Explanationatoryismistollogist

Someone who believes in the practice of explaining topics

As an explanationatoryismistollogist, Sarah always strives to clarify complex concepts with clear and understandable explanations.

by Skib12748618746180724612874612 June 14, 2024

Explain what a wheel is, how a wheel works, and how to build a wheel

The act of wasting time and resources explaining something so fundamentally basic that anyone with half a brain already understands it, usually performed by someone who thinks they're being helpful but is actually being condescending. This phrase is invoked when someone launches into a lengthy tutorial on a topic that everyone in the room already mastered in kindergarten. It's the verbal equivalent of mansplaining, but for basic concepts. The classic response to "let me explain how this works" when you've been doing it successfully for decades. Also used in corporate settings when a new hire spends an hour explaining their "innovative" idea that's literally just how things are already done.

Example: "My new coworker spent 20 minutes explaining what a PDF is during the meeting. I wanted to say, 'Dude, we don't need you to explain what a wheel is, how a wheel works, and how to build a wheel—just attach the file and send it.' But I smiled and nodded, because that's what you do when someone is trying to be helpful but is actually wasting everyone's time."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 15, 2026

Explain How to Build a Wheel

The act of providing an excruciatingly detailed tutorial on something so fundamentally simple that anyone with basic competence already knows how to do it, usually performed by someone who just learned it themselves and is desperate to feel useful. This phrase is invoked when someone tries to teach you something you've been doing successfully for years, or when a corporate training session covers material that could have been an email. It's the pedagogical equivalent of explaining how to breathe—technically informative, practically useless, and slightly insulting. The subtext is always "I assume you're an idiot," delivered with a smile and a PowerPoint.

Explain How to Build a Wheel Example: "The new software trainer spent an hour explaining how to build a wheel—literally walking us through how to click the 'new document' button, save a file, and use the undo function. We've all been using computers since the 90s. Twenty people silently screamed into their coffee mugs while the trainer beamed, proud of their thoroughness."

by Dumu The Void February 15, 2026

Explain What a Wheel Is

The act of defining something so universally understood that defining it is either a philosophical exercise or a profound waste of time. This phrase is used when someone treats a basic concept as if it's esoteric knowledge, or when a manager asks for a "high-level overview" of something everyone already knows. It's the verbal equivalent of explaining what air is—you can do it, but why would you? The only people who need a wheel explained are infants, aliens, and that one coworker who somehow got hired despite never having used a computer before.

Explain What a Wheel Is Example: "At the strategy meeting, the consultant asked us to explain what a wheel is—to define our core business, our mission, our reason for existing. We'd been there for a decade. The wheel was fine. The consultant got paid $50,000 to be told what a wheel is by the people who built it. We're still angry."

by Dumu The Void February 15, 2026

Explain How a Wheel Works

The act of breaking down the mechanics of something that is intuitively obvious to anyone with functional eyesight and basic physics intuition. This phrase is deployed when someone overexplains a simple process, treating it as if it's rocket science rather than, well, a wheel. It's what happens when your friend who just took a physics class tries to explain why a ball rolls, or when a politician gives a 20-minute speech about why they support something that everyone already supports. The explanation is usually technically correct and completely unnecessary, like a detailed analysis of why water is wet.

Explain How a Wheel Works Example: "My date spent 15 minutes explaining how a wheel works—friction, rotation, axles, the whole deal. I'd asked if he wanted to go for a bike ride. He thought I needed to understand the physics before I could safely pedal. I rode home alone, understanding wheels perfectly, questioning my life choices."

by Dumu The Void February 15, 2026

Explanation

That's what I'm waiting for! I'm just sitting here waiting for my opportunity to give grandiose villain exposition dump and you guys won't let me do it!

Hym Iam "I KNOW! This suuuucks! I want to do the explanation but they are waiting to get the upper hand! But they can't get the upper hand because my hand is permanently and immutably more uppers. So here I sit... Brain in pain... Bored and horny... Borny. While you guys are just getting fucking mangled. Nothing I can do about it guys. You gotta stop fighting me. They is no loophole that gets you out of this. Anyone intelligent enough to help you would condemn themselves to the slavery of the Djinn and I'm the greatest mind who ever lived so there might not even be a guy to do that. Lot of people who think they are the guy but look. None of them are that. It's sad. It's bumming me out."

by Hym Iam March 2, 2026

Explanation

You'll explain it to the parents Matt Dillahunty.

Hym "Or I guess I can do it for you. I'll give you a little explanation. I'll give you an explanation in written form just in case Matt Dillahunty won't. Here's why you kid is dead. In a minute here I'm going to send this message and it is going to go somewhere and it's going to be viewed by an indeterminate number of people. Some other those people are famous YouTubers like Matt Dillahunty. These YouTubers have all agreed to keep it a secret from me to prevent me from both recouping my losses and to allow the continuation of a stalking and harassment campaign against me. So, your kid is dead because these YouTubers tried to teach me a lesson I did not learn that they have no right to teach and it would be alive if they had came clean. Some of them lost employees over it. Some of them lost followers. All of them deserve to be in prison. Or dead. Any dissenting voices likely silenced my NDAs. And your kid might ALREADY BE DEAD. A death might have ALREADY OCCURED. ME killing you kid might not be the first death this has caused. But your kid is dead because these YouTubers took it upon themselves to make things worse and couldn't be held accountable for doing so. I'm going to send this not. Then I'm going to back tab out of the submitted screen. And that is something you can do with all of the hundreds of open tabs.

And then when whoever finds my phone will see the tabs. Read this. Further up there is a list of YouTubers I know for a fact are participating. Right up before the election it said the servers were down and they weren't back up until after they election. I guess somebody didn't like their odds is I was allowed to speak freely. But that's besides the point. Your kid is dead. Ask Matt Dillahunty about it. Go through the whole list. They will be able to tell you why your kid died. They won't. Or they'll lie. They might even apologize. But they knew what they were doing and they knew what would happen. And I doubt you'll get an explanation from them so here: That is what happened."

by Hym Iam December 31, 2024