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Tell me dad jokes

Give me your best dad joke · · channel c5_c8f

The chat channel attached to r/unknown_sub ran for 637 days before Reddit removed chat channels entirely. This is the surviving record: 14,745 messages from 2,203 people.

21 Feb 2024opened18 Nov 2025last message
637 days · 23.3 msg/day
14,745Messages
2,203People
197Images
5,153Reactions
1,058Replies
1,487Deleted

Every day the room was open

The room's busiest day was in its first fortnight. Everything after that is decline.

Peak was 1,484 messages on 24 Feb 2024. Colour marks activity: solid is a busy day, grey is a quiet one.

21 Feb 202418 Nov 2025
busiest days middling quiet

What was actually being said

The room's own vocabulary

These are the words this channel used far more than the rest of the archive did — the in-jokes, names and shorthand that only make sense if you were in here. Median message length: 23 characters.

TermUses
dad507
joke499
call452
jokes319
lol429
because372
hi369
man253
i'm271
it's233
don't227
knock134
MeasureValue
Median message length23
90th percentile82
Total words48,848
Messages asking a question20.8%

Messages by hour, UTC

When the room was awake

A 4.3 to 1 swing between the busiest and quietest hour — mostly one region, with a scattering elsewhere.

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Arrivals, departures and bans, by month

June is the crossover

June is the month it started losing people faster than it gained them.

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joinedleftbanned

5,153 reactions

How the room responded

joy
3,924
upvote
648
care
193
facepalm
33
wave
30
scream
30
grin
28
rage
23

72 stickers

And what it sent instead of words

snoo_joy15karma9snoo_trollface9hamster6heart_eyes_pride6snoo_smile3snoo_simple_smile3downvote2doge2unknown2

Reddit's chat reaction and sticker sets were removed with the feature. These are preserved copies.

Who was in here

2,203 people passed through. A handful carried it.

The top poster sent 770 messages. Below them the curve collapses: 900 people posted once and never came back.

ParticipantMessagesShare
nasandre mod7705.2%
Wiz101deathwiz3092.1%
[deleted]2992.0%
LowWeakness76852511.7%
[deleted]2391.6%
Ok_Pomegranate_2586 mod2001.4%
Demonicpizza2251871.3%
[deleted]1761.2%
WorriedComplex3342 mod1671.1%
broken_repair19206801400.9%
Naked_objective1400.9%
Scott27271350.9%

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18 Nov 2025 · the end of the log

The last thing anyone said here

No announcement, no goodbye. The archive simply stops. Nobody in this conversation knew it was the last one.

Twinmakerx2I dont understand the elephant joke
chillz881How to tell the difference between alligators and crocodiles? one will see you later and the other will see you in a while
Salty_Yesterday_9929The UFO looking at Earth the captain says hey they got nuclear weapons do you think there's intelligent life down there? The first officer replies no sir they got them pointed at each other
nasandreI went to the casino and had a few spins on the roulette wheel, until they told me to get off it.
PretendFun17What’s brown and sticky? Poop.
Met76What’s brown and sticky? A stick.
Rinsetheplates_firstHow do NASA organise a party? They planet
PretendFun17What’s Orange and sounds like A Parrot? A Carrot.
Enebr0Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don't have the guts
redditWe’re making changes to Reddit Chat to simplify how people connect. As part of these efforts, public chat channels will sunset in mid-November across desktop, mobile web, and the Reddit apps. Learn more(https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15012434519316-What-are-chat-channels)
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