One of the things I like about Lemmy over Reddit is how unpopularopinion is not as popular here as it was over there. To me it always had a kind of bad flavor of just yucking somebody else's yum. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I can't see the point of getting on the internet for the sole purpose of taking somebody like say Carol Burnett, who by all accounts was a nice person, and talking about her show, which was very popular, and saying "I don't like it or her, I didn't find it/them funny."

I guess I'm saying I don't really understand unpopularopinion posts. They seem like institutionalized trolling.

Hmm, perhaps this is a unpopular opinion.

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 33 points 2 months ago

Is this your unpopular opinion about unpopular opinion being unpopular in Lemmy? ...sorry, I couldn't resist.

Serious now. My issue with those opinion subs is that they were always crap - either they'd be about popular shit being posted as unpopular for karma, or political soapboxes for the foulest PoVs.

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Opinions : Social Media :: Assholes : People. "Everyone's got one but no one wants to hear it." My dad used to always say, lol.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Always heard it: "everyone has one and they all stink."

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

...have you ever noticed that your own farts... smell ok...

-George Carlin

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The whole thing might have been his bit lol.,

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think it's more that Reddit suffers from a lot of engagement farming. Unpopular Opinion is an easy one to game.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

See also: Am I ~~a good creative writer~~ the asshole.

[-] Contemporarium@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

MY TRANS AUTISTIC FAT SISTER IN LAW SAID SHE WAS JEALOUS OF ME AND WANTS TO KILL ME CUZ IM SO PRETTY AND I TOLD HER PLEASE STOP AND NOW MY WHOLE FAMILY IS BLOWING UP MY PHONE SAYING HOW COULD I AITA?!?!

NTA. Your beauty your rules.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Should we break up? Wedding's in five minutes.

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Don't forget the other sinister side...

"I purposefully chose a mate for the wrong reasons, but I need everybody to talk about how that person is an asshole, and my selection of partner is NOT to be impugned!"

[-] courageousstep@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

I saw it as a hotbed of racism and sexism with a ton of awful posts, so I never wanted to visit that sub.

Also, yeah, why what makes someone want to spend energy focusing on negativity when they could just…move on with life and let people enjoy things?

[-] breadguy@kbin.earth 10 points 2 months ago

every popular sub is full of fake bait ai posts. aitah and aio are unusable

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I'm okay with this post, a lot of people don't like it seems

But truthfully, I have found most unpopular opinions to just be statements of personal preference , and those are completely pointless

Okay, you think chocolate is better than vanilla, who gives a fuck

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

I just hated how they were almost never actually unpopular opinions.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Because it doesn't work. No matter if they say to upvote unpopular opinions, humans generally want to upvote things they agree with. So it can't be an actual unpopular opinion. So people start to word popular (or at least not supremely unpopular) opinions as though they're unpopular, get upvotes, repeat.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I don't think that's inherent to the unpopular opinion format, a post could just as easily be a "I like this thing everybody else hates". People can and frequently do use it just to troll, but that's a problem with those people not the community.

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