Yes, this had to be made because already I am a little disgruntled about how the main unpopularopinion community is ran and what content I’ve found on there. So I wanted to make a true version, the ‘true’ part being, that it’s sought for more thoughtful opinions that are beyond 2 lines and actually are more fleshed out we’ll say.

It is not meant to be a platform where bigots, racists, sexists can finally get their rocks off by being who they are. That’s what plagued the TrueUnpopularOpinion over in Reddit, it is infested with alt-right people pretending to be sophisticated and their mods are pushovers. I’m not aiming for this community to be that.

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  • soulifix@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    The way I see something as ‘unpopular’ is that you have to feel strongly about it. I’ve studied the way some people have posted over on Reddit, on all unpopularopinion based subreddits like 10thDentist, TrueUnpopularOpinion .etc

    What I’ve noted people of doing there is that they’re saying the opposite of what people prop as popular, for the sake of being the opposite. They don’t feel that strongly about it and you can tell. They’ll write a 2-liner post that is very dry, summarizing that they don’t like something because everyone else did, just through their own words. It doesn’t feel strong, doesn’t feel relatable or resonates anything.

    I love opinions where someone points at something and has a very vibrant feeling towards it. I’m tired of any of them, unpopular or popular, that are along the lines of “I don’t know why I like it, I just do” and “It sucks because…it just sucks and I’ve got nothing to add to it”.

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      1 year ago

      well you can hold an unpopular belief at any intensity. they are independent variables.

      For example, I think store-brand (any store brand) potato chips are better than the same flavor/style of the national brand 100% of the time. I infer this is unpopular because the national brand costs $2-3x as much so there is no reason to ever buy them, yet they stay in business and I see people eating them.

      But I by no means feel strongly about this. It has been probably 10 years since I mentioned it to anyone. I wouldn’t turn down any potato chip no mater how expensive it is. They are all pretty good tbh.

      Maybe what you are actually trying to capture is along the lines of:
      this-is-actually-fascinating
      nobodyKnowsHowMuchofMyLifeThisTakesUp
      blooilsmyblood
      IfeelStronglyThat
      EverybodyIsDoingThisWrong
      WhyAreYouSoWrong
      ThisThingthatILove
      or simply
      StonglyHeldBeliefs… isn’t that what you want to see?

      Tho you know what you might really get a kick out of is this podcast: Trampoline Hall. RSS feed. You can find youtubes if you prefer.

      Trampoline Hall is a barroom lecture… it asks lecturers to take a vulnerable, theatrical risk and speak on a subject they’re not professionally expert in. Subjects range from absurd and arcane obsessions to heartbreakingly personal stories.

      I think you might find some good energy there.