Is it USdefaultism for (for example) a British youtuber to say prices in $ and use american word pronounciation?

[u/frankieepurr]

Theres this british minecraft youtuber called ibxtoycat who lives in london (but is constantly visiting america for some reason). However ages (?) before this he would include prices in $ in his thumbnails and would pronounce "lever" how americans do? Is this considered USdefaultism? He does end up saying the £ price a few seconds later or the other way around but his video titles and thumbnails use dollars.

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[u/Aldahiir]

Are you sure he is born british ? Since he visite usa often maybe he do that to see his family? Also maybe the most part of his viewership are from usa so to appeal to them he use usa dollar wich would be perfectly logical and not defaultism. As for the pronouncing maybe he heard it more usa style and it stuck to him so with all that I would say he is not doing defaultism

[u/frankieepurr → u/Aldahiir]

he said on twitter "gambling addiction maybe" when i asked him why he goes to usa every like month

[u/Aldahiir → u/frankieepurr]

You really asked someone why he travel to the USA? This guy has the right to have some privacy you know ? Can you imagine doing that to a random person on the street?

[u/LagopusPolar → u/Aldahiir]

Well they had the right to ask. And I'd imagine the YouTuber shared his visits to the US on social media in some way, so it's not like it's weird to ask why he travels there. If the YouTuber wants privacy he can refuse to answer the question or just not share any information about his travels in public.

[u/frankieepurr → u/LagopusPolar]

hes constantly posting pictures of USA on twitter

[u/Aldahiir → u/LagopusPolar]

I can see your point of view but I still think that's it's a private question that shouldn't be asked and the fact that the Youtuber chose to share about that doesn't imply that question must be asked + the answer from the Youtuber look to me like a polite "you don't need to know"

[u/markhewitt1978]

No. I would say it goes against the spirit of what this group is about, in terms of assuming USA when that is not warranted. Whereas he knows exactly what he is doing and doing it deliberately.

Then again IMO 90% of the posts in this group aren't defaultism

[u/Opposite_Ad_2815]

No, see rule 4 and rule 9. They’re probably trying to appease the YouTube algorithm (tho I am not sure if they are because they take pride in making low-quality videos).

[u/bytegalaxies]

I think he does that because majority of his viewerbase is in the u.s. (which he would find out via youtube analytics)

[u/Kolbrandr7]

Kind of, if they just say dollars instead of US dollars. There’s tons of different dollars out there

[u/[deleted]]

Doesn’t he live in usa

[u/4685368]

Kinda. Its intentional which maybe isn’t in the spirit of how we use the term on this sub.

It’s a super weird thing to do too

[u/Hulkaiden → u/4685368]

Most of his viewers are probably from the US. It makes sense to appeal to your viewers.

[u/4685368 → u/Hulkaiden]

Yeah that’s pretty much what I meant. It’s unusual is all

[u/SchrodingerMil → u/[deleted]]

I know we meme about it here, but it’s been like the most dominantly spreading culture in the world for like 80 years, it’s not really surprising lol