I can’t see the point of getting on the internet for the sole purpose of taking somebody like say Carol Burnett, who by all accounts was a nice person, and talking about her show, which was very popular, and saying “I don’t like it or her, I didn’t find it/them funny.”

I guess I’m saying I don’t really understand unpopularopinion posts. They seem like institutionalized trolling.

Hmm, perhaps this is a unpopular opinion.

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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      Because it doesn’t work. No matter if they say to upvote unpopular opinions, humans generally want to upvote things they agree with. So it can’t be an actual unpopular opinion. So people start to word popular (or at least not supremely unpopular) opinions as though they’re unpopular, get upvotes, repeat.