Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Saying something is or isn't in a genre when a lot of people are on both sides is gatekeeping, and ultimately is only a waste of energy for the gatekeeper.
See: all electronic music being techno in the 00s and then EDM in the 10s—you can get pissed off that people are calling something by the wrong name, but they're all still gonna do it.
When there are lots of people on both sides, that's called an opinion, not gatekeeping, ffs. Gatekeeping is when most agree something fits a loose definition but not some unreasonable personal requirement.
The only part that irritates me is that I can't understand why people keep doing it. Even though it's not my favorite music they are a very talented band they don't need to glom on to a genre to be popular I don't understand why anyone even wants them to be a "metal" band
After having listened to a decent amount of their music I feel like if there were ZERO heavy parts it wouldn't make a difference since that's like maybe 20% of what they do
It makes me head hurt 😢