Everyone has an unpopular opinion. Maybe you dislike a TV show with a huge fanbase, like . Or you think La Croix, the flavored sparkling water with a cult following, is gross (you probably just haven’t found your flavor yet). If you’re Extremely Online, you’ve likely seen people unleash their “unpopular opinions” many, many times on social sites. So much so, the practice is now a Twitter meme.
The format is simple: People write “unpopular opinion” in a tweet before launching into a hot take.
unpopular opinion: coconut water is disgusting.
— Finessa (@NessaaOrtiz) May 28, 2018
https://twitter.com/ToBeyOrN0tToBey/status/1001151967215964160
But since some of these opinions get thousands of likes and retweets, people wonder if they are actually “unpopular”:
https://twitter.com/isabellrrose/status/1001240174133698560
https://twitter.com/heroquirk/status/1001462950710788096
https://twitter.com/TaboWithoutAnH/status/1001329797480542208
https://twitter.com/jpbrammer/status/1001401208811094016
Some people hate this meme, but it’s actually turned into a way to have constructive conversations about specific topics. In the last week, people started making different “editions” of this meme in the form of Twitter threads. It’s a way to talk shit about a common interest.
Here’s one for gaming:
Is there an Unpopular Opinions: Games Edition? Let’s get messy. pic.twitter.com/b9n7cr2rXk
— ✨Super Sailor DEI✨ (@OhHeyDJ) May 29, 2018
For an inbetween system, the Sega Dreamcast was a treasure.
— Matt Grigsby (@Matt_Grigsby) May 29, 2018
Here’s one for K-pop:
https://twitter.com/YooKiihyun_/status/1001780207102066688
There’s one for creatives:
https://twitter.com/henrystuartco/status/1001078198225039360
also, you guys bargain artists and creators too much when commissioning and don’t realize that we charge for our materials AND the effort we put into our pieces
— c ☆彡 (@LAGNSN) May 28, 2018
And, of course, there’s a Star Wars edition (there’s likely more than one of these):
https://twitter.com/kylocentric/status/1001263065894092813
And one for Drag Race:
https://twitter.com/LuciferTheGay/status/1001177387122470912
A meme about unpopular opinions that is creating communities where people are having fun talking about a shared interest? It’s reminiscent of old Twitter, a time when people used the site as a microblogging service to discuss nothing of great significance. Let’s enjoy this while it lasts.
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