Summary
Bandwagon Fallacy
Fallacy is "the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well reasoned if unnoticed." In other words, fallacy is the idea, belief, or argument that is believed to be true but cannot be proved because it's based on incorrect reasoning. The Bandwagon fallacy is the phenomenon in which popularity affects the way someone may act in return of other's validation.
An example of this fallacy is; There's this movie that just came out so you and your friends decide to go watch it. When it finishes, everyone expresses how they felt about the movie and to your disbelief, they all hated it but you. You really enjoyed it but everyone else is saying how bad it was and trashed talked the movie. You didn't want to get left out of the conversation and didn't want your friends to make fun of you for liking a "bad movie" so you join in on the talk bashing the movie you loved. Doing this made you act upon the need for validation from your peers.
The bandwagon fallacy is very interesting because it is something that we do so often without even realizing. Like the example I gave, this fallacy causes us to act based on the popularity of a certain subject.
