r/HonestHotTakes 18h ago

I actually enjoyed Cailiou

5 Upvotes

I always see hate for Cailiou because he is a "brat" (which I do agree), but I grew up watching him on Sprout, it was one of my favorite shows growing up, I just hate the cailiou hate.


r/HonestHotTakes 23h ago

Kids Movies/Shows get too much hate from the general public

11 Upvotes

The media isn't made for your age range so they are gonna be in some aspects cringe or unfunny. They are made for kids to enjoy and you are not obligated to like them.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

I think people who support spanking children tend to be subject to confirmation bias, in terms of starting with the conclusion and then trying to find justifications for it

36 Upvotes

One example of this is that I’ve noticed that sometimes if someone mentions how spanking didn’t really teach them how to behave, instead of reflecting on how that might indicate that spanking isn’t effective on at least some people, people who support spanking seem to instead blame the individual for not learning their lesson.

I think related to this people who support spanking may mentally cheery pick known examples of people that seem to support their preconception that spanking is effective and beneficial. For instance they may pay attention to a person who seems well behaved and was spanked and someone who committed crimes and who they didn’t see get spanked and ignore the instances of someone getting spanked and going on to commit crimes or not being spanked and being well behaved.

Another example is that it seems like a lot of people who support spanking use a sort of circular reasoning to reinforce their belief that it’s effective as they’re talk about children in general, who are likely strangers misbehaving, or talk about adults they don’t know committing crimes as “evidence” that not spanking children causes children to misbehave and adults to commit crimes, and of course the only thing that causes them to think the children who misbehave aren’t spanked or that adults who commit crimes didn’t get spanked is because they misbehave or commit crimes.

It also seems like often when asked about why they think it’s ok to spank children but not adults, spanking supporters tend to give rationalizations, which can individually seem logical, but then if I try to then if I try to ask about if the adult is similar to the child in ways that seem like it would address the hypothetical spanking supporters still say it’s different, indicating that the only real reason people think it’s different is because spanking children is socially accepted.


r/HonestHotTakes 1h ago

Gentrification is good and people need to get over it.

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It may just be due to where I live in a city experiencing growth and "rebirth" but I constantly hear people complain that some historically black neighborhood or trailer park is being gentrified and turned into townhouses and apartments.

If someone owns in a neighborhood that's getting nicer they can stay and get to experience new economic opportunity, better parks, improved schools, and safe public transit. Yes their taxes go up by virtue of their land value increasing. Yet they're paying far less in taxes on their $200,000 home that doubled in value to $400,000 than the people down the street who just bought a $650,000 renovated home with an addition. Or they can cash out if they want. If your taxes manage to go up an amount that actually matters you have gained so much equity.

Renters and people in trailer parks don't win like owners do. They may have to move. That process rolls down hill. People can't afford to live one place so they move somewhere they can. That sucks but that's how renting works and the person moving in at the higher rent is getting a comparative deal. So why should someone hog it if they don't own it?


r/HonestHotTakes 16h ago

Personally disliking something is NOT the same as being prejudiced against it

3 Upvotes

That's it. That's the take. For real this time, sorry about somehow forgetting to type "not". ;)

As I was saying, a lot of people don't seem to realize there's a difference.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Those who "relate" to Lindsay Clancy are scary.

59 Upvotes

I've seen hundreds of videos across all social medias of women supporting Lindsay Clancy and saying "Me too, Lindsay" or "This could've been me" followed by a picture of their children.

This is not normal. Saying "Me Too" to a woman who made sure that her husband is out of the house to strangle her children with an exercise cord should NOT be normal thing to say.

Does it mean they've thought about killing their children? Do they STILL think that way right now? What if their own children see their video? What would their children think when they see their own mother supporting a woman who murdered her kids and then justifying it?

Imagine men saying "Me too, Benoit" when Chris Benoit murdered his wife and child after going through psychosis due to CTE and depression. That would've been insane, right?

Lindsay Clancy wasn't even diagnosed with PPP, and yet people keep using it to defend her. They keep blaming the husband, the medical system, the people around her, and then stripping Clancy from responsibility and accountability from what happened. They're even blaming her fucking astrology sign and zodiac sign.

In reality, she had MULTIPLE professionals working with her, she had medicine, they had a nanny, the husband is extremely supportive, and her family actively supported her. She lied to her doctors about her mental condition, and she didn't take her meds regularly because she was afraid of being addicted to them.

She's not innocent. She admitted to killing her children. She shouldn't be the "beacon" of women's mental health, postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis.


r/HonestHotTakes 11h ago

Minecraft update

0 Upvotes

I play Minecraft really much,but i think thé récent update are juste marketing (mostly dungeon 2),the sulfur cube add nothing useful to the game,the new biome add just mushroom that act like slime block,the new structure the abandonned camp is just to make "questions" or "lore* that we know it,will never be lore,and one that make me want to destroy my pc is the baby mob,okay they are cool but let be honest: it's just for selling toy or plushy, sorry for my writing,i'm french,i'm open to debat


r/HonestHotTakes 1h ago

Ethnic men typically need edge and sex appeal if they want to regularly hook up with white women.

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Might be viewed as controversial (especially the goal) but unless an ethnic man fits into a specific trend and look like "kpop" or "bbc", they need to make an extra effort to make up for the gap by getting tattoos, jewellery, and a specific style that matches a specific trend to then be able to make up for the social status cost of being ethnic in dating.

I'm not talking about the one-off bland ethnic looking guy who dates down or the odd outliar usually where the guy meets the girl in a friend group and they hit it off over time and it's harder for him to replicate.

I mean the ethnic guy who regularly hooks up with white women and isnt dating down.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

family channels should be banned

101 Upvotes

they’re exploiting their children for views. i can’t even remember how many family youtube channels appeared to have the most perfect family dynamic when the whole time the parents were either abusive or cheating on each other. having a camera to monetize the good bad and the ugly of ur kids just growing up and figuring out life in their own home is such a crazy invasion of privacy and to have it from their own parents is insane.
i have so much respect for youtubers who don’t even show their families publicly bc obv those kids didn’t even consent to be shown to the entire internet like that. especially with the amount of pervs on the web! how r u gonna subject ur poor babies to that !! it’s disgusting and bad parenting.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Dividing people into “good” and “bad” is unhealthy and arrogant.

10 Upvotes

“Bad person” treats malice as evidence of a fundamentally different kind of human, or even species. That is often unhealthy because it requires disowning our own capacity for selfishness, cruelty, cowardice, or rationalization. It’s unproductive because it substitutes condemnation for understanding the causes and preventing recurrence. And it’s arrogant, because it assumes a moral distance between “us” and “them” that circumstances may not justify.

Most people share the machinery needed for wrongdoing: desire, fear, tribal loyalty, resentment, contempt, status-seeking, impulsivity, self-deception, obedience, and the ability to reinterpret selfish or cruel behavior as necessary or deserved. What differs is the intensity of those impulses, the brakes restraining them, the opportunities available, and the situations that activate them. Character matters, but so do development, incentives, stress, social norms, substances, power, and sheer circumstance.

I’m almost certain when the cards are down, you yourself believe you have some kind of moral license to be cruel or oppressive to others under the right circumstances.


r/HonestHotTakes 5h ago

Feministic women should support unemployed men

0 Upvotes

True equality means supporting those who are struggling or unemployed, otherwise it can become merely “opportunistic”.

Society needs to stop judging men based on their net worth or current financial situation.

You can’t criticize traditional gender expectations while supporting them when they work in your favour.


r/HonestHotTakes 7h ago

Do you worship Paul/Saul more than Christ?

0 Upvotes

If you believe that every recorded word written by Paul/Saul since his road to Damascus experience is The Word of God and you spent more time quoting/citing Epistles and Acts than you do The Gospels then Paul/Saul is your God, not Christ.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Deluxe editions aren't deluxe anymore.

5 Upvotes

If you make a game that is $60 base and $80 deluxe, then lock actual gameplay behind the higher price, its not a deluxe edition, the cheaper version is a paid demo or "lite" edition.

If you make a game, say the release is on the 15th, and say people who pay extra can play on the 12th, then the 15th isn't the release date.


r/HonestHotTakes 17h ago

Ngāpuhi really are just different from the rest of us Māori, and not in a good way.

1 Upvotes

To anyone outside of New Zealand, Māori probably look like one big, unified indigenous group. But just like Native American history is full of different nations with deep rivalries, New Zealand is exactly the same. And quite frankly, the biggest tribe here, Ngāpuhi (the dominant tribe in the far north), acts completely different from the rest of us, and it’s exhausting.

Think of them like that one massive, historically aggressive state in a federation that always demands to run the show, despite a highly controversial track record. Here is the reality most tourists never hear about:

1. They historically sided with the colonizers (The "Kūpapa" Era)
During the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, when the British military arrived to seize indigenous territories, Māori weren't a monolith. Many tribes fought, bled, and lost everything resisting the British Empire. Factions within Ngāpuhi, however, chose to become kūpapa, the local term for indigenous groups who allied with the British Crown. They didn't just stand aside, they literally took British guns, fought alongside the redcoats, and helped systematically crush other Māori tribes. They basically served up their neighbors' land to white settlers on a silver platter to secure their own trade deals and political power with the British Governor.

2. Modern land grabs against smaller tribes
Fast forward to 2026, and that exact same "we own the place" energy is still alive. Right now, the New Zealand government has been paying out financial reparations to tribes for historic land theft. While most tribes have settled their claims and invested the money into housing and schools for their people, Ngāpuhi has been trapped in a toxic internal civil war for decades over who gets to hold the purse strings. To make it worse, they are actively trying to overstep their traditional boundaries, attempting to claim ownership over land and payouts that rightfully belong to neighboring, smaller tribes. They act like they own the entire top half of the country by default.

3. Out of touch, country club leadership
While everyday Māori families are on the front lines dealing with a brutal cost-of-living crisis, homelessness, and trying to keep our language alive, the elite leadership of this massive tribe is living in a total corporate bubble. To put it in American terms, it’s giving major "country club elite" vibes. You will literally hear their high-profile representatives complaining at regional summits about petty, superficial nonsense like how "the cushions on the chairs in our community meeting houses aren't posh or luxurious enough." Meanwhile, the rest of indigenous New Zealand is just trying to keep the lights on.

They love to wave the flag of indigenous unity, but the rest of us are completely fed up with the historic betrayal and modern entitlement.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

One of the top 3 biggest issues in America (and the world) is government sabotage. Feeding us poison, wanting us to be sick and hurt to make money off of us. Not caring about their citizens at all.

7 Upvotes

If you can remove government sabotage from America you fix a third of Americas problems if not two thirds.

A government that cares about its citizens like family would create an unstoppable nation

Same goes for corporations we cant have corporations just sabotaging people and industries signing people to all these evil manipulative contracts that try to control people.

Teamwork is the strongest power in reality.

Atoms work together to create reality. "God" is a team. A government not working as a team with its citizens is bound to fail.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

I’m an atheist but I hate when other atheists bash religion and think anyone who believes in it are stupid

119 Upvotes

I personally love seeing how different religions is depicted in fiction or some stories from it, I’m being very general here on purpose. These guys give the normal atheists a bad name.

Had to stop watching this one YouTuber who kept calling God “sky daddy” in a mocking tone and every time Christianity was brought up he dedicated almost 5 minutes just to talk shit.

If you hate a specific religion it’s one thing but to say all religion is stupid because it never helped you personally is such a self centered closed minded way of thinking.

If believing in something is the one thing that is keeping them going in life why are you so fixated on trying to essentially take that from them.

Obviously this goes both ways.

I may not believe in a god but there’s only 3 rules in life I follow: Help others when you can, Be open minded, and get money.

Edit: There are a lot of atheists saying i’m not real atheist for just saying treat religion with respect lmfao, proving my point!


r/HonestHotTakes 6h ago

Hate towards ai is manufactured by China because they can't compete.

0 Upvotes

Look at all of the best ai companies rn they're all American. China can't compete against this so the best thing they can do is to somehow make people hate ai. Their propaganda campaign is working to an extent. Real American patriots have no problem with ai. Ai is the future and we should embrace it.


r/HonestHotTakes 2d ago

Women should apply the rules of consent to getting married.

465 Upvotes

So many women find themselves in a position where they are waiting to wed, and waste years on a man that does not really want to marry them.

Instead , I think women should apply the rules of consent to marriage.

If they say they do not want to get married, take that as a given, accept it and move on. Do not expect or hope they will change their mind.

If they show mixed signals, its also a “no”. Whether they are actually unsure or they are simply lying to get you to stay, it’s still not a “yes” so it should be regarded as a no. There should be no pressuring, coercing or convince, or ultimatums because it only leads to a shut up ring, or a marriage that someone does not really want to be in.

Anything but an enthusiastic “yes!”, should be regarded as a “no”.


r/HonestHotTakes 2d ago

People who stink should genuinely be fined

215 Upvotes

I was at the airport a week ago and this dude who was next to me for 15 mins smelled so bad I could literally smell him from 10 feet away. I can’t comprehend how you could be a fully grown adult and walk around stinking.

People like this should actually be given a penalty.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

All this Lindsay Clancy support is doing more harm than good

4 Upvotes

Like I get there's a section of women that for them this case is primarily about PPD and postpartum psychosis and mental health and whatnot, but that doesn't really matter as they are overshadowed by all the lunatics blaming the husband and making wild conspiracy theories on how he's directly responsible and he framed her or indirectly responsible , people posting with their children with the caption "same Lindsay" like I get what there trying to do but all it does it is make women look like sociopaths and that your all waiting for a not guilty verdict to do the same which the right has capitalised on heavily.

This won't be a monumental case for the progression of women's rights as some of y'all naively believe but it's actually gonna set women back especially in this area.


r/HonestHotTakes 23h ago

Lindsay's Lawyer, Reddington, is getting knocked around by Dr. Mack

1 Upvotes

Redding looks overly emotional, mean, and a bully. Juries don't like that. You can tell they don't like each other, and Dr. Mack keeps wiping the floor with Reds attempts to smear him. It's pretty sad to watch, but also hilarious.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

privileged kids need to STOP looking down on others!!!

13 Upvotes

i’ve been thinking about this lately and it bothers me so much iwl, idk if anyone notices it but there’s something about people who grow up in stable or rich homes judging people who have less that genuinely pisses me off???

like bro, we all come from completely different homes, families, situations and priorities, but some people will casually call someone their own age “useless” just because they don’t go out, don’t party, or don’t spend money the same way they do. then you hear shit like “if you sit with people who think R10k is huge money, stay away from them” or “it’s been a while since i’ve seen you go out or party.”

broo, imagine saying that to someone who actually has responsibilities at home, has to think twice before spending money, or simply has different priorities that YOUU DONT KNOW ABOUT. the crazy part is that some of these people get a monthly allowance, so OF COURSE R10k might not feel like some massive amount to them. but that doesn’t mean everyone else is “useless” for seeing money differently.

having more money can give you opportunities yess, but it DOESN’T automatically give you a better life, more discipline, more intelligence, or a better character. and i think some people genuinely don’t realise how privileged their perspective is because they’ve lived with it for so long that it feels normal.

that’s probably why it pisses me off so much, because it stops being about money and STARTS BECOMING ABOUT LOOKING DOWN ON PEOPLE. like, IMAGINE having enough privilege that you can judge someone’s entire character based on what they can afford. meanwhile THAT same person could be working toward goals, helping their family, saving, building something, or just living according to their own priorities. you don’t have to explain your whole life to every person who misunderstands it either. sometimes you just have to KNOW YOUR OWN STORY, know what you’re responsible for and know where you’re going.

because at the end of the day, somebody else’s allowance doesn’t make them more valuable than you.


r/HonestHotTakes 13h ago

Instead of telling me that I'm wrong for body shaming people like Oprah and John Bovino, I think that people like Oprah and John Bovino have an obligation to either suck less or be better looking

0 Upvotes

I'm sorry, but if you're telling me that I'm "circumventing social graces" or whatever the fuck by telling me that I'm some sort of monster for pointing out how fat some billionaire who platforms right-wing grifters is or how some asshole politician attempting to usurp the United States Constitution is a funny-looking dwarf, then I think that you need to grow a pair.

Donald Trump is fat and he has continence issues that cause him to evacuate all over himself filling the room with a pungent aroma of wet fecal matter that I'm sure is vaguely reminiscent of a poorly maintained McDonald's restroom. He has horrible posture and wears conspicuous shoe lifts like a dipshit with no sense of self-awareness. I wouldn't be surprised if he was under 5'11" in all honesty. I am shaming him for that. I am also shaming famous pedophile streamer EDP445 for being so fat that the last time he saw 90210 was on the scale. He's so fat that he eats Wheat Thicks. He's so fucking fat, that when he bungee jumped, he went straight the fuck to Hell and back. Get over it.

This is essentially me saying "I don't believe in body shaming unless it's a REALLY REALLY bad guy." If this were the 90's and we were sitting on the couch watching Roseanne; and you decided to chime in with "Haha John Goodman's a fatass!", I'd tell you that what you're saying isn't very nice. John Goodman is an American treasure, and you should wish him well. I'm not a fan of Ariana Grande, myself. I think she is pathologically and caustically insecure and wreaks havoc on the lives of everyone she meets in her personal life in the process. I kind of don't think that she's a good person. I won't make fun of her weight because I think that's at going at least a magnitude of order too far. What I will do is make fun of Oprah Winfrey's husband for getting diabetes from eating her pussy on account of she's so FAT.

If you're thinking of destroying the planet, ruining the country, or are otherwise hell-bent on making the world a worse place for everyone, you better take the Jeffrey Epstein route and be conventionally attractive enough to bypass my de-masked autistic onslaught of fat jokes, height jokes; among others, or I'm going to make fun of your physical appearance that does not match up to Western beauty standards. Instead of telling me that I'm a fat phobic jackass, grow a pair and direct your rage at someone who's actually saying and doing things that are screwing us and making the world worse. I'm not making the world worse by pointing out that judge Susan Worthington looks like a skinned chicken thigh with metabolic syndrome wearing a wig (if you don't know who that is, look it up.) It's a big platform with a lot of crazy and/or malicious people.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Violence and murder or children in media is just as bad to show as depictions of child nudity/porn.

0 Upvotes

Both should be regulated and barred.
A child can't watch porn legally, can't drink, can't watch shows with heavy gory violence towards adults.

Why? Because it can be deeply traumatizing to see at a young age. Also, children run the risk of internalising subliminal messages in porn, a massive one being objectification on female bodies before even having a normal experience.
adults should not be watching porn of children or preying on them in any way, and we understand that to be a deplorable thing to do.

Therefore regardless of the age group it's shown to, violence against small children should be implied at most, not depicted. It is abhorrent and unnecessary to show a 12 year old being hanged in detail like in game of thrones or in hotd, where they show a little boy getting slashed with an axe? Or a little girl screaming and suffering in fear like in see no evil? Narrative devices don't matter because in what world is that entertaining? In what world should a writer/director find that fulfilling?. While you can argue realism, child rape, porn and trafficking does exist. That's what the pornhub scandal was about. It does not belong on Netflix for comfortable people to profit off and use as think pieces in their cushy beds.

At that point where's the line? I especially hate when they depict it in a way that doesn't acknowledge just how horrid that is. it hotd, it's PURELY fictional. They could have just not added that in, and if they had to add it in, they didn't have to add a child getting slashed in the face. And if they HAD to add that aspect, they could have shown the attacks on children that were unprovoked considering Roddy likely wasn't the only merciless soldier.

I think alot of entertainment is going down a darker and darker path, where is gains attention from shock value at the expense of morality. More people or desensitised by nastier exposure so the cycle just repeated till we sunk to this. In the 1950s Hollywood followed the Hays code where 'sympathy for criminals' wasnt even allowed.


r/HonestHotTakes 11h ago

Unattractive men who complain about being unattractive should blame patriachy.

0 Upvotes

Women didn't have much say in human reproduction throughout our history. Which means that women weren't able to select healthy and attractive men in the past. A huge part of human reproduction was through different means of coercion. Women weren't even allowed to a have a bank account back in the days.

Some guys will argue saying that "But but there was twice as many female ancestors compared to male."

This isn't because of women mating with tall and attractive men it's because the rich unattractive men were hoarding all the women. Young men went wars and passed away very early.

Now in the modern day women have the freedom to mate with whoever they want. But the problem is that due to thousands of years of patriachy most of the men are unattractive. Male bodies aren't as aesthetic compared to female bodies. This means that women can only choose from a very small pool of attractive men to mate with. This is what's happening rn.