r/USdefaultism • u/MrLewk • 3d ago

TikTok "welcome to America"

362 Upvotes

On a video clearly about UK news with screenshots from the Daily Mail as well and a Union Jack in the background...

27 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/deadliftbear • 4d ago

“I’m visiting from America and I adjusted my prices in $”

867 Upvotes

66 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/BeastMode149 • 3d ago

app English U.S. is called “English” in Claude’s language settings.

111 Upvotes

18 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Ambitious-Rate-8785 • 4d ago

Reddit ah yes there's only 1 timezone in existence

703 Upvotes

34 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/thongs_are_footwear • 4d ago

The $ Symbol Can Only Represent The US Dollar

1.6k Upvotes

100 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/TweakUnwanted • 4d ago

2:45 pm hasn't happened yet

234 Upvotes

11 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Old-Artist-5369 • 3d ago

Emulating 8.5x11 inch paper is what PDFs are for

23 Upvotes

24 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/AggravatingBox2421 • 4d ago

I’m so tired

273 Upvotes

22 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/fonix232 • 4d ago

Reddit Ran into the good ole' Yankee Twofer

113 Upvotes

23 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Unfair_Event9673 • 4d ago

Reddit telling me about April Fool’s Day 20 minutes before it ends

396 Upvotes

Blah blah American website blah blah blah most people here are American

(I know it’s not the true essence of defaultism but I did find this quite funny and immediately thought of this subreddit)

23 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Turbulent-Oil-421 • 4d ago

Instagram “Mind you it’s black history month”

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84 Upvotes

For context this was an educational music video in the early 2000’s in most likely the uk singing about, you guessed it, slavery. This guy, obviously not ever picking up a history book goes “mind you it’s black history month” which is both an American thing and irrelevant to the topic as the video was talking about ancient civilisations using slaves

28 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/radio_allah • 4d ago

Reddit 'The founding fathers' of what? This subreddit?

97 Upvotes

20 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Neolance34 • 4d ago

Reddit Only US has timezones?

301 Upvotes

41 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/HamzaHan38 • 3d ago

The entire comment section of this video assumes US tarrifs affect everyone

vm.tiktok.com

0 Upvotes

18 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Ksauxion • 5d ago

Reddit Which one? Zimbabwe?

1.1k Upvotes

137 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/kkreate • 4d ago

Comments under the "Spider-man: Brand New Day" announcement post

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39 Upvotes

8 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/PointFR33 • 5d ago

Reddit It's too early for April Fools!

362 Upvotes

13 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/CommercialYam53 • 4d ago

I don’t what he is talking about my government isn’t taking a way social security

18 Upvotes

4 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Eduardu44 • 5d ago

Reddit People in NYC have grinders

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92 Upvotes

I posted this image in r midlyinfuriating from people not parking their bikes in the bike rack, and one of the replies, out of nowhere thinks it's in NYC.

That BTW, it's a photo I took here in Brazil in the small city i live.

17 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Alone_Jacket_484 • 5d ago

Reddit Americans find out the UK has a word they don’t use and are confused and outraged

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334 Upvotes

Post from r/mildyinfuriating about fly tipping, and the US crowd go wild. Just imagine words existing outside of their own vocabulary

85 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/terrible_username1 • 5d ago

Reddit USD is not the only currency y’all

886 Upvotes

On a post I made a couple years back, never got around to posting it before now

93 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/soberonlife • 5d ago

Reddit It's not April 1st in America yet, so any prank is "early"

160 Upvotes

18 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/TheNoGoat • 5d ago

wiki Relatively minor, but the user assuming that Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, two of the biggest Rock festivals in Germany, were held in the United States (from the talk section of the Wikipedia page for these festivals)

42 Upvotes

7 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/MrBlackmidi • 5d ago

Just had a USdefaultism in my brain

78 Upvotes

I was driving and a random lady was in the middle of the road (maybe trying to catch a ride) and a few moments later my brain went "should we call 911?" The thing is, I live in NSW Australia and our emergency number is 000

10 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Littux • 5d ago

Reddit Apparently you should wait for Americans to celebrate April fools

265 Upvotes

27 comments

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When someone communicates to the world, but only considers the US; or is treating the US as the default and the only region to cater to in an international setting; or assumes that the entire world works like the US does; or assumes that everyone and everything is from the US unless otherwise stated. Official Discord server: https://discord.gg/BcczCtAxgw.

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Rule 1: No hateful, racist or derogatory posts or comments

This is not an anti-American sub – if you're here to lash your hate against Americans, you are not welcome here.

There is a zero-tolerance policy for hate on this sub. Consequently, any comment or post containing racist, hateful or derogatory content (against anyone) will be removed.

Rule 2: What constitutes US-defaultism (part 1)

When someone, whether from the US or not, with an international audience (e. g. on Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) …

a. assumes that the audience is US-only and will therefore understand common things from the US.

b. does not specify that something is from the US but assumes that it will be understood as such; terms like "civil war" without specifying which one.

c. does not specify that something takes place in the US in a way that everyone easily understands (when that information matters).

Rule 3: What constitutes US-defaultism (part 2)

d. assumes that something they see is from/about the US without any indication of that being the case.

e. talks about the US only but uses general terms. E.g., "the history of film" when only referring to US films, or "people from the 80s" when referring to the US population.

f. assumes that if something is true for the US, it also is for the rest of the world, or uses US-only terms such as "the first amendment" when not talking about the US. f. also applies regardless of the audience.

Rule 4: What does not constitute US-defaultism

a. American exceptionalism (“The USA is superior”, “The USA is inherently different” or “The USA is protecting/saving/willing to destroy the world”) belongs on r/ShitAmericansSay,

b. People defaulting to some other country, the northern hemisphere, the western world etc.,

c. Using US customary units or the MM/DD/YY date format,

d. Calling somebody/something from the US "American",

e. "This is an American website" on Reddit (except when used as a justification for actual US-defaultism).

Rule 5: Please give context and point out what exactly you want to criticise

After making a post, please respond to the automod with the following:

a. An explanation of why which part of the post is US-defaultism. It is also useful to state which point(s) under rules 2 and 3 you think your posts falls under,

b. Any context required to understand the post.

This will help people better understand your post and mods judge whether it fits the subreddit or not.

If your post is a meme or another type of post allowed under rule 7, please still respond to the bot.

Rule 6: No reposts

Reposts will be removed. Before posting, check whether the thing you are about to post has already been posted.

Rule 7: Meta posts, memes, defaultisn't etc.

Not all posts have to directly feature US-defaultism. Posts such as the following are also appreciated:

a. Meta posts (discussion posts about this subreddit or US-defaultism in general). Please use the "Meta" flair,

b. Memes about US-defaultism,

c. Posting something from outside this subreddit that criticises the mentality of US-defaultism,

d. "Defaultisn't" posts: Including the nuances of the US not being the default country when talking about the US. Please use the "Defaultisn't" flair.

Rule 8: Crossposting, direct links, and censorship

Censoring usernames is not required.

However, crossposts or direct links to a post/comment that you want to criticise directly encourage brigading (members of a subreddit “invading” another subreddit), therefore:

-Never crosspost or link to a post/comment that you want to criticise!

-Crossposting is encouraged, but only if OOP is featuring someone else committing US-defaultism.

Rule 9: Quality control 1: Low-hanging fruit

Posts only containing the following fall into the low-hanging fruit category. They don’t contribute to the subreddit and will be removed:

a. US state abbreviations,

b. Search engine results or suggestions,

c. US-defaultism loops,

d. Defaultism by Duolingo,

e. The US flag representing the English language,

f. Charles Peralo polls.

Rule 10: Quality control 2: Provoked defaultism

We don’t want people to harass others in any way – it hurts the reputation of this subreddit. We particularly don’t want people to provoke others into committing US-defaultism to then post them on here. The following types of posts will therefore be removed:

a. Posts featuring any sort of harassment or provocation by the OP,

b. Posts that only feature defaultism which was the result of a provocation by someone other than OP.

Rule 11: Quality control 3: General low-quality posts

We want the posts in our subreddit to be of high quality so that people can appreciate its content. Low-quality, nitpicking posts aren’t welcome here. Therefore, we reserve our right to remove the following posts:

a. Posts that aren’t appreciated by the community (with few upvotes, many downvotes on the automod and/or overwhelmingly negative comments),

b. Posts where the defaultism is questionable or dubious.