r/explainabookplotbadly is a subreddit with 8k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and ideas, and the community frequently discusses fiction, girl, magic, murder, and fantasy.
Explain a book plot badly and have other users try to guess it
Popular Themes in r/explainabookplotbadly
#1
Pain & Anger
: ""I said I want that twink obliterated! Not liberated!""
26 posts
#2
Ideas
: "A fictional nation in the Caribbean manages to invade and occupy the United States"
14 posts
#3
News
: "Man tells his life story, spends a lot of time fixated on his ex boyfriend and the child he got custody of when they broke up"
2 posts
#4
Advice Requests
: "University dropout becomes a tour guide against his will."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/explainabookplotbadly
#1
Fiction
: "Our author makes the setting of their novel as two dimensional as their characters. "
21 posts
#2
Girl
: "Little Girl finds out she has two moms, throws a temper tantrum and calls the cops because she will not wear her buttons."
20 posts
#3
Magic
: "The protagonist uses Magic powered by her submissive tendencies, along with a man in a machine, to perform corporate espionage. She then has to support the patriarchy and stop the summoning of a god."
18 posts
#4
Murder
: "A mother leaves her autistic son with a punchy alcoholic father with Murderous tendencies to the point where he kills the neighbor's dog and then hunts the son down to do who knows what to make him not say he killed a dog."
17 posts
#5
Fantasy
: "School teacher chills in space with an alien spider and becomes a cannibal"
15 posts
#6
War
: "Instead of making A-bombs, they created a superpowered, traumatized, horny teenager to win the War."
15 posts
#7
Family
: "Prominent member of society goes on a long and perilous journey with the son of his Family's gardener."
13 posts
#8
Man
: "A Man is bad at computers and this saves the world "
12 posts
#9
Love
: "don't do plastic surgery kids"
11 posts
#10
Horror
: "It’s either a parody of or homage to slasher movies. Even it can’t decide which."
10 posts
Flair Used in r/explainabookplotbadly
#1
Unsolved Medium
: ""I said I want that twink obliterated! Not liberated!""
78 posts
#2
Solved
: "A monkey pisses off literally everyone and is sentenced to 500 years in prison and 14 years of hard labor after that. Also there's male pregnancy "
57 posts
#3
Unsolved Easy
: "AI so mad about not being able to touch grass that it kills nearly every single human being on the planet, keeps handful of survivors solely to abuse"
26 posts
#4
Unsolved Hard
: "This one is going to be tough"
22 posts
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Last updated: August 8, 2026