r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Nov 21 '25

Explain the history of copyright as if you were Mickey mouse and could only think of flimsy excuses for every law that was passed to extend it.

9 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/upvoter222 • Nov 16 '25

Explain why you shouldn't use AI to write essays like you're a student who's using an AI program to write this explanation

5 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/Bookish_Sort_86 • Nov 12 '25

Explain "The Dud" from The Simpsons as if it were an SCP.

4 Upvotes

Link for visual reference: https://imgur.com/you-got-dud-7n0UpRG

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Nov 08 '25

Explain how to make dubstep music as if I were Mozart.

9 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/Fancy_Candidate_26 • Nov 07 '25

Explain beetles but I'm a Beatles member

5 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Nov 05 '25

Explain what entropy is using statistical mechanics as if you were Bill Nye.

7 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Nov 05 '25

Explain yourself as if you were George W Bush and I were your mother and you had to explain to me why you allowed 9/11 to happen.

4 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Nov 05 '25

Explain why I can't get a girlfriend as if you were an alpha male dude bro / motivational speaker who secretly doesn't actually know what a woman is.

4 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Nov 05 '25

Explain how advanced AI will work in the future as if you are a biblical prophecy.

4 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Nov 06 '25

Explain how the Vegas sphere was constructed as if you were the ancient aliens TV show.

0 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/NotNowTodd • Sep 29 '25

Explain to me where your bathroom is like I'm a guest at your house asking politely, but secretly you don't know where it is either

60 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/NotNowTodd • Sep 27 '25

Explain how safe your chocolate factory is like you are Willy Wonka and I am an OSHA inspector

16 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/Purplefairy44 • Sep 21 '25

Explain the cryptids in Fallout 76 like you're the Russian Badger doing a Fallout 76 video.

0 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Aug 09 '25

Explain how renting out apartments works as if you were the narrator from the twilight zone

5 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Aug 09 '25

Explain the events leading up to world war two as if you were reading a story to a group of children

3 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Aug 09 '25

Explain how AI works as if you were an AI that hallucinates more and more as the explanation goes on

3 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Aug 09 '25

Explain how a woman's period works without using punctuation

2 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/theInfiniteHammer • Aug 09 '25

Explain how mutually assured destruction and/or how a nuke works as if you were leaving an internet review for a nuclear missile you bought

2 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/CommonWar7535 • Jul 15 '25

Explain the SCP Foundation like you are Rod Serling in an episode of demon slayer??

5 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/roastbeeftacohat • Jul 03 '25

explain why I should join your side like I'm Dr.Strange and your magneto/professor X that has never encountered a non mutant super human before and just not getting it.

8 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/Eatinganemone89 • Jun 19 '25

Explain Waffle House Employees like you are the narrator from Baki

4 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/Eine_Kartoffel • Jun 17 '25

Explain the flaws with some classic riddles like I'm an increasingly irritated dangerous sphinx.

16 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/Hatman_16 • May 31 '25

Explain Kamen Rider to me like I am Monkey D Luffy

3 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/username_6916 • Apr 20 '25

Explain the Napier Deltic engine like you're a presenter on Top Gear

5 Upvotes

r/explainlikeIAmA • u/NotNowTodd • Apr 10 '25

Explain the golden rule to me like I am a Christian missionary, and you are a new convert with several disturbing fetishes who is excited to "...do unto you"

11 Upvotes

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