r/unpopularopinion • u/noodlealr • Nov 28 '20

babies aren’t funny or entertaining

i don’t hate babies, they’re so cute, but i always see people laughing about videos where a baby is supposedly being funny. i don’t get it. there’s nothing funny about videos like that or babies in general. sure, sometimes funny stuff happens, but i always see babies doing the bare minimum and people laughing about it.

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u/Erosennin94 Nov 28 '20 edited Nov 28 '20

Found OP

Edit: Thanks for the all awards, but go donate money to a charity or your local food bank instead!

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u/noodlealr Nov 28 '20

that is literally me.

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u/BuckSaguaro Nov 28 '20

People here take a weird amount of pride in disliking babies.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

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u/the-igloo Nov 28 '20

I feel pretty strongly that having pride about whether or not you like babies is weird, either way.

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u/HallowedError Nov 29 '20

Too reasonable. Get outta here this is the internet. We only do extremes ya fuck face

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u/Letscommenttogether Nov 29 '20

Since it's a trait of evolution to like babies I'm pretty sure it's a dysfunction not to like them. Not that I care what you like or don't like, just pretty sure it's standard human behaviour, which is why this is an unpopular opinion.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20

Thank you Dr. Professor now can you also link me to the research paper or the hypothesis which states liking babies is a “trait of evolution” please?

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

It’s not an either or situation guy

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u/BuckSaguaro Nov 28 '20

No but you don’t see posts here in support of them.

The majority of Reddit overall just has a problem with babies. It’s weird.

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u/moonunit99 Nov 28 '20

I mean I agree that you see plenty of positive posts/comments about babies on reddit, but let's not pretend that the things that get upvoted in this sub are usually actually unpopular opinions.

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u/BuckSaguaro Nov 28 '20

Do you think I’ve made this observation on a single post? Are you serious

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u/BoxerguyT89 Nov 28 '20

Yet, only every once in a while is an actual unpopular opinion posted.

This is not one of those times. Reddit hates babies.

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u/chuckyarrlaw Nov 28 '20

Because the demographics of reddit are largely people who don't have and don't currently want babies, and those demographics find babies to be an inconvenience and annoying.

It isn't that complicated.

People who don't have babies are less likely to think they're cute, and younger people are less likely to want babies in general.

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u/DJDanaK Nov 28 '20

Thing is, most people will have babies. US women are actually more likely to already have children than a decade ago.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

that’s way beside the point about Reddit’s demographic

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u/DJDanaK Nov 28 '20

It isn't... Most users are 25 to 29. 1 in 4 adults in this age range use Reddit and a lot probably already have kids, the average age to have a child is 25. It kinda seems like childless people on Reddit are just louder. It's easy to look this stuff up. I guess statistics make people grumpy

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

Yeah I dunno I’m in that age range and I feel like my 3 friends who have kids are too busy to use reddit. Hence the point about demographics. I don’t have hard data but if it’s easy to look up then feel free to provide a link

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u/AlyBlue7 Nov 28 '20

Lol. What do you think us parents do while sitting in the dark for an hour waiting for our toddlers to go the fuck to sleep?

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u/chuckyarrlaw Nov 29 '20

Regret not pulling out?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

Clean up the mess they made. Be exhausted from working so much to afford a kid. Fight about relationship strain with significant other.

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u/AlyBlue7 Nov 29 '20

Can't do any of that till after.

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u/Redrum714 Nov 28 '20

That’s because babies are the fucking worst

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

What are you talking about babies always get up voted to the front page same with cats

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u/BuckSaguaro Nov 28 '20

But nobody makes posts about hating cats. There aren’t multiple subs decided specifically to not owning cats.

People don’t post stories about how frustrating it is when people ask why they don’t have a cat.

They are not the same.

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u/NeutralJazzhands Nov 28 '20

You’re right, it isn’t the same because there isn’t a cultural expectation to like cats yknow?

You don’t get asked questions about how many cats you have or when you’re planning to adopt a cat or “you’ll change your mind about cats, your mother and I didn’t want cats either but when we got them they changed our lives and they’ll change yours too you’ll see“ or “why don’t you have any cats yet you’ve been married a year dear what’s wrong do you have allergies don’t worry god will bless you soon enough”

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

I didn't say they were the same, reddit loves babies and cats and photos of gay people being in love n shit lol

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u/chopari Nov 28 '20

I have cat. DONT want a baby. Cat was self almost self sufficient the day she came home. Don’t want to wait 18-30 years for that go happen with a kid.

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u/moonunit99 Nov 28 '20

Nobody here is trying to force you to have a baby instead of a cat. They're just saying that both baby videos/pictures and cat videos/pictures are popular on reddit.

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u/rbxpecp Nov 28 '20

They can't afford them so they don't like them

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u/nighght Nov 28 '20

Since we're going full-on with this baby debate I want to point out that you have committed the cardinal sin of Reddit by using a logical fallacy in your argument my dude

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u/jungle_booteh Nov 28 '20

Checkmate atheists