Unpopular Opinion
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- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Yes, this is an unpopular opinion - and at least for me not for the reason you seem to think!
"that's the way the world is" has way more "boomer vibe" than you can imagine. Even if you add "now". Why should I give up just because things go to shit? Why should I retire into acceptance and ignorance?
Your acceptance is surrender, your annoyance a sign that a party of you knows that.
Like honestly, don't you think you're being dramatic here?
Language changes. Headline trends will shift again and will be mocked in the same way every decade gets mocked.
Using the argument of 'that's just how reality is,' about anything in culture is always dumb for the exact same reason you are using to support it. Culture can shift. People who care about the harm want culture to shift away from 'the way it is' to something better.
People who complain about manipulative headlines aren't complaining because manipulative headlines didn't happen 'back in their day.' They are complaining because they are manipulative and harmful now, just as they were back then. Bad things don't become not bad by being common.
Sure, I'm not seeing anything I disagree with. I guess I just feel like it's a low effort "grandpa yelling at the sky" sort of thing. I agree these headlines and deserve to be criticized, but specifically I'm talking the one word comments saying "SLAMMED" cause the headline did. Super common. They don't read to be me as criticizing so much as just... complaining?
Idk, that's just my (moderately) unpopular opinion.
Oh yeah I am I just wanted to go over the top as reply to the "so boomer" phrasing :)
But honestly, I think I see where you're coming from. My concern is that it's not a change in language but a shift from information to emotion: And there is genuinely something to keep an eye on: Do my news inform me or engage me?
No matter if Epstein, AI, Ukraine, etc - it's becoming harder and harder for me to create an opinion on my own because more and more of my information channels tell me how I should feel instead of what's going on. I'd rather find that out on my own though.
It's an interesting thought for me though because I can easily rationalize my opposition against this shift - but it's also rooted in my emotional reaction to emotion-bait which is ... ironic I feel!