What's the deal with the 'bisexual lighting' Null mentioned? - Color Scientists pls respond

[Moths]

Whoa whoa shouldnt we finish working out airplane food first before moving onto gay lamps?

 

[the rat]

It's funny you ask this because I went to a house party recently where the host used this style of lighting, and I asked them why. They said it's because blue, pink, and purple are "warm" and "gentle" colours so they make the room feel more intimate. If that's the logic at play then it makes sense why a youtube video essayist or twitch streamer would use it, it probably helps in trying to build a parasocial relationship with your audience (i.e make them more inclined to give you their money).

Funny considering blue, purple and pink aren't really "warm" or "gentle". Have you ever been in a room lit up with a blue light? It's a nightmare for your eyes, especially if it's a harsh blue.
Warm colours are really red, yellow and orange but also not a deep variant of those colours as that is still very harsh towards your eyes.

Go find that guy and beat him up for that horrible reason.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Funny considering blue, purple and pink aren't really "warm" or "gentle". Have you ever been in a room lit up with a blue light? It's a nightmare for your eyes, especially if it's a harsh blue.
Warm colours are really red, yellow and orange but also not a deep variant of those colours as that is still very harsh towards your eyes.

Go find that guy and beat him up for that horrible reason.

Actually, I have to agree with partygoer guy. A room lit like that wouldn't be appropriate for a party either. Remember, these parties and venues tend to be lit fairly darkly. Going into a space like that where it's lit in a soft red, yellow and/or orange would probably be kind of spooky or Amp people up too much. Purple is a very eyecatching color that still has its own calming notes to it, which might be why it's so common in nightlife.

 

[Pomniman]

I can't remember exactly where I read about this or what the specific context was, but there's a hypothetical (?) passive brainwashing technique that involves environmental factors like lighting, coloration, and specifically structured layouts of rooms to break the psyche and remold it in various ways. I think whatever I read also claimed entire hotel rooms could be subtly arranged with these factors in mind in advance to target unsuspecting victims. If such things exist in any capacity, I'd suspect this type of lighting could have been popularized in conjunction with them. Though of course I have no concrete evidence of any of this and could be making it all up for all I know.

 

[ITK]

I think it's just a meme streamer setup to have some rgb clashing colours in the background. More saturation for the attention deficit zoomer sensory video.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Since we’re talking about the deeper/natural meaning of color, how do we explain “green with envy”? What makes the color green associated with envy?

This thread feels like a Seinfeld cafe conversation bit between Jerry and George.

 

[generic sauce]

Since we’re talking about the deeper/natural meaning of color, how do we explain “green with envy”? What makes the color green associated with envy?

This thread feels like a Seinfeld cafe conversation bit between Jerry and George.

I mean green is the colour of money and money makes people envious.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

Isn't just vaporwave aesthetics? Why does everything have to be fagwashed to make it relevant in CURRENT_YEAR+9?

I mean green is the colour of money and money makes people envious.

It's also associated with nature (and probably more prominently so). The thing you associate a color with is a good but basic litmus test of what you value.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

I mean green is the colour of money and money makes people envious.

I’m pretty sure the phrase “green with envy” goes back before green paper US dollars existed. A quick google says it might be based off a Shakespeare quote (and coins would’ve been the main currency back then).

 

[Pissmaster]

So I guess we're just gonna call this "bisexual lighting". That's a really annoying term. Feels like how Reddit popularized calling detailed photos of specific things "porn".

Anyway, what bisexual lighting is good for, is if you want a dirt cheap way to cover up all the dirt in your cheap living space while making it look very modern. I figure that kind of lighting will be to the 2020s as orange and yellow were to the 1970s.


The style of the 2020s will be remembered as an era of gaudy RGB lights being shoved into every nook and cranny they can. We're at a point, right now, where it's rare to see them used in a tasteful manner, and it'll probably be a while before they quit being in just about everything. At least they're not as soulless as all of that ultra-bland Apple-style minimalistic crap from the 2010s.

 

[draggs]

who tf knows what null means when he gets rolling on a diet coke rush

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

So I guess we're just gonna call this "bisexual lighting". That's a really annoying term. Feels like how Reddit popularized calling detailed photos of specific things "porn".

Anyway, what bisexual lighting is good for, is if you want a dirt cheap way to cover up all the dirt in your cheap living space while making it look very modern. I figure that kind of lighting will be to the 2020s as orange and yellow were to the 1970s.
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The style of the 2020s will be remembered as an era of gaudy RGB lights being shoved into every nook and cranny they can. We're at a point, right now, where it's rare to see them used in a tasteful manner, and it'll probably be a while before they quit being in just about everything. At least they're not as soulless as all of that ultra-bland Apple-style minimalistic crap from the 2010s.

Part of me wonders if the gaudy RGB is just a reaction to the ultra-bland Apple “make everything gray” interior design we saw in 2000s/2010s? RGB lights are cheaper than paint and/or wallpaper too, so it’s an easy way to make your gray box look special (insert Incredibles quote about how when everyone is special nobody is).

It’s gimmicky as hell, but the “cottage-core” fad at least has an attempt at a soul and classic aesthetics, even if it’s more of a Disneyland/Las Vegas imitation.

 

[Pissmaster]

Part of me wonders if the gaudy RGB is just a reaction to the ultra-bland Apple “make everything gray” interior design we saw in 2000s/2010s?

It might be. I hate minimalist aesthetics. They're lazy and appeal to soulless bugmen. If RGB's the way out of that globohomo nightmare, bring on the overblown lighting.

It’s gimmicky as hell, but the “cottage-core” fad at least has an attempt at a soul and classic aesthetics, even if it’s more of a Disneyland/Las Vegas imitation.

I don't really mind that, even in a Vegas imitation style, because at least it's a starting point. Maybe a decade from now, those going for cheap cottagecore will grow it back into the real thing, and maybe with their own flair.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

I don't really mind that, even in a Vegas imitation style, because at least it's a starting point. Maybe a decade from now, those going for cheap cottagecore will grow it back into the real thing, and maybe with their own flair.

I kinda want to see it pushed to the logical extreme: let’s go Medieval-core and design interiors like we’re at a ren-fair. Make interior offices look like Pirate-era captain’s quarters, bedrooms like an Ancient Egyptian throne/tomb, and have dining rooms look like Lars’s/Luke’s Tatooine dining room (sans the blue milk).

If we’re stuck in clown world, we can at least have fun at the circus/Vegas casino.

 

[Pomniman]

Since we’re talking about the deeper/natural meaning of color, how do we explain “green with envy”? What makes the color green associated with envy?

This thread feels like a Seinfeld cafe conversation bit between Jerry and George.

It supposedly goes back to the ancient Greeks who believed you'd be sickly looking and greenish because of the bile in your body when envious.

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

It's a color. It doesn't have a meaning.

I think colors can have meaning/be symbolic. Purple is associated with royalty, green with nature, blue with water and security, etc. But gays are icky, so my compromise is that I have determined by my own deep and intimate knowledge of color theory that my favorite colors are now all associated with hating faggotry.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

reminds me ORANGE AND BLUE EVERYWHERE in 00s-ish posters and covers

also yeah I want tacky 70s futurism hotel decor for my cyberfuture, please, totes Contemporary Resort for me

 

[Pomniman]

I think colors can have meaning/be symbolic. Purple is associated with royalty, green with nature, blue with water and security, etc. But gays are icky, so my compromise is that I have determined by my own deep and intimate knowledge of color theory that my favorite colors are now all associated with hating faggotry.

Adding onto this, every word has a meaning and history you wouldn't typically associate with it if you dig into its etymology. Language molds the form of thought and we're surrounded by building blocks we don't fully comprehend.

 

[teriyakiburns]

reminds me ORANGE AND BLUE EVERYWHERE in 00s-ish posters and covers

It's exactly the same motivation as that. Orange and blue contrast extremely well without clashing. These "bisexual lighting" colours perform the same function and were already popping up around 15 years ago, here and there, as the orange/blue trend started to get stale. It's only coincidence that it happens to be a similar combination as the bisexual mood flag. Remember, the initial claims behind this whole thing are from the people who have made a striped flag for every possible emotional state they can imagine, so to say that any pair of colours is somehow gay-related, just because it appears on a fag flag, is a nonsense; by that measure, they all are.