♦ Unpopular Opinion Thread ♦

Trigger warnings shouldn’t be MORE graphic or descriptive than the actual thing they’re warming about.

^ Yeah we need to ban the term "womp womp". I just came across a post on IG where someone mentioned their dead friend and some of the comments said that. (Also it's just really annoying. I hate a lot of the new slang people have been saying.)

Head in my hands please KFF (kin for fun) people stop trying to intrude in otherkin and fictionkin spaces to force us out and call weird. There's already a term for relating to a character or animal strongly (otherhearted) use that instead. Kin means you ARE that character, idc if you think we're weird, you can't just try and redefine a term that's existed for like 3-4 decades and alienate us in our own spaces 😭💔 it's so hard to find other fictionkin folk nowadays bcs the tags are flooded with people who just strongly relate to the characters instead

^ "womp womp" was funny before everyone started saying it like their life depended on it. I think it became more mainstream after that meme of the Fox reporter saying it blew up recently (which admittedly was kind of funny imo). It just got annoying seeing it literally EVERYWHERE. Overusing something is usually the demise of a phrase that's supposed to be funny, or it just fades out lol. I don't think it's the worst slang the internet has latched onto, although it's definitively up there. 

Consumerism is at an all-time high because of TikTok influencers and whatever. Not even the companies seeking sponsorships or anything, but just because people will find something on TikTok and then buy 5 million of them for no reason. Come on, we ALL know the Stanley cup obsession came from TikTok influencers. A wise Kurtis Conner once said, "And dude, these people love their Stanley cups more than Wayne Gretzky." Not to mention the entire thing in January when literal middle schoolers were being bullied over not having a Stanley cup. IT'S A WATER BOTTLE, PEOPLE. What is wrong with society.

(Kinda a rant) Also, on a COMPLETELY separate note that I wanted to add, pirating an application or game or whatever because they did questionable or bad things doesn’t make you some sort of amazing god or societal hero. This type of stuff was really big when the Hogwarts Legacy game came out where people were pirating the game just to spite JK Rowling. I hate JK Rowling just as much as any other sane person, but this was kind of stupid. I’m sorry, but you’re not doing anything. You’re not making a point, and if anything, you’re just further promoting the game which is quite counterintuitive. You’re not revolutionary for pirating Adobe software because you disagree with their morals. Just play a different game or use a different program if you hate the company or person who made it so much. It’s just like the hate-streaming of Velma that happened a few months ago (well, really like a year ago). The hate-streaming gave it enough revenue to make another season, which NOBODY even wanted. It’s just stupid lol.

for many candies and stuff, i prefer the "thinner" versions of them rather than the normal or extra version 

(for example, i prefer oreo thins over the normal oreos or the double stuf oreos; same goes for reese's thins instead of the normal reese's peanut butter cups)

tbh I'd be fine with AI that scan/scrape the entire internet's content even without consent if it was used for actually good/helpful things like (and only for these specific things, not like "primarily used for these but we'll do bad on the side teehee" bs):

• An image reader who can autogenerate alt-text for any and every images compatible with any/every screereaders.
• An image scanner that can pause/slowdown gifs or adjust the contrast of images that could be dangerous on the eye while leaving safe images unpaused/untouched. (even better if the safety threshold could be adjusted by the user)

Like this type of AI would legit be such a useful feature. Please use AI to help with disabilities or something instead of faking true crime images :/

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_{PS and parsitially but just because something has the word AI in it doesnt mean it's part of the garbage "AI generated images/writing" nonsense. I've seen too many people imediatlrly react negatively to harmless stuff just because it was called AI. I literally saw a gamedev get flak for mentioning his 'enemy AI', like BRUH, the 'AI' here refer's the the coding that makes the eneymy move and shoot like????? Same with Teto's SynthV voicebanks, just cause she's callesd and AI voicebank people though it was theft when no, the voice provider was very much paid to do these recordings TToTT}

i don't really like custom cursors u __ u i def appreciate the art that goes into them!! but a lot of times i end up finding them distracting/annoying more than anything orz. but like i understand the appeal and 0 shade on people who do put them on their sites!!

Undergarments with designs are so pointless like no one is going to see the design anyway 

I hate the mute feature cuz you can’t tell when someone has you muted and one time I pinged someone who had me muted and they got mad

Every form of tobacco outside of very specific ceremonial use by Native Americans should be banned. My father would still be here if not for his smoking habit.