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Diary of a Wimpy Kid iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Iceberg -- 150+ entries, all explained", was posted by u/Shindiee on 15 June 2021 and had about 839 upvotes when it was collected.[1] The subreddit has 5 other charts on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions. A text version, "Iceberg of a Wimpy Kid" by squarver, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 989 views as of 29 October 2026.[2]

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "First of all, this is an ICEBERG, not a diary. Inspired by iceberg videos from BookOfValis, Elifordips and Zerif and made my own! Also, thanks to all the people on-site & Reddit for the newer entries! If you want to use this in a video, credit me as SebastianObjects or squarver"

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Iceberg -- 150+ entries, all explained" by u/Shindiee (15 June 2021)

Tiers[edit]

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version[2]. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Not a Sky-ary[edit]

  • Book series – The current run of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Currently there are 20 released mainline books, each with varying amounts of quality.
  • Capital letters – Usually for EMPHASIS on certain words in the book series.
  • CrowRanaBurger – Most well-known for his Wimpy Kid content, with him checking out different Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself books, reviewing Wimpy Kid fan covers, and buying & reviewing the latest book release.
  • Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid – The spinoff of the mainline series starring Rowley with his diaries, ranging from stories about Greg, to a fantasy novel to spooky stories. There are currently 3 released books with a fourth…
  • Disney+ movies – A set of currently four CG Wimpy Kid movies released on Disney+ starting in 2021 and releasing yearly besides 2024.
  • Do-It-Yourself book – This book contains many activities to do, along with book-exclusive comics, and blank pages to write your own diary towards the end.
  • Early 2010s movies – The original movie series that adapted the first 4 books into live action. Dog Days contains elements from The Last Straw and it's namesake.
  • Greg Heffley – The main protagonist of the DoaWK series, labelled as an "anti-hero" by his author.
  • Greg voice actors – Greg has had six voice actors as of 2026. Those being: Zach Gordon (first 3 live action movies) Jason Drucker (Long Haul movie) Anton Griffin (Deep End ad) Brady Noon (first 2 animated movies) Wesley…
  • Jeff Kinney – The author of all the DoaWK and DoaAFK books.
  • Macy's Day balloons – This references the times Greg was a balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, starting in 2010.
  • Movie Diaries – These are books that take the readers behind the scenes of the movie making process of the four live action movies, with them being updated as the movies released.
  • r/LodedDiper – The biggest subreddit of Wimpy Kid fans where people post memes & fanfiction of the book series.
  • Rowley Jefferson – The best friend of Greg, and the writer of DoaAFK. Throughout the series, he ends up getting less and less time on pages though.
  • The Cheese Touch – The "disease" coming from the tritagonist of the first book, The Cheese, being a slice of moldy cheese on the middle school blacktop. A kid Darren Walsh touches the cheese, starting the "Cheese…
  • The Pig – In The Long Haul, Manny gained a pig, which became a recurring character in Old School. The Pig's last appearance was in Big Shot and nobody knows his whereabouts.
  • The Long Haul movie – The most hated live-action Wimpy Kid movie for varying controversies; the most notable being the #notmyrodrick trend, as he was written more as an "imbecile" by the community.
  • Zoo Wee Mama! – The semi-famous comic Greg created where every panel ends with that catchphrase. Rowley ended up using it because Greg didn't like it, but Greg claims Rowley stole it, which is contradictory to his…
  • #notmyrodrick – This refers to the movement around the 2017 release date of the Long Haul movie, where the actor Charlie Wright, the Rodrick actor in that adaptation, was given a lot of hate online for how he was…

Surfice Leval[edit]

  • Bampy Jefferson – Rowley's grandfather introduced in Book 2, with Greg offhandedly saying he wouldn't survive the next year, with Awesome Friendly Kid proving that fact.
  • Book mistakes – Either a reference to the viral series by Toviyaondo where he goes through book series & points out mistakes, or the amount of retcons in the series itself.
  • Cancelled Cabin Fever movie – Not referring to the Disney+ title, this was a cancelled adaptation of the 6th book, which was going to be 2D and release around Christmas 2013. Then in August 2013, Jeff said that the special would…
  • DoaWK based on Kinney's life – This references that a lot of things that happen in the books happened in Jeff's life in one way or another. In the Long Haul movie diary, Jeff states the pig escape scene in book 9 was inspired by a…
  • Exclusive characters – This entry references the characters that were cut from the physical release in 2007. For example, Ben Fielders was originally in the webcomic as the main antagonist and Greg's former best friend.
  • Fanfiction/LLBs – There's loads of fanfiction derived from the original series, and LLB just means "Looks Like Book", which is when a fanfic replicates the book's artstyle.
  • FunBrain edition – This is referencing the original 600+ page book released on Jeff's website Funbrain over the course of a few years.
  • Greg is a sociopath – A viral fan theory that Greg, the protagonist of the series, is a sociopath, not caring about anyone on his way to being famous. This has been debunked by the author, Jeff Kinney, passing it off as…
  • Igdoof – A comic created by Jeff Kinney for his university's newspaper. It was very popular on the campus, but wasn't able to get it as an actual comic after graduating. He then decided to work on a book…
  • L'il Cutie – This was introduced as an in-universe comic strip in Dog Days, which Greg laments about, saying it is "the worst comic ever", most likely from it's repetitive nature and references to The Family…
  • Manny hate – This is referencing the hate around Manny Heffley, most coming from the subreddit r/F*Manny. The reason he's hated most likely comes from him messing up Greg's antics throughout the series.
  • McDonalds collab – A collab with McDonalds in 2016 which released multiple short stories in the UK if you bought a kids meal.
  • Poptropica – Mainly created by Jeff Kinney, the author of DoaWK. He was the creative director until 2015. The website contained two Wimpy Kid-themed islands.
  • Real life games – There is a plethora of Wimpy Kid games & puzzles to buy, which include: Wimpy Kid Clue The Wimpy Kid 10 Second Challenge Cheese Touch Board Game Class of Characters puzzle Flipping Frenzy cards…
  • Rowley Cheese eating scene – The gross part of the book/movies where the teenagers force Rowley to eat the Cheese. Greg is almost forced to eat it as well, but says he's "allergic to dairy".
  • Twitter

The Sea of Dipers[edit]

  • ACAB/BLM Manny – Manny Heffley, the younger brother of Greg, was used as a symbol against the police, and if you recognized the title, racism.
  • Baby Gibson – A person introduced in The Meltdown. Greg states that although time passes, Baby Gibson never seems to get older, with Greg assuming he's 32.
  • Cheese Touch Edition – This was a re-release of the first book, now with yellow page spines and the Cheese being coloured in too.
  • Diaper Hand – The "viral" "meme" in the Long Haul movie where Greg gets a diaper on his hand after looking for Manny in the ball pit at Corny's.
  • First draft – The first draft of the Wimpy Kid book was drastically different from the one we have now. It was originally published online, and had over 1,200 pages. The draft was worked on over a span of 8 years…
  • Greg Heffley's Journal – This is the subtitle of the first book on early releases.
  • Greg's popularity list – This is a reference to the list Greg makes in the first book, and is shown more in the first movie. This is how Greg ranks the people at his middle school. According to the movie, there are 201 kids…
  • Greg was born prematurely – This is a reference to how Greg was born three weeks early, as proven in The Third Wheel. He was 5lbs, 7oz at birth.
  • Joshie Says – Turns out, there's a song that was probably made for the live action movies, but was never played. You can still find it on YouTube.
  • Manny was 5 in the first book – In the first book, it's stated that Greg managed to keep the "Bubby" nickname a secret for 5 years, yet in Book 3, its's stated that Manny is 3. Either this was a retcon or a continuity error.
  • Merch – There is loads of Wimpy Kid merch available, like magnets, plushies, stickers and shirts.
  • Movie exclusive characters – This is just referencing the amount of characters that were created specifically for the movies, real or animated.
  • Sweetie original design – In the webcomic, Sweetie's design is more accurate to the real life breed he's based on. He's meant to be a Yorkshire Terrier.
  • The Adventures of Yusuf Ali – The Turkish ripoff of DoaWK, which didn't even try to distinguish itself from it's predecessor.
  • The Foot – A cheesy horror film in the second movie that was made because the filmmakers wanted to save the Muddy Hand story for the third movie.
  • Translation variants – Around the world, there are multiple different designs and changes for the Wimpy Kid book covers, including but not limited to: Arabic Bosnian Czech Danish Estonian French (has an early cover…

Deap Overlode[edit]

  • Asian-American characters – Starting in Big Shot, Asian characters are drawn slightly differently to distinguish them from other ethnicities. (This is not a racism thing)
  • Cut Leland scene – This was a cut scene in the live aciton Rodrick Rules movie where Greg, Rowley and an actor for Leland play Magick & Monsters. This was cut for storytelling purposes but was reworked into a scene…
  • Deep End commercial – In 2020, to promote the 15th book, multiple characters in the series - fully voice acted - are in a Zoom call.
  • Easter eggs in Hard Luck – This is not referencing the amount of references in the book, rather the amount of physical eggs in the book. The correct estimation would get a signed copy of the next book by Jeff. We don't know…
  • Greg vs Anne Frank rap battle – This was an Epic Rap Battles of History video that was deleted due to the distain of the creator. You can find reuploads of it on YouTube.
  • Iceland Greg height chart – In Iceland, there was a height chart of Greg where kids could measure how tall they were compared to Greg. Apparently, Greg is 5' tall.
  • Online games – There have been many online games about the series too. For example, a Meltdown-inspired snowball fight game on Gamaverse.
  • Plainview is based on a real place – This is a reference to Jeff's hometown of Plainville, with a lot of people flipping the two names.
  • Poptropica journal page – In the Poptropica Wimpy Kid island, you can find an exclusive page with Greg talking about switching lockers with Chirag.
  • Rodrick wrote "Wimpy Kid" on every cover – Apparently, if you match up Rodrick's handwriting with "of a Wimpy Kid", it shows that he wrote it himself.
  • The timeline – This refers to the times the book takes place. The first book takes place within a full school year, but Jeff had to keep shortening the timespan between books so he could keep Greg in middle school.…
  • The reason behind Manny's name – In an interview, Jeff said that the reason behind Manny's name was because he thought it would be funny for a child to have an over-masculine name, and not because of the name Emmanuel. Jeff didn't…
  • Wade is related to Patty – In the first movie, the actors playing Patty Farrell and Wade, one of Greg and Rowley's bullies, are related, being played by Laine McNeil and Donnie McNeil respectively.
  • Robert Capron wore a toupee during the 3rd movie – This was because he had just come from filming the Three Stooges movie as a young Curly, who had his head clean shaven.
  • Reddit AMA – Laine MacNeil (Patty Farrell) and Harrison Houde (Darren Walsh, the kid who touched the cheese) are the only live action cast members to do AMAs on r/LodedDiper.

The Bottum Tip[edit]

  • Autism allegory – Greg might have autism due to him not liking eye contact when talking with others, poor social skills and not liking certain textures.
  • Cancelled non-continuous plan – Jeff originally wanted the books to not be in a continuous order, with each book not leading into the next one. This was scrapped due to the poor reception of post-Long Haul and pre-Meltdown.
  • Chirag hasn't shown up since Cabin Faver – Even though he's a popular character, he hasn't shown up "officially" since Cabin Fever, even within the first 5 pages.
  • Early book titles – Original titles for: -The Ugly Truth; was going to be called Rowley's Revenge, with the cover being Rowley stepping on the manhole cover Greg reaches out of -The Third Wheel; was going to be called…
  • First appearance of blood – The first appearance of blood in the series was Chad Middleton in Hard Luck, when Greg takes a picture of him.
  • FRED auditioned for Greg – When auditions for Greg Heffley in the Wimpy Kid movie were announced, Lucas Cruikshank, also known as FRED online, auditioned for the part, but got rejected for being too old. He also auditioned for…
  • Greg in PSAs – Greg has appeared in two PSAs. The first is a radio Lifelong Literacy Features presentation where it's just an ad for The Last Straw. The second is him and other students singing a song to encourage…
  • Jeff's book limit – In interviews, Jeff has talked about when he wants to end the series. He originally stated 10 books, then it changed to 20, and now it's most likely through the 20th anniversary of the first book in…
  • Lost musical – In 2016, there was a Broadway musical of the first book, with some plot changes. It was considered lost media due to production issues, but has been fully remade.
  • Multiple Timelines – A theory that is supposed to make the continuity make sense in the timeline as there are a lot of them.
  • Old School was meant to be a reboot – According to Jeff, this was supposed to usher a new beginning for the series, but newer releases kind of undid that statement.
  • Potential scrapped Getaway movie – At the end of the Long Haul, it's teased that the Heffleys were going on another trip, possibly tying into the book that released the same year, The Getaway. Most likely from The Long Haul's poor…
  • Autism allegory (Rowley) – Rowely might also have autism due to his childish interests and sensitivity to things as small as walking past the older kids in school.

Full Diper[edit]

  • Ben Shapiro signed meme – A person at a school got Ben Shapiro, who was visiting, to sign an edited image of a scene from Book 1 where a bully pushes a pair of twins over.
  • Bryce is related to Joshie – This theory states that Bryce is related to Joshie in some way, as they look fairly similar when looking at each of them.
  • Chirag's Trail of Tears – To promote the first movie, a video was made where Chirag gives advice to hide from bullies.
  • Diary o a Wimpy Wean – This is Scottish translation of the book series, which is notably hard to find.
  • Greg's depressing future – In a Reddit AMA, Jeff stated that Rowley would be the one with a happy ending, and Greg would be in his shadow when they grow up.
  • Hard Luck might have been the final book – This theory says that Hard Luck was meant to be the final book, as it wraps up everything that was built up over the previous few books.
  • Holly only has one line – Even though she's a popular character in the series, she's only said one line ever in Book 3: "Isn't your name 'Fregley'?"
  • Jeff knows about fanfiction – This states that Jeff, as proven in an interview, that he knows about fanfiction, even being "a bit horrified by it".
  • Special leather edition – There is a leather edition of the first book. It is unknown why, as there is no reason for this book's existence.
  • The Heffleys are unknowingly smart – Each Heffley has some aspect of intelligence, listed here: -Frank knowing a lot about the Civil War along with his figures -Susan with her own "cryptocurrency" with Mom Bucks -Rodrick hides his…
  • Was originally 1 book – Jeff wanted Diary of a Wimpy Kid to be over a thousand page single book title, but was told not to because that seemed too much.

Other versions[edit]

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

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Sources[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ u/Shindiee. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Iceberg -- 150+ entries, all explained. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 15 June 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 squarver. Iceberg of a Wimpy Kid. IcebergThreads. 27 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
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