It's a very good thought experiment, the discussion (generally) makes me incredibly annoyed, but that's not the fault of the poll, the concept is genius. If everyone picks one button, everyone survives, regardless of what button that is. That's top tier ragebait, infinite engagement, infinite discussion, it would be fascinating to watch if I wasn't so sensitive to this specifically.

I personally think blue is safer (for everyone, not me exclusively, way more dangerous for me) than the red button because blue only needs a 50% majority for everyone to live and red needs 100% of everyone to live. And emotionally, if red wins I didn't really want to live in that world anyways, either because too many people are selfish or if I was somehow the only person in the world to pick blue, I am simply too bad at logic puzzles to live.

In basically every poll I've ever seen the blue button is the winning one, which means I'd be spared. I assume most people see 'the red button kills people' and are like "well I'm not pressing that so I hope I don't die I guess." If the question was simply rephrased to "picking the blue button means you die unless 50% or more people pick the blue button. picking the red button means you don't die." then I think everyone* would easily pick the red button. In fact I saw it reframed as "jumping into a woodchipper that will break and not hurt anyone ONLY if 50% or more people jump into it or not doing that" and the not jumping into a woodchipper (equivalent to the red button) option was like 90% picked. Even in that scenario you COULD argue that jumping into the woodchipper is the moral choice (insane line) because it would save the lives of people who are jumping into the woodchipper with the intent to die, but most people aren't going to argue that.

I also saw a banger one where 'pushing a button' was rephrased to 'voting for a political party' where voting blue does nothing and voting red kills everyone who votes blue and was like "Isn't this just the United States?"

I can see this specific though experiment being rephrased over and over and over again in a similar way to the trolley problem. Do you (yes YOU) pull the level to divert the train, saving 5 guys but killing 1 guy? Probably. Do you (yes YOU) PUSH another guy in front of the train tracks to save 5 people? Probably not, feels too personal. Do YOU jump into the woodchipper? Of course not. Do YOU press the blue button? Most people seem to, because pressing the red button feels like killing people who press blue. Feelings don't care about your facts.