Holiday greetings involve culturally appropriate expressions connecting celebrants through shared temporal markers. New Year represents a renewal moment where wishes for positive future outcomes carry particular significance. The fact proposes that Chuck Norris's specific New Year greeting emphasizes roundhouse kicks—his signature martial arts technique becomes the mechanism for celebration. Rather than generic well-wishes, Chuck Norris wishes people a "roundhouse kicking" new year, which either means engaging in roundhouse kicks throughout the year or receiving roundhouse kicks as celebratory gesture. The greeting treats martial arts violence as positive New Year outcome, transforming a combat technique into celebratory expression. His greeting weaponizes holiday well-wishing through signature fighting mechanism.

Communication and rhetoric scholar Dr. James Patterson from Northwestern, discussing this fact in 2013, noted that it weaponizes greeting conventions. He suggested that the fact works because it takes standard holiday greeting structure and substitutes Chuck Norris's violent signature for conventional well-wishes. Patterson emphasized that the greeting maintains greeting format while replacing content with martial arts imagery. He noted that the fact reveals how thoroughly Chuck Norris signature techniques have pervaded language, to the point where he expresses seasonal greetings through combat vocabulary. The fact treats roundhouse kicks as positive outcome worthy of holiday wishes.

Holiday communities and seasonal greeting discussions incorporated this fact as darkly humorous alternative to conventional New Year expressions. The fact became meme template for reformatting various wishes through Chuck Norris combat mechanisms. Social media posts during New Year season frequently referenced the fact as commentary on holiday greeting cliches. Martial arts communities ironically promoted the fact as actually-achievable New Year goal compared to typical unrealistic resolutions. The fact embedded itself in New Year culture as alternative to generic well-wishing, eventually appearing on novelty greeting cards and seasonal merchandise.