The idea that bright, wild color is something you outgrow is a damaging lie society tells us. This unspoken rule, that enjoying intense, clashing colors makes you childish, is pure bullshit. The depression palette trend has only gotten worse because it saves corpos money. We gotta end it.

March 27, 2026 - 03:10 UTC

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I honestly remember an actual criticism of Avatar was "there's too many colors in this film, unrealistic". But I kind of feel like one of the many appeals of that film franchise is it's unabashed love of bright colors, especially on weird creatures.
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Yeah aliens need to be more realistic
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I mean, not even Goth design aesthetics are drab, I always see some kind of color like reds, purples, pinks, blue, yellows, etc in there. Ever since I've noticed the trend towards drab I've made it my duty to buy room decor (my home burned down) in my favorite hues of purple and aqua.
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I saw the comparison post.

The McDonalds one hurts personally because it used to bask in its color glory even when it was for adults.

I just hope James Gunn's Superman pushes for more wild/vibrant colors in future films.
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I loved Thor ragnarok and the guardians films because they were so colorful. Man remember how bland the hulk movies were? They were so afraid of making him green
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Our house is painted bright colours - we have a kitchen that's various shades of pink and purple. And it brings me joy every morning.
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Companies make everything the same basic colors- red/blue/black/grey. Cars, kitchenware- they stick to those four basics because they're cost-effective and sell faster. Unique color items often suffer a color tax. They cost more despite being the same product, so poor people have fewer color options
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If you think that’s sad look up
The color “Greige” and Beige Moms

youtu.be/sZK0sE_bPgI?si=To1Mb5SLv6Ch64Nd
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my car is 14 years old & it is bright orange. i would replace it with the same model, but they don't make it anymore & just casually looking at a potential replacement...there's nothing near as bright & cheerful on the market. i hate it.
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I'm a huge fan of Fordite, or the Detroit Agate because car companies used to offer such a range of sick colors. It's just not the same when the choices are 3 shades of grey, red, and white.
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Honestly I'd kill for red and blue most of the time round here the options are beige, white or grey and sometimes they throw in a mustard. If you're very lucky a millennial emerald green but more often the icky pastel sage one
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My 78 yo mom has started going "grey, black, black, grey, white, oh a blue one!" when out and about about how depressingly same all the cars are.
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White too sometimes.
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Color comes to mind every time I think of buying an older model truck. Lots of awesome colors, unfortunately it’s harder to get replacement exterior pieces or the right paint color if it ever needs bodywork 😞
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Movies are also a huge problem. The grungy dirt and booger filters slapped on everything from superhero films to "live-action" Disney animation adaptations make it clear that color is for BABIES. Real adults only watch movies that look/feel like depression. Color just isn't believable as "real life"
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This is kind of why when me and mom had to buy a new microwave after our old apartment burned down, I decided we should get this aqua blue one instead of the black or white ones that were there.
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OMG RIGHT???? Buying men's clothes is SO friggin' hard because it's all black, navy, brown, gray.... I want brighter colors!
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check out stores like Self Edge or Standard & Strange and peep their brands. you'll find a ton of colorful menswear that way
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I hate it so much too. My husband pointed out one of the things that contributed to cars all looking the same & boring is cops are always more likely to pull over anything brightly colored or unique looking (especially red cars) so idk man. Just feels like the slow and steady creep of fascism 🤷‍♀️
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Also bright colors add like $800 in price to a new car
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I'm lucky in a way because I'm pretty small so for clothes and shoes I usually can wear large kids sizes, giving me more color choices.

But the rest... my husband just bought a new bicycle and the only color choice was the drabbest, mattest grey you've ever seen!
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Also the cuts, patterns and details in clothing. A lot of it is fairly simple and in monochromatic colors (and polyester fabrics) only because it's cheaper to make. More complicated garments require more labor time.
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Colors rule! Having a child has helped for sure because my daughter LOVES my clothes (see profile photo for an example)
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In my game, if you beat a level, a magical seed that flashes rainbow and leaves a rainbow trail flies out and lands on the ground, producing a flower with bioluminescent, rotating bulbs flashing cyan and magenta. I love colorssss
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Ooh what game?
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basically any genuine joy is considered immature in modern culture
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Sincerity is the enemy bb
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And inside, people really love color! I have this outfit and the number of compliments I get when I wear it is crazy! (This is the model btw not me) Also thanks to Lucy & Yak for making not boring clothes!
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On Wednesday, I was at my kid's school concert and could see him searching the (packed) auditorium from the stage.

Me (to other kid): He won't be able to see us. Too many people.

Other Kid: No, we can always find you; you're the only person in town who wears colors.

I looked around. Correct.
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It’s risky to take big swings on wild colors. Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia guy) talked a bit in his book about clothing waste that was generated by colors he thought were cool but customers simply refused to buy. Consumers themselves need to step up and buy the craziest shit they can find.
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In this day and age. Anything that has bright colors like red, yellow, lime green or sky blue is considered “ugly”, “tacky” or “old-fashioned”, and gives off that “80s look”.

While they show us unrealistic 3D renders of futuristic cities where everything is blue, white and green.
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Whenever environments are fun it's a "fantasy" setting
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My room-mate and I joke a lot about how much our interior and art designs clash because she loves pastels and I love deep, brights.
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Meanwhile, in white supremacist colonial culture...
www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/27/whitewashing-ancient-statues-whiteness-racism-and-color-in-the-ancient-world/
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Its also white supremacy, that bold colors and patterns are "childish" or "not serious". Bold colors and patterns are a huge part of many cultures!
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I recently learned of the "Neo-Andean" architecture found mainly in the city of El Alto.

Color is magical and if you go through all of human history we've always loved using it. Cities in mesopotamia were painted vibrant as well.

We have every color to ever exist yet we choose beige, why?
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OMG I love how whimsy these look! I need to learn more about this style...
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Even as someone who loves the gothic and macabre (which comes with a lot of monotone), I agree 100%
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Besides... Even Gothic and macabre looks better with a little pop of bright color for contrast!
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Our place used to be owned by an artist so it had white walls and has big windows. We use that light to soak the house in color.
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I see this even from a video game perspective! Looking back, I find games from AAA Studios that are SUPER VIBRANT (that aren't Nintendo), but now it's the same gray, colorless, dirty, overcast vibe, and when a game does have color, I see people mod it to get that overcast "Realism" vibe.
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!!!! Am in #London & needed sneakers. Every shop up & down Oxford St: black, white, gray, beige. Got the ONE colorful pair I saw. Noticed on Regent St hi-end leather goods also bland as are clothes. So JOYLESS. I’m a NYer who shuns all black anymore for the mixed & vivid
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I fully expect that kids currently being raised in Sad Beige Houses are gonna rebel when they hit their teens and start a psychedelic technicolor style rebellion

It’s only a matter of time before there’s a backlash to all the greige and people start exploding into the colors they’ve been repressing
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I sure hope so! So tired of black/white/navy/khaki being the only options for like...everything.

My childhood home had a red sink, and a yellow fridge and the fact that its basically impossible to reproduce even that is so depressing!
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Like the Sixties or something, but even MORE so
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I’ve been doing this personally with art ideas and stuff and it’s fun!
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I'm 100% on board with Splatoon coming to the real world.
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It's already happening, though I see this a lot more in certain communities than all over. I mean, there's already a comeback with whimsigoth, and early 00s/Y2K aesthetics like Frutiger Aero.
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Chromophobia by David Batchelor

www.davidbatchelor.co.uk/books/chromophobia/
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Imagine tying your maturity level what colours your eyes perceive lmao
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I blame the lasting impact and popularity of Saving Private Ryan for making so many studios believing that stuff having more grey muted colors meant it was more mature and serious.

Meanwhile Akira Kurosawa made Ran one of his darkest films and yet it was full of color.
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At least we still have wes Anderson
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"Historical" movies are one of the worst examples of this.
Straight up revisionism, considering that bright colors dominated throughout most of human history.
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Bright colors used to be a sign if wealth too because of the cost of dyes. Our ancestors would be offended.
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I fucking love bright colors. 😸💛

bsky.app/profile/gebraheel.bsky.social/post/3mhyqodsvbk2f
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YES
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I looooove color. Bring back color!
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I literally just stuck rainbow, glitter, and dinosaur stickers all over my brand new phone with a clear silicone case to go over the top. I'm almost 50 and a Serious Professional Adult but I am NOT about to die in Trump's Stupidocalypse dressed and accessorized in bland millennial pastel. Fuck that.
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And yet, as a recent-ish parent, "sad beige baby" is very much a thing too.

We're denying our kids colour as well. "Dusky rose" was the most exciting available colour for our stroller, and it made me sad.
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That study that discovered babies see black white and red the clearest killed much joy
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Some of the Zillow listings that are roundly mocked have the coolest saturated palettes. Sure the shag carpet from the 70s is probably a health hazard at this point but the COLORS
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My sister just spent two years building a million dollar house, and everything is some shade of white. The walls, kitchen cabinets, all the living room furniture. To each their own and all...
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My house got whiter as the years went on. My kitchen cabinets were once pure brown wood when I was born. My mother’s bathroom was once pink before it was remodeled back in ‘05. And we once had vintage stained glass lamp ceiling fans.
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Yep yep, me at 42
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I LOVE the complementary eyeshadow!! Looking cute!
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My opinion on this is like yours.
I've worn tie-dye almost every day since 1986 and I'll never stop.
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The fact that having an interesting color palette is inherently viewed as "childish" is disrespectful to autistic adults as well.

I'm autistic and I HATE the trend of almost every AAA video game these days having bland "realistic" environments that need $1000+ worth of RAM to process.
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Either you make a game that looks interesting to begin with, or I'm not gonna give a shit about it. It's that simple.
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I couldn't care less if people find me childish. Bright colours (especially purple) make me happy.
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One of our customers in his 70s possibly 80s has a dyed pink mohican. It looks really good & can see he loves to grow old disgracefully. 😂
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Purple!!!! I instantly like you! Hello new friend!
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as a trans guy I'm doing my part and just wearing weird patterns and neons, as well as some of my goth clothes, with added neons or glitter accessories xD
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I don't mind being referred to as childish if it isn't being used to demean me. I have a lot of childhood I missed out on that I would like to get to experience.
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To clarify, I feel robbed and I wish to take back what I feel was taken from me.
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reject the beige bland safety

give me color and whimsy

I'm putting a big purple/white/pink checkerboard mural thing on my bedroom walls and it makes me so happy
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I thought videogames being all desaturated browns and greys was a 2005-2012 thing and it already stopped?
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I have described my bedroom decor as “it looks like someone went on an acid trip in a Limited Too”

I own so many rainbows. And colorful skulls. And a disco skull. And a disco shark.
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Also the clothes and hair match the vibe.
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I'm 71. It all starts with a happy wall color! I've always decorated this way. It really makes me happy. The gray box isn't for me!
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And this is precisely why hirohiko araki is goat
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Honestly! I love colourful clothes. My current favourite hoodie is a bright pink with one arm cyan and the other a neon green...

I often get cheerful comments about how colourful I look.

Men's fashion is horrendous- walking into that section and it's just. Dull. Everything is muted.
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I love my colors. Give me a pink & red outfit any day of the week for any occasion. I'm surrounded by uninspired black and brown Patagonia tedium and I desperately need to be anything but that.
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I'm always getting ads for children's clothes bc I love wearing bright colors and bold patterns (I'm so sick of bland florals scaled down so small it just looks like noise) and it's a constant struggle trying to find fun adult clothes
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Oh God same. Click on some small bright thumbnail to see a toddler shirt
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I recently discovered that I can actually get brighter color clothes of decent quality if I look hard enough, and Ralph Lauren is one of the few doing it well for men’s clothing. I’ve entered my Lego Bucket era.
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Kapital is also great when it comes to this
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Throwing them in the GQuuuuuux Kira Kira
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You've actually been inspiring me for awhile to use more intense colors and bold lines! (The newest one I posted is evidence of that.) 😁❤️
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If I ever get a house of my own I’m painting the front door purple
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This is the trend for new houses or remodels in my city (Montevideo, Uruguay). I FUCKING HATE IT.
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The prison cell gate really completes the feng shui of the garden.
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Wow...its...homey
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I live in a house built in 1937 and I looked up what was cool in 1937 for bathroom fixtures and was delighted to find a trend for brightly colored matching fixtures and appliances for bathroom and kitchen.
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As someone who just came back from work while passing by an annoyingly plain white minimalist building that was for some reason built right in front of one of the city's important historical landmarks (hiding a large chunk of it in the process when looking from the street), I feel this in my bones.
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Literally the first thing my partner and I did before we moved into our place was paint a large chunk of the greige walls in our house bright colours/add wallpaper 😂 no minimalism here!!!!
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That's what I also plan to do whenever I move to a new house. Fuck greige!
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One of the main things that drew me to our house was that the living room and entryway are a vivid orange.
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100% First thing I did was paint my house. My walls are teal, yellow, periwinkle, and I just did the bathroom this gorgeous seafoam:
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I made a Pinterist board for each room of our house, and then sat down with a "color consultant" to help us pick paint.

She was 😱. "You don't want it to look like the CIRCUS!" Lady, I am POINTING AT WHAT I WANT.

She picked a decent muted green for the unifying color upstairs and I did the rest.
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I wish I could repaint the walls to have funky colors :/
Good think my stuff makes the room look like a homemade colorful thrift store.
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When I moved into my first apartment after college, me and my roomie immediately painted our rooms in the brightest colors we could find - I made mine bright red, and she made hers bright blue, it was fun

(We technically weren’t *supposed* to, but the walls were grimy and fugly so we did anyway)
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I have never had a rental allow painting the walls >=[[[
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May I take a moment to note, in regards to this, how I DETEST the utterly boring color palette formerly cutting edge distinctive make-up brand Urban Decay has embraced? What the hell happened! I do NOT expect Estee Lauder type "natural" tones from the brand that gave us "Asphyxia," Acid," "Omen" etc
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People are designing their homes to sell them and move out, not to enjoy them.
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I found a ceramic coated cooking pot at Aldi that was white with lemons on it and I was so excited to buy it. I hate how ugly and plain things are.

I need to get paint on the walls, I just haven't decided what colors or patterns I want
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I remember when the 80s had lots of colors for all ages. It made everything feels exciting and fun. Like Press Your Luck is a game show that adults play that has flashy colors
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How we present the future is awful too. Everything used to be so colorful. Just comparing the Moebius concepts for Dune in the 70s vs the Dune we got.
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It took me 42 years on this planet to outgrow that mindset and I'm not going back. I'm basically a male bird at this point in life and I'm going to use every color I can.
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Its cuz the patriarchy
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Very literally, right? It was a whole movement in the men's fashion hivemind that never went away - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation
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I had this boss at a former studio. His family was from India and loved color. He wore purple sweaters and pale pink suits and yellow dress shirts, and I always thought he looked absolutely beautiful in those colors. Men could have that. It would be so easy.
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Dude, that was like the MAIN thing I took away from Japan as an artist.

We need color. We need art. Japan has that shit EVERYWHERE, and it feels SO good :")
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As a scientist this was also my main takeaway from my travels in Japan. Public art is so amazing and brings beauty and peace to your day 😌.
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I was gonna bring up Japan! I consult this chart every time I paint a miniature, just to see what else I can add to a scheme and have it look like I've meaningfully considered color theory
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I've seen pictures of the art supply stores there. Sweet Bjesus
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Also an artist. Also half Latvian. Love fucking bright colors. My parents house was painted bright blue when I was little, then we painted it teal around middle school. We proudly proclaimed ourselves the eyesore of the neighborhood. Naturally, I lioved the palletes of the 80's through early 90s.
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I was horrified when everything became a muted pile of tcrap. When that happened we painted the living room almost lime, hallway orangish yellow, extra room turquoise, & my room bright orange. People say "it 's too loud, I say, it made me happy. They act like you're some kind of nut if you like
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joy is a childish pursuit , you must let the colour bleed out of your life while corpos world wide suck your soul and pick your bones clean 😬
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I am a proud maximalist, Nooworks is my fashion style, power clashing is my strength. The brighter and more colorful, the better. (And I am in mid-life). They can try to desaturate me, and fail in the attempt. No to nothing but neutrals and blanched pastels…
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The Pantone colour of the year is WHITE. So bold.

pantonecolors.net/blog/pantone-color-of-the-year-2026/
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Yay..white.
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This is something I constantly think about like, on a day to day everyday. We’ve got aesthetic parenting trends with desaturated looking & beige toys and those kids are growing up with mud-filtered disney trademark renewal necromancy. It’s so bleak.
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I think gen Z will be sick if that shit by the time they're parents
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I started wearing lots of bright colors for my summer attires but my god there needs to be more color for the other seasons too. And for Christmas, can Inot be limited to red, green, silver and gold??? Or for my new years options to be more black, silver, gold but with sparkles??
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My absolute favorite Christmas tree. Also in Russia alot of trees are decorated with multi colored glass fruit and I want that
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I agree with you, but damn do I suck at colours. It feels whatever I do it either comes out drab, or I manage to unbalance the whole piece.
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I will never stop wearing tie-dye. NEVER. Every color is its own justification.
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As middle aged man shopping for clothes on a budget in the UK....this hits hard.
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The Splatoon video game series is absurdly colorful with bright clashing colors being the whole point of the game, and it's incredibly popular with people of all ages. So yeah, you're absolutely right.
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Bright hues are only childish for those who have lost the color in their adult lives. Couldn’t be me though. I love a good smattering of reds and blues.
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i hate how all man clothes are just some variant of gray beige brown navy blu or black
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work dress code doesn't cover socks or scarves, so...
my crazy socks are legendary & coworkers ask to see them on the regular. They love my tropical hummingbird, cats in space, & famous art socks as much as I do!
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I've been calling this Grey Goo, or now Slop Colours (wow people don't like that)

The grey / greige / beige trend makes me want to puke.

So naturally that's the Vomit Pallette.

Other fun disparagements of beige rage ass-thetic:

- Prison food
- Maggot chic
- Landlord wank
- Billionaire diarrhoea
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Landlord wank 🤌
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💯
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I have a blue car because its my fav color and sticks out from the boring whites, grays, and blacks. When i drive in to work i look at my blue car among my coworkers gray cars and i feel happier just having a super nice bright blue in my vision rather than a bunch of grays that meld together.
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