r/USdefaultism

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  2. Seems like people seeing a post that doesn’t apply to them and getting high and mighty about it. I don’t click on a Yu Gi Oh post and get pissed that it doesn’t apply to me.

  3. Oh my god, we’re on a US based site which has a plurality of US based users, why don’t they do and say things the way I do in my country of 5 million?!?!?!?!

    If I went on a Belgian based site with a plurality of Belgian based users I shouldn’t expect them to do and say things as if Belgium wasn’t the default…

  5. I don’t care. When I read an American news source I expect it is catering to an American audience. When I read the CBC I expect it is catering to the Canadian audience.

  6. I mean concerns about treating the US as the default are extremely reasonable but that subreddit seems concerned about the stupidest version of that. Like the top post is complaining about people posting state abbreviations.

  8. People have the right to be upset, and I have the right to not care. Seems like a waste of energy to me. Edit…. I browsed that sub and most of it is just bitching to bitch.

  9. Imagine you’re in a room with 100 people. This sub is 3 people in the corner complaining that everything isn’t about them.

  10. once in a while those people have good points, usually it’s an excuse to shit on the us again. most reddit users are american, the posts and audience are majority american, don’t see how that’s so difficult to understand.

    also fahrenheit is better

  12. This sub looks so annoying and cringey. The first post I see is complaining about a news story about the shooting in Highland Park mentioning the town of Highland Park and saying they couldn’t post a story about some town in their country that nobody knows. Oh my God who cares? Way too much complaining on the internet already, you don’t need an entire sub literally devoted to complaining about something.

  13. I think *where I live*-defaultism defines the thought process of the vast majority of the planet’s population.

    Perhaps the only people that doesn’t apply to are those who spend way too much time online (i.e. people you can happily ignore).

  14. I think people trying to look for an excuse to be angry are some of the saddest and most pitiful people on the internet.

    I genuinely hope they find something fulfilling in their lives.

  15. I really don’t.

    Look, if someone doesn’t indicate what country they’re from, I will not guess that (for instance) they’re German or Thai or Gabonais.

    This is (if for some reason, this becomes a cross-sub deal like we used to have with SAS) what we call the “MyCountry” problem, where someone says “in *my* country” and are then weirdly unforthcoming about which country “MyCountry” is.

    (Occasionally they’ll say “Europe”, which is dumb since, correctly, someone else will correct us with “silly American, ‘Europe’ isn’t a *country*…”.)

    Having seen the subreddit, that’s the last I’ll consider it. It may claim to be a humorous sub, but it’s the kind of “funny” sub that gets overrun by people “playing the joke straight” because they are aggressively unfunny.

    Edit; You can see this process already- most of the posts on the front page have their own mod doubting it belongs on the subreddit.

  17. Seems like it’s a bunch of crybabies, honestly.

    Reddit is a US site. If they don’t like seeing things about the US on a US site, then don’t use it. Seems pretty simple to me.

  18. It seems fair to an extent, but my god, what do they expect?

    Most folks on reddit are American. Of course that’s the default.

    Even around here where we expect a lot of international users and have flair to make it clear the default is still American because that’s who’s expected to answer questions and we are still majority American users.

    I would never expect that over in Ask Europe.

    There is some funny crap there but the internet is stupid so you have to expect a fair amount of stupid comments.

  19. First time I am hearing about this sub, and it looks like yet another example of Redditors finding any excuse to complain about something. People from all over the world often tend to talk as if their country is the default, it is common human nature. However, yet again, the US is singled out and vilified for doing this.

  21. “I went to a US-based site and most of the focus is on the US. How could this happen to me?!”

  23. Made of people who like to complain about every little thing. The people in that sub literally get offended if you even bring up something from America.

    Saw the top post today was about a guy getting mad that someone posted about the shooting on the 4th and they were mad that someone said the *name of the city* where it happened. He literally complained that they shouldn’t have to read a city and state name. The comments then proceeded to whine that we abbreviate our state names and that it’s insulting to assume they should know what city we are talking about.

    Half the posts are literally people whining that they get a Google search that describes the US instead of the world, even though they are using an American based web browser. Being too lazy to put “in the world” into their Google search but also having the energy to make a reddit post about their one second inconvenience should tell you enough about the people in that sub.

  25. I thought that would be a sub about the US defaulting on it’s debts and I thought “that sounds exciting!”

  27. It baffles me that foreigners use an American website and get annoyed that they see references to American Culture aimed at Americans.

    This is the internet version of the stereotypical tourist who visits a foreign country and complains that the locals don’t speak their language or accept their currency.

  28. I truly love when Europe’s insignificance hits Europeans smack in the face.

  29. Lol. The first post is literally someone complaining that we have abbreviations for our states and that they don’t know the town in the post.

  32. Eh, not as good as /r/ShitAmericansSay, because at least that one is funny sometimes.

  33. Never heard of it until now but just looking through the front page: it’s a lot of complaining. Sometimes it’s valid, but most of it is just whining

  34. I’m hearing about it just now, but that subreddit looks the same as going to a kid’s birthday party and one of his friends is standing around throwing a tantrum that the birthday isn’t about himself.

  35. Wait you mean the USA isn’t the only country in the world? Asking as an American..

  36. Are they seriously complaining that a US news site used state abbreviations?

    Yeah, US-based newspapers and broadcasters assume they’re talking to Americans. Surprise surprise.

  37. As much as the rest of the world tries to deny it, they all pay a lot more attention to us than we do to any of them.

  38. It seems like people who get offended way too easily about things that don’t cater specifically to them. The internet is full of people like this.

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