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For your Opinions that are Unpopular. Share your burning hot takes and unpopular opinions! Founded 2012 · 5M members · text posts only

5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 75.5K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5Mmembers
75.5Kbest post
11.3Kmost comments
917posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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The topics it labels

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:redditgold:Certified Unpopular Opinion:redditgold: 28 75% Disagree 1 Evidence was provided. That's gross man 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Middle aged guys don't buy sports cars because they're having a "mid-life crisis," it's because they can finally afford the car they want.

↑ 75.5K 💬 2.4K text 2020

"Y'all" is a brilliant use of the English language and i refuse to be told otherwise

↑ 75.3K 💬 6.5K text 2021

I always eat dessert before dinner at a restaurant

↑ 75K 💬 3.1K text 2021

It should be illegal for a company to list an entry level job as requiring 3-5 years experience, the very definition of an entry level job is no expe…

↑ 74.9K 💬 3.4K text 2021

News should be a dry recitation of facts. If it isn't, then it's an opinion intended to stir your emotions into clouding your judgement

↑ 73.5K 💬 3.7K text 2020

Even if schools taught you how to do taxes or other life skills, not many of you would pay attention

↑ 72.1K 💬 4.5K text 2021

If stealthing (non-consensual removal of a condom) is rape, so should lying about being on birth control

↑ 71.9K 💬 4.1K text 2019

You don’t need to love your career. You just need to be able to tolerate it so you can finance doing what you love.

↑ 71.6K 💬 2.9K text 2021

As a healthcare worker, I find clapping extremely cringy. This is literally our job. Stop glorifying us.

↑ 70.2K 💬 3.9K text 2020

If you need a wheel chair due to your "weight", it should be mandatory that it is a manual chair rather than a powered chair.

↑ 67.7K 💬 5.3K text 2020

Communities its size

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r/unpopularopinion, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/unpopularopinion?
r/unpopularopinion ("For your Opinions that are Unpopular") describes itself this way: Share your burning hot takes and unpopular opinions. It was founded in 2012 and has 5M members.
How many members does r/unpopularopinion have?
r/unpopularopinion has about 5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 917 of its posts; the biggest reached 75.5K upvotes, which is 15 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/unpopularopinion?
"Middle aged guys don't buy sports cars because they're having a "mid-life crisis," it's because they can finally afford the car they want." reached 75.5K upvotes and 2.4K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/unpopularopinion.
What subreddits are similar to r/unpopularopinion?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/unpopularopinion?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are text posts and 0% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/unpopularopinion?
Across 917 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (31.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 09:00 UTC (27.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (26.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/unpopularopinion?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/unpopularopinion has 59.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 323 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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