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As a social animal, human conforms to the customs of society, and theirbehavior and opinions are greatly influenced by social norms [5]. Accordingly,people choose to hide their opinion in front of others when they feel theiridea is against majority opinion. This social phenomenon is called the spiralof silence [4]. Recently, the advent of internet technology and onlinecommunication has made people to stand up and express their opinion openly inonline space and to break the wall of the spiral of silence [12]. The subredditr/unpopularopinion has been designed to allow users to share and discusssocially unpopular thought frankly. In this study, we introduce a descriptivestudy to show how the subreddit r/unpopularopinion helps its users to get overthe spiral of silence. The r/unpopularopinion was analyzed based on thefindings from community observation and participant interviews. Even though theenvironment of r/unpopularopinion encourages the users to freely express theiropinion, the dominant population of this community is young white males, andthe opinions representing their group are supported by general users and comeup to the front page. Consequently, the minority opinions are neglected, and itresults in another spiral of silence phenomenon. In future research,

Subreddit R/unpopularopinion: Against the Spiral of Silence