r/explainlikeimfive
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Explain Like I'm Five is the best forum and archive on the internet for layperson-friendly explanations. Don't Panic!
Community Stats
- Subscribers
- 23M
- Content rating
- SFW
- Created
- 2011-07-28
- Posts per day
- 25/day
- Comments per day
- Very high
- Top post
- 9,800 upvotes
- Top 100 median
- 4,200 upvotes
- Competition
- Low competition
- Peak hour
- 3:00 AM UTC
r/explainlikeimfive is a SFW subreddit with 23.2 million subscribers, created in 2011. Posts average about 25 per day, and comments arrive too frequently to measure precisely. Top posts this year scored up to 9.8K upvotes, with a typical top-100 post earning 4.2K. It's a low-competition community — the 100th-ranked top post of the past year is from 349 days ago. Browse 22 closely related communities below to find similar subreddits.
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