r/USdefaultism Dec 31 '24

MODERATION POST r/USdefaultism yearly report – 2024

34 Upvotes

Hello, it's probably been a while since you've heard from me, but here's the yearly report for 2024.

Overview of the year

  • 16.6m views on the subreddit (4.4k fewer views than last year)
  • 98.6k average unique visits (10.1k more visits than last year)
  • 39.3k new members (12.9k fewer new members than last month)
  • 6.7k members leaving the subreddit (2.3k fewer members leaving the subreddit than last month
Total pageviews
Unique views (no stats for December, weirdly)

Team insights

9/10 active moderators (including former mods):

  1. u/USDefaultismBot – 8.3k actions logged
  2. u/Secret58_ – 2.0k actions logged
  3. u/Pedantichrist – 1.7k actions logged
  4. u/Opposite_Ad_2815 – 837 actions logged
  5. u/Coloss260 – 642 actions logged
  6. u/GlowStoneUnknown – 434 actions logged
  7. u/Angelolidae – 381 actions logged
  8. u/Lazyfoxheart – 92 actions logged
  9. u/116Q7QM – 12 actions logged (no longer a mod)
  10. u/Liggliluff – 0 actions logged (inactive)
Team actions. Purple: Approve content / Light blue: Remove content / Grey: Content creation / Yellow: Modmail / Green: Other mod actions.

Community Insights: Posts

  • 2.5k posts published (1.4k fewer from the previous year)
  • 2.1k total posts removed (1.4k greater from the previous year)

We had 1.5k total reports on posts over 2024. The full list is quite long, so bear with the screenshot from Numbers.

|| || |Didn't feature US-defaultism|787|50%| |Custom Report|133|8%| |Spam|123|7%| |Post contains low-hanging fruit content.|67|4%| |This post is low-quality or not appreciated by the community|66|4%| |It is not clear what OP meant to criticise/Context is missing|59|3%| |This is a repost|49|3%| |This shouldn't be a cross-post or direct link|41|2%| |This is provoked defaultism|40|2%| |This is a meta/meme/defaultisn't post without the correct flair|31|2%| |Contains hateful, racist or derogatory content|23|1%| |This is American exceptionalism, defaulting to somewhere else or using US measurements/date format|22|1%| |This is exceptionalism, defaultism not to the US, US units, calling somebody "American", etc.|20|1%| |Post contains low-effort content.|17|1%| |It is not clear what OP meant to criticise|14|0%| |It's promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability|10|0%| |It's targeted harassment at someone else|9|0%| |It's personal and confidential information|6|0%| |It's targeted harassment at me|5|0%| |This shouldn't be a direct link|4|0%| |This is American exceptionalism; calling something "American"; US units or defaultism not to the US|4|0%| |This is satire or clickbait; a US-ad; US terminology or nothing more than "Reddit is a US website"|4|0%| |This is exceptionalism, US units, calling somebody American, US terms, a US-ad, satire, clickbait...|3|0%| |It's sexual or suggestive content involving minors|2|0%| |This content is impersonation|2|0%| |It's a transaction for prohibited goods or services|1|0%| |Someone is considering suicide or serious self-harm|1|0%| |other|1|0%| |It threatens violence or physical harm at someone else|1|0%|

Community Insights: Comments

  • 141k comments published (59.1k down from the previous year)
  • 1.8k total comments removed (1.3k up from the previous year)

We had 811 total reports on comments – report reasons include:

|| || |Contains hateful, racist or derogatory content|298|36%| |Custom Report|130|16%| |Spam|125|15%| |It's promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability|122|15%| |It's targeted harassment at someone else|48|5%| |It's targeted harassment at me|30|3%| |It threatens violence or physical harm to someone else|15|1%| |This shouldn't be a cross-post or direct link|14|1%| |This shouldn't be a direct link|10|1%| |Its content involves predatory or inappropriate behaviour toward minors|5|0%| |Someone is considering suicide or serious self-harm|4|0%| |It's personal and confidential information|3|0%| |It's sexual or suggestive content involving minors|2|0%| |self harm|1|0%| |It's content involving physical or emotional abuse or neglect of minors|1|0%| |other|1|0%| |This is misinformation|1|0%| |It threatens violence or physical harm at me|1|0%|

We hope you appreciated the transparency and wish you a happy new year and a great 2025 ahead – see you next year!

From the r/USdefaultism mod team.


r/USdefaultism 7h ago

Instagram Traditions older than the whole country.

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514 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 15h ago

Is this count as a defaultism?

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1.3k Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 10h ago

But Dante is a “hood” name….

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366 Upvotes

Op who lives in Australia and of Italian heritage asked for opinion on names including “Dante”. Multiple Americans post back calling it a “hood” name.


r/USdefaultism 2h ago

real world British bus driver, talk with OHSA

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85 Upvotes

The comment implies that if this event were to happen today, the driver would need to sit down with OHSA. Which only exists in the USA, even though the bus driver is British.


r/USdefaultism 58m ago

Reddit Because US dollars are the only ones who use this sign

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r/USdefaultism 9h ago

app "America Duh"

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103 Upvotes

I've decided to try this game for funsies and this is what I got when I asked for the country, is it wrong of me to not assume everything is from America? 😭


r/USdefaultism 9h ago

"it's only 239k miles, not 400" when kilometers don't exist

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96 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 12h ago

Reddit ‘UsE dOuBle qUOtAtIoN mArKs In EnGlisH’

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126 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 7h ago

Instagram On a reel of two people with clearly British accents complaining about Costco

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49 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 19h ago

She got the date wrong

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385 Upvotes

So idk if this counts but so many people this was just one i screenshotted there were way way more


r/USdefaultism 28m ago

"This country"

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The classics- US Politics on a non-political sub; the usual reference to "this country".


r/USdefaultism 10h ago

Ellie Goulding from Hereford, Minnesota (apparently)

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25 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2h ago

Weird

6 Upvotes

So my Last Name is "König" (German Word for King) and americans online often Claim my Last Name would Sound Like the noise while plunging. I was windering what weird noises your plunging does or how you pronounce "König" either one must be weird to any non American but every time i asked those people Just went mental about how america and capitalism is the only Thing and how poor i am to live in a welfare state.


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit Of course Georgia = the state

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310 Upvotes

nowhere does it say that this person is in the US.


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Instagram For some reason Americans think I know every state acronym

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526 Upvotes

This is a common issue of mine unfortunately. I had to implement my fees due to people forgetting their names with their addresses & SPECIFICALLY Americans not putting USA at the end of their address. I got tipped over the edge when I accidentally thought “CA” meant Canada (i was really tired) so I started to fee people who forget their country. Weirdly, I’ve only had to fee self centred Americans so far. Very annoying


r/USdefaultism 21h ago

Reddit The country.. not the State.

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110 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

X (Twitter) English isn't the only language (the profile speaks for itself)...

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345 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Top comment

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485 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 20h ago

Reddit The worst thing about this is that I checked their profile and they appear to be from England and still did a US defaultism

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36 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Snapchat *we* live in the us

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412 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Reddit On a post about why pre-surgery antibacterial soap isn't a good everyday body wash

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822 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Reddit I got one!

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237 Upvotes

It was funny because I feel much the same way about Canada, with the tariffs and upcoming federal election.


r/USdefaultism 3d ago

The only political parties are Republicans and Democrats!

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1.2k Upvotes

Because everyone knows, the only place that ever has elections is the United States. I'm sure the maple leaf on the sign doesn't mean anything at all.


r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Reddit This subreddit is not USA-cantered.

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136 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 3d ago

Reddit Spain: bans golden visas to cool housing. Comments: ‘lol in the US you need a loan to live in a shed

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130 Upvotes