I'm gonna be honest, this video was SO much easier to focus on cause of the lesser colours, it soothed my head, didn't hurt it. You should do this for all your videos.
My phone has been black and white for at least half a year. One more thing, by the way. Terence Mckenna once visited a tribe in the Amazon rainforest where they obviously don't have much variety of colors. At one point he was talking to a shaman in one of the huts and his eye fell on a calendar that was magenta in color. He said he couldn't focus on the conversation and just looked at the calendar because of the exotic color. He saw mostly green, of course, and something like magenta must have been incredibly stimulating. I can find the link to the video maybe, he explains it way better than I do.
I work in advertising and color theory is everything in communication obviously-I love how different regions interpret color differently too. Very good vid
Dude your content is just so on point I cant believe it. Youre like a synthesis of so many of my interests: internet culture, symbology, PKD, the occult, Reich, Freud, theology and more. This video reminded me of a section from Mark Fisher’s now-iconic Capitalist Realism book where he discusses the potential phenomenon of “post-lexia”. Rather than have a dyslexic society, we have a post-slexic one where we collectively process/recognize symbols and mass flurries of text so quickly. (Think of stream chats where you can instantly recognize a flurry of “Lmao” or L’s in the chat). Fisher obviously puts it more eloquently, but it was a connection I drew on, and think youd find cool too.
Wow because I'm new and I find this pedantic and surface level misinformation pandering. Using powerful figures to push bullshit, seems like a snake oil salesmen , a grifter, a con artist.
The sensation of turning the colors back on after a week has a weird evil vibe to it. Knowing they were secretly radiating That for years without you noticing.
It's a shame that black and white film fell out of fashion with the advent of color. So many people are really missing out on great films because of a barrier between the preference for color viewing over monochrome. As always, another great analysis!
@@goofyviewer1855 duck season, man bite dog, pi (1989), tetsuo the iron man, stalker 1976 (not really black and white but it is a narrative tool used). Some movies I've watched n liked (except tetsuo)
There was always colour. Our minds fill in the colour That was always the point. Technology caught up. You guys are a sounding so simple, its like watching novices.
When you switch your phone to black and white you can really see the flaws in the graphic design of these things. Someone teach a mandatory contrast and tone class to all the new art kids.
Contrast just works differently in B/W vs color. If you want to make a good color film into an equally good B/W film, you'll need to re-edit the raw forms of each shot in order to make it ring the same.
@@personeater747and? Thats beginner-type thinking that will hold you Back. Some paintings are designed with color in mind Thats like judging a car by its Handling without tires.
Going to try this one out. On iPhone you can greyscale your phone in settings > disability> display Text Size > colour filters. Really weird so far, especially the app homescreen. But I can really see it’s use. Like you said, you instantly become less interested.
The self actualization era was steeped in the technicolor overload marketing style. It was the beginning of the end for our historical brain chemistry. Those Mountain Dew type ads probably dont seem like much now. But I remember how amped up we kids got from watching them.
I have also realized that bright colours, especially at night are culturally associated with the supernatural. Glowing green or red lights were considered spooky and supernatural because in nature a green glowing light is only seen when sunlight filters through leaves in the day time. At night, it takes on an uncanny significance. Artificial lighting is also a notable element in liminal spaces or cursed images because of our intuitive understanding of light.
I became really aware of my love of bright colors when I started reading colored JoJo comics online. The digital coloration of each panel and Araki's use of color in his original pictures on the front of each new chapter really inspired me and made me feel a way I hadn't felt before. I recently took a figure drawing class in which we had to learn how to use color, which involved balance to achieve skin tone or the illusion of skin tone, experimentation of any color goes, and trying out our own style. I really went all out with some wild colors in that class, and I felt so much emotion and expression when I used bright colors and high contrast. I love consuming media with beautiful colors. I'm sure there is a lot of attraction going on in my subconscious to the colors, but I am usually very aware of my appreciation of color. I saw the Spiderverse movie a couple weeks ago and was crying my eyes out within the first ten minutes mostly because of the intense colors and animation. That movie immediately became my favorite solely for the animation and bright colors. I don't normally care much for superhero movies, but this one is an exception. I can understand your argument that bright colors are attracting you to digital media that is ultimately a time sink and won't benefit you in any significant way. But I would argue that colors don't destroy your brain, and can in fact heal in a way that not much else can. They can inspire and evoke emotion, which can lead to some wonderful creations. I think where people maybe fall astray is not being aware of the impact that color has on them. Thanks for bringing this to your viewers' attention through this video.
Hint for everyone that's trying this monochromatic thing. Make sure that you don't have any notification teasing you to return to the "normal". Such notifications often have something like "return for 30 minutes". It can become a drug itself. Remove the notification and use the phone as if it was always like this
I just remove the filter when I have to look at an image like choosing clothes for a friend or something. I try to use my computer the most, it has less distractions and it's easier to set and reset the grayscale filter on Windows. My phone on the other hand is quite the addictive piece.
Dude you don't even need an app, apple already have it as a config option and if you are on Android like me, you can enable developer setting and go to advanced graphic options, on the last option you can set it monochrome
@@tiagomiranda316 I suppose this comment is to me. I'm running android, some oneplus phone to be precise. I got it into "night balance" mode. It sets screen to monochrome. Removed the timer on this mode and notification to cancel it. It sucks that this filter goes away at some points. Quick flashes of color go through when using an app that uses fingerprint reader.
i simply want to say, thank you meme analysis. seriously, your videos are good food for thought, and help me with seeing the light at the end of this long, long tunnel. keep it up, proud of you.
It's incredible how powerful your words can be. I've had a "strange" fascination with bright, saturated colours for a very long time. Whenever I take a picture, it always feels like my camera never manages to capture how I perceive colour and I end up adding much more saturation than needed in post. I'll try the monochrome thing on my cellphone and see how my relationship with it is affected. Awesome video! I'd like to know what your thoughts are on audio as well; mostly how much we tend to abhor silence and our need for audio simulation.
I’m so happy I subbed to your channel again. So many great little ideas. It feels impossible to unshackle yourself from the internet void, but by doing small things like going outside every day and making my phone black and white I’m becoming a little better. I found a dead bird egg in my backyard. I buried it and check back every day to see if an animal dug it up or something. As of now their still there.
The nature is in fact always very richly coloured - it is the phone that is dull in colour! Colours in media are like junk food for the eyes. If you train your eyes to that oversimplified (lack of) taste, it is difficult to appreciate the subtle fullness of nature's colours; just like it is difficult to appreciate the richness of real food if you are addicted to junk food. To regain taste in colour, I recommend staring at a tree on a sunny summer day while some gentle winds are blowing. The constantly changing shades of green are quite ashtonishing! (All objects of nature can be observed this way, but the movement of the leaves make this excercise easier for the media-dulled eyes & scattered attention spans.) I btw *hate* the monochrome in this vid, literally couldn't watch & had to just listen. 😂 Like depression animated imo. 🫥 But good content! 👍
I agree. My cell phone went into black and white when it got dropped into water. I definitely bought less stuff because I couldn't view it in color. I actually got use to it in black and white before I replaced it. I may try this setting. I didn't know I could do this setting.😂 Thanks for the video!
This answered so many questions I have had over the last 8 months. Thank you so, so much. It's like you peered into my brain and summarised answers to my questions perfectly.
As an artist this is very interesting to think about. Personally, I don’t watch at my phone very much, but I do listen, almost always when I’m at home. I wonder what effect this has on my sound perception, or depth. I really feel my ears flex and turn to hear the sounds of nature, but at home the silence is unbearable, or at least very synthetic and conscious.
I've had the black and white settings on the triple click quick settings for YEARS and I tell everybody to use it. The peripheral world beyond the phone immediately becomes engaging and lively, and the phone goes down easily. The phone is reduced to utility, simply transmitting information, and the lacklustre experience is cemented. The various pulls are 100x less effective. At times I also use INVERT to make everything on screen realistically as it is -- inversion.
I'm very grateful to have discovered back in the years this channel, and lately your videos have become so much more complex, but also articulated in the most accessible way you could. This video really struck me; so much that I've decided apply the notions of it instantaneously (of course the objectives were right at the reach of my hand, so it didn't triggered my procrastination). - The instant reaction was: "wow, I didn't thought that I could do this so easily, it's a cool feature really." Then I begun to thought about the content of this video, and I could ascertain that everything that has been said in this video about theory of colour is very true indeed. After this brand new awareness, I begun to process my emotions about it. This process ended with two results: one was that I could finally "bore down", as in making things more boring, so that I could finally elude distractions during the day; the other result was that things are... so boring. I could instantaneously feel my life becoming sad and lonely due to my incapacity of seeing colours in the things I enjoy. I felt handicapped, literally. In the end my doubts involved the aim of this act (what's the goal we want to reach?), and the expense of it (will these feelings of dread, loneliness and bore be refunded by the reach of the, still uncharted, goal?) \ Can anyone make some clarity over this?
@@ShredGnarBrah Hey man, I read your comment just now, even though I was curious on other's opinions. Very good insight, and I liked your observation about the distinction fake world and real world, using a filter based on colours. Man it's difficult. Technology brings duplex outputs, one that helps and the other that damage. We're becoming more and more addicted to techno and we're really facing a dystopian future ahead of us. That's not a matter to let us down. We're survivalist, and as long as there's counter-information, we'll survive.
I might be disagree about this one, but still honoring about why bright color always stimulated the mind and also I usually use black and white shade for my workplace and some of works I made. Black and white is actually used on modern minimalism that tend to emphasize how limited but beautiful about these colors are. But, these colors and its shade still capture your eyes. For example, old Nike ads somehow has a black and white imagery and emphasize the message with text, movement and/or shapes. It's still need a power to attract people without using a bright color or explosive saturation of that. And also, the video you make in Black and White doesn't fully B/W, just totally desaturated it - or might be my eyes catch the color perception on it. But what I attract to this one is the message of it. So, with or without the colours, meme's matters because its messages for some people. I kinda agree on how Internet is all Colorful mess, but there's hidden gem that we can praise the monochromatic thing as long as we don't fall into chromaphobia (and yes, it exist).
Brother this is my first time commenting and this is the hardest video I have ever watched. I was so eager to click off, not for an inquisitive or conscious reason. But a carnal need to click off like touching fire. This is a fascinating phenomena. Love from a fellow Jung fan
Reminded of that meme "boys when..." the name of the original video is Colors, and the video, which had a lot of explosion of colors indeed, combined with the song makes its almost hypnotic.
Yeah that's what I don't get about his argument True bright colors can hurt your eyes But nature is already full of bright colors, even on cloudy days certain things stand out.
U are too real for this MemeAnalysis! I was bitter about the heavy price tag on the tarot reading but now u in my good books again :) :^) memes matter!
I was considering making my next comic project in full color, but Im going to keep it black and white because I think its great for contrast and detailing without the overstimulation. Another thing Ive noticed is that theres a large amount of people who want color E-ink devices. It defeats the whole purpose of e-book readers 🤔
I found a much less drastic way to remove bright colours from your smartphone/device. You would normally use monochrome from the same setting - colour correction, but this time use red-green, protanomaly. The Saturation and intensity of the colours will be gone and you will still be able to distinguish colours. I feel it has the same effect as monochrome without sacrificing the ability to distinguish between colours.
I did put both my phone and pc black and white. It completely changed the experience and I have to thank you for this, I was always addicted to my phone, and I could not exactly understand why it would pull me this much to it. It turns out that this did the trick. Now every time I spend time on RUclips, I can separate the wheat from the chaff for what I really need to watch, and what is just a waste of time. And really, I would argue that from the popular RUclips videos, maybe 1-5% have any useful information. Also, one natural conclusion that came after this experiment was that the internet had shown me its "true colors" 😂
This is kinda cool ngl, i almost feel lost looking at this screen in black and white, like looking at a canvas that is itself blank but in the shape of a painting.
I’m in Day 2 of this experiment - I’ve noticed that when I am done looking at my monochrome phone, I actually see the world around me in monochrome for a couple seconds. I’m wondering if anybody else has noticed this
@@qaztim11 That's what I thought would happen to me! Granted, it does make me appreciate the colorfulness of life more. I wonder if it's connected to the Afterimage Phenomenon or something
I have already had colours turned off on my phone for a long time now, which is unrelated to the matter of addictiveness. I just præfer black and white æsthetically; I would even go as far as to say, that I would be merry with the removal of colours from existence.
the reliance on colour is dependant on whether the focus of the medium is primarily occupied with form and structure or content and affect, film and television "hit their stride" with colour because this was when it became able to orient itself around the interplay between these two creative forces more fully. impressionism was a similar form of innovation in art, with regard to the use of colour in form as opposed to light. additionally, for "infrared gods", see 0rphan drifts video art piece "Predator Vision", previously artistic collaborators with nick land and the CCRU.
this is crazy and it sucks how I haven't thought about the significance of color at all. Is this part of the reason depressed people often see the world less vividly than 'regular' people, because they've become numb to the sensation through complete sensory overload online?
holy shittake mushrooms, this video for sure changed my life. Thanks! I think I'll try this potentially permanent discoloration with my phone for at least 3 months or more; to see how it feels at least.
Well, yeah ig. Although i do feel like it attracts such attention for a good reason, since it was (initially?) meant to represent not just pride for homosexuals but for ALL people and thus ALL colors. So having the flag be the rainbow, a combination of many different colors is meant to show a shared beauty with all who stand both within its borders and by its side.
@julianprzybysawski8543 if you think that expressing gender divergent behavior and/or establishing romantic relationships with people of the same sex is sinful, that's your issue and not the issue of those individuals. If there is a God, it is likely not a God who would care about such a trivial thing on such a fundamental level, let alone a God from one specific man-made theology.
I had heard of this before and I actually have my accessibility shortcut on my iPhone so that clicking the side button three times will turn it to grayscale.
Okay, that's it: I've come to see that everything in this world hurts or damages you in some way. If we all try to stop using/doing the things that "damage" us then we might as well all just not live. I mean... COLORS?! What's next - we find out that WATER WAS TOXIC THE WHOLE TIME?! Everything in this world is both a blessing and a curse. Equivalent exchange. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. It's best to just accept that rather than be scared shitless about every little thing that "harms" us. P.S: I'm not hating at all (I like this channel), I'm just giving some advice for anyone searching up every little thing that might cause harm. If we all truly went "cold turkey" on most of those things, then life wouldn't be worth living. 'Just gotta let the river's flow take you to wherever you need to be (fighting it will just cause more struggle. You'd be fightin' nature).
Interesting to note that the most power diety in abroginal mythology is the rainbow serpent. Who is known to communicate via dreams, one of the most powerful pre internet memetic agents.
I used blue light filter years ago especially in my phone 📱 ans I notice my eyes 👀 start to relax and get less stress vs bright and colorful on my phone screen literally hurts my eyes after looking at my phone for a while. Agree with the message of this video.
Zack Snyder's Black and White version of The Justice League really exalted the experience in a special way, and made the events feel more properly mythic and classical.
With the movie color out of space that came out recently. I was sorely disappointed that it wasn't in black and white. I feel that it was a missed opportunity and would have added a lot of mystery to it.
A couple things I find interesting: Technically the majority of social media is still black and white because the text is the majority... sort of. Like the layout of everything is usually monochrome but its the content that people post that is saturated with color, people create the content that catches our attention and then the algorithm takes care of getting it to more people. The actual web is still white but the colors that bring us to the web we create ourselves once we're in the web. Digital art is destroyed by monochrome screens, it is disappointing that there's so much art that I enjoy that probably does not exist in a physical medium. Maybe I should start printing out my meme collection..
The usage of colors is a very established psychology in videogames. Think about lootboxes for example. A common item is grey for a reason. Grey is not appealing, then a rare becomes blue, which is more appealing but it is a calm color, so it doesn't attract that much attention, then an epic becomes purple, bridging the line between blue and reddish colors, and finally a legendary is orange: it's bright, it contrasts the other rarities highly, it is akin to warmth, and it is in fact very close to gold in color. These are not coincidences that eventually became a standard, these were 100% intentional and thought out.
I set my phone on gray-scale instinctively a while ago because I been feeling overstimulated. I'm from the generation that grew up with unlimited internet access but since nowadays everyone have figured out how to manipulate human attention and profit off of it, everything on internet feels.... "alien" or "supernatural"
Set you phone on black and white, DM me for a tarot card reading @thegoddisk and pick up our new deck at memeintelligenceagency.com !
I'd gladly receive a reading when you've got time
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I'm gonna be honest, this video was SO much easier to focus on cause of the lesser colours, it soothed my head, didn't hurt it.
You should do this for all your videos.
lmao tarots.. ok then
Guy is a grifter
This makes me think of how Google often uses multiple colors in its logos, as if it wanted to mentally cement itself as the center of Internet.
I remember you saying that tarot cards were once one of the most colorful things in the world.
My phone has been black and white for at least half a year. One more thing, by the way. Terence Mckenna once visited a tribe in the Amazon rainforest where they obviously don't have much variety of colors. At one point he was talking to a shaman in one of the huts and his eye fell on a calendar that was magenta in color. He said he couldn't focus on the conversation and just looked at the calendar because of the exotic color. He saw mostly green, of course, and something like magenta must have been incredibly stimulating. I can find the link to the video maybe, he explains it way better than I do.
She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow!
I liked how the Rollin Stones managed to translate color into this song.
They literally made sound colorful.
Watching a colorless video in colorless mode, truly an experience
how do you know the video is colorless?
@@OfEditohe stated it pretty sure
I work in advertising and color theory is everything in communication obviously-I love how different regions interpret color differently too. Very good vid
Dude your content is just so on point I cant believe it. Youre like a synthesis of so many of my interests: internet culture, symbology, PKD, the occult, Reich, Freud, theology and more. This video reminded me of a section from Mark Fisher’s now-iconic Capitalist Realism book where he discusses the potential phenomenon of “post-lexia”. Rather than have a dyslexic society, we have a post-slexic one where we collectively process/recognize symbols and mass flurries of text so quickly. (Think of stream chats where you can instantly recognize a flurry of “Lmao” or L’s in the chat). Fisher obviously puts it more eloquently, but it was a connection I drew on, and think youd find cool too.
whats PKD?
@@TheBirdmon17Go read VALIS
Wow because I'm new and I find this pedantic and surface level misinformation pandering. Using powerful figures to push bullshit, seems like a snake oil salesmen , a grifter, a con artist.
The sensation of turning the colors back on after a week has a weird evil vibe to it. Knowing they were secretly radiating That for years without you noticing.
I’ve had the same feeling !
Its Basic Marketing my man its nothing special
It's a shame that black and white film fell out of fashion with the advent of color. So many people are really missing out on great films because of a barrier between the preference for color viewing over monochrome. As always, another great analysis!
What are some films you recommend?
@@goofyviewer1855 duck season, man bite dog, pi (1989), tetsuo the iron man, stalker 1976 (not really black and white but it is a narrative tool used). Some movies I've watched n liked (except tetsuo)
@@A_doe_wasting_her_life awesome thanks!
There was always colour. Our minds fill in the colour
That was always the point. Technology caught up.
You guys are a sounding so simple, its like watching novices.
Ever play The Saboteur? It does some neat things with black and white graphics contrasted against parts that are in full color.
When you switch your phone to black and white you can really see the flaws in the graphic design of these things.
Someone teach a mandatory contrast and tone class to all the new art kids.
Can you elaborate im studying graphic design and im interested in your take
@@ocean6857 hes talking about the values being too similar
Contrast just works differently in B/W vs color. If you want to make a good color film into an equally good B/W film, you'll need to re-edit the raw forms of each shot in order to make it ring the same.
L Take
You dont realize that color and colorcontradts has an "inherent" value
You got filtered
@@personeater747and? Thats beginner-type thinking that will hold you Back.
Some paintings are designed with color in mind
Thats like judging a car by its Handling without tires.
Going to try this one out. On iPhone you can greyscale your phone in settings > disability> display Text Size > colour filters.
Really weird so far, especially the app homescreen. But I can really see it’s use. Like you said, you instantly become less interested.
The self actualization era was steeped in the technicolor overload marketing style. It was the beginning of the end for our historical brain chemistry. Those Mountain Dew type ads probably dont seem like much now. But I remember how amped up we kids got from watching them.
I have also realized that bright colours, especially at night are culturally associated with the supernatural. Glowing green or red lights were considered spooky and supernatural because in nature a green glowing light is only seen when sunlight filters through leaves in the day time. At night, it takes on an uncanny significance. Artificial lighting is also a notable element in liminal spaces or cursed images because of our intuitive understanding of light.
Interesting! Look into Walter Benjamin´s concept of Phantasmagoria and the device it was inspired of.
I became really aware of my love of bright colors when I started reading colored JoJo comics online. The digital coloration of each panel and Araki's use of color in his original pictures on the front of each new chapter really inspired me and made me feel a way I hadn't felt before. I recently took a figure drawing class in which we had to learn how to use color, which involved balance to achieve skin tone or the illusion of skin tone, experimentation of any color goes, and trying out our own style. I really went all out with some wild colors in that class, and I felt so much emotion and expression when I used bright colors and high contrast.
I love consuming media with beautiful colors. I'm sure there is a lot of attraction going on in my subconscious to the colors, but I am usually very aware of my appreciation of color. I saw the Spiderverse movie a couple weeks ago and was crying my eyes out within the first ten minutes mostly because of the intense colors and animation. That movie immediately became my favorite solely for the animation and bright colors. I don't normally care much for superhero movies, but this one is an exception.
I can understand your argument that bright colors are attracting you to digital media that is ultimately a time sink and won't benefit you in any significant way. But I would argue that colors don't destroy your brain, and can in fact heal in a way that not much else can. They can inspire and evoke emotion, which can lead to some wonderful creations. I think where people maybe fall astray is not being aware of the impact that color has on them. Thanks for bringing this to your viewers' attention through this video.
do you have source of your information? because is interesting
Hint for everyone that's trying this monochromatic thing. Make sure that you don't have any notification teasing you to return to the "normal". Such notifications often have something like "return for 30 minutes". It can become a drug itself.
Remove the notification and use the phone as if it was always like this
I just remove the filter when I have to look at an image like choosing clothes for a friend or something. I try to use my computer the most, it has less distractions and it's easier to set and reset the grayscale filter on Windows. My phone on the other hand is quite the addictive piece.
Dude you don't even need an app, apple already have it as a config option and if you are on Android like me, you can enable developer setting and go to advanced graphic options, on the last option you can set it monochrome
@@tiagomiranda316 I suppose this comment is to me.
I'm running android, some oneplus phone to be precise. I got it into "night balance" mode. It sets screen to monochrome. Removed the timer on this mode and notification to cancel it. It sucks that this filter goes away at some points. Quick flashes of color go through when using an app that uses fingerprint reader.
You Sound like a Muslim going "music is addictive and therefore its sinful"
Tbh dumb take
i simply want to say, thank you meme analysis. seriously, your videos are good food for thought, and help me with seeing the light at the end of this long, long tunnel. keep it up, proud of you.
"There are no seasons on the phone"
That works on so many levels my dude.
It's incredible how powerful your words can be. I've had a "strange" fascination with bright, saturated colours for a very long time. Whenever I take a picture, it always feels like my camera never manages to capture how I perceive colour and I end up adding much more saturation than needed in post. I'll try the monochrome thing on my cellphone and see how my relationship with it is affected.
Awesome video! I'd like to know what your thoughts are on audio as well; mostly how much we tend to abhor silence and our need for audio simulation.
I’m so happy I subbed to your channel again. So many great little ideas. It feels impossible to unshackle yourself from the internet void, but by doing small things like going outside every day and making my phone black and white I’m becoming a little better.
I found a dead bird egg in my backyard. I buried it and check back every day to see if an animal dug it up or something. As of now their still there.
The nature is in fact always very richly coloured - it is the phone that is dull in colour! Colours in media are like junk food for the eyes. If you train your eyes to that oversimplified (lack of) taste, it is difficult to appreciate the subtle fullness of nature's colours; just like it is difficult to appreciate the richness of real food if you are addicted to junk food.
To regain taste in colour, I recommend staring at a tree on a sunny summer day while some gentle winds are blowing. The constantly changing shades of green are quite ashtonishing! (All objects of nature can be observed this way, but the movement of the leaves make this excercise easier for the media-dulled eyes & scattered attention spans.)
I btw *hate* the monochrome in this vid, literally couldn't watch & had to just listen. 😂 Like depression animated imo. 🫥 But good content! 👍
its true, the internet becomes boring almost imidiatly
the scizoarc is just beginning and im all here for it
I did it to my phone too, and I also spray painted all the flowers in my garden, so they're just grey now.
"Two independent thought alarms in one day? The children are over stimulated. Willie, remove the coloured chalk from the classroom."
This is quickly becoming one of favorite channels. Keep up
I agree. My cell phone went into black and white when it got dropped into water. I definitely bought less stuff because I couldn't view it in color. I actually got use to it in black and white before I replaced it. I may try this setting. I didn't know I could do this setting.😂 Thanks for the video!
Saw your tiktok. Now watching the full talk
Put the phone in kurosawa mode
It feels so nice to watch a black-white video, allows much greater focus on the material.
This answered so many questions I have had over the last 8 months. Thank you so, so much. It's like you peered into my brain and summarised answers to my questions perfectly.
bruh you slayin fr fr
I find Mr Beast thumbnails quite insane
"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen"
i like how your vid is desaturated, not pure black and white :)
As an artist this is very interesting to think about. Personally, I don’t watch at my phone very much, but I do listen, almost always when I’m at home. I wonder what effect this has on my sound perception, or depth. I really feel my ears flex and turn to hear the sounds of nature, but at home the silence is unbearable, or at least very synthetic and conscious.
One of your best videos. I turned colours off on my phone.
I've had the black and white settings on the triple click quick settings for YEARS and I tell everybody to use it. The peripheral world beyond the phone immediately becomes engaging and lively, and the phone goes down easily. The phone is reduced to utility, simply transmitting information, and the lacklustre experience is cemented. The various pulls are 100x less effective. At times I also use INVERT to make everything on screen realistically as it is -- inversion.
I'm very grateful to have discovered back in the years this channel, and lately your videos have become so much more complex, but also articulated in the most accessible way you could. This video really struck me; so much that I've decided apply the notions of it instantaneously (of course the objectives were right at the reach of my hand, so it didn't triggered my procrastination).
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The instant reaction was: "wow, I didn't thought that I could do this so easily, it's a cool feature really."
Then I begun to thought about the content of this video, and I could ascertain that everything that has been said in this video about theory of colour is very true indeed.
After this brand new awareness, I begun to process my emotions about it. This process ended with two results: one was that I could finally "bore down", as in making things more boring, so that I could finally elude distractions during the day; the other result was that things are... so boring. I could instantaneously feel my life becoming sad and lonely due to my incapacity of seeing colours in the things I enjoy. I felt handicapped, literally.
In the end my doubts involved the aim of this act (what's the goal we want to reach?), and the expense of it (will these feelings of dread, loneliness and bore be refunded by the reach of the, still uncharted, goal?)
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Can anyone make some clarity over this?
@@ShredGnarBrah Hey man, I read your comment just now, even though I was curious on other's opinions. Very good insight, and I liked your observation about the distinction fake world and real world, using a filter based on colours. Man it's difficult. Technology brings duplex outputs, one that helps and the other that damage. We're becoming more and more addicted to techno and we're really facing a dystopian future ahead of us.
That's not a matter to let us down. We're survivalist, and as long as there's counter-information, we'll survive.
I might be disagree about this one, but still honoring about why bright color always stimulated the mind and also I usually use black and white shade for my workplace and some of works I made.
Black and white is actually used on modern minimalism that tend to emphasize how limited but beautiful about these colors are. But, these colors and its shade still capture your eyes. For example, old Nike ads somehow has a black and white imagery and emphasize the message with text, movement and/or shapes. It's still need a power to attract people without using a bright color or explosive saturation of that. And also, the video you make in Black and White doesn't fully B/W, just totally desaturated it - or might be my eyes catch the color perception on it. But what I attract to this one is the message of it. So, with or without the colours, meme's matters because its messages for some people. I kinda agree on how Internet is all Colorful mess, but there's hidden gem that we can praise the monochromatic thing as long as we don't fall into chromaphobia (and yes, it exist).
Brother this is my first time commenting and this is the hardest video I have ever watched. I was so eager to click off, not for an inquisitive or conscious reason. But a carnal need to click off like touching fire.
This is a fascinating phenomena.
Love from a fellow Jung fan
Just did it - B&W
as an old tv ...
fantastic approach.
your analysis is genius as always. couldn't find the option to turn my phone b&w though.
i checked my dream journal and i haven't found 1 single mention of color in 1 1/2 years. Gonna try this method see what happens.
Reminded of that meme "boys when..." the name of the original video is Colors, and the video, which had a lot of explosion of colors indeed, combined with the song makes its almost hypnotic.
1:26 for this reason I make it a point to periodically change my phone's background image
I can’t imagine the hell of sitting in my flower garden and seeing monochrome all the time.
Yeah that's what I don't get about his argument
True bright colors can hurt your eyes
But nature is already full of bright colors, even on cloudy days certain things stand out.
There's a reason Rothko and Klien dedicated so much of their work to exploring color alone
never thought about color overload reducing the beauty of nature
Thank you, i think this is what i need for my addiction. Just switched it over
Thanks man.
Nice to see you look so slim
U are too real for this MemeAnalysis!
I was bitter about the heavy price tag on the tarot reading but now u in my good books again :)
:^) memes matter!
just enabled grey scaling on my PC. almost instantly my mind feels relieved and more at ease
I was considering making my next comic project in full color, but Im going to keep it black and white because I think its great for contrast and detailing without the overstimulation.
Another thing Ive noticed is that theres a large amount of people who want color E-ink devices. It defeats the whole purpose of e-book readers 🤔
I've been using a Lightphone 2 for around 3 months. You see how much of physical addiction stimulation can be around the 1st month mark
Another common memeanaysis W
did anyone else still see the green of the plants behind him and other colors in the frame?
this trend stemmed from some tiktok trend about turning your phone screen into black and white too. Ideas travel so fast on the internet.
5:30 i love that metaphor so much
Please discuss our modern obsessions with ancient cultures, Sumer, Mesopotamia, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans
Great video brother never thought of this but youre right
I found a much less drastic way to remove bright colours from your smartphone/device. You would normally use monochrome from the same setting - colour correction, but this time use red-green, protanomaly. The Saturation and intensity of the colours will be gone and you will still be able to distinguish colours. I feel it has the same effect as monochrome without sacrificing the ability to distinguish between colours.
Amazing.
Could you do an analysis on the "I've no enemies" meme?
I did put both my phone and pc black and white. It completely changed the experience and I have to thank you for this, I was always addicted to my phone, and I could not exactly understand why it would pull me this much to it. It turns out that this did the trick. Now every time I spend time on RUclips, I can separate the wheat from the chaff for what I really need to watch, and what is just a waste of time. And really, I would argue that from the popular RUclips videos, maybe 1-5% have any useful information.
Also, one natural conclusion that came after this experiment was that the internet had shown me its "true colors" 😂
I did it. For those who have android go to accessibility settings and choose visuals and grayscale. There is even a shortcut to turn it off and off. 😊
This is kinda cool ngl, i almost feel lost looking at this screen in black and white, like looking at a canvas that is itself blank but in the shape of a painting.
I’m in Day 2 of this experiment - I’ve noticed that when I am done looking at my monochrome phone, I actually see the world around me in monochrome for a couple seconds. I’m wondering if anybody else has noticed this
I have the opposite experience, after some time looking at my phone the colors of the world look a lot more vibrant and nuanced
@@qaztim11 That's what I thought would happen to me! Granted, it does make me appreciate the colorfulness of life more. I wonder if it's connected to the Afterimage Phenomenon or something
@@qaztim11 the world always looks like that to me. but i am schizophrenic and hear voices of angels and faeries
For me, this grayscale phone experiment makes me feel like the colors in my environment look brighter.
I have already had colours turned off on my phone for a long time now, which is unrelated to the matter of addictiveness. I just præfer black and white æsthetically; I would even go as far as to say, that I would be merry with the removal of colours from existence.
the reliance on colour is dependant on whether the focus of the medium is primarily occupied with form and structure or content and affect, film and television "hit their stride" with colour because this was when it became able to orient itself around the interplay between these two creative forces more fully. impressionism was a similar form of innovation in art, with regard to the use of colour in form as opposed to light. additionally, for "infrared gods", see 0rphan drifts video art piece "Predator Vision", previously artistic collaborators with nick land and the CCRU.
I noticed a change immediately. It was very interesting. I think it makes the real world the better place to look at
I'm going to give this a try, on my phone and computer. We'll see what happens!
Did the same, thanks for enlightening me 👍
Just went full greyscale.
Brilliant incite
Maybe a similar reasoning could apply to the relation of headphones and sound
this is crazy and it sucks how I haven't thought about the significance of color at all. Is this part of the reason depressed people often see the world less vividly than 'regular' people, because they've become numb to the sensation through complete sensory overload online?
Thank you as always for your insight, fren
Best idea yet boy
holy shittake mushrooms, this video for sure changed my life. Thanks! I think I'll try this potentially permanent discoloration with my phone for at least 3 months or more; to see how it feels at least.
Pride flag == ultimate symbolic basilisk?
Well, yeah ig.
Although i do feel like it attracts such attention for a good reason, since it was (initially?) meant to represent not just pride for homosexuals but for ALL people and thus ALL colors.
So having the flag be the rainbow, a combination of many different colors is meant to show a shared beauty with all who stand both within its borders and by its side.
I like to think of the pride flag as a twisted irony on God's promise not to wash the sinful from the face of the Earth.
@@julianprzybysawski8543 a deliberate inversion of the symbol, gnostic cults have taken hold of ideologies and governments worldwide
@@julianprzybysawski8543 that's from a _very_ religion-heavy perspective
@julianprzybysawski8543 if you think that expressing gender divergent behavior and/or establishing romantic relationships with people of the same sex is sinful, that's your issue and not the issue of those individuals. If there is a God, it is likely not a God who would care about such a trivial thing on such a fundamental level, let alone a God from one specific man-made theology.
"Turn off your screen's colors!"
Artists who use the internet to spread their work:
*_well shit_*
Now u can make sure the values hold up
as somebody with synesthesia I've gotta say it's pretty intense when using black and white display
I had heard of this before and I actually have my accessibility shortcut on my iPhone so that clicking the side button three times will turn it to grayscale.
Lookin healthy my man!
See Goethe and Steiners a new theory of color.
This is something i realised when I unlocked black and white filter in Cuphead, the only color that remains is pink
Okay, that's it: I've come to see that everything in this world hurts or damages you in some way. If we all try to stop using/doing the things that "damage" us then we might as well all just not live. I mean... COLORS?! What's next - we find out that WATER WAS TOXIC THE WHOLE TIME?! Everything in this world is both a blessing and a curse. Equivalent exchange. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. It's best to just accept that rather than be scared shitless about every little thing that "harms" us.
P.S: I'm not hating at all (I like this channel), I'm just giving some advice for anyone searching up every little thing that might cause harm. If we all truly went "cold turkey" on most of those things, then life wouldn't be worth living. 'Just gotta let the river's flow take you to wherever you need to be (fighting it will just cause more struggle. You'd be fightin' nature).
Thank you for sharing!
Interesting to note that the most power diety in abroginal mythology is the rainbow serpent. Who is known to communicate via dreams, one of the most powerful pre internet memetic agents.
I used blue light filter years ago especially in my phone 📱 ans I notice my eyes 👀 start to relax and get less stress vs bright and colorful on my phone screen literally hurts my eyes after looking at my phone for a while. Agree with the message of this video.
Zack Snyder's Black and White version of The Justice League really exalted the experience in a special way, and made the events feel more properly mythic and classical.
The vividness of flowers is not reduced. You're just not looking close enough
With the movie color out of space that came out recently. I was sorely disappointed that it wasn't in black and white. I feel that it was a missed opportunity and would have added a lot of mystery to it.
I play video games for like 10-12 hours a day usually but I can still appreciate beautiful flowers and such when I go for walks daily.
Yikes. I’m sorry dude.
shave off 2-4 hours and replace it with lifting and cardio brother
what game do you play?
@@crazysim9 what do you think walking is
@@crazysim9 sorry i do not have sex with men
This fits for Pride Month
I switched my phone and computer to as much mild green tones as possible years ago.
Think about cyberpunk/BladeRunner aesthetic in this regard. Wow.
A couple things I find interesting:
Technically the majority of social media is still black and white because the text is the majority... sort of. Like the layout of everything is usually monochrome but its the content that people post that is saturated with color, people create the content that catches our attention and then the algorithm takes care of getting it to more people. The actual web is still white but the colors that bring us to the web we create ourselves once we're in the web.
Digital art is destroyed by monochrome screens, it is disappointing that there's so much art that I enjoy that probably does not exist in a physical medium. Maybe I should start printing out my meme collection..
Good point. I will try
The usage of colors is a very established psychology in videogames.
Think about lootboxes for example. A common item is grey for a reason. Grey is not appealing, then a rare becomes blue, which is more appealing but it is a calm color, so it doesn't attract that much attention, then an epic becomes purple, bridging the line between blue and reddish colors, and finally a legendary is orange: it's bright, it contrasts the other rarities highly, it is akin to warmth, and it is in fact very close to gold in color. These are not coincidences that eventually became a standard, these were 100% intentional and thought out.
I set my phone on gray-scale instinctively a while ago because I been feeling overstimulated.
I'm from the generation that grew up with unlimited internet access but since nowadays everyone have figured out how to manipulate human attention and profit off of it, everything on internet feels.... "alien" or "supernatural"
It's like the Internet and phone sucks the magic of reality and life