Winnie the Pooh is literally yellow.

How did I not realise this before.

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    4 years ago

    Pooh is orange.

    After thinking about it too much, I wasn't sure what orange was anymore so I looked up a charts of what people commonly call colors and cross referenced them with Pooh's shades, and all of them are in the region of colors people tend to label orange.

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        4 years ago

        Here are some charts based on a large surveys where people were shown a random color and asked what it is: http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_1024.png https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/434022

        Here's some scenes from various Whinnie The Pooh DVDs I selected at random for direct comparison: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=whinney+the+pooh+scene&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

        I mean he's closer to orange-yellow than orange-brown or orange-red, but he's definitely within the orange regions.

        • RedDawn [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Tigger is orange, compare him to Pooh. Pooh is absolutely yellow. His page on Winniepedia https://pooh.fandom.com/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_(character)?mobile-app=false

          “Pooh is a yellow anthropomorphic bear”

          I

            • RedDawn [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              This is a stupid argument, just go ask any kid who watches Winnie the Pooh or has merchandise what color he is. He’s very obviously yellow.

              • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                This might be the goofiest argument I've seen on the internet in 15 years.

                • JudgeJuche [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  It's not like racism is based on accurate hue values for skin.

                  • Owl [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    White and black have been associated with good and evil since way before racism, and the decision to label pink/beige people "white" and tan/brown people "black" was absolutely meant to exploit this.

                • RedDawn [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Definitely the goofiest one I’ve participated in

        • qublic69 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Pooh is golden yellow.
          Your computer display color calibrations are probably off. Showing too much saturation, or too much red, turns golden yellow into orange.
          If you're on Windows: start>color management>advanced tab>calibrate display

          Honestly, the best way to check if your monitor has good color rendering and accurate color calibration is to look at porn.

          • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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            4 years ago

            I tested it by putting both pooh and various color charts in the same image, and dragging a bit of pooh's fur over the chart until they matched. They matched on either "orange", or golden for the more detailed charts.

            • qublic69 [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Then you're probably looking at a biased sample of Pooh Bear pictures, and not correctly accounting for scene lighting conditions.
              Might even blame color constancy; such that Pooh is orange in your mind, so you see him as orange and reinterpret his surroundings instead.

              For real though it's mostly just a language and culture issue, the way people categorize colors differs between countries.

              (also i didn't downvote you, i'm not rude like that; plenty of other ways, but not like that)