I mean, they like their beans

Works great for us natives, for a couple hundred years plus now

I don't think we are to blame for the beans thing (we prefer our beans as baked beans).

As a rule of thumb though, we can be blamed for far too much stuff. You need to include the french too however. They got up to almost as much "shenanigans".

It’s a reasonable take, I swear! Most fedi platforms seem to have an English-speaking population that is ~50% Germans speaking English, ~25% the UK and the rest is a smattering of other English speakers. Lemmy, in my experience, is the odd one out with regards to US defaultism.

What happened to Canada?

https://arethebritsatitagain.org/

As a brit I agree with this

I plead terrible memory and accept this may be more accurate

Considering Lemmy itself only came to be in 2019, i tend to believe you.