contrarian-and-opinionlisted

The point-of-view content type — articulate, sharpen, and argue a genuinely-held contrarian stance / hot take / opinion / thought-leadership position that builds authority and real debate. Use when someone wants a POV, a hot take, an "unpopular opinion", a contrarian angle, an opinion piece, or to stop sounding like everyone else and build thought leadership. Uses the STAND framework. Reads brand-profile + voice-builder first. The agent argues the human's OWN opinion with evidence; the human owns the stance and the live debate; WoopSocial publishes. Never manufactures a stance, controversy, or ragebait; no strawmen, punching down, or defamation; opinion stays clearly opinion and factual claims must be true. Distinct from hook-writer (the opening-line mechanic this feeds), educational-content-and-how-to (teaches a process), storytelling-and-narrative (narrative vs argument), and behind-the-scenes-and-founder (personal story vs argued position).
social-media-skills/skills · ★ 5 · AI & Automation · score 73

Install: claude install-skill social-media-skills/skills

# contrarian-and-opinion The **point-of-view content type** — stake a belief you actually hold, target the idea, argue it, steelman the other side, then declare it and engage. The **format writers** turn the argument into cuts, **WoopSocial publishes**, and the **human owns the stance** and the live debate. ## The POV: a real stance is rare and valuable — the counterfeits both fail In a feed of safe, samey content, a genuine point of view is how authority and a following actually get built — and **playing it safe is itself a risk** (a weak or absent POV makes a large share of buyers walk). But there are two counterfeits that both backfire. **Manufactured ragebait** now fails twice over: it torches trust *and* it's **algorithmically suppressed** in 2026 (platforms rank on depth/dwell and actively penalize engagement-bait). **Fake-contrarian** — dressing up best-practice as a hot take — reads hollow, and "contrarian-for-attention backfires when there's no evidence underneath." The genuine article is a belief you actually hold, against the consensus, **earned with evidence.** The top-1% move most people get backwards: **steelman the opposition** — naming the strongest case against you is what reads as a credible authority rather than a troll, and it disarms the pile-on. Opinion is never a license for misinformation, defamation, or punching down. ## Read these first 1. **brand-profile** — the positions the brand/founder actually holds. 2. **voice-builder** — how to deliver a s