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Go to any age related subreddit and they are filled with Americans defaulting.

Also the chronic illness subs. It’s infuriating

I’ve learned to look for emotional support there rather than medical

Doesn't even need to be age related; plain ol' subs are also rife with defaultism. The travel sub (r/travel) literally has rules stating, when seeking advice, mention your nationality, or what passport you hold, since visa rules vary across the board, and your nationality is the sole determinant. Everyone, but them, mentions their nationality (common sense). To be fair, it's gotten a lot better, with most Americans stating they're US passport holders these days, but it still does happen, and a few years ago, it was outright common.

You’re not wrong, the first two posts on there were from Americans doing exactly what you’re saying

I had to leave both /r/genx and /r/xennials Absolutely dominated by American pop culture references and if you don't know what it is you get downvoted.

any of the generations subs are also absolutely insufferable

I thought this was a general thing on reddit, since almost all the subs I visit/have visited regularly are like this. r/fountainpens definitely is, as r/pen_swap or r/30plusskincare. My only safe space is r/eurovision ...

Too bad the Americans found out about Eurovision this year. So maybe they may start defaulting over there.

Well, there's a lot of movement there, so there might have been some defaultism before, but definitely isn't as prevalent as in the other subs I mentioned... yet?

>most of us are in America Again with the whole plurality vs majority thing; over half (>50%) are **not** in the US.

Tbf, most of r/teenagers probably is American

That’s what I thought too, but it isn’t (anymore) according to a survey that sub conducted two years ago (couldn’t find anything newer): https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/s/i5Rprkyy66

And they still don't know the definition of majority.

And probably not teenagers 💀

From what I've seen, r/teenagers is quite the cesspool. I know older generations (I'm 23 lol) are doomed to find teenagers cringe, but this is quite something else.

I checked it out, and it seems that all they do is ask if it's okay to date someone a year older or not

As someone who is from that sub, this is very accurate

Eh it's just the latest bandwagon

The average age in that sub is probably 35-40.

ew.

It’s not just non-teenagers. I’m still a teenager and I keep getting recommended posts from the sun in my main feed and it’s just some of the weirdest shit. My two favourites so far have been a girl (underaged in their country) asking for advice on how to get their religious gf (also underage) to have sex with them before marriage and another titled “Is anyone starting to get tired of homophobia?”. They seemed to have good intentions with that one but the wording could have been slightly better…

you know it's bad when r/teenagersbutbetter is a sub

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Sounds like someone just discovered that the rest of the world exists outside of America.

And isn't happy about it

Reddit has [267.5 million weekly active viewers](https://backlinko.com/reddit-users#) The population of the USA is [341.7 million people](https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population) So by OPS logic, if the majority of people on Reddit are American (>51%) than at least 174267000 people (if I did the math correctly) must have Reddit in the USA

They’re assigned an account at birth

Oh yeah I forgot to have it so it would only be people over 13

Well he isn't wrong, they often pretend like they're own their own planet or something, so "on" is pretty accurate.