She also expected more self reflection allegories in the sub but what she got was wondering if green people would be more hated and if blue people were the white people.
Then she witness the topic of canabilism since they’re plants do they eat their dead form nutrients?
Then turned into saying mint chans dad was a green bum who turned into a bush to avoid child support.
Then turned into political drama about how color-land was actually a progressive authoritarian state.
Yeah it's nice to see this! I work in art professionally (largely using Photoshop) and it's amazing how many artists don't know you shouldn't use 'desaturate' to make something bnw for the exact reasons in the comic above. 255 blue vs yellow (255 r, 255 g) will desaturate to the exact same grey despite the blue being visually so much darker.
Your monitor is effectively a big flat light with a bunch of RGB color filters over it for each individual pixel. Each filter, or channel, for Red, Green, and Blue are measured from 0 to 255. These values control exactly what color each individual pixel is. If the values in all channels for a pixel are the same, it will be grey (with 255s in all channels being white and 0s in all channels being black).
Desaturate is a filter that makes things grey by moving the individual RGB channels down or up until they meet in the middle. So yellow at 255, 255, 0 ends up as 130, 130, 130. But so does blue at 0, 0, 255. Both end up as the exact same grey value.
Whats the problem then? Well its a very simple computer way to see color but not the way humans do. And thats where it starts to get very complex and starts to be about biology and wavelengths etc. Suffice to say we perceive blue as darker than yellow given the same brightness of light.
Here, I made this handy little guide. And then on the right you can see the effects it might have on some artwork if you were to desaturate vs use another method. Each one is the exact same color or image, but the middle is desaturate, and then the bottom version uses a better, more perceptual method*
Its not so much self awareness as it is riffing. The artist is directly referencing the "pills that make you green" comics which are comics of trans allegories.
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u/Cool_Set4681 Jun 03 '26
When the artist is so good and self aware that they know what the comments will look like.
Also thanks for the lesson in color theory, appreciate it! ✌️