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Tooker Kurlson is a [[meme coin]] on [[Solana]] parodying the American broadcaster Tucker Carlson. Launched on March 10, 2024, it belongs to the misspelled celebrity meta, the PoliFi wave in which [[Jeo Boden]] and [[Doland Tremp]] turned deliberately mangled political names into tradable satire ahead of the 2024 United States election.

## Origin

The token launched with roughly 4,800 initial holders and an anonymous team, and built its identity on content rather than a single image: a cartoon Tooker conducted mock interviews imitating Carlson's mannerisms and delivery, released alongside AMAs and a large meme library. The legal safety of the misspelling, the same device protecting the rest of the boden family, let the project market a recognizable public figure without claiming any affiliation. Carlson himself had no connection to the coin.

## Market history

TOOKER ran with the PoliFi meta through the spring. CoinGecko records the all time high at about 0.136 dollars on May 3, 2024, which against the roughly 970 million token supply implies a peak market value near 130 million dollars; later coverage by Cryptonomist instead cited a peak market capitalization of about 30 million dollars, a discrepancy typical of the era's thin record keeping, and the true figure depends on how much supply circulated at the peak. The token faded as political attention consolidated into the larger boden and tremp tickers and then into the election itself: Cryptonomist recorded a monthly decline of nearly 60 percent into late September 2024, with the market capitalization around 11 million dollars and about 4,000 holders. The decline continued after the election removed the meta's reason to exist, and by 2026 TOOKER traded near 86,000 dollars in market capitalization on [[Raydium]].

## Cultural impact

Tooker Kurlson is remembered as the media wing of the PoliFi meta: where boden and tremp memed the candidates, TOOKER memed the commentary layer around them, and its mock interview format was among the more genuinely produced content of the 2024 satire coins. In [[the trenches]] it serves as a marker of how deep the misspelling meta ran, proof that in the spring of 2024 even a pundit's mangled name could briefly command a nine figure implied valuation, and of how completely PoliFi valuations evaporated once the election passed.

## References

- https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2024/10/28/tooker-kurlson-price-prediction-what-is-polifi-coin-tooker/
- https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tooker-kurlson
- https://support.bitrue.com/hc/en-001/articles/33409664524441-TOOKER-The-Meme-Token-Satire-on-Solana-Blockchain
- https://messari.io/project/tooker-kurlson
- https://www.forbes.com/digital-assets/assets/tooker-kurlson-tooker/

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