The reasons why I don't see US democracy as an example a) only two viable options (and in recent times, two unpopular options) - a real democracy should have more options for voters to choose from b) The influence of big money donors on campaigns, which is IMHO basically legalized corruption.

US citizens themselves have low opinion of the country. It doesn’t surprise me that most countries don’t think America is as competent as it has ever been.

Falls by an average of 4.3%. Title: COLLAPSE

I don't like the US, but dislike China and Russia more.

That video is a bit light on analysis

as a Pole, as long as the U.S. stands against Russia, the American favorability will remain high here

Sounds like America's best friend should be changed to Poland. 🇺🇲🇵🇱

Its all from talking too loudly on the train

TLDR I would like to ask you to start linking the sources that you use for the videos.

"Geographically spread" Mate aren't most of these countries close US allies?

Another way of saying it is "global views on the us have been declining for decades, with a small bump when they replaced the monkey with the corpse".

US foreign be like: pendulum, but crank it up to 1000.

Well the US still have Hollywood and popular culture. Their soft power will remain so long as people still enjoy their entertainment media

This doesn’t really mean anything

The United States is currently going through a political realignment. The last major one was during the 60s, which was exacerbated by the Vietnam War. Your traditional reliant voting blocks are now ebbing and flowing. Unions, for example, used to be staunch Democrat supporters, but they are now swing voters because party leaders have caved to Progressive pressure on open borders and Green policies. The business elites used to be staunch Republicans until Trump levied tariffs and threatened a NATO exit. They are now also swing voters. We're seeing a slow matriculation of minorities switching from Democrat to Undecided. They can't stand Trump, but they also feel the Democratic Party has taken advantage of their votes with no change in return for far too long. We'll get through this. We always do.

As an American, the polarization is definitely the biggest problem with our country now in my opinion. Although to be fair I think other countries (and also in the states) mostly receive news that over-sensationalizes the problems within the US. And yes we're also sorry for talking way too loud everywhere we go in Europe

This one felt.... incomplete? Tho can't blame them, the UK one was much better edited and really fast considering the elections was just mere hours after publishing the video, so maybe they where already overworked

Needlessly inflammatory statements such as "America’s Global Reputation Has Collapsed" - which I consider absolutely ridiculous and severely underinformed - are causing me to watch fewer TLDR videos. The title statement is so poorly considered that I would expect it to come from an ill-informed 11-year old child.

Why not mention how the US is mishandling shipments of weapons to Ukraine?

To be honest, I think the long delay in sending aid to Ukraine may be as important as the response to Gaza. Delaying support to a nation widely seen as fighting for its existence due to domestic squabbles wasn’t a great look. Particularly when that nations survival and the defeat of its adversary is in America’s strategic interests. Along with Trumps statements about leaving NATO members to Russia if they don’t pay 2% of GDP on defence, this made a lot of allies less than sanguine on the US. The fact that even with an aid bill blocked Biden did not send as much aid as he was allowed to to Ukraine made it more a general American annoyance rather than a specific one on the Republican Party.

EGREGIOUS VISUAL DATA MISREPRESENTATION (the graph at 6:30) - Not only do you have a typo in the title of the graph, but the "approve" (green) bars do not use the same scale as the "disapprove" (red) bars. Look at Canada, where 34% "approve" is larger than the 55% "disapprove", same trend is in Germany 40% far larger than the 54%, Thailand, Phillipines, South Korea, South Afrida, Israel, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA HAVE ALMOST TWICE THE VALUE (32% approve and 58% disapprove and 31% to 64%!) BUT THE BARS ARE ALMOST EQUAL. I am appalled TLDR. This is blatant visual manipulation. Disgusting.

Is it a trend if You’re comparing a one year difference?

I dunno about that, US is viewed quite positively in Vietnam and my country is not on the list. This list seems to be quite limited in scope and range.

6:21 The values with the bar are messed up, come on guys...

The only country that surprised me is Australia. Why is there a 60% unfavourablility compared to just a 40% favourability? Australia is one of USA’s biggest allies along with Canada, UK and New Zealand. Australia is even more willing to join USA’s side in groups like AUKUS than Canada is.

Man, this is clickbait.

Poland would be a lot less of an outlier if the poll included more than a handful of countries.

Imagine sacrificing your global reputation in the name of a foreign country, Israel, and even they have a diminishing favorability for you.

It's falling here too as we are stuck with a battle of the old folks home for the election.

Why in the hell are we still dealing with the Middle East?

Divide and conquer way of thinking (team A vs team B), awful president, past actions, moral decay on a social level.

The reason why the US democracy isn't a good example anymore, is because the two major parties have Consolidated power and made it much more difficult for any third party to get established legally. Even independent candidates who don't affiliate with any party are legally required to obtain a specific amount of signatures from legal voters to legally be allowed to run for office. The second reason is because of the constant in fighting, lack of compromise, identity politics, and a refusal to let states have more autonomy in making their own laws, that last part also coincidence with both parties constantly trying to force all states to conform to their way of life via federal law.

US favorability goes up and down. Remember George Bush? This too shall pass.

I think the major problem is expectation. America has been described as the land of opportunity. But we have seen for years the mistreatment of minorities, the abuse of police power, the extreme wealth disparities, and the unfairness of those with the most money paying the least in taxes. America has been described as a safe country. But we constantly see gun violence, even at the school level, we see guns in public life, we see a drug crisis, we see people ringing doorbells and being shot at, we see mass murders so often, we've become immune to the horror and the American response has always been to have more guns. It's horrendous. America has been seen as the land of justice, and yet we see time and again immunity for the rich, most recently that tRump, who has multiple felony convictions, who has trounced the rule of law innumerable times has faced no consequences for his actions. tRump is a convicted rapist, twice impeached, and absolutely a horrible person and president by any measure, and yet he is running for office again with a good chance of winning. American is also turning into a theocracy. The rights of women being turned back centuries, the rights of minorities being turned back decades, with the SCOTUS as corrupt as any justice panel in the world. So there's the expectation that Americans will do the right thing, that they belive in justice, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, that they are Superman standing on the hill, doing the right thing anywhere, everywhere. But we see over and over again that Americans have failed themselves. They have failed to live up to their own ideals. America is no longer a special beacon of hope on a hill, but a darkness to be worked with and around. No country wants to be America anymore.

How on earth Japan was high approval despite Hiroshima bombings?

The flickering of the light neon behind you is still hurting my eyes so much. Would it be possible to freeze it when editing ? Thank you very much

Don't forget about the scotus immunity decision and the overruling of Chevron deference

Ahh the good ol 'Untied states' ? Lol

To quote a friend of mine, "America is just 50 banana republics bickering behind a trenchcoat."

I think this was a deceptive title. You show positive favorability ratings across the board from countries around the world with the exception of Turkey, who famously has regularly low favorabilities of all countries, from neighbors to allies to enemies. The argument that is made, that these numbers are lower than they used to be, does not indicate that they will fall further. In fact, following all the events of the past years, a more accurate title would be "USA's soft power remarkably resilient"

As an american I don't blame them.

It also depends on the USA's status as the world's policemen

Did Zac write this? I know he’s the most anti-American writer TLDR has.

You like to ask of us to be caught in your loop which is refreshingly honest, but also unpleasantly suspicious

Jeez, who made the Biden Gaza bar chart?! How can the higher disapproval number have a smaller bar length and when roughly equal still wildly different too, several times I see this. Very sus...

The true 'favorability index 1. The number of people trying to get into your country 2. The amount of international investment your country 3. The international strength of your currency 4. The international use of your products 5.The number of middle income and wealthy countries that will host your military

Can you link you sources?

On your first graph there's a typo

The biggest problems for me is indeed how shaky their democracy looks lately. Trump seems to be literally above the law.

Australia how? That's surprising. I thought the British Empire still favors the US.

The reputation of the US is constantly tracked with global surveys. After Trump was elected it absolutely tanked. The very first survey that came out after his election showed that the reputation had dropped like a stone. The reputation remained low until Trump lost. The first survey after Biden's victory showed that the reputation of the US had rebounded. However, interestingly, the post-Trump reputation did not manage to reach the same level as pre-Trump. Those who studied the phenomenon came to the conclusion that the world was so shocked by the election of Trump, that foreigners felt they couldn't fully trust the US despite Americans voting Trump out. They felt the election of Trump showed that there's something seriously wrong with Americans. If they elected Trump, what else crazy could they do? Despite that a normal human being like Biden entered the White House, it didn't manage to fully convince the world that the US was OK. That's why the reputation didn't fully recover to the level it was at before Trump. The election of Trump broke the reputation in such a major way that the image of the US has been altered for a long time to come. It'll take years, decades, maybe even generations for the US to recover from the Trumpian era. Unfortunately, it's still going on, and there's nothing stopping the US from lining up behind future Trump clones, in which case the reputation of the country will drop every time one is elected, and it'll take more and more time for the US to rehabilitate its reputation. And yet Trump walks around claiming the world loves him, despite the fact that he hurt American allies and cosied up to dictators. Those dictators love him because they know he can be used. All you need is to appeal to his ego, flatter him a little, and he'll give you anything you want, for the price of a couple of compliments. Meanwhile American allies in Europe are currently setting up emergency plans in case Trump gets elected again. That's how terrified they are of the prospect of a Trump presidency and how it would disrupt the rule-based world order.

Does anybody know the source of the graph/data shown in the video?

its all a big mystery 🤔

Polish person here and I have to say, people here really don't know much about the US or its impact on the world. Not difficult to see it in positive light when your image of the US is based on their movies and tv series.

I think this is interesting analysis with some good points, but I’d be curious how this compares to other ratings across the board. What countries have had improved reputations? Or is this a case of everyone disliking other people as usual?

Does Latin America & Africa forgets about CIA Coup the oppressing people?

Honeslty, we don't care. Whenever something happens, whether it be war or some other issue for global significance happened, some international incide lnt or issue everyone is talking about, ppl don't agree with American opinion and think less of us. It is what is. America is the world Mayor. People talk about wjther or not were the Worlds Policeman, but honestly, were the mayor and we get that type of treatment. So 🤷🏾‍♂

I've always had critical views of the US, but if I had to choose between them, China and Russia, it would be the US any day.

"Do these shifts in global opinion of the US actually matter?" I am in the US and can say - to us, no, they don't.

“Collapse” is such a clickbaity word.

60 years of imperalism will do that to a country

Good thing they have $841.4 billion in hard power ;)

Look at all the issues happening in Kenya.

I wonder why...

As an American, we don't care what Europeans (that's who this is really about) think about us. Stop obsessing over America and focus on your own countries.

Two words: foreign policy

As a European, I’ve also noticed a trend of Americans badmouthing European countries - especially UK and France - on social media. Every week there’s a new trend about how these countries are stupid or backwards or how America is inherently better, and there has been some real US-European hostility on TikTok in particular. Influencers treating historic cities like malls or amusement parks etc… It sounds minor but it has definitely translated to real life, and the general sentiment towards the US is growing sour.

But they are all running to come to the US, or the EU 😂 why not go to Russia, China, N. Korea, and Iran 🤣🤭

The sample of that poll is so incredibly skewed towards western countries...

0:51 This is perhaps the most skewed data set in the history of data sets. A handful of country in Africa, Israel as the single one in the Middle East ( unless you count Turkey as middle Eastern), no China (i.e. the second more populous and powerful state in the world), no Russia, no country in Central America… Basically no one with grievances against the U.S.

I say its a good thing that other countries have a low opinion of us. Will start to pull away from Europe and they will be less dependant on us. A win win for everyone. Finally, will concentrate on our country soley and they can start concentrating on theirs. Let the chips fall where they may. Good luck to all.

Who did this survey? I nv heard of such a survey in my country Asia

Really that’s why everyone wants to immigrate to the USA

At 0:55 the United in United States is spelt wrong

Country selection for sample size is ridiculous

As an American, I'm just dumbfounded that it's not lower. Tbh

funding war crimes tends to do that

*Biden:* makes America look like a laughing stock. *Trump:* Alienating Americas allies *America:* why is the world not liking me?

That was way more positive than I thought

:055 "...Opinion of the Untied States" lol

Trump and Netanyahu did most of that work

"Untied" States got some splaning to do

“Untied States” in the chart title is a good one

Gee I wonder? Supporting Israel clearly doesn't help it's international reputation.

it can be chalked up to four things. 1. Trade war and actual war Massive countries, particularly those in BRICS, are trying to veer away from american and western influence in a sort of ad hoc attempt to disengage culturally and socially with the US and its cultural power. a mostly knee-jerk response that wont last in the long run, since america is still a major trade partner through sheer size and production alone. 2. Republicans The republicans are responsible for some of the biggest hits to america's reputation, from the stalling of aid to Ukraine to the crackdown on protests against Israel. but perhaps most directly worrying is the recent string of extra-judicial and anti-democratic moves that crack down on religious and physical freedom for people. the unraveling of roe v wade, a legal precedent with decades of backing, was perhaps the most clear cut example. we also have republicans fighting to re-introduce child labor, to defend child marriage and to ban books. If trump becomes president its very likely the US might cease to be an ally of the west all-together. 3. Ukraine i really need to emphasize the slowness of the american response in regards to sending aid to Ukraine, because whilst republicans were responsible for stalling it, Biden has been pussyfooting as well. the same country that shoveled its resources into maintaining afghanistants weak and tenuous government drags its feet in regards to helping in the defense of a fully fledged sovereign democracy that is aligned with the west and being attacked by the rivals of the US. the fact that a country can be beset by russia, china, iran and North korea and not recieve full american aid was unbelievable, and its a wakeup call to europe on several levels. 4. Israel Hamas is bad, Palestine is not innocent, but we are watching an active genocide (by displacement and replacement) occuring in the occupied zones of palestine, as Israeli bombardment and soldiers push the palestinians to become refugees in their own lands, followed by hordes of z ionist settlers stealing palestinian land for new settlements. we are watching imperialism in real time and the US refuses to acknowledge it.

They hate us cause they ain't us 💅💅💅

1:24 Imagine what the opinion of people sould be if instead of "Untied States" it cleaned up its act and became "Tied States"!! 😂 Jokes aside, good work, keep up the independent journalism. ❤

Tbh, I want the US to go back to isolation. Let the world run itself.

It is the abject stupidity in large sections of US politics since at least the days of Bush II. I still vividly remember how as a teenager i foresaw many problems the USA would face in Iraq which the mightiest government in the world with the best intelligence service in the world was genuinly surprised of. And these were the better days compared to 2016-2020, with a very realistic chance they will get an encore next year.

Did you guys ever talk about the mental decline of Biden. I don't think I've ever seen you mention the recent debate

Here in Poland, we are grateful for US Help since the 90's, bringing us to the western world from the Communist rule. We are thankful now that they decide to station soldiers here, and from what Ive talked with, they love it here. We strongly know what linking with Russia means, and we dont want to repeat that

Something to add is that despite the war in Ukraine the reality Americans increasingly don’t want to play a major role in Europe any we see our interests as being as being more in the Asia Pacific now a days so we probably aren’t putting as much effort into winning hearts and minds in Europe as we once did.

Unfavorable opinion = = ENVY!!

"Math is racist!" - A person from USA

It's not a popularity contest, who gives a shirt

Power without love is soon gone.

So the poorer the country, the more favourable...

2:12 you forgot Iran, where the favorability rating is 99%. Unless the regime is counting- then it’s 1%

Just curious, it seems like Bangladesh has a positive view of he US handling of the Israel Hamas situation, which is an outlier among Muslim countries most of whom disapprove , was interesting what would be the context to that?

simple answer: goofy American politics