SubTrends

Averages 23 posts/day, top 10% activity. Most active Tuesdays around 10 AM UTC. Mostly text posts (100%).

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
23 27%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
7 11%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
12 20%
Activity Rank #6,408 by posts/day among 90,883 tracked SFW subreddits as of Sep 2026 (Top 10%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#6,408 2,011
Top 10%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
1%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
5%

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes0102030405002.557.510Sep 1Sep 8Sep 15Sep 22Sep 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Text
Typical Title Length Medium (106 chars)
Peak Day Saturday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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78%
10–99
22%
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0%
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Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 90%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 6
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 45

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r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

Flair Posts Upvotes
Unsolved675 (98.5%)7
Solved!10 (1.5%)8

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

100%text posts

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
world
51 (7.4%)
916
game
46 (6.7%)
714
guy
44 (6.4%)
710
man
39 (5.7%)
710
gets
38 (5.5%)
69
kill
38 (5.5%)
813
time
36 (5.3%)
1015
save
36 (5.3%)
713
fight
35 (5.1%)
68
people
30 (4.4%)
814

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

This community doesn't link off-site.

Its posts are text, images, or discussion rather than outbound links.

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

Congratulations on being the second person isekai'd to this world. Don't run away.

45 upvotes 142 comments text Sep 18

A girl who is very thirsty becomes an immortal cat maid, ends the world in five different ways, gets pregnant while you get stuck in an infinite loop/time paradox with her where you kill each other over and over in increasingly absurd ways, and somehow this isn't nearly the weirdest part.

45 upvotes 52 comments text Sep 24

You're a dude, playing a dude, pretending to be another dude in a loose prequel to a reboot of a beloved series.

40 upvotes 74 comments text Sep 1

One of your family members won't leave you alone no matter how busy you are. Sometimes he wants to go bowling.

38 upvotes 19 comments text Sep 7

A man invaded a country full of tree-people and stole their valuables. The tree-people, rather understandably, retaliated a hundredfold. And now everyone's a zombie.

35 upvotes 28 comments text Sep 4

Good job, you've saved your daughter. Now I'm going to carefully and methodically explain why this was a Really Bad Move™ and you should feel bad about everything you've done.

35 upvotes 15 comments text Sep 10

The entire game franchise is set in the mind of a child in a coma, after his parents died in an accident. He wakes up, and every character in the series dies. The end.

35 upvotes 25 comments text Sep 20

A dying pianist imagines an entire fantasy adventure where everyone fights over magic powder. Then the game reveals it was all happening in his head and he dies.

29 upvotes 9 comments text Sep 18

Your grandfather died! Time to resign from your job, I guess.

27 upvotes 11 comments text Sep 14

Eugenics is great because it lets you have super-powered children AND it makes for great fan fiction

27 upvotes 14 comments text Sep 12

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly Audience Overlap

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r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly?

Based on posting volume, r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly is most active on Tuesdays around 10 AM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly?

r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly averages 23 posts per day and ranks in the top 10% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly get?

Posts on r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly average about 7 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly get most?

On r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly, most posts are text posts (100%)