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r/explainitpeter

Members post a meme that went over their heads and ask for a plain reading of it, addressed by convention to Peter Griffin.

Weekly data through Sep 27, 2026

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Posts and comments, every week since October 2023
24.4K+77.0%in 4 weeks, year over year
202420252026Peak 41K · Nov 9, 2025
Members318K+293.7% year over yearRead Sep 27, 2026
Posts and comments in 4 weeks24.4K+77.0% year over year4 weeks to Sep 27, 2026
Unique contributors per week3,457+151.4% year over year4-week average to Aug 30, 2026
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Three years, week by week

Weekly activity in r/explainitpeter

Three years of weekly history. Download any chart as a PNG.

Posts and comments per week · 2 yearsPublic posts plus comments, r/explainitpeter

Week ending Sep 27, 20264,012−55.3% on the same week a year earlier

Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’242025MarMayJulSepNov2026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 41K · Nov 9, 2025Low 33 · Mar 23, 2025Posts and comments per week020K40K60K2025MaySep2026MaySepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 41K · Nov 9, 2025Low 33 · Mar 23, 2025

Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC week, dated by the Sunday it closed. The busiest week in the range is marked, and the quietest where it stands well apart.

Weekly unique contributors · 2 yearsUnique contributors to r/explainitpeter

Week ending Aug 30, 20262,309+44.0% on the same week a year earlier

Unique contributors per week010K20K30KNov ’242025MarMayJulSepNov2026MarMayJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 24.5K · Dec 21, 2025Unique contributors per week020K40K2025MaySep2026MayWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 24.5K · Dec 21, 2025

Accounts that posted or commented in the week, each counted once. Updated monthly.

Members · 2 yearsMembers of r/explainitpeter

Week ending Sep 27, 2026318K+293.7% on the same week a year earlier

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The member count Reddit shows for the community, read once a week.

Posts and comments · 2 yearsPosts against comments, r/explainitpeter

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Weekly posts54+25.6% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments3,958−55.7% on the same week a year earlier

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Posts on the left scale, comments on the right. Each series is auto-scaled.

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Weekly contributions · Indexed · 3 yearsr/explainitpeter and r/askanything
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Week ending Sep 27, 2026
CommunityIndexedSince Oct 8, 2023Since the week before
r/explainitpeter1355.414×−55.9% from Sep 20
r/askanything1528464.715,285×−10.1% from Sep 20
Index, 100 at the start of the range0500000100000015000002000000MarAugJan ’25JunNovAprSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGIndex, 100 at the start of the range0500000100000015000002000000Jun ’24Mar ’25Dec ’25Sep ’26Week, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Public posts plus comments in each complete Monday-to-Sunday week, UTC. Indexed, each line reads 100 on its first point in the range, so communities of very different sizes share one axis.

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Activity pattern

Why r/explainitpeter is classified as Event-driven

Oscylo reads the newest 52 weeks of posts, comments and unique contributors and gives each subreddit one of the patterns below. The figures behind the label are shown beside it.

Activity patternEvent-driven

Activity in r/explainitpeter is concentrated in bursts, with less consistent timing across years. That pattern points to event-driven activity, though it stops short of naming a cause.

How the label is read

Concentration3.57×
2.5×

The busiest four weeks against the quietest, with the yearly trend taken out. At 2.5× or more the year counts as concentrated: Seasonal if the busy weeks came at the same time in earlier years, Event-driven if they did not, and Variable when there is too little history to tell.

Repeats on earlier years-0.12
00.60

How closely this year's busy weeks match their timing in the three years before, on a scale from −1 to 1. At 0.60 or more the pattern counts as Seasonal.

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Posts and comments per weekThe newest 52 weeks against the 52 before, r/explainitpeter

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Newest 52 weeks4,012The 52 weeks before8,980

Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 41K · Nov 9, 2025Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 41K · Nov 9, 2025

The 52 weeks before are drawn on the same calendar, so each week lines up with the matching week of the previous year.

Community anatomy

r/explainitpeter statistics

Six measures of how the community posts and replies, averaged over the twelve weeks from Jun 8, 2026 to Aug 30, 2026. Each bar places r/explainitpeter among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.

Comments per post

82.8 comments for each new post

LowerHigher

Higher than 91% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 48.2.

Threaded replies

70% of comments reply to another comment

LowerHigher

Higher than 93% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 48%.

Text posts

5.6% of new posts are text rather than links or media

LowerHigher

Higher than 13% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 100%.

Activity per contributor

1.5 posts and comments per unique contributor each week

LowerHigher

Higher than 6% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 2.7.

Most active 1%

8.2% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts

LowerHigher

Higher than 71% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 4.7%.

Participation

7.5 unique contributors in the latest week for every 1,000 members

LowerHigher

Higher than 57% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 9.3.

How contributions landPosts and comments by score
r/explainitpeterAverage subreddit
Share of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%0–1: 63%63%0–12–3: 19%19%2–34–7: 7.9%7.9%4–78–15: 4.5%4.5%8–1516–31: 2.4%2.4%16–3132–127: 2.2%2.2%32–127128–511: 0.8%0.8%128–511512–2K: 0.4%0.4%512–2K2K+: 0.2%0.2%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGShare of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%0–1: 63%0-12–3: 19%2-34–7: 7.9%4-78–15: 4.5%8-1516–31: 2.4%16-3132–127: 2.2%32-127128–511: 0.8%128-511512–2K: 0.4%512-2K2K+: 0.2%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Score is upvotes minus downvotes a day or more after the post or comment was made, over the same twelve weeks. Outlined bars show the average mix across every subreddit on Oscylo.

Against its category

r/explainitpeter beside every Q&As & stories subreddit

Posts and comments in r/explainitpeter are +77.0% year over year. The middle Q&As & stories subreddit is at +57.3%.

Year-on-year changeEvery Q&As & stories subreddit, posts and comments year over year
−75%−50%−25%0+25%+50%+100%+200%+400%Middle +57.3%r/AskReddit: +57.3%r/AmItheAsshole: −2.6%r/confession: −12.7%r/AITAH: −70.2%r/NoStupidQuestions: +76.8%r/unpopularopinion: +49.2%r/AmIOverreacting: −61.6%r/MaliciousCompliance: −16.6%r/BestofRedditorUpdates: −16.8%r/PeterExplainsTheJoke: +114.8%r/Advice: +10.5%r/whatisit: +63.4%r/askanything: 24×r/luftablassen: +68.9%r/identifyThisForMe: +264.3%r/AskRedditr/AmItheAssholer/confessionr/AITAHr/NoStupidQuestionsr/unpopularopinionr/AmIOverreactingr/MaliciousCompliancer/BestofRedditorUpdatesr/PeterExplainsTheJoker/explainitpeter +77.0%Posts and comments, year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNG−75%−25%0+25%+100%+400%Middle +57.3%r/AskReddit: +57.3%r/AmItheAsshole: −2.6%r/confession: −12.7%r/AITAH: −70.2%r/NoStupidQuestions: +76.8%r/unpopularopinion: +49.2%r/AmIOverreacting: −61.6%r/MaliciousCompliance: −16.6%r/BestofRedditorUpdates: −16.8%r/PeterExplainsTheJoke: +114.8%r/Advice: +10.5%r/whatisit: +63.4%r/askanything: 24×r/luftablassen: +68.9%r/identifyThisForMe: +264.3%r/AskRedditr/AmItheAssholer/confessionr/AITAHr/NoStupidQuestionsr/explainitpeter +77.0%Year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Each subreddit's newest four weeks of posts and comments against the same four weeks a year earlier. The scale stretches near zero and compresses the extremes, and changes beyond +400% sit at the edge.

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Weekly posts, comments, unique contributors and members for r/explainitpeter, one row per week across the three years shown here.

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