Because unfortunately much of Internet Culture has been built around considering negative opinions far more indisputable then any positive opinion. We are a society where Good Art can only be Good in Contrast to what is popularly considered Bad.
I like the overwhelming vast majority of any piece of Entertainment media I watched to completion. And even among those this I didn't finish it's very rare for me to actively dislike any. And nothing that I do dislike I consider objectively indisputably Bad, there is nothing that I am offended by the existence of people liking it. That third point has not always been true, younger more immature versions of me have gotten invested in hating things, but that's all in the past.
There are times when there is something popular I don't like as much as others do, and so that contrasted with all the popular to hate on things I love gets taken out of context to present me as a contrarian. The most recent example may be Frireen, as a few times I'd talked about it can be mistaken for hating it but all that really bothers me is how so much Frieren praise has to be in contrast to all other contemporary Fantasy Anime, I like Frieren and Isekai. I haven't given Frieren a definitive rating yet because I want too rewatch it first, but I currently expect to give it a 10.
I've also sounded harsh on Matt Reeves' The Batman by virtue of liking every other Batman movie more, but the movie is mostly fine, and I'm really enjoying The Penguin so far.
The fact is most really popular things I've seen I like, and if I haven't seen them I don't have an opinion at all.
The closest I come to being a contrarian is sometimes how I rank certain instalment of a saga or seasons of a series may look partially inverted compared to popular opinion. But that's always in the context of seeing value in even what I rank at the bottom, or if there are some I actively dislike in any even mild capacity it's only 3 tops out of more then 20.
But even that isn't universal, how I rank the different seasons of the 90s Sailor Moon Anime is pretty conventional actually.
Once I was in the chat for a Trixie The Golden Witch Livestream on Chat and mentioned the fact that I like The Godfather Part III the best of The Godfather movies, and she called me the ultimate contrarian, even more Contrarian then she is. The Contrarian opinion on The Godfather movies would be say that only Part III was good, I like all three movies, if I have any criticism of anything in the first two movies it's that I don't think Part II works as a cohesive whole all that well, but every single piece of it is great and still to this day very influential on my tastes.
Trixie's opinions on the Pokémon movies are more contrarian then my opinions on The Godfather movies. Trixie and her Ex are the only people I've ever seen dislike the 3rd Pokémon movie, most Pokémon fans consider it the best of the movies, if the first two do better on mainstream review aggregate websites it's only because they've been seen by more people. Suede and Linkara liked it the best and they are pretty reflective of general opinion. And Uniquenameosarus also had a Video Essay praising it. And I recently discovered Gingy Dave.
When it comes to the Pokémon movies the closest thing I have to a contrarian opinion is that I rank 2000 near the bottom, there are only two theatrical movies I rank below it (Lucario and Jiirachi) and one TV Movie I rank as the absolute least, the Mirage one. However I have enough Nostalgic fondness for 2000 that the gap between it and those below it is pretty significant. Mostly my issue with it is just it being overdone, I never needed a Pokémon movie to be that epic, so it's a similar issue to the most recent Detective Conan films, which I still very much enjoy.
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