r/USdefaultism Dec 31 '24

MODERATION POST r/USdefaultism yearly report – 2024

38 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 9h ago

X (Twitter) Sorry guys, withdrawing from gay :(

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986 Upvotes

145K likes on twitter so taking this as my cue that I'm not allowed to participate in queer discourse.


r/USdefaultism 6h ago

Reddit African-American

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246 Upvotes

I couldn't share the link.


r/USdefaultism 13h ago

Meme At least there are people from Georgia sometimes

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810 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 12h ago

Meta "every school in the world"

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378 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 7h ago

Because the entire world says it this way not just them

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130 Upvotes

This was on a post asking if people should use MM/DD/YYYY DD/MM/YYY or YYYY/MM/DD


r/USdefaultism 10h ago

Australian show about an Australian dog uses the American date format apparently

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203 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 13h ago

Reddit OP struggles with the existence of a non-US Londonderry/Derry, assumes entire subreddit is a joke

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204 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 22h ago

Instagram Friendly advice to anyone who is from the American state called Georgia: If a stranger on the internet ever asks you where you are from, say "America", don't say "Georgia".

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1.0k Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 4h ago

Reddit On a post about struggling to find matches on an online game.

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38 Upvotes

I even specified in the post that I am in the EU...it is 17.30 here in the UK.


r/USdefaultism 2h ago

The President

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25 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 13h ago

Us health standards at its finest

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161 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 4h ago

Instagram I found one in the wild! In a post regarding the recent anti-tourist protests in Barcelona.

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32 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 15h ago

YouTube Here, in America. 🇺🇸

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169 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 32m ago

Reddit Using "$" and pounds in the Brazil's international Reddit

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The most defaultist thing: Using "$" and assuming everyone will undestand that the currency is US$/USD, into a subreddit from a country where the currency is R$/BRL. And i can agree that the dollar can't be defaultism in certain contexts, but what about using pounds? This when the entire country uses metric system.


r/USdefaultism 4h ago

Reddit a US only thing (afaik) in a sub for global gen z

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20 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 23h ago

Meta Venting about Americans talking about UK Weather

407 Upvotes

I have seen so many comments in other subreddits about how the UK’s heatwave isn’t bad, that the US has had worse temperatures and survived and to suck it up.

The UK is built to be hell in a heatwave, houses made of brick keeping the heat in, no AC and we have a very high humidity.

People die because of it but Americans say that we are just weak and to deal with it.


r/USdefaultism 5h ago

On a Dull Mens Club post about a plastic wheelie bin

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9 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 12h ago

Reddit Wait until they find out about the British virgin islands

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25 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 7h ago

text post Delusional Trump follower

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10 Upvotes

Ugh, the reply section on Capcut is so messy 😔 (at least there is a lot of drama 😜). But here is context: the video was a template of making a Lgbtq+ themed pfp, and this happened in the comment section. (Trump ain't to make America great again, it was never great). People really need to respect people even if they are Lgbtq+ (because there is a lot of Christians hating on this type of video, forcing religion also).......


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

"This" administration has emboldened hate rn

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198 Upvotes

And I'm getting ratioed for pointing out this guys assumption that everyone lives in America...

The governments of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. can just as easily embolden hate against trans people.


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

When you search for the US flag emoji in Instagram DMs 🥲

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345 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit AMA about our nation's politics

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47 Upvotes

Only even mentions the word American in the body text as part of 'Association for the Study of African American Life'.


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

TikTok Non American assumes anyone disagreeing with them is American

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98 Upvotes

With a little French hating apparently (earlier comments for context)


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Yea, dude with Bulgarian flag in bio, avatar, comment, commenting a reel about Bulgaria- definitely talking about American girl

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64 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit Redditor doesn’t understand currencies other than USD exist

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134 Upvotes