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
: "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 "
25 posts
#2
Ideas
: "A fictional nation in the Caribbean manages to invade and occupy the United States"
21 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "University dropout becomes a tour guide against his will."
3 posts
#4
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
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
: "Girl finds out she’s important, saves her country by being a lamp"
20 posts
#3
Magic
: "She’s the man but there are knights and Magic and stuff"
18 posts
#4
Murder
: "Suicidal doctor contemplates abortion, decides Murder is the moral option"
17 posts
#5
Fantasy
: "Isekai where a girl goes to a Fantasy land and steal’s someone’s shoes"
15 posts
#6
War
: "Instead of making A-bombs, they created a superpowered, traumatized, horny teenager to win the War."
15 posts
#7
Family
: "Teen is sent to summer camp because his toxic Family believes he stole from them."
13 posts
#8
Man
: "A Man is bad at computers and this saves the world "
12 posts
#9
Love
: "Four gay teenagers fall in Love with each other and ruin people's lives"
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
: "A celebrity gets cornered into telling his life story. It takes a LO-O-ONG time."
95 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 "
40 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"
31 posts
#4
Unsolved Hard
: "This one is going to be tough"
23 posts
Member Growth in r/explainabookplotbadly
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+608 members(8.6%)
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Last updated: September 4, 2026