I love the fact that you always have an appropriate tester on hand. "I need to test some colourblind glasses? Good job I have my colourblind son I made earlier!" 😆
To be fair without Ann I wouldn't even know that someone was shooting. Luckily for me I often learn about this type of content from her informative debunking videos.
@@Setsurafulif that ever happens please contact me as soon as possible. I would love to grab a million in exchange for losing just few of the neurons I have left.
Those videos are exactly the kind of kind of video that I keep clicking "not interested", but the algorithm refuses to learn that I hate it. I thought the algorithm was supposed to suggest things to keep me engaged, not things to make me rage quit.
@@GermanSausagesAreTheWurstDude, the algorithm wants his carp to be pushed thats why you keep seeing his face. He makes YT money so they'll push his slimy lying face where they can.
I really respect your commitment to your work. First you take your own blood to debunk sugar spike misinformation, now you've preemtively given birth to a colorblind child 16 years ago to debunk color glasses
Apparently, she has seen how much this kind of content is needed. I wish more popular creators like her would step up to counter-act this epidemic of misinformation.
Would it work with those old 3d glasses? Like, one side filters out red color and one filters out green, and your brain learns to tell the difference? It would probably look super stupid and doesn’t seem really necessary, but that should be working, right?
@@lenaeospeixinhos As someone that messed with graphics, it makes no sense even on a mathematical level. If you filter a color, you can't put it back with any other function, now other colors are just shades of the same color. A simple way to prove that to everyone is that when you make your picture monochromatic, you can't add the color back to it again, luminance is not enough to distinguish colors. Alias, cuida dos peixinhos ai, haha...
@@BlueberryDragon13 No because luminance wouldn't make both distinguishable. I mean, in monochromatic, a yellow color will look different than red, but a dark or lighter red will look identical to yellow.
I don't understand how people still even accept Logan Paul as an influencer, given the fact he has publicly admitted faking the color blind glasses reaction, and his multitude of downfalls regarding Bitcoin, etc.
Social media like RUclips and Tiktok are also very complicit in keeping people like Logan Paul relevant because they can lie to and scam to their audience as long as they make money for the platforms.
I was tutoring a Chinese teenaged boy about 12 years ago. I wanted him to write a paragraph describing a pumpkin he turned into a jack o'lantern. I kept trying to get him to say the pumpkin was orange, then realized that he couldn''t see the color! He was 16 and never new. It was amazing.
One of my friends realized he was blue-purple colorblind when we were in med school 😂 we were studying the physiology of the eye (rods and cones wavelength and such) and the textbook had the Ishihara test and he was like why is one of the circles empty or something like that and we were all like there is a number there, his mind went straight to the whole class is pranking me rather than thinking he could be colorblind 😂😂😂. Goes to show that is really not a big deal and there are thousands of adults going around in life that don't even know they're colorblind, the glasses are a total scam
I have that type of colorblindness (there are 7 different types total. Mine is called Protanotomy), and it’s just hard to distinguish reds/oranges, and some pink shades too. Reds are more brown and orange is more red. Found out when i was 6 and was making Christmas decorations brown & green. And it’s interesting because I’m a girl, and it’s rare in women. My mom has the same type as me though! Pretty neat
I didn't realize James was colorblind! It was fascinating seeing him look at those filtered photos and being unable to differentiate! Watching him pretty much nail the crayon colors in the "filtered" image was amazing! The fact that he got that "pink" one?! It looked white to me. Honestly, no one has done a better job showing me (a non-colorblind person) what it is like to be colorblind than this video did. Kudos!! Also, shame on those glasses manufacturers for preying on people like that.
@@HowToCookThat It would be great if you covered MegaLag's coverage of the scam where he talked to various experts if the glasses work. He was attacked for another RUclipsr which was funded by Enchroma as well by firing a copyright strike.
As someone whose colorblind, thank you and thank James. The amount of times you hear "have you tried the glasses?" Is insane. Being colorblind doesnt make me unable to enjoy life and what i can or cant perceive. Just means i get to see life in a unique way :) (Edited word for spelling: I'd to is)
I would like to see more colourblind artists just working with colours as they see them instead of checking labels. Just thinking about what amazing forest scenes you might create in my eyes when you don't care about red and green.
I feel you so much. I'm not colourblind but I do have disabilities and my mom constantly offer to order things to "help" or "cure" it and doesn't understand why I refuse everytime. So I know how tiring this is.
@@HowToCookThatMy flatmate has been trying to get a bunch of friends together to chip in for these glasses for a friend of ours, and I've been trying to talk him out of it. I sent him some debunking videos, but they were long and possibly a bit too sciencey for his attention span. Now I sent him this and I'll sit on him until he watches it and swear that he won't waste money on snake oil.
James mistaking grey for pink ( 17:05 ) is interesting to me because I'm a sitcom nut, and the original Addams Family walls were pink, to aid the black and white filming. Funny how my mind just went there as soon as he said that, LOL!
Just to add to that, the makeup used for black and white filming was colour shifted as well. Orange base colour, yellow highlights and green on the lips as red looked too dark. Random stuff you learn on t'internet :)
I had a work buddy in an art department, of all places, who was Red/Green CVD. He made it work by using the color names, but occasionally you just forget about it and ask him how your layout design looks. . .
@@primmoore6232 ...I mean, super weird thing to gloat about though. You just got lucky that this particular guy couldn't process maroon or green so your weird-ass assumption worked out.
I find it funny how their marketing suggests that you’ll be able to see new colours, but if someone with that type of colourblindness was looking at the image considering buying the glasses, they wouldn’t be able to see anything new in the second image. Makes me think they’re marketing towards relatives who have decided that people are missing out on life, not the actual colourblind people ://
reminds me of old tv ads that were advertising new tvs. like look how amazing this new tv looks although they are showing it to us on our supposedly old and inferior tv. only one that stands out to me was an old sharp ad where they played that trick but were self aware and said oh no, you cant see this amazing new image cause you havent yet bought our tv.
You're 100% correct. They are marketed to family and that marketing is overstated. Years ago, we brought enchroma glasses for my brother, who is red/green and blue/purple color blind. We didn't expect they would 'fix' anything. But he does love them. They provide addition definition, and he still wears them whenever he goes outside to this day. Overstated and overpriced? Yes. Worth it? For him, also yes.
My son was colorblind and nobody - including him - knew it until he was eighteen years old. This explained a LOT. We thought he just made bold fashion choices, but nope. He had no idea he was wearing a pink t-shirt with the words "Army Brat" in camo. He thought it was an orange t-shirt with a graphic splotch on the front. He was *horrified* that he went through high school like that. The funny part is that he wasn't in on the joke, so he shrugged off teasing and bullying and eventually the other students just accepted that he dressed weird and grew to admire him for it. Ended up paying off. A few years later I was enjoying my morning coffee, finally alone after raising children. He comes busting in, holds up his phone, and says, "Quick! What color is this case!!" "Neon orange." "Thank God," he breathed as he ran out of the house. Turns out he was late for work, but wasn't positive that the phone case was 'manly' enough and popped in to do a quick color check. lol!
I respect your willingness to roll with what you assumed your son's fashion choices were. A bit ironic that he checks whether colors are "manly" now, after never having that impressed upon him as relevant. He still likes his bright oranges either way!
@@no_one2197 It almost sounds tongue-in-cheek (no pun intended). It's a little suspect to be sure. So NOBODY in high school bothered to tell his very manly son the "army brat" camo shirt he was wearing was pink? High school kids aren't known for their politeness. It's a funny story regardless.
The bit with your son was SUPER fascinating to me! My dad is red-green colorblind as well and so I've learned a bit, probably more than the average person but not a ton, about what that means and what it's like for him. Seeing your son trying to find minute differences in two pictures which to me (normal color vision) look radically different was so neat. No wonder my dad thinks Xmas decor is bland - it all looks quite brown and gray.
@@HowToCookThatMy family does this sometimes, it looks really nice! Not for any specific reason though, we just like to switch things up sometimes. Also red and gold is another fave. Never tried it, but I think a white tree with blue and black decorations would look awesome.
My dad is red green colorblind as well and while I carry the gene, I am not colorblind, however, I did pass it on to my son. I feel terrible about it every single day, especially after seeing an example of how he might see colors that I see as being beautiful and vibrant, as being drab, dull and muddled.
When you think about it,it's actually amazing how colorblind people learn to distinguish colors, to me a non colorblind person,it was so interesting to hear James,let us know what he was seeing.
it'll be very peculiar how we humans are able to learn things even with our disabilities. It probably felt like learning a whole new language, learning something so fundamental to our daily life, and it is fascinating to see
I wonder what James was thinking about those small differences before learning he's colourblind. Did he noticed them before; is it something he picked up after the diagnosis?
Reminds me of how blind people navigate by sound, smell, etc. Contrary to popular belief, their sense organs don't get any stronger after losing their sight. They simply learn to better resolve the information those organs deliver to their brain. But that alone allows them to do some pretty remarkable things.
My husband is colorblind and he is able to tell when the strawberries in our garden are ripe because they look darker to him. He notices shades and shadows, like your son does. My husband eventually gets tired of the "What color is this to you" game. He's not at all interested in the color blind glasses bc they way he sees it (haha), it's like putting a filter on a photo rather than actually allowing him to see more colors. Thank you for sharing, and thanks to James for being part of another one of your experiments!
We who can see the human color range take it for granted, as a artist I love finding lovely colors for my work. But I know there are artists who are colorblind and still make great pieces of art.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually allow to see more colors. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and filter out the red-green overlap to create more situations where one kind of cone cell is activated without the other. So it is possible, but not likely enough he has the correct disorder to make it worth ordering.
Logan Paul admitting he faked the color blind glasses reaction, when they cost over $400 and LOADS of people probably bought them after seeing him endorse them. These people have no sense of responsibility. It's just "use your acting skills".
"oops I have to fake this to get money" straight to "I'm going to laugh about how I faked that to get more money". Maybe he's changed his tone over the years, but he hasn't changed
Doodle Date, the couple of artists that made the video used at the end where the guy tries to differentiate the paint pucks, also made a joke about that when Adam tried these glasses (he very quickly made it clear that it wasn't the least impressive)
It's astounding how well colorblind people can adapt. One of the members of the Drawfee show is an illustrator named Jacob Andrews, who is colorblind but you'd never know from his art. He said that at one point he just memorized the positions on the color wheel and which ones go well together
@@deetvleetyeah he is! He was doing a grounded stream once and chat was telling him to go the green grass to get water but he was just running around in the dead grass hella confused 😂 and then chat went oh yeah he’s red/green color blind
I recently, as part of my work, hosted an art exhibition by an artist who was colourblind- beautiful, evocative landscapes, some with lots of contrast, some with less. Viewers' reactions were immensely positive.
James is truly the MVP, I’m 36 and had no idea that’s how colour blind people experience shades and tones. Very interesting, I really appreciate him being willing to share this.
It's so strange to see the website selling them have 'before and after' photos showing all the extra colours they claim the glasses could help you see, because, you know, that full colour image would be utterly useless to a colourblind person looking into buying them.
I think its telling that this is their marketing - its not "See new colours", most colourblind people get along just fine, and its not like the glasses allow you to do things you can't do (like be a pilot) with colourblindness, its "watch your colourblind friend/relative see more stuff" and it leans into their slightly... inspiration porn style video ads too. "Watch weird person see how good it is to be normal, gawk at the disabled person". It reminds me a lot of those videos of babies getting their cochlear implants switched on that are all "watch deaf baby hear his mother's voice for the first time" (and are actually, according to the feedback of people who got implants later in life, "watch confused and possibly stressed baby experience garbled and painful new sensory assault").
I think these glasses are more marketed to people who know someone that is colourblind. And seeing the difference makes them empathise and think how horrible it would be for themselves if they would suddenly miss out on all those colours.
@@AJ-ht3kfno they are supposed to make people who are colorblind see like normal, but if you know how colorblindness works, it doesn't make sense because nothing you can do will make the non existent cones send the "hey this is red" signal to the brain. My mom got a pair for my dad to try and it was pretty underwhelming so we returned them. He said that it helped a little bit with the contrast between colors, so two colors that look nothing the same to us, but the same or very close to the same to my dad were slightly more distinguishable in certain color pairings but that was about it.
I only recently found out about the phenomenon of “reaction” videos where they largely just… watch the video and either describe what’s on screen, or say vague positive things. I don’t understand how that became a thing
@@HowToCookThat I'd say it's most likely because going to court is expensive, and most online content creators really don't have the resources to pursue such a claim. I think it's also seen as something so widespread your never going to be able to prevent it from happening so there's a certain level of acceptance. I've seen a reaction video to one of Kyle Hill's where Hill himself posted a polite comment simply requesting that any future reactions not show the whole video. (which in this case was respected in subsequent postings on the same channel)
@@HowToCookThat oh, SSSniperwolf, literally doxxed somebody, and RUclips didn’t do shit about it. They don’t care as long as the content is making the money.
It's a shame, because even content creators who actually provide deep analysis from professional perspective have to dub it as "reaction" rather than "analysis" for the sake of algorithm.
I had a classmate in college who for some reason spontaneously perceived purple when watching fireworks once, it was a very moving moment for him. My guess is something about the extreme light of the firework managed to do that for him. Oh the other hand my brother mistook a pale green as gray when it was doing shadowing for art. It was bizarre seeing the art because it was technically accurate for the "lighting" but was green among monochrome
Purple if I remmeber correctly is a "made up" color. Like our brain interprets that set of light waves as purple. So I could see a firework display somehow tricking the brain into showing purple suddenly. I can't imagine how amazing it'd be to see a new color as an adult though!
@@seeing8spots yeah i'm moderately colour-blind and purple is always kind of a mystery to me. Sometimes i can see it as a different colour but most of the time it's just a darker blue. One time when i was a kid my parents were redecorating my bedroom and asked me what colour i wanted it. I said blue. So they took me to the diy store to pick out my paint and i saw one i really liked, but they said thats not blue that's purple. But i really liked it so i insisted on having that paint. So i ended up having an extremely purple bedroom for most of my childhood :p. But it looked fine to me
the fun thing about art is that you can kind of do anything with colors and get away with it. it's interesting to watch colorblind artists get nervous that they're doing something wrong, but even if they did it would look intentional.
I didn't realize that in WW2, they discovered that color blind people were better at picking out camouflage. They used this fact in the Apple TV series Foundation where one clone was color blind (when he should not have been) and better at hunting. Now it makes sense.
My colorblind daughter had already learned to look for motion or other differences, so when she learned scuba diving, she was ahead of the class. We depend on color for a lot but as you dive deeper the colors go away quickly. 15 ft down there is no more red (if I recall correctly). So while she could never be a pilot, for example, she was a great diver.
Several WWII heroes had to cheat on their eye exam to get into the military. An 8 time Olympic gold medal sharpshooter was initially turned down because he wore glasses, for example. Still a thing today. When my nephew joined the US Army, they knew he was red green colorblind. Then he later ran through Ranger school and passed. Until they re realized that he was red green colorblind again...
I'm colourblind and found that, for some reason, I had less trouble finding wild blueberries in the field than my cousins did. now, wild raspberries were a completely different thing. to my eyes, they didn't even seem to exist!
Makes me think that maybe evolution wise it's not as much disability as it is advantage we developed during hunter-gatherer days. The same way some people are naturally night owls while some are early birds - would have been useful for night and day watchers in the past, etc. And blind people might have been good at listening for threats instead of seeing it. Kind of an interesting thought.
I have a friend and classmate who I have studied with for 4 years. She's super powerful character designer and layout artist also great at painter. It took me 2 years later after graduation to realize that she's color blind. That really blow me away and made me realize that human potential is really limitless.
I follow a photographer for years who does amazing colorgrade on their photos and had no idea they are colorblind until someone asked how they do so as a colorblind person.
Yep. I have a friend I met in college. Lots of art in our study. I didn't know he was color blind until we were working on a 3D rendered scene and he had a candle with a green flame. I thought it was a design choice so didn't say anything. Another classmate pointed it out and then I realized. He said something along the lines of "why didn't you tell me it was green?" "I thought it was a design choice!" After that we'd all help make sure what he intended is what was there. There was another incident in our HTML class when he couldn't see the blue color shift when a hyperlink was hovered over.
From these comments it lightened my heart because in Indonesia, I remember in order to apply to Bachelor degree in design, you need to take colorblind test first and it's implied that those that did not pass will be automatically rejected. Bare in mind this is like 15 years ago and I don't know if they still made you do that. It's good to see that being colorblind did not hamper your ability to work with colors.
My husband of 30 years is color blind, very close to how James sees color. He used to always ask me what colors things are, like what color is the sunset. I started telling him, the color you see is your color. Who's to say I see it "better" or "correctly." He has tried those glasses, and the only difference was how he saw the traffic lights. They went from white-white-whiter, to yellow-white-whiter. He remains unimpressed with the glasses. 😅
There is a rare, specific kind of color blindness those glasses actually help. They depend on you having **some** ability to differentiate all colors and amplify that a lot by filtering out overlapping colors. But if your color blindness is severe enough, all they do is make everything darker.
If you see a color incorrect, you see it incorrect. I have bad eyesight and if someone would come to me and say "YoU just SeE the WoRlD dIfFeReNtLy, who am I to say you are wrong" I would slap you. Stop infantalising everything
@@kiiltochii1607 Like when Neil Tyson was like I can't say that having one arm isn't normal or something to that effect. And it's like but it's not? Humans have two arms, if one only has one, that's not normal, it's different...
That reminds me of my grandfather. When my mom was a kid, he bought this grey paint that she thought was ugly, and he used it to paint the dollhouse he built for her along with other furniture he built. Eventually she asked him why he used that color, thinking maybe that paint had been on sale or something. His response was that he painted it that color because it was his favorite color: green.
I really appreciate your son's willingness to be vulnerable and share with us his experiences. Thank you Reardon Family for being genuinely great people!
My father is Red/Green colourblind and I have been trying to understand what he might see. He spent years spray painting and colour matching - only made one wrong paint mix in 40 odd years. Thanks to you, and James' helpful explanation, I now understand how this is and why his colour perception is so different but remains accurate. It also explains why after picking up what he thought was a Brown crayon the teacher scolded him for drawing a Green fox (this was way back in the day when the ruler or strap would come out).
@yvonneburns2786 The same as red foxes do! Animals like deer only have 2 cones, making them pretty much red-green colourblind. That's why hunters often wear orange vests: They can spot each other but the deer can't.
My dad is red/green colorblind as well. Makes it a challenge buying him things sometimes, especially around Christmas. One year, we got these adorable Peanuts mugs to use around the holidays: red, with snoopy's doghouse and dark green text with a cutesy saying. We proudly showed them off to him when we got home... and he was so confused as to why we bought blank mugs. 😂
There is a specific, uncommon kind of red-green colorblind that these glasses work spectacularly for. The glasses are a notch filter which cuts out the big area of overlap, allowing different cones to be activated more selectively. But it still depends on the malfunctioning cones not being **identical**. If they are, it'll take something more sophisticated than a notch filter to help.
I've had two colorblind friends who tried out Enchroma glasses. One of them was unimpressed, and the other spent a week asking people on Facebook to send him pictures of red stuff, but found them too annoying to wear on the regular.
There is a rare, specific kind of color blindness those glasses actually help. They depend on you having **some** ability to differentiate all colors and amplify that a lot by filtering out overlapping colors. But if your color blindness is severe enough, all they do is make everything darker.
I love these debunking videos, and geez that was an expensive experiment: AU$500.00? Wow, Ann. Thank you, James, for being willing to share such a private thing with us all. Once again you nailed it, Ann.
With the burn cakes, I actually made one for a friends birthday. I found best results were when you used black icing to hide the burnt bits when burning wafer paper, and an icing sheet for the bottom picture like Ann suggested. I found it actually tasted like a burnt marshmallow and no one who ate it seemed to mind. Just thought I'd share my experience with them but def be wary of the open flames :3
This makes me wonder if you could just use actual marshmallows instead of frosting to seperate the two pictures! It might not look as neat as propping the top picture up with frosting, but it won't get the flash paper wet, and it will probably taste pretty good to anyone
I guess the flavor will wildly differ with different frostings. If you use Italian meringue which often gets toasted anyways then it probably will be pretty nice lol.
I had a room mate who was color blind but did some web design for work. He used a color pipette to get the RGB values of the website elements and could just from that tell the color. If you gave him an RGB value he could tell you what color it would be... That was really, really awesome.
I have a colorblind coworker who does that too! He keeps a sticky note by his desk with the most common colors that our boss likes us to use in presentations and figures, written out in hex.
I'm colorblind and the colorblind glasses stuff annoys me so much because I know it's not going to work at all. Your description of colorblindness was really good, thank you for all of your really good content! you're absolutely one of my favorite channels
I'm also color blind. I have a pair of "color correction" sunglasses. And they actually do work..... kind of. They do make colors more vibrant for me, as well as allow me to see a much wider range of purples.
There is a rare, specific kind of color blindness those glasses actually help. They depend on you having **some** ability to differentiate all colors and amplify it by filtering out overlapping colors. But the vast majority of cases, they just make everything darker.
I was born colorblind. Back then the only diagnosis they gave my mother was Achromatopsia. In the past 10 years my eye doctor thinks it's Tritanopia . They won't know unless they do a gene test. And I'm not able to get that done right now. I'm now 44. I've lived with it my whole life, and went to a school where teachers had no idea what they were doing, or how to deal with it, so I was called a liar. I was forced to wear red tinted glasses for my first 14 years of life, till I rebelled and kept breaking them. They made everything so much harder. :D :D I dispise people like Logan who do what they can for money, and don't care about the facts of an eye disorder that's so overlooked.
Achromatopsia is exactly the Greek word for color blindness, it means "You can not see colors" Tritanopia which is also a Greek word means "you can not see the third color" the third color is blue.
My mother had a student who had no red color reception at all. If she used a red or pink marker on the overhead, he'd just quietly raise his hand and she'd rewrite everything because it was completely invisible to him. She was good about removing all the red markers, but sometimes she'd open a new pack in the middle of a lesson and just grab the first one she touched. Red colored chalk seemed to be okay since chalk is a physically white thing dyed, but every so often she'd come home laughing at herself about the overhead she wrote in invisible ink. It sucks that you got stuck with such a different experience. I'm not sure why anyone would doubt colorblind people about being colorblind. But I do remember being 5 and wondering how that kid dealt with all the invisible red things in the world. Teachers aren't 5. Neither is Logan Paul.
i’m always so impressed with his vocabulary and ability to describe nuance in a precise and original way, whether in the taste tests, or here with the colours
As someone who is pretty severely red/green colorblind with a higher green deficit, it was very fun to "play along" with the spot the difference. It's always been remarkable to me that the general public know so little about a condition that effect such a huge proportion of the population.
My husband is colourblind, and before we met he had tried on a pair of Enchroma glasses in a store. He told me they hadn’t done anything impressive, but I thought maybe there weren’t enough colourful things around for him to notice. I had heard such compelling stories and reasons why they were supposed to work. I wanted to buy him a pair until a few months ago when I watched MegaLag’s video and finally believed it was a scam. I should have just listened to my husband. Thanks for bringing attention to the lies on the internet, and sharing a real perspective of what colourblindness is like. There are filters that can be used on computer and phone displays to increase contrast of certain colours for people with different types of colourblindness. When my husband uses these, the screen looks less colourful to me, because they shift red and green hues into the blue and yellow wavelengths that are easier for deuteranopes to distinguish. But he can tell those colours apart much better than I can!
I remember a reddit aita story like that. The person repeatedly told his SO and family that his colorblindness wasn't an issue and that the glasses wouldn't do much as a lot of the reactions are fake/over exaggerated. They didn't listen and eventually surprised him with the glasses. Well he didn't have a big emotional reaction like they wanted. He did warn them but they wasted their money on glasses that gave things a haze.
I'm colorblind and bought those glasses, at first I thought they worked because I was able to spot things that were red and green that I hadn't before but then I started spotting even more red and green things that weren't red and green and eventually I quit wearing them. Then later I found out they were a scam and it made a lot of sense.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. For severe enough red-green colorblindness they do nothing, but for less severe, they can amplify the difference between colors. They are absolutely not a cure-all and marketing them as such is predatory.
I like how you really analysed the colourblind glasses, taking time to show the results & explain the science, rather than just doing what other RUclipsrs do ... which is often either faking amazement OR faking outrage for views!
The Megalag videos had a really good explanation for a large portion of the fake reactions. People aren't seeing more colors, but there's a huge amount of social pressure from people who care about them and are making a big show about it. They are expected to be amazed, and either by placebo or simply playing along, they act that way. Which makes it even more infuriating/saddening that they do not work.
@@jbutler8585 this video made me realize that a lot of the "crying at the beauty" reactions could actually be "crying because i got my expectations up and reality just hit me in the face" reactions. heightened by the pressure of others' expectations and being on video
@@jbutler8585 i never understood how the glasses would even work in the first place. it's not like they are adding new cones to the wearer's eyes and magically let them perceive a colour they previously couldnt. but also maybe i am kinda cynical in these types of regard. if someone is born blind then no matter what kind of glasses you give them they won't magically grow the nerves and neural pathways to suddenly see. the only way that COULD happen is through actually altering the organs that cause the issue, and we don't really have that as of yet, and possibly never will have the technology to build new cones in someone's eyes so they can perceive a whole new colour or build a whole optical nerve with neural pathways connecting to them so they can see again. while we do have ways to make partially blind people see again, if they have been blind most of their lives then suddenly having that new sense would be extremely overwhelming and disorienting, and we dont have any similar things to entirely replace missing parts of the body that has never been there
I have a set of Enchroma glasses that I have almost worn out with daily use. They may not work for everyone, but when I wear them, I can see much more vibrant colors. I can tell which trees are dead vs. green, see more variation of leaf colors in autumn, and sunsets go from a few degrees of mediocre color at the horizon to looking like the sky is on fire. They aren't miraculous, but they are pretty great for enjoying the scenery and gardening as someone with moderate deuteranomaly color deficiency.
@@kurotsuki7427 People didn't get confused, they got actively lied to, if they work for 5% of colorblind people but you market it to all 100% of them as a cure, you're scamming 95% are you not?
@@kurotsuki7427 it's not simply that "lay people got confused", more like "the agressive marketing was made specifically to trick lay people". Just like most scams.
My partner is red/green colorblind and they're amazing at this color-based board game we play called hues and cues. Seeing James explain his experience helps me see why!
I know you started out as a cooking channel and you blew the us all away with your amazing amount of talent, knowledge and kindness but you were hiding away so much more. You have brought awareness about so many things that aren't about cooking and that has resulted in saving people time, money and in some cases saving people from injuries or flat out saving lives. On top of all that you are an amazing wife and mother. I have no idea how you manage to do it all and I know I'm not the only one. You are one of those truly rare individuals that actually make the world a better place and make such a big impact all just by you being you. Thank you for all that you have done and will do in the future.
@@alexsanbr Thank you, she does and she's so humble too. I think she needs to be ranked in the same category as Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross and Steve Irwin. I really wanted to respond back to her as her kind words came at a time when I needed to hear something like that. And to have come from her, my mind is still blown. But I understand how busy she is and didn't want to take up anymore of her time. Her reply to me extends to you too you know, because you also recognize all that she's done and that the lives she's saved are the most important thing to have come from her using her platform. I have a feeling that you have put a lot of good out into this world too, even what may seem like a small act of kindness on your part can be a huge thing for the other party. I'm proud of you for doing the good things you've done. Even a smile can really brighten someone's day, so I send you a smile to keep for the day you need it my friend. Stay well.
I love how we get to see the family's talents as well, like a couple years ago when we found out Dave was actually an investigative journalist instead of just "weird food guinea pig".
@@megabigblur, excellent point! There are so many good things about this channel and this family that it's too much for one person to list themselves. So now let's play a fun little game. How about everyone that reads this says your favorite thing about about this channel, whether it's a favorite video, a family moment or something. Then try to point out something good about the channel that no one else here has pointed out yet. I love that she includes her family , their family dynamic is so amazing and wholesome. She has graciously shared her children with us and we've been able to see how they've grown, yet she never crossed the line leading to exploiting them.
re: the new title and thumbnail - good change. The original title didn't interest me because I'd already seen a video about the colour-blind glasses exaggeration, but now that I realize it's actually a debunking medley, with topics as interesting as the colour-blind story I previously enjoyed, I'll watch the video. The mention of coloured-fire cakes and 5-minute crafts is also appealing.
Thank you to James for walking us through what he sees in such detail. I’ve always wondered about the differences. But been too worried about offending people.
It is always hard to ask others how their world looks, it can come off insensitive even if you are just trying to broaden your horizons. But James like his family are willing to help.
As a colorblind person, I always assumed the glasses worked to a degree but were very individual on how much they had an effect, since colorblindness isn't monolithic at all. Good to see my suspicion was more or less correct.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. For severe enough red-green colorblindness they do nothing, but for less severe, they can amplify the difference between colors. They are absolutely not a cure-all and marketing them as such is predatory.
As someone with a couple pairs of enchroma glasses and red green color blind and three color blind brothers. Results vary. A couple of my brothers said there was an immediate change and vibrant. Me and my other brother didn't get that immediate change but wear them for a bit and it makes the world more vibrant. Can't say they make me see more colors since I don't know what I can't see, but makes the world a little brighter and vibrant.
So true. Like a AI photo fixer, black and white photos are not so easy to make color, believe me I have been trying to find one to show me a reasonable possibility of a old steam locomotive's coloring. Just make it pinker as opposed to sepia.
The thing is, results do vary. There is a certain kind of rare color blindness that's less total than average, and it can get spectacular results. But it's rare. For the most common color blindness they do pretty much nothing.
Thank you for doing an episode about color-blindness. When I say I’m colorblind I’m really tired of people considering it their personal opportunity to quiz me on every color in the room
My mate's red-green colorblind. The first time I saw one of those spectra charts that show how he perceives color I realized why blue was his favorite. I like to paint for him, so it's nice to know how to work with a color he really enjoys. Sometimes I have been sad that I couldn't show him my favorite color because he says it is gray for him. However, hearing James' explanation about how he perceives the differences in hues helps me understand that there are other ways for him to enjoy colors that I and my eyes cannot. Thank you for this video.
Woah, the segment with James was really cool. I didn't know that colourblindness made you develop a skill at differentiating values and contrast. Some artists teach themselves that skill by doing everything in one colour or in black and white!
Honestly changing the thumbnail and title worked cause I’ve seen too many videos doing deep dives on those fake glasses I didn’t know the video had more to it!
same! I had already watched MegaLag's excellent two part series on the glasses so didn't feel the need to watch this one (though Ann did her own take by having her son do that demonstration so it was still very worth it) and only clicked after the change of thumbnail and title
yep! i’d already seen a couple colour blind glasses debunking but i was thinking about getting one of those fire cakes for my birthday but this kinda let me know drawbacks to having it. I might still do it but only if i could have it easily remove the top layer of the cake without destroying the design. It would be kinda like how you’d usually remove extra decorations for serving.
James described his experience of colour blindness so well! This was the first time I’ve felt like I really grasped what it all means and how the world may look. You guys are awesome!
Preying on people afflicted with a disability and selling them something this overpriced makin' them hope it'll "cure" their impairement is a kind of evil that never cease to make me sick.
I don't think colorblindness is a disability, it's just a unique way of seeing the world. It doesn't keep people from living and enjoying life, and I dare say that colorblind people wouldn't think they had a disability.
@@Kawamura2I don't mean to be rude, just explaining: Colour blindness is per definition a disability, as one is 'not able' to see certain colours. This can affect a lot of aspects, e.g. making art creation more frustrating (whether that is personal when not being able to differentiate some colours or outside influences telling the person that their colour choices are "wrong") or take more time with certain things (like there's a whole bunch of tasks that involve colour identification in schools). It also actively prevents an individual from being able to take on certain jobs, e.g. pilot, astronaut, different military positions, police, firefighter etc., which is also displayed in the movie "Little Miss Sunshine", where the non-vocal brother discovers his colour blindness through coincidence and his lifelong dream of becoming a jet pilot shatters, causing him to break his silence and scream. I understand your intention is kindhearted, but in my opinion it's difficult to declare something as "not a disability" if you're not personally affected (and neither am I in this case; I don't mean to say that it must be a disability, just explaining that there are a lot of circumstances that may make it disabling for an individual.) Also important to consider that disability is not a bad term and describing truly disabling things as what they are is really important to help affected individuals and provide adequate support and understanding.
@@Kawamura2 It is a disability because it makes you unable to do something an "average" (which I admit, is a flawed concept) person can - seeing a full spectrum of color. Doesn't mean it's a bad thing. A lot of completely blind people also don't consider themselves disabled, just having a different experience which is valid, but by definition, they are still disabled and can't see - which does have dangers associated with it, but of course is not bad by itself.
Like most things, it's probably their relatives wanting to "cure" them rather them wanting it for themselves. Colorblindness is something you are born with and only learn it's a big deal from people around you, it has some difficulties associated with it of course but most colorblind people don't care (unless they'd want a pursue a job that for safety reasons doesn't allow colorblind people)
I bought my husband (who has moderate protan color-blindness) the enchromas a few years ago and he loves them! He is always noticing that things are a different color than he thought (bushes he thought were brown are actually red, the Taco Bell logo is purple and not blue, trees are different shades of green and not all the same, etc) when he wears them. I would agree that saying they "cure color-blindness" or would allow you to see the full spectrum of color is misleading, but since he is red-green colorblind they allow him to see more red and more green (or at least, what he thinks are those colors). Still a win in our book!
Being colourblind myself I can relate to James very well. I had the same reaction as he did: at first glance, I didn't see any difference between the photos. Just like James, I did see subtle differences though. I have also tested some of these glasses about five years ago. A colleague of mine, who also suffers from colourblindness, bought a pair of glasses. I can't tell if they're Enchoma glasses or not as I didn't own them. Anyway, I put them on and perceived some subtle differences between colours that I hadn't seen before. For instance, I was able to distinguish greens from browns on pine trees much better. But it wasn't a dramatic change where I would be able to see the brown as brown and green as green. Instead, the colours just shifted a bit and therefore I could see them as "separate". I was amazed and underwhelmed at the same time because I could see some colours shift, but at the same time, some others became the same colour for me. The Megalag video explained to me that all these glasses did was narrow the bands and therefore some colours would overlap less and some others now overlapped even more. Back then it already sounded like a scam to me and today even more!
I'd seen so many people who said they were colourblind insisting these glasses worked, and even though I couldn't fathom how that was possible, I just assumed there was something I didn't know because I'm no expert. While it's nice to know I'm not crazy for thinking that shouldn't work, it's also a shame, because I'd have loved for this to be real.
It does change what they are seeing and if everyone is saying to them that what they are now seeing is normal - ie what we all see, that would be very confusing.
The thing is, I think people don't know much about colourblindness. What is colourblindness - inability to distinguish some colours from others. And that's what we generally know about it. But there is so much more. What is causing it? Receptors in your eyes not working properly. And because there are 3 receptors, you have a variety of different colourblindness - single colour, dual colour, hell, there is even a type where the cells don't work at all so they see black and white. How can a pair of glasses fix that? Well, they can't. It's a placebo effect. Those people see some difference, but they don't know what the colours really should look like, and that is where the trick is. There is no way for them to verify that what they are seeing is what a non-colourblind person sees.
@@ivanpetrov5255I think it is abit more simple. What a person sees and what they do not see is totally subjective simply because the way we are asking them is to tell us what they see. I think the glasses can work if certain types of colorblindness use certain types of glasses. It can open up the spectrum of what they see but it is not really a cure all.
Are these people you've met, or people you've seen in videos? The company that makes these sends them for free to influencers and others with a high follower count, and discounted to regular people if they send them a reaction video. They also refused to even SELL a pair to a sceptical youtuber who contacted them.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if part of the denial about the glasses is because otherwise there'd be some shame that they'd bought into a scam and that all it gave them was a pair of over priced rose tinted glasses
From the moment these glasses have become a thing I've had people yowling that they'll fix me and I'm just like "make things more accessible instead of foisting fake tech on me please". I really like the video, Ann. Thanks.
They're not fake, but incredibly oversold. There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and remove part of the red-green overlap spectrum to create more situations where one cone gets activated more strongly than the other. This enhances a diminished ability to distinguish those colors, but for severe enough red-green disorder they just make everything darker.
@@tsm688 Excuses... Do you work for EnChroma? They don't sell them to assist people with a "rare, specific" colour blindness. They state they WORK for 80% of red-green colour blind people. I wonder how many returns they get from purchasers?
My husband is only moderately colorblind and was able to better perceive the difference between blues and purples, and reds and greens with enchroma glasses. he still prefers to wear them on hikes when there will be lots of flowers/bright colors to see. I'd say he went from 50-70% accurate to 100% accurate with the blue/purple differentiation. it did come at the cost of other colors- the gray amazon van was also purple :-)
Browsers in the dev tools let you emulate certain colour blindness types (for accessibility reasons so those that can see colour can check their designs work for colourblind people). It's interesting to enable the `no red` or `no green` mode and watch the segment of James trying to differentiate the two images. They really do look identical and its insane how any information about colour can be gleaned from them.
Also, it was fascinating when you showed the blobs of blue and purple paint changing in darker light and why James can tell them apart because of that. Again, thank you!
If I'm remembering right the colorblind glasses were never supposed to be for full colorblindness. I remember them from the early 2000's. It was for people that had "shifted" cones. The cones for reds and for yellows overlap more and the glasses were to make those colors more distiguishable. I really wish I still had the literature, my dad almost got them but didn't because they were $1000 us back in 02-03. My one cousin got them and he said it helped, but dad and I just don't care enough. Seems like a company has bought the old techand rebranded it as a "cure-all". What a shame. Love your stuff Ann.
My partner saw me loading up the video to watch tonight at my desk and he said "oh wow I haven't seen Ann in years". I was like "yeah, she's the only one I actually pressed the bell for otherwise YT drowns her videos in my feed". I think it was your call to action a few months ago to let us know to use the bell that had me do it, too. I'm so glad, every Friday I get to watch
I wish I’d had this video as a reference before I purchased these glasses for my father. Now I know he didn’t want to hurt his family’s feelings when they didn’t work! Another great video, Ann! Thank you ❤❤
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and filter out part of the red-green overlap to create more situations where one cone is activated without the other. On the other hand, if they **do** work, the difference shouldn't be subtle!
ANN!! EXCUSE ME!! I COULDN’T BELIEVE HEARING MY NAME AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS VIDEO!! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, and I’m gonna stop using caps now but I am so excited! Oh my gosh! Thanks for the shout out, and thanks for what you do here on RUclips. ❤ (Also you pronounced my name perfectly! Lots of people get it wrong. 😊)
That whole 5 min craft world is a perfect example of everything wrong with "good vibes only" "Good vibes only" culture is a blight on society and culture
And then on the other hand you have people who can only be negative. Negativity sells, you have RUclipsrs whose whole schtick is to say "this thing/game/movie is the worst thing I have seen !" It's why most of the broadcast cable news is mostly negative and has led to people being constantly afraid when in actuality crime has seen a steep decline since the 1980s. A RUclipsr I like who kind of falls into that "thing bad" schtick has openly said "Anytime I do a video about a thing I like they don't do well." Really just another example of extremism being bad. We have a lot of feelings and it's best to not obsess over just one of them. My grandma kind of fits into that "Good vibes only" thing and can't deal with the truth. Says "I wasn't raised right" when I tell the truth. Sorry if the truth hurts but I believe in not lying to people. "No, nobody wants to come over and I don't want to have to make all this food that will eventually go to waste."
It really seems like trying to ignore half of reality can lead to negative consequences. Not only that, but if everything is wonderful, it's the same as when nothing is.
The word is toxic positivity if I'm not mistaken. Though I feel like in their case it's less toxic positivity and more literal manipulation (and the guys probably don't want to get in trouble since even though they don't work for 5 min crafts anymore they still are under the same publisher. Guess they don't want the Russians to get angry at them lol)
Good stuff, I'd seen one video debunking it. I remember something stuck out to me, I'm not sure whether it was a comment in the video or below it, but "You're quite literally paying for rose-tinted glasses."
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and filter out part of the red-green overlap to create more situations where one cone is stimulated without stimulating the other. The most common colorblindness, they don't help at all, just make everything darker.
I'm also colorblind and I bought the glasses, they just make stuff more vivid I guess. If you put on glasses that had a yellow tint, I'd imagine you get the same effect. The biggest thing like he said is trees and grass. Every tree across the entire world looks identical to me, color is irrelevant, shape is what I need to see. It's simple science, if you don't posses the cones to see the color, nothing will change that, unless they make a surgery that adds the cones back.
Thank you James for agreeing to be part of this video! My ex is Green-red colorblind, and in 10 years we spent together, I didn't manage to understand what or how he sees. You two did an amazing job at explaining this. 🙏🙏🙏
Wow, that part with the birthday candles was pretty startling, I've never really considered birthday candles as real fire hazard before -- which feels silly to put into words, but it's one of those everyday things we don't consider dangerous until we've been set alight xD Thanks for another great video Ann
I'm so glad you made this video because since day 1 of those infuriating Enchroma ads and content I've known that's not how it works 😭 no amount of filtering, contrasting or oversaturating is going to give colorblind people an extra color detecting cone in their eyes. Therefore they will never make them see a "new" color. All they can ever do is increase the contrast between colors and shades they could already see. Which don't get me wrong might be useful in some circumstances but the idea that it will "make them see all colors" or "new colors" has always been a full on lie. My colorblind fiancée is in full agreement.
To be honest, even for those with normal color vision, none of us know if the colors we see are the same things that other people perceive. We only know that we assign the same designations to the same distinct wavelengths but do they actually “look the same” to everyone? We can never know.
Philosophers often call this idea the "inverted spectrum." The light novel, "Qualia the Purple" takes this concept to the extreme by introducing a character who experiences everyone except themselves as robots (and provides in-universe evidence that their perception of reality is a valid one).
Each of my eyes sees a slightly different color spectrum. One is more warm, the other more blue. Never have taken the time to specify HOW different, but it's real and can cause some brain games when one eye decides to 'take over.' So, yes. :)
As someone who's too nervous of fire to even strike a match, those videos of people's hair catching fire blowing out birthday candles has unlocked a brand new fear for me.
With my Enchroma glasses, it helps me distinguish between colours I have a difficult time seeing naturally. When its Fall and the leaves change, I can see the individual colours of leaves, I can see between the yellows, the reds, the greens and the browns. I dont use them all the time, but when I do, Im able to appreciate the little things more. Such as seeing the leaves change colour in the Fall. Without the glasses, the colours kinda blend together and I dont notice the difference in hues and colours while driving by trees.
I wish people would quit trying to press a "norm" onto everyone, and instead cherish individuality in all areas of someone's experience. Traits like colour perception, where someone falls on the introversion/extroversion scale, neurotype, circadian rhythm, and many more, all come with their own set of strengths, and if people would just embrace diversity, everyone could benefit from the results of letting people thrive as who they are. I'm an idealist, I realise, but it comes with its own set of strengths, too. :)
I feel like colorblindness in particular is a weird thing to try and correct for. I don't feel like it counts as a disability except in very limited circumstances, such as identifying traffic light colors at night. But that just feels like a bad design from the beginning, not a problem with people who are colorblind.
@@alisa9040 Exactly, it's the same for so many things; if they were designed better/more inclusively, it would benefit everyone. Instead of trying to "correct" people to fit the systems, the systems should be corrected to fit the people.
In ancient times your colorblind tribesmen would get you killed because they would have been incapable of identifying ripe fruit, vegetables ready to harvest, or the moisture of the land from healthy or dry grass. I know we're supposed to be better compassionate people, but there are very good reasons why they have always been and continue to be treated as less than human on the job market and with every other normal person whose perfect eyes are a necessity in daily life.
@@nephra.extraterrestrial "Instead of trying to "correct" people to fit the systems, the systems should be corrected to fit the people." You truly hit the nail right on the head with this statement! Systems are and should be changeable as we learn and understand the specific changes that would be for the betterment of our entire society.
@@alisa9040 i think both approaches have their place, Having traffic signs that is easier to discern at a glance (colorblind or not) is a win for everyone and likely badly needed to begin with while being able to atleast differentiate(if not see them) certain colors in certain scenarios may be something that can be appreciated by some people in their daily lives if some of the disappointment(at the glasses) in the comments is to go by .
I just wanted to say that im genuinely grateful for your content! As a kid i always wanted all my questions to be answered and proven, it never really did and that curiosity had remained with me over the years and i gotta say your channel is incredibly nurturing that inner child in me🤭. I hope many kids and curious adults like myself can come across your channel because its honestly inspiring me to maintain that curiosity and reminding me to question everything i see in the internet! I had forgotten how much fun it is to dwell into that curiosity and how exciting it is to learn new things, your channel has helped me remember that believe it or not.
@@ivanpetrov5255 it's one of the people enchroma sponsored. And the video is back up now, the claim was taken back. The things you face when you're going against powerful people :)
@@ivanpetrov5255 Well it was a content creator, claiming not to be sponsored by the company but still having affiliate links and getting glasses for free, that copyright claimed Megalag for "stealing his content". That is, using 8 seconds from a video in a way that is called fair use. That creator now is trying his best to gaslight people in to believing that Megalag used ALL of his video and that he never said the glasses works.
@@JBobjork Yeah. I watched MegaLad's video about it. YT really needs to do something about copyright claims, but if "it's damaged, but still works, why try to fix it," right? 🙃
I'm red/green colourblind. It means I struggle to tell the difference between dark green and black, mainly in clothing. I sometimes think I'm wearing blue jeans but they are actually a similar tone of grey for example. Picking raspberries is a nightmare because I just don't see them amongst all the green, until someone points one out, then I'm OK. I was thinking about trying these glasses, so you've saved me wasting my money. Thanks very much. Keep up the debunking vids. They're great.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and filter out the red-green overlap to create more situations where one cone is activated without the other. For severe enough red-green they do absolutely nothing. I hear there is a phone app however. It of course can't make you see new colors, but it's no stretch to imagine that a computer could highlight or darken certain colors for you.
james is so awesome. i love how well he described how he sees colors. i never knew how colorblind people differentiated them, so this video was super enlightening! i love your channel so much, ann. keep up the AMAZING work!
I know of someone that tried colour blind glasses. They worked for him. He had got so use to the way he saw things without the glasses, the colours confused him & so he never wore them.
My grandpa was colorblind, and the only color he could distinguish with certainty and not muddling it with others was yellow, which was understandably his favorite color. He especially had trouble with red and green, and could only drive safely because he knew on stoplights that red was on top and green was at the bottom, except at the town where he went to uni there was one specific intersection where the stoplight was flipped upside down and he would keep blowing through it. Then after years of having to memorize that one specific stoplight they went and fixed it and he was back to square one.
My great-uncle who tragically passed in the first wave of covid was also colorblind and also loved yellow bc he could see it as a bright, clear color ❤ The only time I remember him having trouble with colors (that affected him) was when he couldn't differentiate between cantaloupe and honeydew, and he preferred one kind ☺️
@@awaredeshmukh3202 He went to University of Miami (Florida), this would have been in the 1950/early 1960s, I couldn't tell you where in Miami specifically the intersection was
I remember coming across your channel a long time ago and it was only about baking/cooking, which wasn't my thing - not meaning it was bad in any way, just not my world. Stumbled upon it again with this video and you have an amazing way of narrating and storytelling, the video feels like a very natural flow and I didn't even really notice when one topic shifted to another. Great style, great job, very interesting and I am excited to see more!
After 30 years of working as chief color mixer at a Crayola factory. During his retirement party. He announced that he was colorblind his entire life. He just followed recipes and how the boxes were labeled. Never made one mistake.
Thanks for showing us how the burn away cake toppers work. Proved my assessment of "more trouble than it's worth" to be be on the mark. I have to admit that I was taken in by the Enchroma testimonials commercials for a while. Almost had me tearing up, some did. Then I began to question some of their reactions. By about mid-year 2023, I saw a RUclips video by a trusted licensed doctor debunking their claims and knew I'd been had. Thank goodness I had no need to try them or I would have been scammed out of a considerable amount of money. I appreciate your time and efforts in researching these things for us. 😊
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and enhance that by filtering out part of the gred-green overlap, artificially creating more situations that can stimulate one kind of cone cell without stimulating the other. The most common colorblindness, they don't help at all, just make everything darker.
I agree! But most of those channels she talked about are engaging in Disinformation = Deliberately misleading; but Misinformation = Mistake (it's an easier way to remember the difference between the two).
Still watching the video, but wanted to make sure and say that the additional sound effects to go along with the graph animations at 12:48 are PHENOMENAL and genuinely enhance the experience over just presenting the graphs as a still image. Not sure how much extra work that took to make happen, so I wanted to make it known that it was appreciated!
The color blind test was very interesting. I have a friend that the only color he can see normally is orange. Hearing what James had to say about how he sees the colors was fascinating to me. Always love your videos!
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I love the fact that you always have an appropriate tester on hand.
"I need to test some colourblind glasses? Good job I have my colourblind son I made earlier!" 😆
Yeah, she really started preparing for this video a long time ago!
Proper cooking show form. "Here's one I prepared earlier."
😂😂😂 "It's been exposed to the elements for 18 years!"
Any good chef always has a stocked pantry. 😂
wheezing 😂
Those three react guys are insufferable. You really took a bullet for all of us wading through their content.
To be fair without Ann I wouldn't even know that someone was shooting. Luckily for me I often learn about this type of content from her informative debunking videos.
If someone offered me $1mil to watch that kind of content for a week, I would turn it down and laugh at them.
@@Setsurafulif that ever happens please contact me as soon as possible. I would love to grab a million in exchange for losing just few of the neurons I have left.
Those videos are exactly the kind of kind of video that I keep clicking "not interested", but the algorithm refuses to learn that I hate it.
I thought the algorithm was supposed to suggest things to keep me engaged, not things to make me rage quit.
@@GermanSausagesAreTheWurstDude, the algorithm wants his carp to be pushed thats why you keep seeing his face. He makes YT money so they'll push his slimy lying face where they can.
I really respect your commitment to your work. First you take your own blood to debunk sugar spike misinformation, now you've preemtively given birth to a colorblind child 16 years ago to debunk color glasses
LMAO
Aussies amirite?
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@@GenJuhru We do live in the country with listed top dangerous animals pf the world, one of them being mothers.
@@qwmx but nothing's as vicious as those tasmanian drop bears, a cross between koalas and wolverine (the comicbook character)
Ann of 10 years ago: Here's how to make a chocolate cup with cream inside.
Ann now: Here's the scams being inflicted upon society for monetary gain.
We stan character development.
I like the character development and level ups🏆
Yes, and we love her for it! Well, I do. But I do still like seeing her cooking videos as well.
I feel a bit guilty for enjoying the debunking so much when they're done by such a great chef. I just hope she enjoys making them too.
Apparently, she has seen how much this kind of content is needed. I wish more popular creators like her would step up to counter-act this epidemic of misinformation.
Your son’s analysis of colours is so cool! Never seen someone colourblind discuss how they pick up on those tiny nuances, really impressive
That was great
Wouldn't colorblind people be able to pass those number tests more with those Enchroma glasses?
Yes that was fascinating. Colour me impressed :)
I'd watch a whole video of your son comparing colors, and explaining his experience
@@newttella1043probably, because it blows up those specific colours, but at the expense of others
Anyone who understands HOW we’re able to see colors in the first place, knows that’s a scam… an expensive cruel one at that. Ty Ann, and James!
As a biologist, the glasses always baffled me. What do you mean, now they see the colours? The receptors ain't there!
@@lenaeospeixinhosThey’re for people who have all 3 types of cone cells.
Would it work with those old 3d glasses? Like, one side filters out red color and one filters out green, and your brain learns to tell the difference? It would probably look super stupid and doesn’t seem really necessary, but that should be working, right?
@@lenaeospeixinhos As someone that messed with graphics, it makes no sense even on a mathematical level. If you filter a color, you can't put it back with any other function, now other colors are just shades of the same color. A simple way to prove that to everyone is that when you make your picture monochromatic, you can't add the color back to it again, luminance is not enough to distinguish colors.
Alias, cuida dos peixinhos ai, haha...
@@BlueberryDragon13 No because luminance wouldn't make both distinguishable.
I mean, in monochromatic, a yellow color will look different than red, but a dark or lighter red will look identical to yellow.
I don't understand how people still even accept Logan Paul as an influencer, given the fact he has publicly admitted faking the color blind glasses reaction, and his multitude of downfalls regarding Bitcoin, etc.
My guy is an asshole and always will be no matter all the "apologies" he has given. I just dont get why people are still watching him.
Because his audience is kids
There's a thin, almost invisible, line between scam artists and influencery
Social media like RUclips and Tiktok are also very complicit in keeping people like Logan Paul relevant because they can lie to and scam to their audience as long as they make money for the platforms.
No clue but I know that clip was from like five years ago or some thing
"Processed cheese is best cheese" is my new go-to conversation stopper
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^^this!! We call it 'plastic cheese 🧀🤢
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Btw did you know that processed cheese is the best cheese? 🧀
Please im dutch you just started something else
I was tutoring a Chinese teenaged boy about 12 years ago. I wanted him to write a paragraph describing a pumpkin he turned into a jack o'lantern. I kept trying to get him to say the pumpkin was orange, then realized that he couldn''t see the color! He was 16 and never new. It was amazing.
What did he see the colour as? Red?
One of my friends realized he was blue-purple colorblind when we were in med school 😂 we were studying the physiology of the eye (rods and cones wavelength and such) and the textbook had the Ishihara test and he was like why is one of the circles empty or something like that and we were all like there is a number there, his mind went straight to the whole class is pranking me rather than thinking he could be colorblind 😂😂😂.
Goes to show that is really not a big deal and there are thousands of adults going around in life that don't even know they're colorblind, the glasses are a total scam
I have that type of colorblindness (there are 7 different types total. Mine is called Protanotomy), and it’s just hard to distinguish reds/oranges, and some pink shades too. Reds are more brown and orange is more red. Found out when i was 6 and was making Christmas decorations brown & green. And it’s interesting because I’m a girl, and it’s rare in women. My mom has the same type as me though! Pretty neat
I didn't realize James was colorblind! It was fascinating seeing him look at those filtered photos and being unable to differentiate! Watching him pretty much nail the crayon colors in the "filtered" image was amazing! The fact that he got that "pink" one?! It looked white to me.
Honestly, no one has done a better job showing me (a non-colorblind person) what it is like to be colorblind than this video did. Kudos!!
Also, shame on those glasses manufacturers for preying on people like that.
We first discovered he was color blind when he couldn't see a red ball on a green oval.
@@HowToCookThat It would be great if you covered MegaLag's coverage of the scam where he talked to various experts if the glasses work. He was attacked for another RUclipsr which was funded by Enchroma as well by firing a copyright strike.
@@HowToCookThat One of my mates in primary school found out when he painted half of a rabbit brown, the other half orange :D
@@HowToCookThat how old was he on that moment?
@@blazechaos212 yes! he made a great investigation!
As someone whose colorblind, thank you and thank James. The amount of times you hear "have you tried the glasses?" Is insane. Being colorblind doesnt make me unable to enjoy life and what i can or cant perceive. Just means i get to see life in a unique way :)
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Exactly, now you can send them this video so they don't buy them for you.
I would like to see more colourblind artists just working with colours as they see them instead of checking labels. Just thinking about what amazing forest scenes you might create in my eyes when you don't care about red and green.
I feel you so much. I'm not colourblind but I do have disabilities and my mom constantly offer to order things to "help" or "cure" it and doesn't understand why I refuse everytime. So I know how tiring this is.
As someone who fell for the marketing and said the same to one of my colorblind friends
I'm sorry. I forgot that businesses love to lie. :(
@@HowToCookThatMy flatmate has been trying to get a bunch of friends together to chip in for these glasses for a friend of ours, and I've been trying to talk him out of it. I sent him some debunking videos, but they were long and possibly a bit too sciencey for his attention span. Now I sent him this and I'll sit on him until he watches it and swear that he won't waste money on snake oil.
James mistaking grey for pink ( 17:05 ) is interesting to me because I'm a sitcom nut, and the original Addams Family walls were pink, to aid the black and white filming. Funny how my mind just went there as soon as he said that, LOL!
But the crayon was pink, what do you mean?
@@heatherduke7703 17:05 I'm talking about.
Oh yeah true! I forgot about that fun fact!
Just to add to that, the makeup used for black and white filming was colour shifted as well. Orange base colour, yellow highlights and green on the lips as red looked too dark. Random stuff you learn on t'internet :)
@@MrGrimsmithVery interesting! From what I learned in this video, a lot of those a simular to what a colourblind person sees.
My friend at work is the Monochromatic type of color blind. Any time someone asks 'Which color looks best?', he responds with 'The gray one.'
I had a work buddy in an art department, of all places, who was Red/Green CVD. He made it work by using the color names, but occasionally you just forget about it and ask him how your layout design looks. . .
@@primmoore6232 ...I mean, super weird thing to gloat about though. You just got lucky that this particular guy couldn't process maroon or green so your weird-ass assumption worked out.
@@grabble7605calm down lmao
Wow, that's really really rare! :O
@@grabble7605 you're the weird one.
I find it funny how their marketing suggests that you’ll be able to see new colours, but if someone with that type of colourblindness was looking at the image considering buying the glasses, they wouldn’t be able to see anything new in the second image. Makes me think they’re marketing towards relatives who have decided that people are missing out on life, not the actual colourblind people ://
Agreed, most of the videos are relative and friends saving up to buy the glasses for people.
Isn't it nuts how they promote the removal (notching) of colour to let you see more haha. Like wearing dark glasses lets you see better in the dark...
reminds me of old tv ads that were advertising new tvs. like look how amazing this new tv looks although they are showing it to us on our supposedly old and inferior tv. only one that stands out to me was an old sharp ad where they played that trick but were self aware and said oh no, you cant see this amazing new image cause you havent yet bought our tv.
Which also adds an incentive for the recipient to 'fake' the reaction, so as not to disappoint the person who bought them.
You're 100% correct. They are marketed to family and that marketing is overstated. Years ago, we brought enchroma glasses for my brother, who is red/green and blue/purple color blind. We didn't expect they would 'fix' anything. But he does love them. They provide addition definition, and he still wears them whenever he goes outside to this day. Overstated and overpriced? Yes. Worth it? For him, also yes.
My son was colorblind and nobody - including him - knew it until he was eighteen years old. This explained a LOT. We thought he just made bold fashion choices, but nope. He had no idea he was wearing a pink t-shirt with the words "Army Brat" in camo. He thought it was an orange t-shirt with a graphic splotch on the front. He was *horrified* that he went through high school like that. The funny part is that he wasn't in on the joke, so he shrugged off teasing and bullying and eventually the other students just accepted that he dressed weird and grew to admire him for it. Ended up paying off.
A few years later I was enjoying my morning coffee, finally alone after raising children. He comes busting in, holds up his phone, and says, "Quick! What color is this case!!"
"Neon orange."
"Thank God," he breathed as he ran out of the house. Turns out he was late for work, but wasn't positive that the phone case was 'manly' enough and popped in to do a quick color check. lol!
I respect your willingness to roll with what you assumed your son's fashion choices were. A bit ironic that he checks whether colors are "manly" now, after never having that impressed upon him as relevant. He still likes his bright oranges either way!
That actually made me laugh, Ty for sharing what a funny situation that was
Woah, that definitely never happened
Between noticing colour vs having boundless confidence… it’s a shame he knows now!
@@no_one2197 It almost sounds tongue-in-cheek (no pun intended). It's a little suspect to be sure. So NOBODY in high school bothered to tell his very manly son the "army brat" camo shirt he was wearing was pink? High school kids aren't known for their politeness. It's a funny story regardless.
The bit with your son was SUPER fascinating to me! My dad is red-green colorblind as well and so I've learned a bit, probably more than the average person but not a ton, about what that means and what it's like for him. Seeing your son trying to find minute differences in two pictures which to me (normal color vision) look radically different was so neat. No wonder my dad thinks Xmas decor is bland - it all looks quite brown and gray.
That why our Christmas tree has blue and silver decor.
@@HowToCookThatMy family does this sometimes, it looks really nice! Not for any specific reason though, we just like to switch things up sometimes. Also red and gold is another fave. Never tried it, but I think a white tree with blue and black decorations would look awesome.
My favorite art teacher was red-green colorblind! He tried out the glasses and was honestly unimpressed with them.
@@HowToCookThat where did you source the eye picture?
Ideally, I'd like to find both versions of it ❤🖋️ 🎨📒
My dad is red green colorblind as well and while I carry the gene, I am not colorblind, however, I did pass it on to my son. I feel terrible about it every single day, especially after seeing an example of how he might see colors that I see as being beautiful and vibrant, as being drab, dull and muddled.
When you think about it,it's actually amazing how colorblind people learn to distinguish colors, to me a non colorblind person,it was so interesting to hear James,let us know what he was seeing.
it'll be very peculiar how we humans are able to learn things even with our disabilities. It probably felt like learning a whole new language, learning something so fundamental to our daily life, and it is fascinating to see
I agree
I wonder what James was thinking about those small differences before learning he's colourblind. Did he noticed them before; is it something he picked up after the diagnosis?
Reminds me of how blind people navigate by sound, smell, etc. Contrary to popular belief, their sense organs don't get any stronger after losing their sight. They simply learn to better resolve the information those organs deliver to their brain. But that alone allows them to do some pretty remarkable things.
My husband is colorblind and he is able to tell when the strawberries in our garden are ripe because they look darker to him. He notices shades and shadows, like your son does. My husband eventually gets tired of the "What color is this to you" game. He's not at all interested in the color blind glasses bc they way he sees it (haha), it's like putting a filter on a photo rather than actually allowing him to see more colors. Thank you for sharing, and thanks to James for being part of another one of your experiments!
We who can see the human color range take it for granted, as a artist I love finding lovely colors for my work. But I know there are artists who are colorblind and still make great pieces of art.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually allow to see more colors. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and filter out the red-green overlap to create more situations where one kind of cone cell is activated without the other.
So it is possible, but not likely enough he has the correct disorder to make it worth ordering.
Logan Paul admitting he faked the color blind glasses reaction, when they cost over $400 and LOADS of people probably bought them after seeing him endorse them. These people have no sense of responsibility. It's just "use your acting skills".
Acting skills? More like just blatant lying skills!!
To be fair, he's a horrible actor.
"oops I have to fake this to get money" straight to "I'm going to laugh about how I faked that to get more money". Maybe he's changed his tone over the years, but he hasn't changed
I have to admit, I didn't think Logan could act. So I was impressed by the acting, but no the fakery.
Doodle Date, the couple of artists that made the video used at the end where the guy tries to differentiate the paint pucks, also made a joke about that when Adam tried these glasses (he very quickly made it clear that it wasn't the least impressive)
It's astounding how well colorblind people can adapt. One of the members of the Drawfee show is an illustrator named Jacob Andrews, who is colorblind but you'd never know from his art. He said that at one point he just memorized the positions on the color wheel and which ones go well together
I literally didn't know until now. I don't watch every drawfee episode but enough of them over the years.
jacob is colourblind???
i was totally thinking ab jacob drawfee watching this!!
@@deetvleetyeah he is! He was doing a grounded stream once and chat was telling him to go the green grass to get water but he was just running around in the dead grass hella confused 😂 and then chat went oh yeah he’s red/green color blind
I recently, as part of my work, hosted an art exhibition by an artist who was colourblind- beautiful, evocative landscapes, some with lots of contrast, some with less. Viewers' reactions were immensely positive.
James is truly the MVP, I’m 36 and had no idea that’s how colour blind people experience shades and tones. Very interesting, I really appreciate him being willing to share this.
It's so strange to see the website selling them have 'before and after' photos showing all the extra colours they claim the glasses could help you see, because, you know, that full colour image would be utterly useless to a colourblind person looking into buying them.
I think its telling that this is their marketing - its not "See new colours", most colourblind people get along just fine, and its not like the glasses allow you to do things you can't do (like be a pilot) with colourblindness, its "watch your colourblind friend/relative see more stuff" and it leans into their slightly... inspiration porn style video ads too. "Watch weird person see how good it is to be normal, gawk at the disabled person". It reminds me a lot of those videos of babies getting their cochlear implants switched on that are all "watch deaf baby hear his mother's voice for the first time" (and are actually, according to the feedback of people who got implants later in life, "watch confused and possibly stressed baby experience garbled and painful new sensory assault").
I think these glasses are more marketed to people who know someone that is colourblind. And seeing the difference makes them empathise and think how horrible it would be for themselves if they would suddenly miss out on all those colours.
😂😂I never though of that!
Wait, these glasses are literally a "see what it's like to be colorblind?@@HolandaChiquita
@@AJ-ht3kfno they are supposed to make people who are colorblind see like normal, but if you know how colorblindness works, it doesn't make sense because nothing you can do will make the non existent cones send the "hey this is red" signal to the brain. My mom got a pair for my dad to try and it was pretty underwhelming so we returned them. He said that it helped a little bit with the contrast between colors, so two colors that look nothing the same to us, but the same or very close to the same to my dad were slightly more distinguishable in certain color pairings but that was about it.
I only recently found out about the phenomenon of “reaction” videos where they largely just… watch the video and either describe what’s on screen, or say vague positive things. I don’t understand how that became a thing
I don't understand how they haven't been taken to court.
@@HowToCookThat I'd say it's most likely because going to court is expensive, and most online content creators really don't have the resources to pursue such a claim. I think it's also seen as something so widespread your never going to be able to prevent it from happening so there's a certain level of acceptance. I've seen a reaction video to one of Kyle Hill's where Hill himself posted a polite comment simply requesting that any future reactions not show the whole video. (which in this case was respected in subsequent postings on the same channel)
Kind of like SSSniperwolf? Reaction content is just trash.
@@HowToCookThat oh, SSSniperwolf, literally doxxed somebody, and RUclips didn’t do shit about it. They don’t care as long as the content is making the money.
It's a shame, because even content creators who actually provide deep analysis from professional perspective have to dub it as "reaction" rather than "analysis" for the sake of algorithm.
I had a classmate in college who for some reason spontaneously perceived purple when watching fireworks once, it was a very moving moment for him. My guess is something about the extreme light of the firework managed to do that for him.
Oh the other hand my brother mistook a pale green as gray when it was doing shadowing for art. It was bizarre seeing the art because it was technically accurate for the "lighting" but was green among monochrome
Purple if I remmeber correctly is a "made up" color. Like our brain interprets that set of light waves as purple. So I could see a firework display somehow tricking the brain into showing purple suddenly.
I can't imagine how amazing it'd be to see a new color as an adult though!
@@seeing8spots yeah i'm moderately colour-blind and purple is always kind of a mystery to me. Sometimes i can see it as a different colour but most of the time it's just a darker blue. One time when i was a kid my parents were redecorating my bedroom and asked me what colour i wanted it. I said blue. So they took me to the diy store to pick out my paint and i saw one i really liked, but they said thats not blue that's purple. But i really liked it so i insisted on having that paint. So i ended up having an extremely purple bedroom for most of my childhood :p. But it looked fine to me
the fun thing about art is that you can kind of do anything with colors and get away with it. it's interesting to watch colorblind artists get nervous that they're doing something wrong, but even if they did it would look intentional.
I didn't realize that in WW2, they discovered that color blind people were better at picking out camouflage. They used this fact in the Apple TV series Foundation where one clone was color blind (when he should not have been) and better at hunting. Now it makes sense.
My colorblind daughter had already learned to look for motion or other differences, so when she learned scuba diving, she was ahead of the class. We depend on color for a lot but as you dive deeper the colors go away quickly. 15 ft down there is no more red (if I recall correctly). So while she could never be a pilot, for example, she was a great diver.
Several WWII heroes had to cheat on their eye exam to get into the military. An 8 time Olympic gold medal sharpshooter was initially turned down because he wore glasses, for example.
Still a thing today. When my nephew joined the US Army, they knew he was red green colorblind. Then he later ran through Ranger school and passed. Until they re realized that he was red green colorblind again...
Damn, I hadn't realised that was because of Cleon XIV's colour blindness instead of just being another mutation, that's really fascinating!
I'm colourblind and found that, for some reason, I had less trouble finding wild blueberries in the field than my cousins did.
now, wild raspberries were a completely different thing. to my eyes, they didn't even seem to exist!
Makes me think that maybe evolution wise it's not as much disability as it is advantage we developed during hunter-gatherer days. The same way some people are naturally night owls while some are early birds - would have been useful for night and day watchers in the past, etc. And blind people might have been good at listening for threats instead of seeing it. Kind of an interesting thought.
I have a friend and classmate who I have studied with for 4 years. She's super powerful character designer and layout artist also great at painter. It took me 2 years later after graduation to realize that she's color blind. That really blow me away and made me realize that human potential is really limitless.
James love to paint too and is a very good artist.
That is amazing!!
I follow a photographer for years who does amazing colorgrade on their photos and had no idea they are colorblind until someone asked how they do so as a colorblind person.
Yep. I have a friend I met in college. Lots of art in our study. I didn't know he was color blind until we were working on a 3D rendered scene and he had a candle with a green flame. I thought it was a design choice so didn't say anything. Another classmate pointed it out and then I realized. He said something along the lines of "why didn't you tell me it was green?" "I thought it was a design choice!" After that we'd all help make sure what he intended is what was there.
There was another incident in our HTML class when he couldn't see the blue color shift when a hyperlink was hovered over.
From these comments it lightened my heart because in Indonesia, I remember in order to apply to Bachelor degree in design, you need to take colorblind test first and it's implied that those that did not pass will be automatically rejected. Bare in mind this is like 15 years ago and I don't know if they still made you do that. It's good to see that being colorblind did not hamper your ability to work with colors.
My husband of 30 years is color blind, very close to how James sees color. He used to always ask me what colors things are, like what color is the sunset. I started telling him, the color you see is your color. Who's to say I see it "better" or "correctly." He has tried those glasses, and the only difference was how he saw the traffic lights. They went from white-white-whiter, to yellow-white-whiter. He remains unimpressed with the glasses. 😅
There is a rare, specific kind of color blindness those glasses actually help. They depend on you having **some** ability to differentiate all colors and amplify that a lot by filtering out overlapping colors. But if your color blindness is severe enough, all they do is make everything darker.
Wow. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
If you see a color incorrect, you see it incorrect. I have bad eyesight and if someone would come to me and say "YoU just SeE the WoRlD dIfFeReNtLy, who am I to say you are wrong" I would slap you. Stop infantalising everything
@@kiiltochii1607 Like when Neil Tyson was like I can't say that having one arm isn't normal or something to that effect. And it's like but it's not? Humans have two arms, if one only has one, that's not normal, it's different...
That reminds me of my grandfather. When my mom was a kid, he bought this grey paint that she thought was ugly, and he used it to paint the dollhouse he built for her along with other furniture he built. Eventually she asked him why he used that color, thinking maybe that paint had been on sale or something. His response was that he painted it that color because it was his favorite color: green.
I really appreciate your son's willingness to be vulnerable and share with us his experiences.
Thank you Reardon Family for being genuinely great people!
My father is Red/Green colourblind and I have been trying to understand what he might see. He spent years spray painting and colour matching - only made one wrong paint mix in 40 odd years. Thanks to you, and James' helpful explanation, I now understand how this is and why his colour perception is so different but remains accurate. It also explains why after picking up what he thought was a Brown crayon the teacher scolded him for drawing a Green fox (this was way back in the day when the ruler or strap would come out).
James coloured a bear in green in primary school.
Nothing wrong with green bears and foxes, I'd think they'd camouflage pretty well😊
@yvonneburns2786 The same as red foxes do! Animals like deer only have 2 cones, making them pretty much red-green colourblind. That's why hunters often wear orange vests: They can spot each other but the deer can't.
@@HowToCookThat I bet that would've been even better at camouflaging itself in the trees than a brown bear.
My dad is red/green colorblind as well. Makes it a challenge buying him things sometimes, especially around Christmas. One year, we got these adorable Peanuts mugs to use around the holidays: red, with snoopy's doghouse and dark green text with a cutesy saying. We proudly showed them off to him when we got home... and he was so confused as to why we bought blank mugs. 😂
There is a specific, uncommon kind of red-green colorblind that these glasses work spectacularly for. The glasses are a notch filter which cuts out the big area of overlap, allowing different cones to be activated more selectively. But it still depends on the malfunctioning cones not being **identical**. If they are, it'll take something more sophisticated than a notch filter to help.
I've had two colorblind friends who tried out Enchroma glasses. One of them was unimpressed, and the other spent a week asking people on Facebook to send him pictures of red stuff, but found them too annoying to wear on the regular.
There is a rare, specific kind of color blindness those glasses actually help. They depend on you having **some** ability to differentiate all colors and amplify that a lot by filtering out overlapping colors. But if your color blindness is severe enough, all they do is make everything darker.
I love these debunking videos, and geez that was an expensive experiment: AU$500.00? Wow, Ann. Thank you, James, for being willing to share such a private thing with us all. Once again you nailed it, Ann.
They do have a 60 day return policy (as long as it's non-customized lenses). Really makes you wonder how they make any money at all.
The phrase "your bride, your groom, and anything else flammable" has definitely never been said out loud before, congratulations
With the burn cakes, I actually made one for a friends birthday. I found best results were when you used black icing to hide the burnt bits when burning wafer paper, and an icing sheet for the bottom picture like Ann suggested. I found it actually tasted like a burnt marshmallow and no one who ate it seemed to mind. Just thought I'd share my experience with them but def be wary of the open flames :3
This makes me wonder if you could just use actual marshmallows instead of frosting to seperate the two pictures! It might not look as neat as propping the top picture up with frosting, but it won't get the flash paper wet, and it will probably taste pretty good to anyone
So… that extra-Dutched cocoa used in Oreo cookies, that’s almost black, could be useful?
@@Wischmopp95 That sounds like a good idea, lots of people like their marshmallows crispy.
I guess the flavor will wildly differ with different frostings. If you use Italian meringue which often gets toasted anyways then it probably will be pretty nice lol.
Are people just using their home printers for the image? I'd be concerned with eating the byproducts of that
I had a room mate who was color blind but did some web design for work. He used a color pipette to get the RGB values of the website elements and could just from that tell the color. If you gave him an RGB value he could tell you what color it would be... That was really, really awesome.
I have a colorblind coworker who does that too! He keeps a sticky note by his desk with the most common colors that our boss likes us to use in presentations and figures, written out in hex.
I'm colorblind and the colorblind glasses stuff annoys me so much because I know it's not going to work at all. Your description of colorblindness was really good, thank you for all of your really good content! you're absolutely one of my favorite channels
I'm also color blind. I have a pair of "color correction" sunglasses. And they actually do work..... kind of. They do make colors more vibrant for me, as well as allow me to see a much wider range of purples.
There is a rare, specific kind of color blindness those glasses actually help. They depend on you having **some** ability to differentiate all colors and amplify it by filtering out overlapping colors. But the vast majority of cases, they just make everything darker.
I was born colorblind. Back then the only diagnosis they gave my mother was Achromatopsia. In the past 10 years my eye doctor thinks it's Tritanopia . They won't know unless they do a gene test. And I'm not able to get that done right now.
I'm now 44. I've lived with it my whole life, and went to a school where teachers had no idea what they were doing, or how to deal with it, so I was called a liar. I was forced to wear red tinted glasses for my first 14 years of life, till I rebelled and kept breaking them. They made everything so much harder. :D :D
I dispise people like Logan who do what they can for money, and don't care about the facts of an eye disorder that's so overlooked.
Red/Orange glasses are great for dyslexia but that's about it
Achromatopsia is exactly the Greek word for color blindness, it means "You can not see colors" Tritanopia which is also a Greek word means "you can not see the third color" the third color is blue.
My mother had a student who had no red color reception at all. If she used a red or pink marker on the overhead, he'd just quietly raise his hand and she'd rewrite everything because it was completely invisible to him. She was good about removing all the red markers, but sometimes she'd open a new pack in the middle of a lesson and just grab the first one she touched. Red colored chalk seemed to be okay since chalk is a physically white thing dyed, but every so often she'd come home laughing at herself about the overhead she wrote in invisible ink.
It sucks that you got stuck with such a different experience. I'm not sure why anyone would doubt colorblind people about being colorblind. But I do remember being 5 and wondering how that kid dealt with all the invisible red things in the world. Teachers aren't 5. Neither is Logan Paul.
Are there effective treatments for either kind of colorblindness that make having a correct diagnosis needed?
No specific treatment, but there are glasses that can help depending on the cone or cones that are deformed or missing.
Your son speaks so well. He’s clearly very intelligent and well mannered. You’ve done an excellent job raising him Ann.
i’m always so impressed with his vocabulary and ability to describe nuance in a precise and original way, whether in the taste tests, or here with the colours
As someone who is pretty severely red/green colorblind with a higher green deficit, it was very fun to "play along" with the spot the difference. It's always been remarkable to me that the general public know so little about a condition that effect such a huge proportion of the population.
My husband is colourblind, and before we met he had tried on a pair of Enchroma glasses in a store. He told me they hadn’t done anything impressive, but I thought maybe there weren’t enough colourful things around for him to notice. I had heard such compelling stories and reasons why they were supposed to work. I wanted to buy him a pair until a few months ago when I watched MegaLag’s video and finally believed it was a scam. I should have just listened to my husband.
Thanks for bringing attention to the lies on the internet, and sharing a real perspective of what colourblindness is like. There are filters that can be used on computer and phone displays to increase contrast of certain colours for people with different types of colourblindness. When my husband uses these, the screen looks less colourful to me, because they shift red and green hues into the blue and yellow wavelengths that are easier for deuteranopes to distinguish. But he can tell those colours apart much better than I can!
I remember a reddit aita story like that.
The person repeatedly told his SO and family that his colorblindness wasn't an issue and that the glasses wouldn't do much as a lot of the reactions are fake/over exaggerated.
They didn't listen and eventually surprised him with the glasses. Well he didn't have a big emotional reaction like they wanted. He did warn them but they wasted their money on glasses that gave things a haze.
Absolutely +
I'm colorblind and bought those glasses, at first I thought they worked because I was able to spot things that were red and green that I hadn't before but then I started spotting even more red and green things that weren't red and green and eventually I quit wearing them. Then later I found out they were a scam and it made a lot of sense.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. For severe enough red-green colorblindness they do nothing, but for less severe, they can amplify the difference between colors. They are absolutely not a cure-all and marketing them as such is predatory.
I like how you really analysed the colourblind glasses, taking time to show the results & explain the science, rather than just doing what other RUclipsrs do ... which is often either faking amazement OR faking outrage for views!
The Megalag videos had a really good explanation for a large portion of the fake reactions. People aren't seeing more colors, but there's a huge amount of social pressure from people who care about them and are making a big show about it. They are expected to be amazed, and either by placebo or simply playing along, they act that way.
Which makes it even more infuriating/saddening that they do not work.
@@jbutler8585 this video made me realize that a lot of the "crying at the beauty" reactions could actually be "crying because i got my expectations up and reality just hit me in the face" reactions. heightened by the pressure of others' expectations and being on video
@@jbutler8585They do work for some people, just not for everyone, and not as dramatically as advertised.
@@jbutler8585 i never understood how the glasses would even work in the first place. it's not like they are adding new cones to the wearer's eyes and magically let them perceive a colour they previously couldnt. but also maybe i am kinda cynical in these types of regard. if someone is born blind then no matter what kind of glasses you give them they won't magically grow the nerves and neural pathways to suddenly see. the only way that COULD happen is through actually altering the organs that cause the issue, and we don't really have that as of yet, and possibly never will have the technology to build new cones in someone's eyes so they can perceive a whole new colour or build a whole optical nerve with neural pathways connecting to them so they can see again. while we do have ways to make partially blind people see again, if they have been blind most of their lives then suddenly having that new sense would be extremely overwhelming and disorienting, and we dont have any similar things to entirely replace missing parts of the body that has never been there
I have a set of Enchroma glasses that I have almost worn out with daily use. They may not work for everyone, but when I wear them, I can see much more vibrant colors. I can tell which trees are dead vs. green, see more variation of leaf colors in autumn, and sunsets go from a few degrees of mediocre color at the horizon to looking like the sky is on fire.
They aren't miraculous, but they are pretty great for enjoying the scenery and gardening as someone with moderate deuteranomaly color deficiency.
This... they're not fake, but only work for a specific rare disorder
So its a medical aid that lay people got confused about how much it can do and how many things it can help?
@@kurotsuki7427 People didn't get confused, they got actively lied to, if they work for 5% of colorblind people but you market it to all 100% of them as a cure, you're scamming 95% are you not?
@@kurotsuki7427 it's not simply that "lay people got confused", more like "the agressive marketing was made specifically to trick lay people". Just like most scams.
Same
My partner is red/green colorblind and they're amazing at this color-based board game we play called hues and cues. Seeing James explain his experience helps me see why!
I know you started out as a cooking channel and you blew the us all away with your amazing amount of talent, knowledge and kindness but you were hiding away so much more. You have brought awareness about so many things that aren't about cooking and that has resulted in saving people time, money and in some cases saving people from injuries or flat out saving lives. On top of all that you are an amazing wife and mother. I have no idea how you manage to do it all and I know I'm not the only one. You are one of those truly rare individuals that actually make the world a better place and make such a big impact all just by you being you. Thank you for all that you have done and will do in the future.
That is such a kind, encouraging comment who4743. Speaks volumes as to who you are as a person.
I couldn't agree more with this comment. Ann saves lives in several ways; a wise and kind queen!
@@alexsanbr Thank you, she does and she's so humble too. I think she needs to be ranked in the same category as Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross and Steve Irwin. I really wanted to respond back to her as her kind words came at a time when I needed to hear something like that. And to have come from her, my mind is still blown. But I understand how busy she is and didn't want to take up anymore of her time. Her reply to me extends to you too you know, because you also recognize all that she's done and that the lives she's saved are the most important thing to have come from her using her platform. I have a feeling that you have put a lot of good out into this world too, even what may seem like a small act of kindness on your part can be a huge thing for the other party. I'm proud of you for doing the good things you've done. Even a smile can really brighten someone's day, so I send you a smile to keep for the day you need it my friend. Stay well.
I love how we get to see the family's talents as well, like a couple years ago when we found out Dave was actually an investigative journalist instead of just "weird food guinea pig".
@@megabigblur, excellent point! There are so many good things about this channel and this family that it's too much for one person to list themselves. So now let's play a fun little game. How about everyone that reads this says your favorite thing about about this channel, whether it's a favorite video, a family moment or something. Then try to point out something good about the channel that no one else here has pointed out yet. I love that she includes her family , their family dynamic is so amazing and wholesome. She has graciously shared her children with us and we've been able to see how they've grown, yet she never crossed the line leading to exploiting them.
re: the new title and thumbnail - good change. The original title didn't interest me because I'd already seen a video about the colour-blind glasses exaggeration, but now that I realize it's actually a debunking medley, with topics as interesting as the colour-blind story I previously enjoyed, I'll watch the video. The mention of coloured-fire cakes and 5-minute crafts is also appealing.
Thank you to James for walking us through what he sees in such detail. I’ve always wondered about the differences. But been too worried about offending people.
It is always hard to ask others how their world looks, it can come off insensitive even if you are just trying to broaden your horizons. But James like his family are willing to help.
As a colorblind person, I always assumed the glasses worked to a degree but were very individual on how much they had an effect, since colorblindness isn't monolithic at all. Good to see my suspicion was more or less correct.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. For severe enough red-green colorblindness they do nothing, but for less severe, they can amplify the difference between colors. They are absolutely not a cure-all and marketing them as such is predatory.
Yeah my brother has a type of colourblindness that the tests don’t seem to pick up, would be curious to see if these work
As someone with a couple pairs of enchroma glasses and red green color blind and three color blind brothers. Results vary. A couple of my brothers said there was an immediate change and vibrant. Me and my other brother didn't get that immediate change but wear them for a bit and it makes the world more vibrant. Can't say they make me see more colors since I don't know what I can't see, but makes the world a little brighter and vibrant.
I keep getting struck by how thoughtful and clever James is, you have a very impressive son!
He's amazing 😀
And gorgeous, too!
@@HowToCookThat I can tell how proud you are of him, and quite right too!
@23:33 I love the tiny “results may vary” under the “simulation” photo. What an absolute scam
So true. Like a AI photo fixer, black and white photos are not so easy to make color, believe me I have been trying to find one to show me a reasonable possibility of a old steam locomotive's coloring. Just make it pinker as opposed to sepia.
The thing is, results do vary. There is a certain kind of rare color blindness that's less total than average, and it can get spectacular results.
But it's rare. For the most common color blindness they do pretty much nothing.
Thank you for doing an episode about color-blindness.
When I say I’m colorblind I’m really tired of people considering it their personal opportunity to quiz me on every color in the room
My mate's red-green colorblind. The first time I saw one of those spectra charts that show how he perceives color I realized why blue was his favorite. I like to paint for him, so it's nice to know how to work with a color he really enjoys. Sometimes I have been sad that I couldn't show him my favorite color because he says it is gray for him. However, hearing James' explanation about how he perceives the differences in hues helps me understand that there are other ways for him to enjoy colors that I and my eyes cannot. Thank you for this video.
Woah, the segment with James was really cool. I didn't know that colourblindness made you develop a skill at differentiating values and contrast. Some artists teach themselves that skill by doing everything in one colour or in black and white!
Honestly changing the thumbnail and title worked cause I’ve seen too many videos doing deep dives on those fake glasses I didn’t know the video had more to it!
same! I had already watched MegaLag's excellent two part series on the glasses so didn't feel the need to watch this one (though Ann did her own take by having her son do that demonstration so it was still very worth it) and only clicked after the change of thumbnail and title
Me too. I didn't want to watch that but the flash paper bit, sure, why not.
yep! i’d already seen a couple colour blind glasses debunking but i was thinking about getting one of those fire cakes for my birthday but this kinda let me know drawbacks to having it. I might still do it but only if i could have it easily remove the top layer of the cake without destroying the design. It would be kinda like how you’d usually remove extra decorations for serving.
James described his experience of colour blindness so well! This was the first time I’ve felt like I really grasped what it all means and how the world may look. You guys are awesome!
Preying on people afflicted with a disability and selling them something this overpriced makin' them hope it'll "cure" their impairement is a kind of evil that never cease to make me sick.
I don't think colorblindness is a disability, it's just a unique way of seeing the world. It doesn't keep people from living and enjoying life, and I dare say that colorblind people wouldn't think they had a disability.
@@Kawamura2I don't mean to be rude, just explaining: Colour blindness is per definition a disability, as one is 'not able' to see certain colours. This can affect a lot of aspects, e.g. making art creation more frustrating (whether that is personal when not being able to differentiate some colours or outside influences telling the person that their colour choices are "wrong") or take more time with certain things (like there's a whole bunch of tasks that involve colour identification in schools). It also actively prevents an individual from being able to take on certain jobs, e.g. pilot, astronaut, different military positions, police, firefighter etc., which is also displayed in the movie "Little Miss Sunshine", where the non-vocal brother discovers his colour blindness through coincidence and his lifelong dream of becoming a jet pilot shatters, causing him to break his silence and scream. I understand your intention is kindhearted, but in my opinion it's difficult to declare something as "not a disability" if you're not personally affected (and neither am I in this case; I don't mean to say that it must be a disability, just explaining that there are a lot of circumstances that may make it disabling for an individual.) Also important to consider that disability is not a bad term and describing truly disabling things as what they are is really important to help affected individuals and provide adequate support and understanding.
@Kawamura2 it is a disability, a disability isn't a bad thing
@@Kawamura2 It is a disability because it makes you unable to do something an "average" (which I admit, is a flawed concept) person can - seeing a full spectrum of color. Doesn't mean it's a bad thing. A lot of completely blind people also don't consider themselves disabled, just having a different experience which is valid, but by definition, they are still disabled and can't see - which does have dangers associated with it, but of course is not bad by itself.
Like most things, it's probably their relatives wanting to "cure" them rather them wanting it for themselves. Colorblindness is something you are born with and only learn it's a big deal from people around you, it has some difficulties associated with it of course but most colorblind people don't care (unless they'd want a pursue a job that for safety reasons doesn't allow colorblind people)
I bought my husband (who has moderate protan color-blindness) the enchromas a few years ago and he loves them! He is always noticing that things are a different color than he thought (bushes he thought were brown are actually red, the Taco Bell logo is purple and not blue, trees are different shades of green and not all the same, etc) when he wears them. I would agree that saying they "cure color-blindness" or would allow you to see the full spectrum of color is misleading, but since he is red-green colorblind they allow him to see more red and more green (or at least, what he thinks are those colors). Still a win in our book!
Being colourblind myself I can relate to James very well. I had the same reaction as he did: at first glance, I didn't see any difference between the photos. Just like James, I did see subtle differences though.
I have also tested some of these glasses about five years ago. A colleague of mine, who also suffers from colourblindness, bought a pair of glasses. I can't tell if they're Enchoma glasses or not as I didn't own them. Anyway, I put them on and perceived some subtle differences between colours that I hadn't seen before. For instance, I was able to distinguish greens from browns on pine trees much better. But it wasn't a dramatic change where I would be able to see the brown as brown and green as green. Instead, the colours just shifted a bit and therefore I could see them as "separate". I was amazed and underwhelmed at the same time because I could see some colours shift, but at the same time, some others became the same colour for me. The Megalag video explained to me that all these glasses did was narrow the bands and therefore some colours would overlap less and some others now overlapped even more. Back then it already sounded like a scam to me and today even more!
I'd seen so many people who said they were colourblind insisting these glasses worked, and even though I couldn't fathom how that was possible, I just assumed there was something I didn't know because I'm no expert. While it's nice to know I'm not crazy for thinking that shouldn't work, it's also a shame, because I'd have loved for this to be real.
It does change what they are seeing and if everyone is saying to them that what they are now seeing is normal - ie what we all see, that would be very confusing.
The thing is, I think people don't know much about colourblindness.
What is colourblindness - inability to distinguish some colours from others. And that's what we generally know about it. But there is so much more.
What is causing it? Receptors in your eyes not working properly. And because there are 3 receptors, you have a variety of different colourblindness - single colour, dual colour, hell, there is even a type where the cells don't work at all so they see black and white.
How can a pair of glasses fix that? Well, they can't. It's a placebo effect. Those people see some difference, but they don't know what the colours really should look like, and that is where the trick is. There is no way for them to verify that what they are seeing is what a non-colourblind person sees.
@@ivanpetrov5255I think it is abit more simple. What a person sees and what they do not see is totally subjective simply because the way we are asking them is to tell us what they see. I think the glasses can work if certain types of colorblindness use certain types of glasses. It can open up the spectrum of what they see but it is not really a cure all.
Are these people you've met, or people you've seen in videos? The company that makes these sends them for free to influencers and others with a high follower count, and discounted to regular people if they send them a reaction video. They also refused to even SELL a pair to a sceptical youtuber who contacted them.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if part of the denial about the glasses is because otherwise there'd be some shame that they'd bought into a scam and that all it gave them was a pair of over priced rose tinted glasses
Man I have legit cried at some of those colorblind glasses vids so now I’m super disappointed that they were faking it 😢
I kind of want a counter-trend of colorblind people picking out polar bears and mountain lions from cluttered backgrounds.
Not all of them were faking it, the glasses legitimately help some people, but yeah it really does suck
From the moment these glasses have become a thing I've had people yowling that they'll fix me and I'm just like "make things more accessible instead of foisting fake tech on me please".
I really like the video, Ann. Thanks.
They're not fake, but incredibly oversold.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and remove part of the red-green overlap spectrum to create more situations where one cone gets activated more strongly than the other. This enhances a diminished ability to distinguish those colors, but for severe enough red-green disorder they just make everything darker.
@@tsm688 Excuses... Do you work for EnChroma? They don't sell them to assist people with a "rare, specific" colour blindness. They state they WORK for 80% of red-green colour blind people. I wonder how many returns they get from purchasers?
As I was watching your video, I was struck at how intelligent and truthful you are. A rare combination of positive traits! Thanks for all you do, Ann.
My husband is only moderately colorblind and was able to better perceive the difference between blues and purples, and reds and greens with enchroma glasses. he still prefers to wear them on hikes when there will be lots of flowers/bright colors to see. I'd say he went from 50-70% accurate to 100% accurate with the blue/purple differentiation. it did come at the cost of other colors- the gray amazon van was also purple :-)
The part featuring your son was fascinating and the most educational. Thank you for sharing his personal challenge and skill.
Browsers in the dev tools let you emulate certain colour blindness types (for accessibility reasons so those that can see colour can check their designs work for colourblind people). It's interesting to enable the `no red` or `no green` mode and watch the segment of James trying to differentiate the two images. They really do look identical and its insane how any information about colour can be gleaned from them.
Also, it was fascinating when you showed the blobs of blue and purple paint changing in darker light and why James can tell them apart because of that. Again, thank you!
I'm a tetrachromat, and I have always wondered what colourblindness is like. Thanks for taking the time to explain what it's like for you James.
Yet another Friday with Ann!❤
Happy Friday ia8968
If I'm remembering right the colorblind glasses were never supposed to be for full colorblindness. I remember them from the early 2000's. It was for people that had "shifted" cones. The cones for reds and for yellows overlap more and the glasses were to make those colors more distiguishable. I really wish I still had the literature, my dad almost got them but didn't because they were $1000 us back in 02-03. My one cousin got them and he said it helped, but dad and I just don't care enough. Seems like a company has bought the old techand rebranded it as a "cure-all". What a shame. Love your stuff Ann.
My partner saw me loading up the video to watch tonight at my desk and he said "oh wow I haven't seen Ann in years". I was like "yeah, she's the only one I actually pressed the bell for otherwise YT drowns her videos in my feed". I think it was your call to action a few months ago to let us know to use the bell that had me do it, too. I'm so glad, every Friday I get to watch
I wish I’d had this video as a reference before I purchased these glasses for my father. Now I know he didn’t want to hurt his family’s feelings when they didn’t work! Another great video, Ann! Thank you ❤❤
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and filter out part of the red-green overlap to create more situations where one cone is activated without the other.
On the other hand, if they **do** work, the difference shouldn't be subtle!
ANN!! EXCUSE ME!! I COULDN’T BELIEVE HEARING MY NAME AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS VIDEO!! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, and I’m gonna stop using caps now but I am so excited! Oh my gosh! Thanks for the shout out, and thanks for what you do here on RUclips. ❤
(Also you pronounced my name perfectly! Lots of people get it wrong. 😊)
That whole 5 min craft world is a perfect example of everything wrong with "good vibes only"
"Good vibes only" culture is a blight on society and culture
And then on the other hand you have people who can only be negative. Negativity sells, you have RUclipsrs whose whole schtick is to say "this thing/game/movie is the worst thing I have seen !" It's why most of the broadcast cable news is mostly negative and has led to people being constantly afraid when in actuality crime has seen a steep decline since the 1980s. A RUclipsr I like who kind of falls into that "thing bad" schtick has openly said "Anytime I do a video about a thing I like they don't do well."
Really just another example of extremism being bad. We have a lot of feelings and it's best to not obsess over just one of them.
My grandma kind of fits into that "Good vibes only" thing and can't deal with the truth. Says "I wasn't raised right" when I tell the truth. Sorry if the truth hurts but I believe in not lying to people. "No, nobody wants to come over and I don't want to have to make all this food that will eventually go to waste."
It really seems like trying to ignore half of reality can lead to negative consequences. Not only that, but if everything is wonderful, it's the same as when nothing is.
Same reason why RUclips should bring Downvote counts back (without plugin)
Toxic positivity.
It's a real thing.
The word is toxic positivity if I'm not mistaken. Though I feel like in their case it's less toxic positivity and more literal manipulation (and the guys probably don't want to get in trouble since even though they don't work for 5 min crafts anymore they still are under the same publisher. Guess they don't want the Russians to get angry at them lol)
Good stuff, I'd seen one video debunking it. I remember something stuck out to me, I'm not sure whether it was a comment in the video or below it, but
"You're quite literally paying for rose-tinted glasses."
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and filter out part of the red-green overlap to create more situations where one cone is stimulated without stimulating the other.
The most common colorblindness, they don't help at all, just make everything darker.
I'm also colorblind and I bought the glasses, they just make stuff more vivid I guess. If you put on glasses that had a yellow tint, I'd imagine you get the same effect. The biggest thing like he said is trees and grass. Every tree across the entire world looks identical to me, color is irrelevant, shape is what I need to see. It's simple science, if you don't posses the cones to see the color, nothing will change that, unless they make a surgery that adds the cones back.
Thank you James for agreeing to be part of this video! My ex is Green-red colorblind, and in 10 years we spent together, I didn't manage to understand what or how he sees. You two did an amazing job at explaining this. 🙏🙏🙏
Wow, that part with the birthday candles was pretty startling, I've never really considered birthday candles as real fire hazard before -- which feels silly to put into words, but it's one of those everyday things we don't consider dangerous until we've been set alight xD
Thanks for another great video Ann
long hair is the real hazard XD
@@tsm688it seems like fake hair is particularly flamable
@@Greentrees60 plastic with a very high surface area? absolutely
I'm so glad you made this video because since day 1 of those infuriating Enchroma ads and content I've known that's not how it works 😭 no amount of filtering, contrasting or oversaturating is going to give colorblind people an extra color detecting cone in their eyes. Therefore they will never make them see a "new" color. All they can ever do is increase the contrast between colors and shades they could already see. Which don't get me wrong might be useful in some circumstances but the idea that it will "make them see all colors" or "new colors" has always been a full on lie. My colorblind fiancée is in full agreement.
5:20 The gojo took me by surprise so much that I started laughing out loud. This guy really is everywhere, not even Ann is safe from his influence 😭
Yeees 😂 dude's everywhere except jjk
To be honest, even for those with normal color vision, none of us know if the colors we see are the same things that other people perceive. We only know that we assign the same designations to the same distinct wavelengths but do they actually “look the same” to everyone? We can never know.
It's not the same, what my mom and sister see as white I see it as blue
Philosophers often call this idea the "inverted spectrum." The light novel, "Qualia the Purple" takes this concept to the extreme by introducing a character who experiences everyone except themselves as robots (and provides in-universe evidence that their perception of reality is a valid one).
and it's all labels too, the Greeks described the sea as the color of wine; they did not see it as part of the same color group as the sky.
@@kawaibakaneko Well some of you are colour blind then. Usually everybody can agree on white.
Each of my eyes sees a slightly different color spectrum. One is more warm, the other more blue. Never have taken the time to specify HOW different, but it's real and can cause some brain games when one eye decides to 'take over.' So, yes. :)
As someone who's too nervous of fire to even strike a match, those videos of people's hair catching fire blowing out birthday candles has unlocked a brand new fear for me.
With my Enchroma glasses, it helps me distinguish between colours I have a difficult time seeing naturally. When its Fall and the leaves change, I can see the individual colours of leaves, I can see between the yellows, the reds, the greens and the browns. I dont use them all the time, but when I do, Im able to appreciate the little things more. Such as seeing the leaves change colour in the Fall. Without the glasses, the colours kinda blend together and I dont notice the difference in hues and colours while driving by trees.
I wish people would quit trying to press a "norm" onto everyone, and instead cherish individuality in all areas of someone's experience. Traits like colour perception, where someone falls on the introversion/extroversion scale, neurotype, circadian rhythm, and many more, all come with their own set of strengths, and if people would just embrace diversity, everyone could benefit from the results of letting people thrive as who they are. I'm an idealist, I realise, but it comes with its own set of strengths, too. :)
I feel like colorblindness in particular is a weird thing to try and correct for. I don't feel like it counts as a disability except in very limited circumstances, such as identifying traffic light colors at night. But that just feels like a bad design from the beginning, not a problem with people who are colorblind.
@@alisa9040 Exactly, it's the same for so many things; if they were designed better/more inclusively, it would benefit everyone. Instead of trying to "correct" people to fit the systems, the systems should be corrected to fit the people.
In ancient times your colorblind tribesmen would get you killed because they would have been incapable of identifying ripe fruit, vegetables ready to harvest, or the moisture of the land from healthy or dry grass.
I know we're supposed to be better compassionate people, but there are very good reasons why they have always been and continue to be treated as less than human on the job market and with every other normal person whose perfect eyes are a necessity in daily life.
@@nephra.extraterrestrial "Instead of trying to "correct" people to fit the systems, the systems should be corrected to fit the people." You truly hit the nail right on the head with this statement! Systems are and should be changeable as we learn and understand the specific changes that would be for the betterment of our entire society.
@@alisa9040 i think both approaches have their place, Having traffic signs that is easier to discern at a glance (colorblind or not) is a win for everyone and likely badly needed to begin with while being able to atleast differentiate(if not see them) certain colors in certain scenarios may be something that can be appreciated by some people in their daily lives if some of the disappointment(at the glasses) in the comments is to go by .
I just wanted to say that im genuinely grateful for your content! As a kid i always wanted all my questions to be answered and proven, it never really did and that curiosity had remained with me over the years and i gotta say your channel is incredibly nurturing that inner child in me🤭. I hope many kids and curious adults like myself can come across your channel because its honestly inspiring me to maintain that curiosity and reminding me to question everything i see in the internet! I had forgotten how much fun it is to dwell into that curiosity and how exciting it is to learn new things, your channel has helped me remember that believe it or not.
Refreshing air from a bag… I am DECEASED 😂
Finally someone speaking on this. Megalags video needed more attention, thank you for your content.
Yes I agree
And it seems someone is trying to stop him - his second video on the topic got copyright strike.
@@ivanpetrov5255 it's one of the people enchroma sponsored. And the video is back up now, the claim was taken back. The things you face when you're going against powerful people :)
@@ivanpetrov5255 Well it was a content creator, claiming not to be sponsored by the company but still having affiliate links and getting glasses for free, that copyright claimed Megalag for "stealing his content". That is, using 8 seconds from a video in a way that is called fair use. That creator now is trying his best to gaslight people in to believing that Megalag used ALL of his video and that he never said the glasses works.
@@JBobjork Yeah. I watched MegaLad's video about it. YT really needs to do something about copyright claims, but if "it's damaged, but still works, why try to fix it," right? 🙃
If Logan Paul is involved you know it’s a scam
Thought a similar thing
Exploits children and becoming a millionaire, I don't believe in hell but he has probably earned a ticket.
Other than wrestling at least
I'm red/green colourblind. It means I struggle to tell the difference between dark green and black, mainly in clothing. I sometimes think I'm wearing blue jeans but they are actually a similar tone of grey for example. Picking raspberries is a nightmare because I just don't see them amongst all the green, until someone points one out, then I'm OK. I was thinking about trying these glasses, so you've saved me wasting my money. Thanks very much. Keep up the debunking vids. They're great.
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and filter out the red-green overlap to create more situations where one cone is activated without the other. For severe enough red-green they do absolutely nothing.
I hear there is a phone app however. It of course can't make you see new colors, but it's no stretch to imagine that a computer could highlight or darken certain colors for you.
Very informative! Thanks so much! And a big thank you to James!
james is so awesome. i love how well he described how he sees colors. i never knew how colorblind people differentiated them, so this video was super enlightening! i love your channel so much, ann. keep up the AMAZING work!
I know of someone that tried colour blind glasses. They worked for him. He had got so use to the way he saw things without the glasses, the colours confused him & so he never wore them.
My grandpa was colorblind, and the only color he could distinguish with certainty and not muddling it with others was yellow, which was understandably his favorite color. He especially had trouble with red and green, and could only drive safely because he knew on stoplights that red was on top and green was at the bottom, except at the town where he went to uni there was one specific intersection where the stoplight was flipped upside down and he would keep blowing through it. Then after years of having to memorize that one specific stoplight they went and fixed it and he was back to square one.
My great-uncle who tragically passed in the first wave of covid was also colorblind and also loved yellow bc he could see it as a bright, clear color ❤
The only time I remember him having trouble with colors (that affected him) was when he couldn't differentiate between cantaloupe and honeydew, and he preferred one kind ☺️
Syracuse? Tom Scott did a lateral episode on that! Insane that that stood for so long
@@awaredeshmukh3202 He went to University of Miami (Florida), this would have been in the 1950/early 1960s, I couldn't tell you where in Miami specifically the intersection was
@@erinaa9486 hell, even as a trhchromic person telling those apart is hard :D
I remember coming across your channel a long time ago and it was only about baking/cooking, which wasn't my thing - not meaning it was bad in any way, just not my world. Stumbled upon it again with this video and you have an amazing way of narrating and storytelling, the video feels like a very natural flow and I didn't even really notice when one topic shifted to another. Great style, great job, very interesting and I am excited to see more!
After 30 years of working as chief color mixer at a Crayola factory. During his retirement party. He announced that he was colorblind his entire life. He just followed recipes and how the boxes were labeled. Never made one mistake.
Thanks for showing us how the burn away cake toppers work. Proved my assessment of "more trouble than it's worth" to be be on the mark.
I have to admit that I was taken in by the Enchroma testimonials commercials for a while. Almost had me tearing up, some did. Then I began to question some of their reactions. By about mid-year 2023, I saw a RUclips video by a trusted licensed doctor debunking their claims and knew I'd been had. Thank goodness I had no need to try them or I would have been scammed out of a considerable amount of money.
I appreciate your time and efforts in researching these things for us. 😊
There is a rare, specific kind of red-green color blindness those stupid glasses actually help. They depend on you having *some* ability to distinguish all colors, and enhance that by filtering out part of the gred-green overlap, artificially creating more situations that can stimulate one kind of cone cell without stimulating the other.
The most common colorblindness, they don't help at all, just make everything darker.
Ann I really appreciate how you call these weirdos out on their bs, especially when they're doing fake reactions to their own content
we're so lucky that we have james who's amazingly articulate and great at explaining his experience
Thank you Ann for always being consistent in spreading awareness from misinformation and providing your honest feedback ❤❤❤
I agree! But most of those channels she talked about are engaging in Disinformation = Deliberately misleading; but Misinformation = Mistake (it's an easier way to remember the difference between the two).
Still watching the video, but wanted to make sure and say that the additional sound effects to go along with the graph animations at 12:48 are PHENOMENAL and genuinely enhance the experience over just presenting the graphs as a still image. Not sure how much extra work that took to make happen, so I wanted to make it known that it was appreciated!
The color blind test was very interesting. I have a friend that the only color he can see normally is orange. Hearing what James had to say about how he sees the colors was fascinating to me. Always love your videos!