Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- 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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it's suppose to tell strangers about who you are
Like, if you like a band, you wear the shirt. Then when somebody else who likes the band sees you in that shirt they can be like, "Awesome, what's your favorite song"
But then a bunch of people decided it would be cool to wear those shirts even if they don't actually like the thing thats on them but others were like, "Awesome, what's your favorite song" but the idiot wearing the shirt couldn't answer the question and instead of just being like, "maybe I should pretend to be a fan of something I'm not" instead decided to push this bullshit narrative that it's wrong to talk about the shirt
So now people walk around advertising shit they don't like because the world is full of stupid people who make stupid rules that other people stupid people follow to prove how open-minded and non-judgemental they are
I don't care whether you genuinely like it or not. I don't particularly care if its a mutual interest or not. I don't really like having unnecessary stimulation in my fiekr of vision.
If I want to talk to people about a band I like, I'll go find an online community or go to a concert, not talk to random strangers wearing relevant t-shirts.
Yeah, because going outside and talking to people in real life is stupid
Yikes. Couldn't imagine being this antisocial.