About

Sat Sri Akal Ji Main Ek Bruh Moment Report Chauna Wa refers to a reaction image macro featuring a Sikh man on the phone wearing an orange turban with a text overlay that translates to, "greetings, I would like to report a bruh moment." The image was sourced from a 2006 Wikipedia upload and popularized as an internet reaction image after December 2020.

Origin

On February 8th, 2006, Harkanwal Singh uploaded an image of a Sikh man wearing an orange turban and holding a phone to his ear (seen below).^[1]

The earliest known memetic use of the image was posted to 4chan forum /pol/ on 31st May 2016 (seen below, left).^[2] The earliest known versions of the meme with the caption, "Sat sri akal ji… chauna wa" were posted to the MemeChat app on unknown dates in the year 2019 (seen below, right).^[3]

Spread

Early iterations of the meme were posted to MemeChat in 2019 at unknown dates, shown below.^[4][5] On Dec 1st, 2020, a screencap from MemeChat was reposted to /r/sunraybee, where it gathered over 400 upvotes.^[6]

The most viral instance of the meme was posted by Instagram^[7] page @the_engineer_bro on April 2nd, 2022, where it gathered over 45,000 likes in eight months (seen below, left). The meme was also posted to the subreddit^[8] /r/SaimanSays on October 20, 2022, where it gathered over 3,000 upvotes in nearly three months (seen below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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