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.


r/unpopularopinion • • 24m ago

Little Caesar’s is the greatest pizza chain of ALL TIME

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The quality of the food is highly contested but I believe that it is not only consistent but also on par or better than other popular chains like Domino’s, Papa John’s, and etc.

I would also argue it is the most valuable pizza chain even accounting for inflation in most states across the United States. One classic pizza is about 6-7$ whilst other chains are charging demonic prices for mediocre food.

Not to mention the service and speed is revolutionary, Little Caesars is the gold standard of customer service. (Unless yours is located in an MLK boulevard.)


r/unpopularopinion • • 8h ago

Indiana Jones should’ve been recast after Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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Indiana Jones originated from Spielberg’s desire to make a James Bond movie then George Lucas pitched him the idea for Indiana Jones.

So they should’ve made it more like the James Bond series and do a recast after an actors tenure has run out of steam.

Indiana Jones is a power fantasy and Harrison Ford was already too old for Indy in 2008, let alone 2023.

So recasting should’ve been done the same way they do for James Bond.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1h ago

Duck is better then chicken

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Duck is just better tasting and easier to cook than chicken. juicier, crispier skin etc. a full duck costs about the same as a chicken soo it’s an easy substitute. Plus it’s naturally more fatty


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

One should be able to play their hand-held device in the office.

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Thought I’d take my shot at an unpopular opinion here! But there it is. 🫠 I feel one should be able to pull out a Nintendo Switch at work and play a game for a little while. We’ve normalized cell phones to such a degree that no one questions if someone is at their desk on their cell phone — watching YouTube, on social media, dead scrolling during work hours. I’ve worked multiple office jobs and you see it all the time. Apparently that’s totally fine. But God forbid I switched it to a handheld gaming device. I’d be instantly judged or told it’s not acceptable. 💀 What’s the difference? Obviously, cell phones or hand held devices shouldn’t be utilized while one is working. But my point is this: if you’re going to socially normalize one and give an unspoken green light to it during work hours, but not the other — it’s a bit hypocritical. It’s all or nothing lol.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1h ago

Acting Busy Is Easy Until Life Actually Gets Busy

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There’s a difference between actually being busy and just pretending to be busy. The funny thing is, when you pretend to be busy, you think you’re fooling the other person, but in reality, you’re fooling yourself, because one day, life will actually get overwhelming. You’ll have so much going on that you genuinely won’t be able to manage everything, and your mind will start telling you that you’re too busy for this, too busy for that, and too busy for everyone and that’s when you’ll realize how easily you’ve turned being busy into an excuse the irony is that when you actually have a thousand things to deal with, you’ll understand that people make time for what matters to them sometimes, I’m busy isn’t about having too much to do; it’s about what you choose not to make time for.

So, to those who pretend to be busy without even knowing what real busyness feels like, keep acting, just don’t confuse pretending to carry a burden with actually carrying one


r/unpopularopinion • • 7m ago

The new foldable screen phones are humanity’s worst invention

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I am talking about the new iPhone, but also other foldable screen phones made by Samsung and other companies. Like why? I don’t see the point of it. Why not just make a bigger phone in size? I don’t see it ever serving a specific or niche purpose that a normal phone wouldn’t do… and now I am seeing a lot of videos of the new foldable iPhone breaking and the screen not working, which is of course expected. My mom has a foldable Samsung and she barely unfolds it. Why? Because it turns off when it unfolds. So what’s the use of it? I really don’t get it. It’s also bulky and unnecessarily big. Let alone the fact that most apps are not built yet to support such a dimension of screen of a foldable screen phone. What do you all think?

EDIT: IN THE CONTEXT OF TECHNOLOGY AND PHONES.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

The US dollar bill should be replaced by the dollar coin.

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In light of the recent discontinued production of pennies, I think it’s time we also evaluate the $1 bill as well. While the penny was discontinued for many economic reasons, my opinion stems more from the change in societal needs for currency. $1 in the US doesn’t have nearly as much buying power as it used to. As the cost of goods rise, less and less items are costing around $1, and less under that. To me that signifies that the dollar bill is being relegated to a change currency, with the $5 bill being the next bill up that can comfortably buy many different kinds of small items. Yes, the $2 bill exists, but it is not used widely enough and would be dwarfed quickly with the continued rise of costs.


r/unpopularopinion • • 22h ago

I think we should've played as Abby first in the Last of Us Part 2

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I love the Last of Us but the biggest problem I have with the sequel is them trying to get us to empathize with the people who tortured Joel.

I've seen people say that we should've started out as Abby after having killed Joel, played as her, watched her friends die and then it's revealed that she killed Joel and we switch to Ellie.

I feel like that would've made more sense and helped people not be as biased and also made for a good twist.


r/unpopularopinion • • 21h ago

National Anthems at Sporting Events Should not be televised

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These are symbolic presentations for the people in the building. They have never been associated with the start of individual television programs. Broadcasting them is gratuitous and a waste of broadcast time.

Edit- Yes I am talking about pro US sports leagues, not international competition


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

Lola was the villain of Shark Tale, but she was also one of the most honest people in the movie and Oscar did not owe Angie a relationship.

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Lola is absolutely shallow, opportunistic and status obsessed. I’m not arguing that she was secretly a good person. But she WAS remarkably transparent about what she wanted.

Oscar becomes rich and famous, and Lola suddenly wants him because she likes status, money, attention and being associated with someone important. That is terrible relationship material, but it is not exactly a hidden agenda. She straight up called him a loser when they first met and ADMITTED what she wanted. She didn’t come around and pretend she secretly loved him the whole time. She never lied about any of that.

Meanwhile, the entire movie is built around Oscar lying about being the “Sharkslayer.”

Angie is obviously a much better person and even friend than Lola, and she definitely cared about Oscar before he became famous. But I’ve started to dislike the idea that this automatically meant Oscar was supposed to end up with her.

Angie having loved him before the fame does not mean she needed to end up with Oscar. She also doesn’t fully confess how she feels until Oscar is already involved with Lola, and the argument becomes partly, “I loved you before all of this.”

Okay. That proves Angie cared about the real Oscar.
It still does not mean Oscar owed her attraction.
People are usually much better at recognizing this when the genders are reversed. If a man quietly loves his woman best friend for years, supports her through everything, and then gets upset when she dates someone else, most people correctly say:
“You were her friend. She doesn’t owe you romance because you were nice to her.”

Same principle here.

By all means, tell Oscar that Lola is a terrible choice because she only wants him when he has status.
But the solution did not have to be, “Therefore Angie is your rightful girlfriend.”

Oscar could have ended the movie single.
He could have learned that chasing status was making him miserable, become comfortable with himself, and eventually met someone who liked him for who he actually was, AND whom he was genuinely attracted to.

And Angie could have found somebody who reciprocated her feelings without needing an entire movie to notice her. Lola being a user does not make Angie entitled to being Oscar’s romantic interest.

Angie being loyal does not make Lola healthy.
And Oscar being an idiot does not mean the movie needed to reward one woman with him like he was the final prize at a carnival.

Sometimes the emotionally healthier ending is simply: none of these people should date each other right now.


r/unpopularopinion • • 2d ago

Washing dishes by hand is better than using a dishwasher.

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This is just for a standard family day, not restaurants or big occasions. But, just washing dishes by hand as you go through the day and after dinner is way easier than loading a dishwasher, running the cycle and then unloading the machine. Just washing dishes them as they are used put them in the drying rack.

Just for reference- I have a wife and kid and cook three meals a day, just like doing them by hand🤷🏻‍♂️


r/unpopularopinion • • 38m ago

My thoughts on social behavior

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People who judge others for being open about sexuality are straight up privileged. Some people cant afford to pay for a car and go to clubs and talk to women regularly.

Some people are stuck in the same place for years and even decades, and if someone feels the need to judge someone else for trying to release that pressure valve, just think: the person judging you has way more access to what you need to function as a human being. In other words: they're extremely privileged.


r/unpopularopinion • • 2h ago

In The Sopranos, Paulie Walnuts shouldn’t have stayed loyal to Tony Soprano

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Tony didn’t deserve Paulie’s loyalty lmao. Like a whole decade treated him like shit, didnt side with him, cut corners with him, made him do his hits, and didnt even visit him in the can lmao. After all the humiliation and disrespect Tony still has the balls to take him on the boat and ask him if he ratted about the Ginny Sack joke. Paulie had way too much tolerance for Tony, any other guy in the crew wouldve flipped.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

FOOTBALL IS DEPRESSING NOWADAYS

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I love playing football, in real life or on a video game... but honestly, watching it has become a torture, especially club football.

Before the season even starts, any fan with half a working brain already knows who's going to win the title and who's going to finish near the top.

Famous last words: MESMA MERDA

The cause is money and the damn inequality.

- Bayern won eleven Bundesliga titles in a row

- PSG strolls through France and even put the reserve team plenty of times

- Barcelona and Real crush their league without letting anyone breathe

- In Brazil, Flamengo and Palmeiras play with gigantic budgets and are already turning our league into a cesspool

- Leicester, Leverkusen, Monaco, Lille, Valencia, Deportivo, Atlético... All exceptions.

Inflation completes this nightmare. Nowadays, any scrub is worth millions of euros.

Absolute Shit!

Football needs to discuss spending caps and new rules... otherwise it'll always be... this.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

Glitter rocks and you need more love in your heart if you hate it

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Why do people hate glitter? Just the concept of it, i understand some is bad for the environment . But i just mean like when glitter gets on things like now you have a bedazzled pretty sparkly thing. Now that thing is prettier than what it was before . Glitter is awesome.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

Unloading a dishwasher is nearly effortless

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I feel like it's almost unfair to be able to add this to a chore* list

If you 'wash the dishes' (ie let the dishwasher wash the dishes for you), this should be included in the end task

It takes less than an extra minute


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

It’s better not to know your IQ score

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I have always avoided taking an IQ test even though I grew up in gifted and advanced placement programs. I think that if you find out that you have a high score, you can become arrogant and stop listening to advice from others, thinking you are always the smartest in the room. On the other hand, if you find out you have a low IQ score, you can lose your confidence and feel hopeless. I don’t see any benefit to knowing your IQ score.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

We give too much value to other people (friends, lovers, etc.) and forget our own. We should be 1000x more important than others.

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I dont think we are conciously aware of the fact that the literal most important person in our entire life is ourselves. Everyone knows it, but so few are concious about it.

A friend doesnt want to hang out as often, a lover decides that they dont love you anymore, a random person makes a hurtful comment, your bestfriend betrays you. These are all bad experiences created by other people. The sole reason they are this bad is because we give value to them.

But YOU deserve atleast 1000x more value, because it is your own life. It should be disrespectful to your own being that you get sad because of other people. I’m not saying to ignore your emotions or something, but the initial impact is much lesser compared to your own thinking about these events.

If you love yourself, respect yourself and value yourself more, then you’ll realize no one even comes close to hurt you that much in the beginning. You are the only one to experience your life, all others are just random people, you are there all the way from the beginning to the end. Love you all.

Edit: I dont mean this as being selfish, as you could understand from the examples I just gave you. Its more about the bad experiences that YOU had. I'm all for helping others and being a community, and I always give too much of myself to other people. The main thing I'm saying that these people shouldnt be able to take part in your mental health, because you (and your mental health) are much much more important! We are social creatures and bond too deeply with our close ones, but we shouldnt forget that this is OUR life and experience, very independently.


r/unpopularopinion • • 6h ago

Amanda Seyfried Does a Horrible Elizabeth Holmes Impression

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Firstly, no hate to Amanda Seyfried. I love her as an actress and respect her values as a person based off what I’ve heard and seen in the media. Maybe that’s why I find it so unconvincing when she is portraying Elizabeth Holmes. When the deep voice is incorporated, I think it gets even worst lol. I couldn’t finish The Dropout because of how cringy the acting was. I went to see You Can See Everything, which I absolutely loved, and some scenes were a little more convincing, but still felt off at some points. Does anyone else feel this way?


r/unpopularopinion • • 1h ago

Mike Flanagan is *the worst*.

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Now, I am sure he is a genuinely nice fella. But every single one of his movies and shows are pretentious and reeks of entitlement (similar to Ari Aster's work). Kate Seigel (again I am sure she is a lovely person) is not the gods' gift to the world. The monologs are nothing but "I'm 14 and this is deep." posts. Not everything has to be some kind of tramatic life-affirming catharsis. And he honestly would not be anything without his go to D.O.P. Michael Fimognari.

But the worst thing is the absolutely insufferable cult following. Come at me Flanastans.

Now.......*sigh*.....all that being said I do have to ashamedly admit.....I will watch his movies/shows because godsdamn...they are pretty good.

Edit: example of my "conflicting" view. Picture an artist you cannot stand. Now picture a song put out by that artist that makes you think "Damn...that's catchy." Hope that helps.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

Telling someone you love them is easier than telling someone you like them.

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I think it's so much easier to tell someone you love them, because, if you like em, what's the guarantee it'll ever turn into love, you can like someone, so many people but it's so rare to love someone as deeply as your existence.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1h ago

Comedians are not funny

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There aren’t any funny tv shows, sitcoms, or stand up comedians who genuinely make me laugh. At least that’s my experience towards comedians in the United Kingdom.

I’m talking about the last 10-15 years at least. When I hear comedians talking to radio hosts, or something like the ‘Last One Laughing’ tv series which seems to be a global hit, or in The Traitors there are comedians, but they really are not funny. Perhaps mildly entertaining at best, but if I want to be entertained, there’s plenty of better ways to spend my time while being productive at the same time.

It seems at least from my perspective, comedians are really are trying to be funny and perhaps that might be the issue because it’s very forced. Or on the other hand, someone makes a social faux pas which some people seem to find funny.


r/unpopularopinion • • 1d ago

Poor matchmaking is the case for every team-based videogame

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People right now are complaining that Deadlock has been getting worse because they are assigned to toxic or incompetent people in the team, like it's a unique situation and worse than Marvel Rivals for example. Isn't that the case for every game like this? I think no matter what you play and the game has comms you'll always meet someone toxic, same thing with incompetent players who SOMEHOW climbed up to high rank/level

Team-based games harbor the worst people naturally, so best one can do is just playing not to win and muting anyone who screams on mic. It's that easy.


r/unpopularopinion • • 13h ago

We should bring smart-casual attire back.

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Specific unpopular opinion, but we should bring back smart casual wear similar to what people used to wear in the 50’s and before. Obviously modernised I’m not talking Victorian style attire. IMO when you wear smart clothes or a suit for instance there’s an instant confidence and importance you get that you don’t have with any other clothing, and when you look at old timey footage of people going about their day theirs such an elegance to it and I’m sure they felt it in themselves and at the sight of other people wearing smart clothes.

Throwing this out there but the government should run a program where for atleast a year or half a year they make it mandatory for all clothing boutiques to sell smart casual clothing and only that clothing, just to see how the public reacts to it. Maybe small at first in like a town or something, just to see how people react.

Also there would be good incentive for this aswell, you think about how much waste the clothing industry makes. Atleast for a while make it mandatory they can only sell high quality clothes.