What is I Didn't Get the Joke, Sir?

A viral Facebook comment thread from March 23, 2020, in which the parody page Sir raheel physic notes replied to two confused commenters very differently, offering one a 'Privat msg' and telling the other to 'Googl it'.

Where did I Didn't Get the Joke, Sir come from?

The thread began on a parody Facebook page called Sir raheel physic notes. The admin's lopsided replies to commenters Basmah Khalil and Ravi Pandey turned into a widely shared screenshot the next day on Reddit's r/madlads.

What does I Didn't Get the Joke, Sir mean?

Edits use the exchange to call out favoritism. One subject is treated with care, the other is dismissed, so the format fits scenarios where attention or affection is unevenly handed out.

How do you use I Didn't Get the Joke, Sir?

Keep the three-comment screenshot and layer character names and headshots over the real commenters. The joke lands when the first commenter is someone being favored and the second is someone being brushed off.

Is I Didn't Get the Joke, Sir still popular?

Peak activity was late March and early April 2020, when Facebook meme groups and Reddit drove the biggest numbers before Chai Bisket covered the Telugu-language variants on April 5, 2020.

I Didn't Get the Joke, Sir

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Published October 20, 2026

I Didn't Get the Joke, Sir refers to a March 23, 2020 Facebook comment thread on a parody physics-teacher page, where two confused commenters received wildly different replies from the admin, one a private-message offer, the other a curt 'Googl it.' A screenshot reached Reddit's r/madlads the next day, and by March 31, Facebook meme groups were restaging the exchange with Skyrim, JoJo and Attack on Titan characters.

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Overview

Each edit keeps the three-speaker structure intact. A joke-poster sits at the top, one commenter gets a warm 'Privat msg I will explan' and a second commenter is dismissed with 'Googl it.' The humor works by assigning those three slots to characters, groups or public figures where favoritism is already baked in, which is why edits often cast one subject as a crush, favorite or ally and the other as the ignored party3.

Visually, early edits layered character headshots and names over the real Facebook profile pictures and comments. By early April 2020 the template reached beyond anime and gaming groups, with Indian entertainment outlet Chai Bisket flagging Telugu-language versions on regional meme pages2.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Facebook / Reddit (viral spread)

Creator

Sir raheel physic notes

Date

2020

Sir raheel physic notes, a parody Facebook page styled after a physics teacher, posted a joke about students being loud in class on March 23, 2020. Basmah Khalil replied, 'I didn't get the joke sir ☹️,' and the page answered 'Privat msg I will explan.' A short time later, Ravi Pandey wrote 'I also didn't get the joke sir 😔,' only to receive 'Googl it' from the same admin. Later that day the page reposted its own thread as a screenshot, which gathered over 1,700 likes and 240 shares3.

How It Spread

On March 24, 2020, Redditor dj_jose shared the screenshot to r/madlads under the title 'Madlad getting into a girl's DMs,' where it climbed past 43,500 upvotes1. That reading, that the page admin was flirting with Khalil and ignoring Pandey, shaped the meme's dominant setup once Facebook meme groups picked up the template a week later.

On March 31, Mikail Naqvi posted the earliest known viral edit to the Attack on Titan Leviposting group, where it collected over 3,200 reactions and 1,000 shares. The same day, Daniel Mogoș's Skyrim edit in the Nirnposting group hit more than 4,200 reactions, and Izumi Yaori's JoJo Standposting edit landed around 2,900 reactions and 360 shares3. On April 5, Chai Bisket wrote up the template's spread into Telugu meme pages under the headline "'I didn't get the joke sir' Meme-ified In Telugu"2.

Timeline

2020-03-23

Sir raheel physic notes posts the original classroom joke. Basmah Khalil and Ravi Pandey comment that they don't get it; the page replies 'Privat msg I will explan' to one and 'Googl it' to the other, then reposts the thread as a screenshot.

2020-03-24

Redditor dj_jose shares the screenshot to r/madlads as 'Madlad getting into a girl's DMs,' reaching over 43,500 upvotes.

2020-03-31

First viral meme edits appear in Attack on Titan Leviposting, Nirnposting (Skyrim) and JoJo Standposting Facebook groups, each gathering thousands of reactions within days.

2020-04-05

Indian entertainment site Chai Bisket covers the template's spread into Telugu-language meme pages.

How to Use This Meme

I Didn't Get the Joke, Sir typically starts with the original three-comment screenshot, with each speaker's profile picture and name replaced by a character, group or public figure. Common convention casts the first commenter as the favored party and the second as the one being blown off, so the setup works best when the imbalance is already obvious.