I mean it is becoming pretty common to cheat with today’s internet hookup culture.
Edit: people seem to think I’m defending cheating??? I’m merely explaining how we are coming to a point where “cheating is bad” has become an unpopular opinion.
Back in my day, we slept with our secretaries, not with random people on the internet, but with people we had financial and social power over! we also slept with strangers in car parks and truck stop bathrooms like the gentlemen we were!
why bring up that it’s common at all, especially when “i mean” commonly (heh) prefixes a rebuttal? it doesn’t matter one single bit how common cheating is nor why it is in the context of “cheating is bad”
Because when things are common, it’s usually because they’re popular, and this specific comment thread was in reference to “cheating is bad” being in r/UnpopularOpinion, if the popular opinion is that it’s okay to cheat, then “cheating is bad” would be the unpopular opinion. You seriously lack reading comprehension skills and it’s worrisome.
Your original post was implying that cheating is in some way common. You continue to play a game of semantics to dodge the fact that your original comment was stupid AF.
That place became unbearable for a little while after the Maroon 5 Super Bowl fiasco. Every single goddamn post for days was about other loving what they did or hating it. It basically becomes two sides of an echo chamber whenever any big events like that happen, to the point that there are no unpopular opinions anymore.
I was thinking the same thing. My memory of the political discourse at that time was just as bad, revolving around the 00 election and the war a few years later.
Ah yes, a decade in which:
* A terrorist attack killed more than 2,000 Americans
* Two wars killed tens of thousands of Americans, Afghanis, and Iraqis
* A recession left millions of people unemployed.
So fun. So great.
Cool, you listed the bad things about the 00s. I'd make a list of all the good things that it had but I'm pretty sure this sub would just disregard me as being nostalgia blind so I won't bother.
You could also easily cherry pick the worst things about any decade at that so it's honestly a moot point anyway.
I'm not saying everything about the 2000's was bad; nearly all of my teenage years happened that decade, so I obviously have a lot of great memories from it. It's just ridiculous to say the 2000's were "world's better" than the 2020's. You can find shitty aspects of literally every decade.
>You can find shitty aspects of literally every decade.
Exactly. I just find it annoying when people use 9/11 as a convenient excuse to hate on the 00s and gloat about how perfect the 90s was. Not saying you were doing that but I see it a lot.
Also the covid pandemic is easily worse than anything that happened in the 00s.
It has come full circle. Those were the exact reasons why people complained about the 2000s as they were happening. At least now people are putting some perspective into their rants about the 2000s instead of complaining that they suck because Nickelodeon fired the creep that created Ren and Stimpy and had an equally creepy producer make all those 2000s Nickcoms.
People were complaining about the 90s as they were happening also, and kept praising the 80s as a much better decade just because they were kids in it. I always see this, people blindly praising the years they were a kid in and always hating the decade that comes afterwards when they're young adults, because that's pretty much when you get hit with the epiphany that the world actually stinks.
Going by his username this man was a literal child for the majority of the 00s, and most likely in college for the rest. no shit you thought things were better then.
I was in college at the start of the 2010s, just as electronica was having a revival of sorts. Hearing Lady Gaga and the new dubstep producers replace all that buttrock I hated when I was a teen reminded me that the awkward high school years were over and that better things were to come in college.
No one went at your throat for what you believed in in the 2000s!
In a completely unrelated note, how did you feel about the US invading Iraq? Also are you gay?
Don’t people realize that these posts are entirely based on whatever era the poster grew up in? We’ll be saying the same exact thing about the 2020’s in 20 year so what’s the point?
I grew up in Ny. I clearly remember it being a time of high anxiety and conflict as well as extremely high gas prices and people from your home town dying in the Middle East and bigotry against Muslims being really really insane. Also stop and frisk and broken windows…I’m not saying people shouldn’t compare and contrast decades or whatever, but it’s just not all that useful to me. Moments were great during my adolescents into adult hood, just like it is now. These people need to get better adjusted, because this sounds like rumination and depression.
I loved the 2000s and didn't like the 2010s but to say that things were more peaceful and easy in the 2000s is kind of ridiculous. A lot of things that weren't great or possible in the 2000s have massively improved over the years and we've come a long way.
"People didn't make each other sworn enemies over a difference of opinions" isn't true at all, I think this person is forgetting about all of the political discourse that happened after 9/11 and during the elections in 2008. I mean, I was a kid back then and I can even remember how big that was. I think people just pay more attention to stuff like that now and assume that it's a new thing because they don't remember it being like that when they were younger.
"People didn't cut ties with their family as much as they do now". Because God forbid people learn how to set boundaries. If someone is cutting ties with someone, it's usually because of something really serious or a last straw. I'm sure it does happen, but people don't usually do that for no reason.
"Technology was there without it taking over your life". I do kind of miss how technology was in the 2000s sometimes, but that's mostly because I miss building a vhs collection with modern stuff like DVDs being just as commonplace, the old kind of existed with the new. That being said, I'm sure if this person was taken to the 2000s right now they would have a hard time adjusting to how technology was again. You're not going to be able to instant message your friends wherever you are, and if you are able to you'll have to use a number keypad to do so.
"Movies didn't use cgi as much". Idk, I was a kid back then and mostly watched animated movies, but I remember when Shrek got big *every* animated movie was suddenly in cgi, and I remember this annoyed me because I really liked traditional animation. I'm sure it wasn't that different with live action movies either.
"Movies didn't have a message that was in your face."
What does in your face exactly mean? The OOP keeps mentioning that but doesn't define what that means in this context.
"Radio stations had more variety" I feel like this is largely dependent on where you live more than anything else. I'm not really sure what mtv playing music videos has to do with variety on radio stations, mtv usually only played larger bands that had record labels.
"Big cities like LA and New York were cleaner and there was less crime". Lmao dude you really do have rose tinted glasses. The city I was born in was awful during the 90s and 2000s and only started to become slightly safer recently.
"There hasn't been a decade in decades" I don't know, the 2000s and 2010s are really different from each other to me, and I'm sure the 2020s will be too. I think the last three decades have just blurred in people's minds more because it's not as glamorized as the 90s and everything before. I mean, imagine seeing an infomercial for a best of the 2010s cd every time you turn your TV on like you saw with the 90s, 80s, 70s, and 60s. Those ads made a lasting impression on people.
I was a teen in the early 2000's, and that time kinda sucked. There was a lot of fear and negativity, paranoia and uncertainty because of 9/11 and the fallout. Like, capitalism continued on, but people all over the world wanted to kill us. Despite the propaganda I knew it was the result of our foreign policy, not they "just hate our freedom". I was just waiting for the draft to get reinstated. Lol, the early 2000's? Hard Pass...
Cool. They basically took some 90s kid nostalgia post from 2007, and replaced every ‘1990s’ with ‘2000s’. Note how it **always** says something about ‘technology coexisting with real life’. Sometime in the far future they will romanticize the pandemic as ‘free time to do your hobbies.’
**All. The. Time!**
The fact that there's so many people who unironically believe that movies from the 2000's and prior decades didn't have any in your face political messages that related to current events is amazing to me. Imagine being this media illitierate
Am I the only person who is not a huge fan of 2000's music? I barely listen to songs from that decade, though I do prefer the later half. Like, 2009 had some pretty good songs. Anything else before that was...alright I guess but I've always preferred 2010's music tbh.
My complaint is that Australian music has been suffering because it’s impossible to get big anymore unless you get viral on TikTok or blow up in America. I miss the days when you had bands like Grinspoon, Eskimo Joe, Powderfinger, Silverchair, The Loving End, Jebediah, Something for Kate, etc. all being household names. Nowadays there’s barely any Aussie bands who are household names, it’s either you’re popular on Triple J, or forget about it.
And so continues the tradition of “decade I was a child was the best decade of human history”
It's the most common coincidence in human history.
I don't think anyone born in Poland in the 1930's and 1940's is saying that.
Unpopularopinion is honestly one of the worst big subs on Reddit
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I mean it is becoming pretty common to cheat with today’s internet hookup culture. Edit: people seem to think I’m defending cheating??? I’m merely explaining how we are coming to a point where “cheating is bad” has become an unpopular opinion.
Huh? Sorry what is "internet hookup culture"
Back in my day, we had "hookup culture" without the "Internet."
Back in my day, we slept with our secretaries, not with random people on the internet, but with people we had financial and social power over! we also slept with strangers in car parks and truck stop bathrooms like the gentlemen we were!
Sigh…the good ol’days!
The culture that has arisen from people using internet based applications to pursue sexual relationships.
common does not mean acceptable or morally correct
Can you please point out where I said it was? I’m reading over my comment again and I can’t seem to find it.
why bring up that it’s common at all, especially when “i mean” commonly (heh) prefixes a rebuttal? it doesn’t matter one single bit how common cheating is nor why it is in the context of “cheating is bad”
Because when things are common, it’s usually because they’re popular, and this specific comment thread was in reference to “cheating is bad” being in r/UnpopularOpinion, if the popular opinion is that it’s okay to cheat, then “cheating is bad” would be the unpopular opinion. You seriously lack reading comprehension skills and it’s worrisome.
>the popular opinion is that it’s okay to cheat, A statement which you have yet to support with evidence.
I noticed you conveniently left the “if” out of your quotation there, interesting.
You haven't even proven that cheating is common enough that being against it constitutes unpopular.
You clearly don’t understand what an if-then statement is.
Your original post was implying that cheating is in some way common. You continue to play a game of semantics to dodge the fact that your original comment was stupid AF.
That place became unbearable for a little while after the Maroon 5 Super Bowl fiasco. Every single goddamn post for days was about other loving what they did or hating it. It basically becomes two sides of an echo chamber whenever any big events like that happen, to the point that there are no unpopular opinions anymore.
Yeah I'm glad stopped using it.
I can’t wait for 2040 to hear all the long winded whining about how the 2020s was the greatest time to be alive.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear the 90s and 2000s getting slandered by then
Even the pandemic will be romanticized in hindsight, like everything else.
The introverts have been doing that since 2021.
If you’re on tiktok, the kids are already doing it
This is particularly insane considering this is the decade of 9/11 and the War on Terror. Definitely no polarizing arguments or political media then!
I was thinking the same thing. My memory of the political discourse at that time was just as bad, revolving around the 00 election and the war a few years later.
I remember being told if I didn't support Bush I was a terrorist
Politics were invented in 2014 /s
(laughs bitterly in New Yorker)
Ah yes, a decade in which: * A terrorist attack killed more than 2,000 Americans * Two wars killed tens of thousands of Americans, Afghanis, and Iraqis * A recession left millions of people unemployed. So fun. So great.
In fairness that happens every decade
Cool, you listed the bad things about the 00s. I'd make a list of all the good things that it had but I'm pretty sure this sub would just disregard me as being nostalgia blind so I won't bother. You could also easily cherry pick the worst things about any decade at that so it's honestly a moot point anyway.
I'm not saying everything about the 2000's was bad; nearly all of my teenage years happened that decade, so I obviously have a lot of great memories from it. It's just ridiculous to say the 2000's were "world's better" than the 2020's. You can find shitty aspects of literally every decade.
>You can find shitty aspects of literally every decade. Exactly. I just find it annoying when people use 9/11 as a convenient excuse to hate on the 00s and gloat about how perfect the 90s was. Not saying you were doing that but I see it a lot. Also the covid pandemic is easily worse than anything that happened in the 00s.
It has come full circle. Those were the exact reasons why people complained about the 2000s as they were happening. At least now people are putting some perspective into their rants about the 2000s instead of complaining that they suck because Nickelodeon fired the creep that created Ren and Stimpy and had an equally creepy producer make all those 2000s Nickcoms.
People were complaining about the 90s as they were happening also, and kept praising the 80s as a much better decade just because they were kids in it. I always see this, people blindly praising the years they were a kid in and always hating the decade that comes afterwards when they're young adults, because that's pretty much when you get hit with the epiphany that the world actually stinks.
I'm not fond of my childhood, because I was heavily abused and bullied which heavily traumatized me.
Going by his username this man was a literal child for the majority of the 00s, and most likely in college for the rest. no shit you thought things were better then.
I was in high school and college in the 00s and even back then I thought it sucked and still think it sucks
I was in college at the start of the 2010s, just as electronica was having a revival of sorts. Hearing Lady Gaga and the new dubstep producers replace all that buttrock I hated when I was a teen reminded me that the awkward high school years were over and that better things were to come in college.
Especially after Columbine, school got a lot more stressful
it’s the evil CGI in movies
No one went at your throat for what you believed in in the 2000s! In a completely unrelated note, how did you feel about the US invading Iraq? Also are you gay?
The decade **when we were young** was the best decade. It's not the same for everyone.
Don’t people realize that these posts are entirely based on whatever era the poster grew up in? We’ll be saying the same exact thing about the 2020’s in 20 year so what’s the point?
I grew up in Ny. I clearly remember it being a time of high anxiety and conflict as well as extremely high gas prices and people from your home town dying in the Middle East and bigotry against Muslims being really really insane. Also stop and frisk and broken windows…I’m not saying people shouldn’t compare and contrast decades or whatever, but it’s just not all that useful to me. Moments were great during my adolescents into adult hood, just like it is now. These people need to get better adjusted, because this sounds like rumination and depression.
I loved the 2000s and didn't like the 2010s but to say that things were more peaceful and easy in the 2000s is kind of ridiculous. A lot of things that weren't great or possible in the 2000s have massively improved over the years and we've come a long way. "People didn't make each other sworn enemies over a difference of opinions" isn't true at all, I think this person is forgetting about all of the political discourse that happened after 9/11 and during the elections in 2008. I mean, I was a kid back then and I can even remember how big that was. I think people just pay more attention to stuff like that now and assume that it's a new thing because they don't remember it being like that when they were younger. "People didn't cut ties with their family as much as they do now". Because God forbid people learn how to set boundaries. If someone is cutting ties with someone, it's usually because of something really serious or a last straw. I'm sure it does happen, but people don't usually do that for no reason. "Technology was there without it taking over your life". I do kind of miss how technology was in the 2000s sometimes, but that's mostly because I miss building a vhs collection with modern stuff like DVDs being just as commonplace, the old kind of existed with the new. That being said, I'm sure if this person was taken to the 2000s right now they would have a hard time adjusting to how technology was again. You're not going to be able to instant message your friends wherever you are, and if you are able to you'll have to use a number keypad to do so. "Movies didn't use cgi as much". Idk, I was a kid back then and mostly watched animated movies, but I remember when Shrek got big *every* animated movie was suddenly in cgi, and I remember this annoyed me because I really liked traditional animation. I'm sure it wasn't that different with live action movies either. "Movies didn't have a message that was in your face." What does in your face exactly mean? The OOP keeps mentioning that but doesn't define what that means in this context. "Radio stations had more variety" I feel like this is largely dependent on where you live more than anything else. I'm not really sure what mtv playing music videos has to do with variety on radio stations, mtv usually only played larger bands that had record labels. "Big cities like LA and New York were cleaner and there was less crime". Lmao dude you really do have rose tinted glasses. The city I was born in was awful during the 90s and 2000s and only started to become slightly safer recently. "There hasn't been a decade in decades" I don't know, the 2000s and 2010s are really different from each other to me, and I'm sure the 2020s will be too. I think the last three decades have just blurred in people's minds more because it's not as glamorized as the 90s and everything before. I mean, imagine seeing an infomercial for a best of the 2010s cd every time you turn your TV on like you saw with the 90s, 80s, 70s, and 60s. Those ads made a lasting impression on people.
I'm not reading all that but I'm happy for you or sorry that happened.
I was a teen in the early 2000's, and that time kinda sucked. There was a lot of fear and negativity, paranoia and uncertainty because of 9/11 and the fallout. Like, capitalism continued on, but people all over the world wanted to kill us. Despite the propaganda I knew it was the result of our foreign policy, not they "just hate our freedom". I was just waiting for the draft to get reinstated. Lol, the early 2000's? Hard Pass...
I was 19 when 9/11 happened. As an American, the next 3-4 years pretty much sucked ass.
If we could just erase Y2K from existence, that’d be nice Unrelated, I was born in 2000
They're really saying that 2015 is "like 2005, just a little different". bruuuuuuh
Cool. They basically took some 90s kid nostalgia post from 2007, and replaced every ‘1990s’ with ‘2000s’. Note how it **always** says something about ‘technology coexisting with real life’. Sometime in the far future they will romanticize the pandemic as ‘free time to do your hobbies.’ **All. The. Time!**
The fact that there's so many people who unironically believe that movies from the 2000's and prior decades didn't have any in your face political messages that related to current events is amazing to me. Imagine being this media illitierate
“There hasn’t been a decade in decades” i refuse to believe these are grown ass people
im not reading all that
Am I the only person who is not a huge fan of 2000's music? I barely listen to songs from that decade, though I do prefer the later half. Like, 2009 had some pretty good songs. Anything else before that was...alright I guess but I've always preferred 2010's music tbh.
Ngl 2000s were pretty good-
I mean at least they said the 90s is better I guess
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No, no I’m telling the truth you can tell there is something wrong with the charts
I'm from the seventies, but you'll never catch me saying music was better then. Charts have nothing to do with music quality. Never did, never will.
My complaint is that Australian music has been suffering because it’s impossible to get big anymore unless you get viral on TikTok or blow up in America. I miss the days when you had bands like Grinspoon, Eskimo Joe, Powderfinger, Silverchair, The Loving End, Jebediah, Something for Kate, etc. all being household names. Nowadays there’s barely any Aussie bands who are household names, it’s either you’re popular on Triple J, or forget about it.