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The Funniest WikiHows Give Worse Advice Than My Uncle, but With Much Nicer Drawings

Thunder Dungeon Staff Nov 02, 2026 05:00 AM EST

I want to be very clear that I have never followed a WikiHow all the way to the end, and anybody who says otherwise is a liar who wasn’t even there. The funniest wikihows take those calm, pastel drawings of people doing normal things and give them captions that turn every step into a confession. The drawings stay polite. The captions absolutely do not, and I read these on my lunch break and now I’m scared of my own instruction manuals.

WikiHow illustration of a smiling woman in a stained pink shirt captioned about acting normal — Nothing to see here, folks.
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WikiHow body chart with color coded sections and weekdays captioned as a dark meal plan — Color coding makes everything look responsible.
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WikiHow drawing of feet soaking in a tub of brown water captioned as making tea — Pinkies up. Toes in.
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WikiHow illustration of a phone texting about a beautiful day with a mean spirited caption — Petty has found a new low.
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WikiHow drawing of a wide eyed woman staring down two rats, captioned about rumors — Snitches get cheese.
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WikiHow illustration of a hand misting an empty aquarium with a spray bottle — Estimated fill time: four to six business years.
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WikiHow drawing of a person's head turned upside down with a checkmark, captioned about Australia — Simply rotate your entire skull.
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WikiHow illustration of a family dinner where a son asks if anyone made anything good — Dessert has been canceled.
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WikiHow drawing of hands holding a crouching cat's tail, captioned about floor accidents — The cat's face says lawyer.
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WikiHow illustration of a man wearing earmuffs and earplugs captioned about listening to Nickleback — Safety first, chorus second.
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WikiHow drawing of a shirtless man chopping vegetables at a counter with a dark caption — We're moving on immediately.
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WikiHow illustration of a leader asking a seated group to go around the circle and share — One positive thing: this meeting will end someday.
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WikiHow split image of drivers at traffic stops captioned with a disturbing horror movie joke — Officer has questions.
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WikiHow drawing of a woman peeking at a man showering while wearing his underwear — Fully committed to the bit.
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WikiHow illustration of a jogger running past a person collapsed on the path — Personal record over personal decency.
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WikiHow drawing of a man mapping ice and sand zones captioned about the climate apocalypse — Two zones. Pack accordingly.
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WikiHow illustration of a man pressing a spatula against a live cow captioned about rare burgers — Medium moo.
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WikiHow drawing of a woman covering her face in front of a mirror showing her reflection — The reflection is the problem.
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WikiHow drawing of a man hiding under a desk while an armed intruder stands above — Not the moment.
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WikiHow illustration of a woman pressing her thumbs into her dance partner's eyes — One, two, cha cha, nope.
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WikiHow drawing of a man looking through binoculars captioned about finding who asked — Search is ongoing.
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WikiHow illustration of a hand removing ticks from dark fur captioned about joining cows — The herd suspects nothing.
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WikiHow drawing of four glasses of murky water labeled lead, copper, and rusty pipes — Notes of copper with a long, concerning finish.
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WikiHow drawing of a woman with horns lying on a therapist's couch during a session — Literal interpretation unlocked.
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WikiHow illustration of a smiling blonde woman asking are you Amish in a speech bubble — Five stars for the burn, one star for the tip.
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The petty ones hit me hardest, because those are the ones I’d actually do. A smiling cartoon family at dinner turned into a lesson on insulting your mom’s cooking got me, mostly because I have done that, at a holiday, out loud, and I was not drawn nearly that nicely. These wikihow memes understand that the meanest moves usually come with a very pleasant face. And a room full of introverts being asked to share one positive thing about their week is a horror movie, I don’t care what anybody says.

Then the animals get involved, and it gets so much better. Confronting a rat for spreading rumors is the exact out of context memes energy I need in my life, mostly because that rat absolutely knows what it did. Somebody also figured out how to blend into a herd of cows, and the illustration commits to it with a seriousness I find deeply moving. I would read that rat’s drama in a newspaper every morning.

My favorites are the funny how to guides that are technically correct. Filling an aquarium with a spray bottle will work. It will just take until roughly the next ice age, which, according to one of these maps, might be showing up early. I once tried to empty a flooded basement with a shop vac and a mixing bowl, and my family has asked me to stop bringing it up.

The whole trick is the art style. WikiHow drawings are so calm and so helpful, with their soft colors and their little green checkmarks, that putting a terrible caption underneath feels like catching a librarian shoplifting. Your brain trusts the picture first, then the words show up and betray it. A polite voice saying something unhinged will always be funnier than somebody yelling it.

I think we love these because everybody secretly suspects instructions are a little bit made up. We’ve all followed a guide exactly and ended up holding a part that wasn’t in the diagram. These captions just admit it, with a cheerful cartoon nodding along like everything’s fine. Somewhere, an illustrator drew a man holding binoculars for a bird watching article and had no idea what that poor guy would end up searching for.

Step one was easy. Step two was a mistake. Step three is in the caption.

If your appetite for bad advice still isn’t full, our earlier batch of wikihow memes for advice you absolutely should not follow is right over there, and the out of context textbook diagrams make these look responsible. There’s also a whole stack of unhelpful instructions, plus a pile of cursed images for when your brain needs gently rearranging. Read every step carefully. Then ignore all of them.

WikiHow style drawing of a man wearing earmuffs over earplugs, one of the funniest wikihows about listening to music you'd rather not hear.

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Thunder Dungeon Staff is the byline for galleries our team makes together, led by co-founders Roy R. and Phil M. We've been curating internet humor since 2012: finding the funniest memes, pictures and posts, crediting creators wherever we can, and adding our own take. Roy or Phil reviews every post before it goes live.