Comments on: Your Favorite Color Sucks Too.

Your Favorite Color Sucks Too.

Effigy2000 — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:33:24 -0800

The internet's favorite color. Subject to change without notice.

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:43:34 -0800

From here - "very red pictures don't have much blue and very blue pictures don't have much red, so on average there's not much blue and not much red, which can mean green is left over." This is cool, but what cancels out greens? And wouldn't mixing all the colors always eventually result in greenish/brownish thing?

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:46:59 -0800

The internet's favorite colour is a nice shade of poop.

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:55:11 -0800

I thought our favorite colour was blue. Oh and grey for arguments, and green, and whatever that project colour is.

By: nylon

nylon — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:21:14 -0800

Flickr = the internet?

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:33:00 -0800

Flickr = the internet? They should really be tracking colours used on MySpace profiles - then at least we'd get something epileptic fit-inducing instead of dull brown.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:42:18 -0800

Not really. If you mix a bunch of paint essentially at random, you'll still tend to get brown, no matter whether the original colors were subdued or violent.

By: Phantomx

Phantomx — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:44:10 -0800

Why must they have the 'favcol' tag requirement? To pimp their site endlessly? The tag thing really bugs me, but otherwise I tend to like things like this.

By: sexymofo

sexymofo — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:53:50 -0800

I think they are confusing "favorite" with "average."

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:54:37 -0800

To find the internet's favourite colour I would think it would be more precise to spider for "#******" in html and css pages and calculate an average, no? On preview: sexymofo is, of course, right.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:17:12 -0800

meh... meaningless

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:20:07 -0800

Mmmm ... Mocha.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:36:18 -0800

They're not even calculating an appropriate average, since each image can only carry their tag once.

By: furtive

furtive — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:53:42 -0800

Sheitgeist = Internet brown.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:12:41 -0800

Isn't that the MeTa colour? Or damn close?

By: scratch

scratch — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:28:36 -0800

Color me unimpressed.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:37:57 -0800

Using this method, I don't think I'd want to eat the world's favorite food.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:45:40 -0800

I think the internet's favorite color would be whatever #****** value appeared the most frequently, calculated by square pixelage. Not some sort of average. They're just gonna get brown cut with a lot of white.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:50:50 -0800

Gah, this is lame in every possible way: 1. Why just Flickr? 2. Why the dumb tag? 3. Why the stupid averaging method, when they *know* it's wrong? 4. Why are they only using photographs? why not use sourwookie's method and take colours from page backgrounds? blah.

By: danb

danb — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:58:38 -0800

I think they are confusing "favorite" with "average." Yeah, that's the biggest problem. Still an interesting idea, though.

By: whoshotwho

whoshotwho — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:09:13 -0800

Wow, you guys are pretty critical. It's made by a guy who wanted to make something fun, get over it. You probably spent more time complaining about this link than you did actually navigating the site.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:22:59 -0800

Well, his fun just has to meet my standards, dammit!

By: barbelith

barbelith — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:35:25 -0800

I'm looking at the guy who made it right now and I'm pretty sure he didn't invest months of his life on what should be considered a nice, interesting and fun little hack. Got any positive ideas about how it could be improved?

By: ninjew

ninjew — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:38:01 -0800

By: mendel

mendel — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:39:17 -0800

Wow, you guys are pretty critical. New here? (Boy, that brown sure is fun.)

By: paranoidfish

paranoidfish — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:48:36 -0800

I know it's kinda dumb. But I had fun making it.

By: slatternus

slatternus — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:53:34 -0800

Brown. Typical.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:05:38 -0800

Flagged as Brown.

By: briank

briank — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:35:49 -0800

Actually, it goes pretty well with the Average Color of the Universe.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:45:12 -0800

"Isn't that the MeTa colour? Or damn close?" That's what I thought too.

By: hoborg

hoborg — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:56:45 -0800

At least it wasn't triple-posted, right Effigy? ;)

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:54:26 -0800

This is cool, but what cancels out greens? And wouldn't mixing all the colors always eventually result in greenish/brownish thing? Purple (a mix of red and blue) obviously.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:54:43 -0800

It looks grey to me.

By: SuzySmith

SuzySmith — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:13:10 -0800

They should really be tracking colours used on MySpace profiles - then at least we'd get something epileptic fit-inducing instead of dull brown. No, no for the love of my eyes. Besides blink, flash and sparkle aren't colors.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:28:53 -0800

Go mlnjr!

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:44:10 -0800

One place where I was able to snag mlnjr instead of emelenjr. Heh. Just doing my part to get rid of the doodoo brown.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:46:36 -0800

Got any positive ideas about how it could be improved? posted by barbelith at 9:35 AM CST on June 7 You're always going to end up with brown unless you force an artificial counter-method. I would rather see it as a rank. Subdivide the page into 5 stripes, showing the top 5 colors. This would also be easier to change via user action. More ambitious, allow the page to change based on ANY searchable keyword, besides just favcol. In other words, let me search for the tag "apple" and the page turn a nice red. "Grass" = a nice green. Etc.

By: effwerd

effwerd — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:57:09 -0800

It's now a nice green gray. Good job, emelenjr.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:58:53 -0800

"At least it wasn't triple-posted, right Effigy? ;)" Indeed!

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:54:53 -0800

Awesome... the light spectrum version of carrot cake. Nobody would choose it as their favorite, really, but atleast no one will object too much. ...oh right, this is MeFi. Please, let the vehement objections continue.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:09:28 -0800

Did anyone get this image on the linked page? Funny.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:10:17 -0800

The internets are mostly white, but it would be interesting to see a breakdown of the pixalage percentages. I bet MeFi has done way more than it's share for blue.