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post your unpopular opinions here and prepare for possible roasting <3

mine: i hate Crash. omg i'm sorrynotsorry but I never got on with the game as a child, tried again multiple times through my life because everyone raves about it but could never get into it and now i have a deeeeep dislike for it because it's taken Spyro's spotlight, everything is crashcrashcrash and Spyro's shoved to the side. justice4spyro </3

most unpopular opinions arent actually that unpopular, you just want to complain.

More like a lukewarm opinion, but I dislike how bloodthirsty the internet is to criminals. It's counter intuitive to actually making society better, shaming/punishing people makes things drastically worse. There's probably like 94329 european countries that use the nordic prison model and show that punitive justice is bad yet we anglo countries still haven't changed anything. Yes this also includes murder/sex crimes/etc, anybody should have the chance for rehabilitation.

The only people that deserve that much vitriol are real estate agents .

You don't have to argue semantics to justify piracy. Just do it nobody cares

pokemon gen 5 isnt the peak of pokemon. You were just a child when you played it.

Gen Alpha is not doomed because they watch skibidi toilet.

Chunking express was not that great of a movie. It is pretty, but the second half is just a manic pixie dream girl that gets made fun of in American made movies

You don't have to play semantics to justify kids movies being good. Who cares if you like kids movies

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You don't have to argue semantics to justify piracy. Just do it nobody cares

I see this a lot from people who did not grow up pirating and it's super frustrating. Anyone who makes a big moral fuss about it is a minority of a minority, this applies to 90% of christian mom opinions on the internet, just pirate Antman 11 if you want to.

3D Era!Mortal Kombat is underrated.

thank u all for contributing, i love reading peoples’ unpopular opinions and i especially agree with the piracy one

another one for me-i love this website and i’m glad i grew up here

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I don't care what somePerson says boneless wings are better than bone-in wings

Dark meat is better than white meat

oh im about to have fun with this one. new anime is lifeless derivative and infested with weeb pandering waifus. the reason so many people are fond of 90s and 80s anime to this day is mot just nostalgia it is because it was actually good. original ideas and every anime was not just trying to be either the big three sword art online or a light novel with a really long name. the animation is also not great moat of the time. even when it is the overblown contrast and computer generated effects is mind and eye numbingly over the top.

also the frequent use of cgi isnt because animators are trying something you for creativities sake it is because it is cheaper. most animators im familiar with have very negative opinions of it most of the time too and the reason is because it looks cheap and lazy and just be real that is not anime. that is computer generated animation.... that at best looks sort of like an anime. it has truly messed up the medium.

much respect to the anime that are heavily focused on sakuga and those brave enough to dance with the web gen animation crowd good on you.

im just not as outraged at the whole AI art situation as people expect or want me to be. ive been making money from my art now for nearly 20 years now. my whole life has basically resolved around writing and art.

things in the world change and eventually machines and robots and AI just technology on the whole has a part to play in all of it.

im not reallt going to sit here and complain that AI is going to "put me as an artist out of a job."

if it does.

then i was not that good of an artist then. i just need to be better and more creative then the AI. have something that people want that AI cannot provide. i mean if i dont do that and dont have that then im not the kind of artist i want to be anyway and should be run out.

the only issues i have are these.

people who use AI to steal or copy someones art.

people who use AI to create art and theb call themselves "artists."

and these huge companies that decided to day we can use all of your att you upload or create without permission to train are AI. deviantart and adobe.

though am argument can be made i suppose that i am using their service and the terms none of us ever read probably have allowed then to do something like that for years at this point.


but yeah technology and AI has always made its way into industries and push people around or out ag some point. factories used to be full of people assembling products by hand and eventually now we have completely robotic assembly and those jobs just dont exist at this point. that will not come to pass with art certainly not yet or soon but even if it somehow did then i dont know im typing this reply on a device that was assembled by robots that once put hundreds of thousand of people put of jobs so...

i also remember a time when digital art became more popular and having people criticized that as not being real art as i knew a lot of traditional artists who were artists much before home computers and photoshop and all of that.

but i love digital art and co sider myself a web gen artist.

im just like whatever.

im just going to make art that AI cannot make as of now.

i know i can

and i will.

im just not going to be in a fit over the AI stuff no matter. i have been an artist my whole life and ive seen the landscape become so different so many times now.

this is just the next part.

at least it is not NFT.

I am not interested in upopular ipionions. Or opinions in general. At least as of this currenrnsecond

Reddit actually kind of sucks for tech advice outside of niche troubleshooting. A lot of people on there have a hardcore consumerist mindset, buy new thing for the sake of new thing. This is really obvious whenever Intel HD gets brought up on the major tech subs, it's 1000's of comments of blatant misinformation. Everyone is trapped in this bubble of Intel 13000KXTurboXtreme, rtx 4090 ownership that they genuinely have no idea what an average computer is capable of. I saw a post with a guy who had a gtx 970 and had a problem running tf2, 70% of the comments were like "upgrade your rig bro", this is a game that released years before the 970 was even a thing. Tech elitism is rampant in pretty much every subreddit, even though 99% of people are just running Minecraft and emulating Pokemon Red.

the whole meltdown over deviantarts nee design back in 20whatever it was is still incredibly weird to me.

the site was incredibly outdated.

not only that but having a deviantart back then it was like impossible to be taken seriously. everyone i knew anyway viewed it as that site that has a bunch of nsfw furry and sonic fan att.

that is not a jab at furries you all do you no issue with that.

im actually saying the opposite like other art people not into it had a bias against it even if the art could be incredible just because of stereotypes and whatever reputation it built up at the time.

i think it comes off more professional now but other then that

the look is just... better.

love the dark mode im a supporter of simplistic and minimalist layout and design i was a website designer and worked in web production and when minimalist caught on i was completely down for it. the sleek simple and ehat now is deemed "professional" look appealed to me to the point where i made a new deviantart account after not having one for almost a decade at that point. since i was mostly on my own self coded site for my art and pixiv but that lured me back.

i also remember a lot of people said it was incred8bkt confusing and the layout and menus and options and where everything in was like some sort of maze and a mess which if you were dedicated to and completely used to the old layout yeah i can definitely see but if you were knew or had not been around in a bit i from Mt own experience the last few years found that it made more sense and it was more simple and well put together.


and i know that is an incredibly hot take and i completely understand that when you are used to something a new layout can be very just... uh...


like i do not like at all the new reddit. at least not on the desktop and since i find jobs and work there it bothered me to deal with it and appreciated the choice to roll back the new look but at the same time yeah i still understand the new way is more modern and probably has a lot of things that make it technically better then the old way.

i just think it was a bit too nuch when it came to the look.

now...


everything else that they did choose to do at thst point and over the course of the next few years.

yeah no.

Board games are better than video games when playing with other people.

Microsoft solitaire is the greatest game ever made.

yknow what idc what anyone thought, now - my self insert "im spyro's sister" mf spyrosona spyra was pretty swag actually and i was cringe but i was free. whatever. i was like 9-12 and ballin hard af who gave a dam. not i by far. she built me into who i am today.

the three stooges kissed eachother

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yknow what idc what anyone thought, now - my self insert "im spyro's sister" mf spyrosona spyra was pretty swag actually and i was cringe but i was free. whatever. i was like 9-12 and ballin hard af who gave a dam. not i by far. she built me into who i am today.

power to you f yeah

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yknow what idc what anyone thought, now - my self insert "im spyro's sister" mf spyrosona spyra was pretty swag actually and i was cringe but i was free. whatever. i was like 9-12 and ballin hard af who gave a dam. not i by far. she built me into who i am today.

i loved spyra

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yknow what idc what anyone thought, now - my self insert "im spyro's sister" mf spyrosona spyra was pretty swag actually and i was cringe but i was free. whatever. i was like 9-12 and ballin hard af who gave a dam. not i by far. she built me into who i am today.

self insert ocs are based and goated with the sauce

ty

will i ever bring her back? no

do i have a new spyrosona now? yes. but she's not related to spyro in any way. theyre buddies tho. she lives in midnight mountain.

YAY MIDNIGHT MPUNTAIN

its literally my favorite spyro homeworld evar

its so pretty

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I cannot take The Handmaid's Tale seriously. A work colleague once summarized the setting to me and something in the way she explained it made me feel like she was secretly kind of excited about the whole thing. To this day I'm convinced there's a sizable portion of the audience who read it solely because it presents them with an elaborate sexual fantasy that allows them to feel like oppressed martyrs at the same time.
I'll admit I have no reason to think that the book was ever intended to be fetishized; but I do feel that it has been.
Also, I haven't actually read it.

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yknow what idc what anyone thought, now - my self insert "im spyro's sister" mf spyrosona spyra was pretty swag actually and i was cringe but i was free. whatever. i was like 9-12 and ballin hard af who gave a dam. not i by far. she built me into who i am today.

I remember thinking it was annoying at the time, but I only just about remember it. I hope we made up at some point if we ever had arguments.
I might just be wearing my nostalgia goggles, but I remember all the things that happened here rather fondly. Every online persona, every childish argument and old, crappy fanfic that seemed so cringey or silly at the time just made this place alive in hindsight.
Edit: Well, not literally all the things, but I'm sure you get what I mean. The things that weren't actually criminal.

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oh im about to have fun with this one. new anime is lifeless derivative and infested with weeb pandering waifus. the reason so many people are fond of 90s and 80s anime to this day is mot just nostalgia it is because it was actually good. original ideas and every anime was not just trying to be either the big three sword art online or a light novel with a really long name. the animation is also not great moat of the time. even when it is the overblown contrast and computer generated effects is mind and eye numbingly over the top.

also the frequent use of cgi isnt because animators are trying something you for creativities sake it is because it is cheaper. most animators im familiar with have very negative opinions of it most of the time too and the reason is because it looks cheap and lazy and just be real that is not anime. that is computer generated animation.... that at best looks sort of like an anime. it has truly messed up the medium.

much respect to the anime that are heavily focused on sakuga and those brave enough to dance with the web gen animation crowd good on you.

My unpopular opinion is that this is actually one of the most popular opinions.

New = bad
Old = good

Is a very common opinion

If we're doing anime unpopular opinions: I hate hair gradients, in new anime you see hair gradients everywhere and it looks terrible.

Look at this GARBAGE


The SUPERIOR one color hair


This is not a joke post I ****ing hate gradients.

I hate those reddit posts of someone giving their thoughts on a show/movie/book and it's formatted the same way as a nostalgia critic video where it's a summary of the plot. And then saying "this is bad/good". No analysis whatsoever, a waste of time for the writer and reader

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I don't care what somePerson says boneless wings are better than bone-in wings

SO true tho

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the three stooges kissed eachother

Weren't two of the Stooges brothers?

this unpopular opinions thread is better than the other one

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Quote: Samius

I cannot take The Handmaid's Tale seriously. A work colleague once summarized the setting to me and something in the way she explained it made me feel like she was secretly kind of excited about the whole thing. To this day I'm convinced there's a sizable portion of the audience who read it solely because it presents them with an elaborate sexual fantasy that allows them to feel like oppressed martyrs at the same time.
I'll admit I have no reason to think that the book was ever intended to be fetishized; but I do feel that it has been.
Also, I haven't actually read it.

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yknow what idc what anyone thought, now - my self insert "im spyro's sister" mf spyrosona spyra was pretty swag actually and i was cringe but i was free. whatever. i was like 9-12 and ballin hard af who gave a dam. not i by far. she built me into who i am today.

I remember thinking it was annoying at the time, but I only just about remember it. I hope we made up at some point if we ever had arguments.
I might just be wearing my nostalgia goggles, but I remember all the things that happened here rather fondly. Every online persona, every childish argument and old, crappy fanfic that seemed so cringey or silly at the time just made this place alive in hindsight.
Edit: Well, not literally all the things, but I'm sure you get what I mean. The things that weren't actually criminal.

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oh im about to have fun with this one. new anime is lifeless derivative and infested with weeb pandering waifus. the reason so many people are fond of 90s and 80s anime to this day is mot just nostalgia it is because it was actually good. original ideas and every anime was not just trying to be either the big three sword art online or a light novel with a really long name. the animation is also not great moat of the time. even when it is the overblown contrast and computer generated effects is mind and eye numbingly over the top.

also the frequent use of cgi isnt because animators are trying something you for creativities sake it is because it is cheaper. most animators im familiar with have very negative opinions of it most of the time too and the reason is because it looks cheap and lazy and just be real that is not anime. that is computer generated animation.... that at best looks sort of like an anime. it has truly messed up the medium.

much respect to the anime that are heavily focused on sakuga and those brave enough to dance with the web gen animation crowd good on you.

My unpopular opinion is that this is actually one of the most popular opinions.

New = bad
Old = good

Is a very common opinion

nah you wrong

the new kids in the anime scene basically control the narrative everywhere you go whenever aoemthing new comes out everyone immediately jumps on the defend it train no matter what. it is new it NEEDS to be good. this is what i am growing up with IT NEEDS TO BE GOOD.

for example.

anime.

final fantasy 7 remake.

every new gen of pokemon.

put the woodwork you have people who will die on the hill of the new one is the best blah blah.

and their only defense is exactly what you just said.

"oh oh oh you are only saying that because new to you is just bad old stuff is retro therefore ee is betterz"

when like.

sorry no bro.

not the point.

i dont care if it is old or new when it comes to abime the method and style is what matters.

sorry but 3d animation is not anime. if you like it fine. good on you but it looks amateuris and aint anime.

it requires a completely different skillset. you can call yourself an anime-artist/animator if you cant draw. just like i cannot call myself a 3D artist if i cant make and use 3D models.

different artform.

know its easy to dismiss someone who isnt into new anime and new anime trends by just saying the whole "new bad old good" shtick but that aint it bro.

anime has just to crap. weeaboo waifu and 3D nonsense everywhere.

some of my favs are old. some are new.

some are before my time even.

so will respectfully disagree with the opinion being "popular" in the first place when all the mainstream is in hatdcore defense of these things. they just want still feel like they are the minority so they have the defense of everyone hating on their new stuff but that died circa a decade ago. it is 2025 just about gen zs and newer are the main audience and demographic and most active in the scene and the majority of them will defend the new stuff like their honor depends on it. they will die on that hill like it is lined with coffins filled with extra firm memory foam mattresses and waifu body pillows.

im what you call a web gen animator i use computers to animated but i hand drawn. look into shingo yama****a he is hardly the guy all of the hard-core 1980s 90s anime fans will defend
but i live that style. my fav.

i have no bias toward something because it is old or hate something because it is new. it is about the style and the art form used it just so happens that their was a much more talented pool of animators and writers apparently in the 1990s. anime blew up. it became easy money

so naturally over the last decade quality has gone down in favor if production. they do not care what they make as long as you buy it up. and you are.

if anime goes back to the style and flavor it had back then right now then i would proudly proclaim the twenty twenties as the de facto best years of anime.

i truly care about the artform and nostalgia and or hating what is new an in style for just being that gets in the way.

it is a hindering to the artform amd it has no place in my view.

i have plenty of mew anime i love because of how they used the artform.

not my fault the most of it is cheap trash and 3D blah blah now


so even if the whole

new bad

old good


thing was still the mainstream opinion.

it totally is not unless the current gen are the ones fixating on it which would be very weird as they never experienced the old.

it is not the point i made.

im on about the artform itself and the style and creative use of the art form.

it was at its peak back then.

but could easily surpass it now if they would focus on the art form as it was and apply the new technology we have now to actual decent use. not 3d. not 14 layers of shine and contrast and sfx.

but the art

the animation.

the simplicity of the color palette.

it is all there and ready to use.

use it.

that was my point.

part 2

word count too much


i am sorry to those who it helps sleep better at night to believe i fit into a certain stereotype that they have set in their minds but nah man.

skip to loafer, shinkai and hosada movies amd legitimately whatever yama****a does are some of my fav things to ever happen to anime.

amd komugiko2000 is incredible for those of you who do not not check out loins giant killing MV. another awesome creative web gen animator ahem ahem whos work while messy and simple is beautiful and fluid at the same time.

also chainsaw man.

dope


and they are nowhere near the 90s or to be considered "old."

sorry but that aint me.

i just like good art and im smart enough to see where the good art is and i believe UNFORTUNATELY actually a lot of it happened back then which is a shame because im old enough to appreciate these things more now and i wish there was a lot more to appreciate being done in the scene.


and at the end of the day old bad new good is just faded as is the generation who believed that.

again unless the generation of youth now believes that which would be incredibly weird. they own the scene now they are the target audience what is new is being made for them and they are not only the louder voices now but the most plenty.

but me.

i just like art.

and fixing a date and time on the art will only hinder the future creation of more of that said art.

it is just fact that back then things were done more diligently and creatively. it is fact that 3D and layers of SFX are done now to save cost and pretty up a mediocre picture.

but so often something breaks through that is better then ANYTHING that came before it when you use what can be done today with the style and value of art that was still cared about back then and that is what we need much much more of.

but business is business so that will not happen.

except the few times someone who cares decides to drop something down.

but anime needs to touch its roots.

3d animation and all these SFX layers are eh... especially the 3D that is just not anime at that point sorry.

i want to see anime.

that is what i mean.

not good or bad or new or old.

i just want the most of what we see in the genre of we animation to be well..

2d animation.

Gen z and millennials be hating on gen alpha kids for their internet slang and saying skibidi rizz or whatever it is.... Yet I remember all the cringe **** we used to say.... Can I have cheezbuger?? xD RAWR!! I'ma firing my Lazer haha SHOOTDAWHOOP!! And the dabbing that was a thing not long ago, each gen has cringe haha

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Gen z and millennials be hating on gen alpha kids for their internet slang and saying skibidi rizz or whatever it is.... Yet I remember all the cringe **** we used to say.... Can I have cheezbuger?? xD RAWR!! I'ma firing my Lazer haha SHOOTDAWHOOP!! And the dabbing that was a thing not long ago, each gen has cringe haha

1: It was SHOOP DA WOOP

2: Rawr is not cringe

3: According to my dad, people still dab

Pineapple belongs on pizza! There! I said it! I think the hate for it is a bit unjustified.

the mindset of "i feel so so bad for those poor overworked (x)." when it is not as warranted as another place of work.

in this case the field of animation. of which i mainly work in.

well no.

i DO agree with that. the anime industry is absolutely ridiculous with how much you need to work for very little pay.

but...

no one is forcing a gun to my head and making me do this for a living. at any moment i could have walked away and found a job that would pay just as much but in retail where i would work significantly less.

to clear again i do think it is ridiculous and i agree with the statement. i absolutely think that the producers should allow for a bigger budget in animation production (do not understand the people who point the finger directly at the studios because they are screwed too i think there is a lack of knowledge on how the anime business is set up)

i just think the pity given to

what is my chosen means of making money is a little bit... too much.

i appreciate that i can use my art whether i enjoy art at this point (not not reallt have not for a decade now) or not it is still a job that allows me to not work a completely talentless or passionless job. and at the end of the day no one made me do it and if i wanted to i could just stop. there are endless retail jobs and plenty of work since and primary problem is the low pay that i could apply for to make more money. at the end of the day we are still bare minimum working a job that we wanted. we are in a field where our talent is being used to create something you care about.

as opposed to say my boyfriends job where he he is more overworked at sixty plus hours a week in a factory lifting one hundred pound tires and car parts and climbing on top of 4 story high metal racks to retrieve or organize those one hundred pound parts at 3am. which is a job with no soul that no one wants they just need.

i just feel my work gets way more sympathy and attention on the poor treatment then other work because i work in a field that people care about and that they think about.


while things like factory work or things behind the scenes that technically make everything you do every day work is just something that no one thinks about bevause no one cares about that.

in the end.

my point is there is a uneven scale of poor pay or work environment that has a bias for jobs that people want or like or think about.

also it is just a bit uncomfortable to get a lot of sympathy for job i am actively choosing to be a part of and do the work.

and i say this from a standpoint where i eeallt do need the money more then your average person as i have been living out of a cat and hotels for a year and half now.