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r/explainlikeIAmA
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~~If you are anything BUT 5 years old, and you're confused by something, this is the place for you.~~ Now that /r/eli5 clarified that they want simple explanations, (fake) 5-YEAR-OLDS ARE NOW WELCOME TO THE SUBREDDIT. But not in a creepy way.
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Comment: Explain [whatever the topic is] in [whatever the context is].
Post: Explain [whatever] like IAmA/You Are A [anything you want, literally anything, like so literally anything that you can say "nothing" like "the existentialist void" and that is c...
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150,676
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November 28, 2011
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Total Words in Subreddit
34,453
Total Words in Reddit
119,924,722,855
Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 102 | 459,865 | 2960.6 | 3.8 | 772.06 | |
| #2 | 95 | 606,167 | 2757.4 | 5.1 | 545.52 | |
| #3 | 45 | 532,169 | 1306.1 | 4.4 | 294.34 | |
| #4 | 103 | 2,209,230 | 2989.6 | 18.4 | 162.28 | |
| #5 | 103 | 4,029,511 | 2989.6 | 33.6 | 88.97 | |
| #6 | 102 | 5,796,951 | 2960.6 | 48.3 | 61.25 | |
| #7 | 161 | 11,249,620 | 4673.0 | 93.8 | 49.82 | |
| #8 | 106 | 8,662,810 | 3076.7 | 72.2 | 42.59 | |
| #9 | 103 | 8,901,288 | 2989.6 | 74.2 | 40.28 | |
| #10 | 106 | 10,347,413 | 3076.7 | 86.3 | 35.66 | |
| #11 | 103 | 11,319,429 | 2989.6 | 94.4 | 31.67 | |
| #12 | 102 | 12,873,218 | 2960.6 | 107.3 | 27.58 | |
| #13 | 104 | 15,689,998 | 3018.6 | 130.8 | 23.07 | |
| #14 | 118 | 17,929,002 | 3425.0 | 149.5 | 22.91 | |
| #15 | 108 | 35,080,351 | 3134.7 | 292.5 | 10.72 | |
| #16 | 115 | 40,232,062 | 3337.9 | 335.5 | 9.95 | |
| #17 | 108 | 45,356,201 | 3134.7 | 378.2 | 8.29 | |
| #18 | 45 | 28,822,542 | 1306.1 | 240.3 | 5.43 | |
| #19 | 108 | 72,356,181 | 3134.7 | 603.3 | 5.20 | |
| #20 | 176 | 133,999,645 | 5108.4 | 1117.4 | 4.57 | |
| #21 | 112 | 85,988,917 | 3250.8 | 717.0 | 4.53 | |
| #22 | 139 | 125,069,917 | 4034.5 | 1042.9 | 3.87 | |
| #23 | 303 | 275,392,224 | 8794.6 | 2296.4 | 3.83 | |
| #24 | 139 | 128,576,240 | 4034.5 | 1072.1 | 3.76 | |
| #25 | 30 | 28,730,967 | 870.8 | 239.6 | 3.63 | |
| #26 | 142 | 139,830,444 | 4121.6 | 1166.0 | 3.53 | |
| #27 | 142 | 142,769,557 | 4121.6 | 1190.5 | 3.46 | |
| #28 | 139 | 141,139,117 | 4034.5 | 1176.9 | 3.43 | |
| #29 | 140 | 143,228,869 | 4063.5 | 1194.3 | 3.40 | |
| #30 | 142 | 148,201,374 | 4121.6 | 1235.8 | 3.34 | |
| #31 | 144 | 154,833,675 | 4179.6 | 1291.1 | 3.24 | |
| #32 | 49 | 53,139,404 | 1422.2 | 443.1 | 3.21 | |
| #33 | 170 | 211,410,046 | 4934.3 | 1762.9 | 2.80 | |
| #34 | 166 | 209,938,466 | 4818.2 | 1750.6 | 2.75 | |
| #35 | 180 | 247,861,565 | 5224.5 | 2066.8 | 2.53 | |
| #36 | 169 | 234,988,299 | 4905.2 | 1959.5 | 2.50 | |
| #37 | 142 | 198,292,101 | 4121.6 | 1653.5 | 2.49 | |
| #38 | 143 | 201,926,225 | 4150.6 | 1683.8 | 2.47 | |
| #39 | 47 | 66,969,946 | 1364.2 | 558.4 | 2.44 | |
| #40 | 64 | 94,222,151 | 1857.6 | 785.7 | 2.36 | |
| #41 | 31 | 45,906,452 | 899.8 | 382.8 | 2.35 | |
| #42 | 57 | 85,872,414 | 1654.4 | 716.1 | 2.31 | |
| #43 | 280 | 491,124,544 | 8127.0 | 4095.3 | 1.98 | |
| #44 | 576 | 1,053,781,568 | 16718.4 | 8787.0 | 1.90 | |
| #45 | 43 | 79,192,700 | 1248.1 | 660.4 | 1.89 | |
| #46 | 167 | 311,768,055 | 4847.2 | 2599.7 | 1.86 | |
| #47 | 173 | 323,898,592 | 5021.3 | 2700.8 | 1.86 | |
| #48 | 67 | 130,221,980 | 1944.7 | 1085.9 | 1.79 | |
| #49 | 188 | 376,042,405 | 5456.7 | 3135.7 | 1.74 | |
| #50 | 255 | 515,225,634 | 7401.4 | 4296.2 | 1.72 |
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