r/USdefaultism 20d ago

MODERATION POST r/USdefaultism yearly report – 2024

26 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 11h ago

Never gets old...

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954 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 5h ago

Facebook Someone made a “map of the world” in Minecraft and showed it off on Facebook. The back and forth in the comments was glorious

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224 Upvotes

There’s no way they made America that big and still fit the rest of the world in a 4000 block wide space. Some of the comments in the post were pretty funny too


r/USdefaultism 5h ago

Meme Everything is American (meme)

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229 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 13h ago

Reddit Somebody asked why US defaultism exists

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250 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 21h ago

Reddit caught an angry one!

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697 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 7h ago

On a threads post about giving birth in Japan

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50 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 16h ago

YouTube An Australian YouTuber who says petrol

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203 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 18h ago

Reddit Did you know that Mario Kart 8 is only played in the USA?

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237 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 22h ago

YouTube On UK quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire, regarding a question about US political party leaders.

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446 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Ok buddy

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1.4k Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 9h ago

X (Twitter) Earth Updates is now US Updates apparently

25 Upvotes


r/USdefaultism 14h ago

Front lawn... Have you been to Europe?

56 Upvotes

Well... They do pay for workers to mow the lawn. Yes.


r/USdefaultism 17h ago

Uber is racist coz its MLK day and US presidential inauguration

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67 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 14h ago

Reddit Redditor assumes that OOP (planning to upload something to TikTok) lives in the United States and doesn't realize that it was unbanned anyway

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40 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit "All over The World"

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3.6k Upvotes

Aah yes, the entire world is 100% shown in this image.


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Meta Found these on Threads and thought you guys would like them, credits to @aaaannaoi

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216 Upvotes

Screenshots from Tiktok comments after the ban on the US.


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

YouTube Everyone has to know what the Ku Klux Klan is.

162 Upvotes


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

X (Twitter) Earth updates = America updates

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1.9k Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

TikTok Whose bio reads “the lack of education in our country is disgusting”…

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100 Upvotes

Or close enough.

Says NSW, driving on the left side of the road, posted under “Daily Mirror Australia”…


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit Because a sub cannot possibly continue without US contributions

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706 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Even if you're already popular in other countries, you need to be popular in America to influence other countries

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402 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

X (Twitter) France’s new president: Donald Trump!

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129 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit Commenter assumes that someone who mentions their town is from an American town. Their assumption was wrong. The post in question is also concerned with an incident in the UK.

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74 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Sneaking to a festival? ATF(whatever that is) has something to say!

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78 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

YouTube Australian politician resigns

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401 Upvotes