Prior to being archived, the post gathered more than 12,100 up votes and 1,300 comments. On October 19th, 2010, Redditor Brawle submitted a post titled 'My experience with Reddit in a nutshell' to the /r/pics subreddit, which featured a comic detailing the experience of a person participating on Reddit for the first time (shown below). Within four years, the video received over 340,000 views and 670 comments. On August 22nd, 2009, YouTuber PeaTea64 uploaded a video titled ' Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland: In a Nutshell', featuring an animated parody of the 2002 Game Boy Advance game (shown below, right). In the following six years, the video gathered upwards of 1.21 million views and 14,900 comments. On March 14th, 2008, YouTuber easuter uploaded a clip from the animated television show Family Guy titled ' Christianity in a Nutshell' (shown below, left). On March 27th, 2007, YouTuber ShadowLeggy uploaded an animated parody of the Resident Evil films titled 'Resident Evil Movie (In a Nutshell)' (shown below), which accumulated more than 2.42 million views and 9,900 comments in the first seven years. In the next eight years, the video gained over 500,000 views and 1,500 comments.
On May 20th, 2006, YouTuber bergloren uploaded a video titled 'DBZ in a Nutshell,' which featured dubbed narration mocking the anime series Dragon Ball Z (shown below, left). On April 4th, 2005, Urban Dictionary user KinGAleX posted an entry for 'in a nutshell' (shown below).