Hey Nerd I Kissed Your Girlfriend Last Night
Also known as: How Did My Cum Taste · How to Deal with a Bully
"Hey Nerd, I Kissed Your Girlfriend Last Night" is an exploitable comic meme based on a cartoon by John Billette originally published in Hustler magazine in July 2017. The two-panel comic depicts a bully taunting a smaller character, only to receive a crude comeback. After gaining initial traction on iFunny in mid-2020, the format exploded in September 2021 as users recaptioned the dialogue or swapped characters, making it a popular template on Reddit and Twitter.
Overview
The meme is built around a two-panel cartoon titled "How to Deal with a Bully." In the original comic, a larger character tells a smaller, glasses-wearing character: "Hey, nerd, I kissed your girlfriend last night." The smaller character fires back with an explicit punchline implying oral contact. The format works as an exploitable template where users swap out the dialogue, change the characters, or alter the scenario to create new jokes. Its crude setup-and-reversal structure gives it a natural comedic rhythm that lends itself to edits4.
Cartoonist John Billette created the comic under the title "How to Deal with a Bully," and it was published in the July 2017 issue of Hustler, an American adult magazine2. The cartoon sat largely unnoticed online for nearly three years.
On June 15, 2020, iFunny user KenDrake5150 reposted the comic, and it was featured on the app's front page4. That single repost picked up over 89,700 smiles within a year1. Just days later, on June 16th and 17th, 2020, the first known edits appeared. Redditor primethoracic2 posted a modified version that earned over 3,700 upvotes, while iFunny user Mikey_Likes_It_ uploaded another edit that collected 23 smiles4.
Origin & Background
How It Spread
How to Use This Meme
The comic works as a simple two-panel exploitable. Common approaches include:
Dialogue swap: Keep the original characters but change what they say. The bully's taunt and the nerd's comeback get rewritten to fit a new joke or reference.
Character swap: Replace one or both characters with figures from pop culture, gaming, or current events. The visual contrast between a bigger aggressor and a smaller target stays the same.
Mom variant: The most popular edit replaces "girlfriend" with "mom," which shifts the punchline's implication and adds a layer of absurdity.
Deep-fried or ironic layering: Especially popular on r/ComedyNecrophilia, where users pile on distortion, extra panels, or meta-ironic captions to push the format into absurdist territory.
Cultural Impact
Fun Facts
The original comic ran in a print magazine three years before anyone turned it into a meme. Most exploitable comics go viral within weeks of posting online.
The character designs in the original comic drew comparisons to the cast of Cartoon Network's Ed, Edd n Eddy from commenters on early reposts.
The "mom" variant overtook the "girlfriend" version in popularity, with the iFunny post alone beating 21,900 smiles compared to many lower-performing girlfriend edits.
The meme's home base, r/ComedyNecrophilia, specializes in taking already-dead or unfunny memes and layering them with so much irony they become funny again.
Derivatives & Variations
"Kissed your mom" variant:
The breakout edit by iFunny user amongUsHater, which changed "girlfriend" to "mom" and became more widely shared than the original comic[4].
Chris-Chan edits:
Multiple users applied the format to the 2021 Chris-Chan controversy, swapping characters or dialogue to reference the situation[4].
r/ComedyNecrophilia compilations:
Multi-layered ironic edits that used the comic as a base for increasingly absurd modifications, including one 13-meme collection post[4].
Scott the Woz reference:
Some edits incorporated references to YouTuber Scott the Woz due to the nerd character's visual similarity[3].
Frequently Asked Questions
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