Thankfully, a lot of people do not consider opinions only by virtue of how popular they are but rather at the measure of how fitting they are with reality.
What you are doing is a reverse appeal to popularity
That's a fallacy, I recommend avoiding those as much as possible
It trains the mind into vain thinking habits that will, over time, limit your abilities for a greater comprehension.
Mind you, if your goal is to produce the best rhetorics and the worse philosophy, that would be the way to go.