the camera and smiling with his hands clasped. The caption on the post read, "me waiting for the bartender to look at me so i can order my drink," gathering over 300,000 likes in three days (seen below, left). Also on October 6th, X^[6] user @superkeara posted the image with the caption, "Me looking at the flight attendant while she passes out snacks so she sees I’m awake and doesn’t forget to give me a little bag of pretzels," gathering over 30,000 likes in three days (seen below, right).

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