I thought unpopular opinion meant: „I feel a bit alone with my opinion on xyz, is there someone who shares this opinion?“ I think it shouldn’t mean: „Here is my completely unhinged take on xyz that would get me banished from my community if I ever said it out loud“.

So imho it’s expected to stumble unpon people that agree with you.

It should be for „ I think socks in sandals are cute.“ and not „Hitler was a great guy and did nothing wrong.“

I thought unpopular opinion meant: „I feel a bit alone with my opinion on xyz, is there someone who shares this opinion?“

That’s just “does anyone else . . . ?” type post. A classic unpopular opinion is like “milk in the bowl before cereal is superior”.

And the ones that get upvoted are like “that sounds so weotng but youre not hurting anyone so fair play” like the milk before cereal example.

Milk first is superior. What kind of psychopath want soggy cereal?
Just eat the cereal dry and drink a glass of milk then
If my options stood between that and soggy cereal. I’d eat them dry every day of the week.