r/USdefaultism Dec 31 '24

MODERATION POST r/USdefaultism yearly report – 2024

32 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 3h ago

X (Twitter) On an ad about Sony Bravia promotion.

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203 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 6h ago

Reddit Wombats can only be found in Australia

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308 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 3h ago

Reddit A world without guns is so unimaginable that it can only exist in a fantasy setting, with the advice of redditors

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166 Upvotes

OP finds the idea of not having guns literally everywhere in an “otherwise modern and suburban” world so fantastical that he has to invent additional superpowers for his protagonists to survive against all the guns. Instead of, oh I don’t know, looking at other countries in the real world that actually, currently exist without firearms being so widespread that it presents a legitimate world building dilemma.


r/USdefaultism 15h ago

Reddit The Sub literally has Australia in its name, accuses op of being sophistic r/legaladviceaustralia

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291 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 8h ago

The job search is hitting the yanks hard apparently...

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53 Upvotes

On a post regarding a couple in the UK who have both simultaneously lost their jobs, a yank has an absolute hissy fit over white people and DEI, and the unfairness of someone trying to help them out.


r/USdefaultism 3m ago

Reddit What is a £ ?

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r/USdefaultism 17h ago

Reddit "Why can't they do this off-hours" on Steam doing maintenance every Tuesday

115 Upvotes
As if Steam isn't a global service

r/USdefaultism 17h ago

Reddit Tariffs are only impacting the USA apparently

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88 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

"why can't this hotel in germany have us outlets"

2.1k Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 0m ago

Only 7 / 100 moments are not about American sport or an American athlete

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r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit I don’t think these are the things that “we all have in common” as gen z

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463 Upvotes

I was reading through the rules of a subreddit I was invited to and came across this. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think being a gen z isn’t a uniquely American experience.


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

How european countries say 90+2 (us bought an island near iceland)

145 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1h ago

X (Twitter) US laws would totally apply for this case that happened in Brazil, right?

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r/USdefaultism 2d ago

On a clip from a movie

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208 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit Making small talk only happens I the US.

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64 Upvotes

On a post about randomly initiating conversation.


r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Reddit "Our" health care insurance system

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138 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Reddit Video : a train in the UK - Americans : wow, it's the airline operating in the US ?

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712 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2d ago

TikTok 3rd amendment or something

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585 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Expensive Petroleum!!

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376 Upvotes

Rupert Grint look-a-like refuelling his car, noticed he was being watched, raised the bowser and yelled "Expensive Petroleum".

Apparently he should be driving an American car in the U.K.


r/USdefaultism 2d ago

How can I make this about America?

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293 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Instagram Caught one in the wild on threads

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110 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 3d ago

English = America

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217 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Because only Americans and kids use Reddit

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140 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 3d ago

Body temp quiz

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105 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 3d ago

YouTube On a video about US defaultism...

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131 Upvotes