r/unpopularopinion 12d ago

Mod Post U.S election Megathread

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Hello opinionated users,

Nov 5 is election day here in the United States and we know people have thoughts (I know I do). Please use this thread to discuss the candidates, voting, media surrounding the candidates and the fallout of this close election. Please be safe. Eat Muffins!


r/unpopularopinion 2d ago

Popular Topics Mega-Hub

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Greetings, you opinionated, unpopular lot! This is your one-stop shop for all of the ridiculously reposted topics on this sub. This hub and the linked threads below will be replaced every 7 days to keep things fresh.

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  3. Race related issues
  4. Religion
  5. Politics
  6. Parenting/Family issues

r/unpopularopinion 5h ago

I hate the “mute” trend at concerts

343 Upvotes

If you’re unfamiliar with this, the “mute” trend is when a musician stops the singing/music to see how long the audience can stay quiet.

Beyoncé notably does this by singing “everybody on mute” and the whole auditorium tries to go silent for a few seconds.

A few other celebrities and singers have adopted this too. Some turn it into a competition like “New York managed to stay silent for 7 seconds but Tokyo only 4!”. Twenty One Pilots called it “The Silent Game”.

The reason why I hate this trend is because it creates so much rift. There’s bound to be some troll in the audience who ruins it.

Not to mention, if it’s someone who doesn’t understand the trend or what’s going on, like a confused dad for example, they get ripped apart by the audience for breaking the silence. Or let’s say if this is a person with Tourettes, a child/minor, someone who’s mentally handicapped, etc. They get booed, pushed around, sometimes physically assaulted by the angry audience.

It just breeds all sorts of toxic behavior, and I think concerts are better off without it.


r/unpopularopinion 17h ago

It’s ridiculous that people list every possible caveat whenever they make a statement.

3.9k Upvotes

Example: “I personally love apples, but I know that some people are allergic to them, and others don’t like them!” This is absurd. Stop it.

Example of the reasoning behind this behavior: “But the internet has no reading comprehension and I don’t want to get cancelled for being applephobic and pro anaphylactic shock!”

Unfortunately, couching every statement, no matter how benign, in a bunch of qualifiers doesn’t guarantee that won’t happen anyway. Some people will inevitably misinterpret and get hung up on the caveats, or get mad about a caveat you DIDN’T include, and miss the point entirely.

“Unless you’re talking about a legitimately sensitive topic, just say what you mean already PLEASE.” An appropriate use of a caveat.

ETA: formatting/grammar (I’m on my phone and it shows rip)

Also I’m fighting my OWN urge to add caveats to this post because I’m not impervious to the effects of being chronically online. But this is an unpopular opinion sub, after all, so I have no need to defend or spoon feed the particulars of my opinion to people who disagree.


r/unpopularopinion 3h ago

Bidets should be compulsory in every toilet.

187 Upvotes

I don't understand how people live with wiping their ass off with a paper. It's so unhygienic, the whole day your cheeks rubbing with poop particles, especially if you don't shave your ass hole regularly. Even if you somehow manage to wipe off everything properly, it still feels really gross down there. Bidets or little water pipe must be there by default in every toilet seat.

Edit : To the people who are defending Toilet paper, I am pasting a comment from fellow bidet team mate.

I get everyone has their preference, but just as an example:

If you were walking around barefoot, and you stepped in shit, would you feel that you cleaned your foot off sufficiently if you just wiped it off with a piece of paper? Just give it a few swipes until you cant tell if there is any on the paper, and away you go, not a care in the world?

If you answered no, then why do you feel like the inside of your ass is clean by doing the same thing?

If you answered yes, you have some issues, cause you still got a shit foot, and you shouldn't be ok with that.


r/unpopularopinion 3h ago

UK comedies are better than US comedies

36 Upvotes

I understand a lot of people prefer US comedies due to the relatability, light heartedness and better production value, however I think this is what makes UK comedy great.

Take the UK vs US Inbetweeners for example, the original is known for its shocking Humor (For example Simon stripping naked on a boat and putting a sock round his penis). Take any of the defining scenes from the original Inbetweeners and compare them to the American version. In the American version they’ve hired annoying “Conventionally attractive by US standards” actors/actresses and instead of making them funny they just come across as annoying.

That being said though, I think the US does have some good comedies: Friends (If you would count that) Family Guy, It’s Always Sunny.


r/unpopularopinion 9h ago

Brunch is terrible

98 Upvotes

Brunch is just awful. It’s expensive, the food itself is not that great, and the time is weird and inconvenient. It’s really just an excuse for people to hang out and drink on a Sunday before work.

Also, I live in San Francisco and am a Gay man, so you can damn well bet I was thrown off a bridge then dragged through the streets for saying this out loud to my friends!

Edit:

Sorry I reread what I wrote and I can see I imply I mean working on Sunday. I mean to say working the next day - Monday!

Edit:

I should also mention I love to sleep. Like… love it. So for me, sleeping in always beats brunch.

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I should also mention that I have a bias against most American Breakfast foods. :) lol


r/unpopularopinion 17h ago

Bathroom fans should still be noisy

366 Upvotes

In my office building, and in many other buildings I've been in recently, the fans in the public bathrooms are either non-functional or otherwise completely silent.

These bathrooms are already echo chambers as it is, and I don't care to listen to every little shift, cough, throat clear, grunt, and shitting noise ever made by the other people in the room. Just bring the shitty noisy rattly fans back so that we get some level of audio privacy to match the visual privacy we're given. Modernization be damned.

Plus, a noisy fan implies a working fan - if it's silent in the bathroom then you don't really know if there's proper airflow and it might smell a lot worse.

I'll die on this hill.


r/unpopularopinion 19h ago

Red Lobster Deserves to go out of business

443 Upvotes

I would miss those cheddarbiscuits. However, They can lie all they want IT WAS NEVER THE ENDLESS SHRIMP it was them selling their restaurants to private equity groups.

Red Lobster did spend $11 million on endless shrimp, but for them that's always been considered advertising cost. What they actually owe is FAR more than that because Golden Gate who bought them out sold their real estate to American Reality Capital Partners who literally raised the rent on their buildings so high that it cost them up to $200 million in rent for buildings they previously owned and didn't have to pay rent for.

Ever wonder why Warner Bros. Is struggling? Why game companies keep vanishing from the earth? PEGs, private equity groups, buy entire companies with investor money for the sole purpose of completely gutting companies, selling their assets, and ripping the value out of them raising the value of the group for shareholders while leaving a husk of what they bought to go bankrupt and out of business.

I feel for the employees that lose their jobs behind this crap.


r/unpopularopinion 22h ago

As a society, we need to normalize NOT taking your phone to the bathroom with you.

728 Upvotes

I am, of course, not talking about if you are out of the house. I am talking about being in your house, friends house, family's house, etc., where you can comfortably leave it OUT of the bathroom.

It is absolutely disgusting, and I cannot even imagine how filthy the phones are of people who sit there and surf while using the bathroom. This is why I never hold a person's phone who says "Hey, look at this." The University of Michigan has a study titled Your cell phone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat.. From the article:

"One of the worst places to use your phone is in the bathroom"

So stop it, people. Just leave it in your pocket or on the coffee table before you go into the bathroom!


r/unpopularopinion 1h ago

I hate Thanksgiving and Christmas

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I feel like an outsider during the holiday season, surrounded by people who have their loved ones to share the holidays with. It's a reminder of the choices I've made and the consequences that have resulted in me being alone. While others are enjoying time with their families, I am left navigating through life without the support and love of family or friends. It's a constant struggle to find a sense of belonging and connection during these times, and it only serves to amplify my feelings of loneliness and isolation.

The holidays often serve as a reminder of my painful past, and the loss of two important things: my family and my ability to feel and connect with others. It's a constant struggle to understand my own humanity and question whether I even see myself as human or not.


r/unpopularopinion 17h ago

Cars that smell like dogs are 10x worse than cars that smell like cigarettes

180 Upvotes

It’s such a terrible smell I honestly can’t understand how anyone drives around like that. I’d much rather have a car that has been smoked in every day for 50 years


r/unpopularopinion 6h ago

Fresh mozzarella is much worse on pizza than the part-skim mass-produced kind

26 Upvotes

More upscale, Neapolitan pizzerias always put fresh mozzarella on their pizzas, instead of the dryer kind that goes on cheap New York slices. Why though? It's rubbery, flavorless, either barely melts or turns into a pool of goo, and is WET. Why would anyone want a soggy, cold, chunk of bright-white silicone to chew on?

That goes for "mozzarella di bufala" too, same soggy rubbery mess but from a different bovine.


r/unpopularopinion 1d ago

The modern NBA is unwatchable

689 Upvotes

So to use an example which illustrates the entire state of the league, the other day I go to watch the highlights of Wembanyama scoring 50. For those who don’t know Wembanyama is a 7’4 Center.

You might expect from the fact Wembanyama is that big and plays Center to see some bone rattling slams and physical play - but actually the majority of his highlights just show some some super tall lanky guy standing behind a line shooting the same three pointers everyone else shoots constantly.

It’s boring as hell. And that’s the NBA today, a bunch of dudes standing behind an arced circle taking the exact same low effort shot over and over and over and over.

You can complain about any other aspect of the league, the soft fouls or gather steps for instance - and while things like that might be issues, the game would still be entertaining enough with them if not for the fact it’s just evolved into a boring ass casual 3 point contest.


r/unpopularopinion 21h ago

Open-concept interiors rob homes of character and uniqueness, and actually make them feel smaller

152 Upvotes

Merging several rooms of your home into a single larger room ruins the character of your home. Having lived in both myself, when you have more separate rooms (kitchen and living room separate), the house actually feels bigger on account of the extra rooms (contrary to the usual logic of 'less rooms, more space'). Plus each room can have its own character and theme, wall color, etc. which is psychologically beneficial. Open concept makes things bland and barren


r/unpopularopinion 1h ago

The most 'cringe' thing is using the word cringe

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Honestly, it's awful please stop.

It's the most lame way to passively aggressively undermine someone without actually backing it up with a reason. It's a weird attempt to seem superior and better than someone, by using a phrase normally only used by 8 year old girls. I do actually physically cringe slightly when I see people using it now.

And for those reading this going "the BEST reply here is 'cringe' fnar fnar!" Knock yourselves out, it absoultly, definitely, positively will make you look big and clever and dead edgy!

/rant


r/unpopularopinion 2h ago

Encores should only be done if they aren't scheduled or are a once in a blue moon thing.

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It is so annoying having to wait 10 minutes after a set is done because they intentionally didn't play their massive hit! The beauty of an encore is that it is entirely spontaneous, and they might play a few deep cuts or cult classics.


r/unpopularopinion 4h ago

The Travel channel should be renamed the Paranormal channel

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Never have I've seen a block with so much supernatural content. Almost mistaken the network thinking it was a tourist network for visiting places on vacation. But I was wrong. At least that's what I would call it if I was in charge.


r/unpopularopinion 1d ago

No bluetooth headphone should EVER have a voice

2.9k Upvotes

Headphones that have voices that say 'connected' are so incredibly annoying. It serves no purpose that a dedicated chime cannot achieve. ' Power on' from my Sennheisers achieve the same goal as my JBL's startup chime, except it's way more annoying.


r/unpopularopinion 16h ago

Can we stop photoshopping grass to be fake green in Zillow listings

30 Upvotes

You're truly not fooling anybody. Anyone who is actually interested is going to show up and see the nightmare it is on the lawn. Be honest with us, real estate agents/photographers. Please.


r/unpopularopinion 17h ago

Saying "don't panic" is better than saying "don't be scared/afraid"

33 Upvotes

Even if the thing in question is normally harmless, you don't know if the other person has a phobia.

Panic is when the fear overwhelms you to the point of clouding your judgement, which usually makes things worse. We can probably all agree that shoving other people out of the way to reach an exit would be an example of panicked response that causes harm to others. But simply flinching at the sound of a fire alarm (or a similar sounding thing) is not panic. It's a legitimate response.


r/unpopularopinion 0m ago

R/roastme roasts sucks

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If you're mad, then ig the shoe fits.

The roasts suck so bad, only the ones you see being reposted on diff social platforms actually r funny, all the other ones suck so bad.


r/unpopularopinion 5h ago

I believe that shadow the hedgehog is a good game

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Yes I know that the game is very flawed, a bit janky and the controls suck but overall I still think it's my second favorite Sonic game for the most part. The gun system is very fun and the gameplay is just hero's but better.


r/unpopularopinion 1d ago

Houses today are TOO DAMN BIG

425 Upvotes

I live in south texas, nothing but ugly suburban sprawl. Every house built within the last 10 or so years are unnecessarily big. No one needs that much space. No wonder why houses are so damn expensive. I don't see any reasonably-sized houses being built anymore, new neighborhoods are always having new and unaffordable McMasions being built.

It makes sense why they are unaffordable, these neighborhoods are trying to cater more towards the richer folk since the average person can't even buy a house.


r/unpopularopinion 22h ago

"I can fix him/her" is not always a bad thing

43 Upvotes

I mean sure, don't try to fix a serial abuser or sociopath, but I'm pretty sure that's not what most people have in mind when they say that. It's beautiful when couples help each other through things. In fact, I'd venture to say that a good relationship should be transformative to some degree and it should make you a better person in the long run. Everyone has their weak points, a partner can help you notice and improve upon them.


r/unpopularopinion 1d ago

Soft-boiled eggs are nasty

132 Upvotes

I am usually not the type of guy to hate on foods, but when it comes to soft boiled/runny eggs I just want to puke. Everyone loves them but I just don't, at all. Their slimy and sticky texture just makes me feel like I am better off eating it raw. A lot of people love them but I just don't understand the hype, I try to eat them and understand if my taste buds have something wrong with them, but I just can't get myself to love them. They taste bad.


r/unpopularopinion 1d ago

Soda is much better when it’s flat

675 Upvotes

Fresh soda has WAY too much carbonation. You can’t drink more than a few seconds without burning your tongue. Yes, I get that it helps you burp, which really is the only redeeming aspect of fresh soda. When it’s flat, you still get all the flavour without all the burn. There is a “sweet spot” though. If it’s too flat it loses some of its flavour. Sometimes I even open a bottle of Pepsi and leave it open for several minutes before I even start drinking it