r/ExplainTheJoke↗
My feeble mind can't comprehend, explain the joke for me my friend!
Your friend sent you a meme and you don't get it? Random image has everyone laughing and you're too dense to understand? Verbal joke a friend said, and you wanna type it out and ask the internet what the punchline was? We've got you.
1.9M subscribers547 posts / mo in Sep 2026439 authors / mosince 2012
r/ExplainTheJoke has 1.9M members (+13% over the last 12 months). It gets about 547 posts a month from 439 people. Top topics: JokeExplanations, MemeExplanations and JokesNotUnderstood.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- JokeExplanations3.0%
- MemeExplanations1.1%
- JokesNotUnderstood0.4%
- Funny Opinions0.3%
- TikTok Trends & Comments0.3%
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- Wolfram
- xkcd
- TikTok
- Tenor
- Merriam-Webster
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