What Color Is My Hoodie?
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Grey? Blue? Purple? It can look different, depending on the context. Let's talk about color perception, color temperature, and the history of laundry.
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Please contain all your "color" vs "colour" comments in this thread. Good luck.
Colour
@@Thecarrothead No, color.
Colour, obviously .
Ok
Gray
it'll always be a red T-shirt in our hearts
this is correct
No, It's Blue 🧢
@@pixelpancakes489 what
@@agestatsega those are fighting words
@@baldychkn2949 Only A Few People Will Understand...
I like the idea that Tom just has a seperate wardrobe with like 20 grey hoodies and about a hundred red shirts
What about his pants
I'd imagine his closet looks like Homer Simpson's
*Barry benson intensifies*
But that's true. To quote Matt and Tom: "Red shirt, red shirt, red shirt, red shirt, grey hoodie, grey hoodie, suit."
@@jeppejensen5382 Red pants
"Those aren't all the same hoodie, I have several but they're identical"
Tom literally has a cartoon character wardrobe of endless rows of the exact same gray hoodie, red T-shirt and pants.
they went over this on the park bench back in the day, yes. his wardrobe is a series of red t-shirts, grey hoodies, identical jeans and a suit.
makes several days of filming easier
@@jbkjbk1999 A suit with a red tie
@Mr Burns The logical conclusion is wearing no clothes.
The hoodie is absolutely unique, expect for the several others which are all identical
For those wondering if any trains came
1:20 a Gatwick Express 387 passes under
5:20 a Thameslink 700 passes under
immediately went looking for this
Hell yes
Thank you!
I like trains
@@awesomealbertt1150 ok Sheldon
2:38 with a snap of his fingers, Tom was transported to hollywood Mexico, and later at 3:28 was transported to every hollywood sci-fi setting ever. Incredible.
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"I'm not sure that's helpful" is paint names in a nutshell
Nutshell sounds like it could be a paint name.
My brother painted his annex "muddy puddle" a few year ago. Was kind of a mocha brown like chocolate powder. Wasn't bad actually with enough lighting.
I'm color blind, so I just painted my shop "I'm not sure that that's helpful"
I have this colour picker program on my computer that will tell me the colour of anything on the screen. It's supposed to help with my colourblindness but it always gives me "amethyst sky" type names
My favourite painy name is toke. It's a really really really pale grey.
Finally, I can complete my Tom cosplay with a color-accurate hoodie
colour*
@@adamjones120w colouor
Color
@@adamjones120w hmmmm, that’s weird, I don’t remember anyone asking
Hmmm that’s weird, I didn’t remember asking Americans to change the spellings and pronunciations of our words
Having met Tom, I can confirm that his hoodie is indeed grey, and also he's taller than you think.
subtle flex
subtle flex
subtle flex
how tall are we speaking?
imagine breaking the chain
Imagine telling your friends your favorite color is Amethyst Sky and they look it up and it's actually just grey.
And all the stars were just like little fish
@@P-Mouse - Go on take everything
To be fair, it is a slightly purple grey!
@@firstname405 Or if you credit the marketing-speak "This deep purple has a generous grey undertone suggestive of storm clouds on a distant horizon."
Was Amethyst Sky the real favourite colour of the lead singer of Counting Crows?
"Hey that's a nice grey hoodie you got there."
"Ah, no, you see, it's actually AMETHYST SKY."
Good to know you still use this acount
This account is more active then jontrons account.
Reminds me when I painted my bedroom in Angel Dust White.. Which honestly should be a drug not a colour.
Nice one to add to my usuals - military gray and ocean gray.
@@Carewolf Hazbin Hotel vibes lmao
Fun fact: it also works with paper. The regular printing paper is slightly blue to appear "extra white". That's why when you're buying paper to make your own book, it's better to buy cream paper (slightly orange), or pearl paper (slightly grey) as it appears more natural for a book than bright white/slightly blue.
It's also better for the eyes as 'book white' causes less eye strain.
As someone who runs 100% Digital Vibrance colors on my monitors
When you changed back to "daylight" and it all become blue, it felt like getting flashbanged
same
Any CSGO players in the comment section ehy.
@@lorenzo6553 your username scared me for a second - good job
When's the next bullshittery fatbald?
@@903-v8u That's a bad attitude you have right there! Let's debate about it.
No, Tom. Don't do this to me. The internet has already ruined many things for me. Your hoodie is grey. Your shirts are red. That is how it is and will always be. You cannot convince me otherwise.
Once a red shirt always a red shirt in our hearts ♥️
I really love his red shirts
@@DyslexicMitochondria Cool username. Cool channeI too
its gray, not grey.
@@DyslexicMitochondria oh hi again
Somebody should make a 10 hour compilation of Tom saying "ever so slightly"
It wouldn't fit into 10 hours
@@AresVoid no it would fit, by just ever so slightly cutting each clip
dayly and nightly, in little ways?
@@mikul9204 when everything stays...?
@@raulmartino7531 As long as it's in the greys
2:54 I love how the text changes from "color" to "colour"
2:54 hehe the flickering "colour"/"color" was a nice little detail
But also the slight changes in the audio during the day-night-day transition sold it perfectly for me
i think the title of the video is also changing to colour/color or something because the title of the video says "colour" under the video but it also says "color" on the tab
@@anonymousperson2327 it is. My desktop youtube shows colour whereas my mobile youtube app shows color. I tried a VPN to go from canada to the US, but no change. Its probably just flickering or changing depending on the time. Idk
His self-aware editing is one of my favorite parts of Tom's videos
@@Ayane13b I think it's just UA-cam settings. My language setting was dutch and it showed color however when I changed it to English UK it changed to colour
2:54 the word “colo(u)r” “glitching” between having and not having a u is great
Colour is the right spelling >:(
I’m British :P
was trying to make a joke, I know it’s not a good one so just ignore it please.
@@PaperMoonLaZY the reason we don’t have the u is because in the American revolution we wanted to get rid of u
I stole this hard
@@rattfish You were a day late😭
@@rattfish I also heard we wanted to stick it to the British so we changed some of our language
Fun fact: modern detergents commonly use fluorescent particles that emit blue light instead of dye, so when they're advertising as "make your clothes whiter than white" they are actually doing that. They are adding more light than you would receive instead!
This is a very fun fact!
Wait what? Wouldn't this make the clothes give off a faint glow in a dark room?
@@thejedimaster32 the fluorescent particles only emit blue light when they can absorb UV light. The day light spectra contains a tiny amount of UV, whereas in a dark room there is no UV light for them to glow blue. But that's why in a club or disco with UV fluorescents, your white clothes look purple/bueish.
Oh, you said "detergents", that makes so much more sense
@@teo3066 what the hell did you think was said originally
I think a good way to experience this, is by sitting inside a (probably children') tent, with a neon colour - such that on the inside, everything has a hue of that colour. Sit inside for half an hour or so and you'll feel how that colour is kind of missing when you step outside - as if it's greyed out - but your brain quickly re-adjusts.
However, if you've additionally had the horrid experience of being really sick inside one and had to stay inside for an entire day, your brain gets really confused when you step outside. It's a really weird experience - but you become extremely self-aware of how your brain interprets colours. I'd compare it to when you've been inside a cooled car for hours, only to step out into high heat - that weird minute or two where your body re-adjusts: It's like that, but with the brain.
(This experience was also my inspiration to become a web designer)
I find your experience so interesting, tempted give it ago
you dont even need a tent, on a sunny day when you lay in the sunlight with your eyes closed (best near noon when the sun is the brightest) the light shining through your eyelids makes you see red, when you open them after a while everything kinda looks grey green blue-ish
Anything Tom wears automatically becomes a red shirt, even if it isn't a red shirt.
👌🏻
The color sensor should have said red.
@@fireriffs do you mean....... Colour?...
Just kidding, I don't care. I just find it funny.
That's right. No, those aren't blue jeans. It's now a red shirt.
Y e a
The only channel that can make the phrase "History of Laundry" sound exciting
lmao
Well Now, I'm Interested On It.
Half as Interesting once made a joke about the history of bricks but I bet Tom Scott could actually make an interesting video about it
Next video on the history of laundry, go!
Only liking due to ur profile photo.
>"My hoodie is colored... Amethyst Sky"
>Refuses to elaborate
>Leaves
Gigachad move
Tom Scott is the youngest looking old guy or the oldest looking young guy, and I can never decide which.
69th
Tom is Aes Sedai confirmed
He’s 34 I believe
Oldest looking young guy ofc,
Just needs to take the Matt Parker plunge and shave the head
Colors Tom Scott wears:
- red
- _Amethyst Sky_
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Hehe Boi. Colours*
@@advickprosankto both work tho
@@Celebetic But one works better than the other
@@advickprosankto no.
"Laundry bluing" is still a thing here in many households in Ghana, including mine. Wash your singlets with the blue dye, and they'll look brand new.
I don't use blue dye in my wash, but I often throw in some of the blue wash in with the white, here in the united states. I never really thought about it much, it was just one of those things I learned from my mum.
I was watching a historical documentary on life in 1800's England and they were bluing their whites back then too. (show is called Victorian Farm on Amazon Prime and is fantastic btw)
Similar product is also sold in Thailand. School uniforms of over 99.5% schools in Thailand feature white tops (blouses/shirts), and this dye is really helpful, along with some good bleach, of course.
Yea this is especially a thing with paper. Notably it's not an actual 'bluing' agent but rather a chemical that absorbs UV light and re-emits it as visible blue light
We have it in India as well
"If I am filming under a blank, gray sky, it can make the shot look a little dull."
Tom, you live in Britain.
Great Britain.* Britain is a region in France. It's a little under England. The pointy part that's just a huge coast to the Atlantic ocean. And actually it does have the same climate as the U.K.
Tom Scott always shows up in my feed like, "I know you don't think you're interested in this, but you are."
And sure enough, I am.
Mashallah tbark Allah alhamudillah inshallah better astgfrallah
@@allahm-ast3mnlywlatstbdlny164 ?
you it put so accurately in words
Every time. "Ehhh, I can put this off it's a bit dull..." Then I watch it and am riveted.
@@allahm-ast3mnlywlatstbdlny164 why are you commenting this here?
I've been binge listening to Tom Scott videos studying for exam season and my inner monologue is now starting to talk with a sarcastic British accent...slightly concerned
[nods in british]
goddammit the brits are now colonising brains
I would give anything for tom scott to always be talking in my ear, you've got a blessing on your hands!
@@erikakerboom2101 Congratulations, your head is now part of the New British Empire.
The head of state of your head in this state is now the UK’s head of state
fun fact: the title changes depending on where you view it from:
"What Colour Is My Hoodie" if you are in UK
"What Color Is My Hoodie" if you are in USA
"What Hue Is My Hoodie" if you are in Brazil
In Canada, we spell it with the "u", but the title is spelt "color"
"what colour is my jumper"
If you're in Germany the title is spelled without an u
@@MayaByard UA-cam doesn't have the information to where I'm from, and it says color.
"Amethyst Sky" vs Gray Hoodie
It's kind of like when you're trying to draw digitally and the color picker's little preview square doesn't look quite right but you put it on the drawing and it suddenly makes sense
Colour theory is a heck of a thing. When I finally got my head round it I felt like my brain had been rewired. I can’t help but look at colours in sets, as palettes, etc anymore. But it’s great for picking RGB light combos, and knowing why some clothes never coordinated even though they were “both purple”.
No Tom Scott! Amethyst Sky is not the colour of the hoodie. It is a Good Match for you hoodie. Meaning, If you wanted to make your hoodies into a sofa you should paint your walls Amethyst Sky to make your room look most stylish.
I tried to color pick a flamingo once, and let me tell ya, none of the colors on a flamingo look like the color of a flamingo
Except that it doesn’t make sense. That’s clearly not the color of the hoodie. Besides, the hoodie is not one solid color, but a pattern made up of several colors.
That hoodie isn't just grey, it's heather grey, which means that depending on the precision of the colour sensor you're using, the heather pattern might get a different result from different positions on the fabric. That might be why you got "amethyst sky". Another millimetre over, and you might get something very different.
Now I want to see this tested 20 times to verify the range of colors...
I see that grey more commonly called "grey marle" but yes. The yarn it's woven from is variegated (not one solid colour) so there really isn't one definite answer, only an average.
That’s not due to the color, that’s the manner in which the fabric is constructed.
That's actually what I thought this video was gonna be about. Cause it's not just one shade of gray, it's many different shades depending on exactly which thread you're focusing on.
@@ennisskalski719 you’re right it’s a marle, which is comprised of two colours (more is a melange, or that’s how my of job defined them) that are woven or knitted to give a soft streaky effect. Heathered yarn is less subtle and more “spotty”, looking more like TV static.
Adding a touch of blue to make something look whiter is used in cake decorating as well. Blue food colouring makes buttercream look extra white.
As far as I know from my training as a laboratory paint assistant and chemical coatings engineer the companys are adding a bit of blue dyes because the most common white pigment Titandioxide (TiO2) absorbs slightly light in the blue wavelength region. Therefore the neat TiO2 looks very slightly yellow. Adding a blue dye copensates this effect and for us it appears more "white". (:
I do this when I paint!
Tom: How can I make my life harder?
Tom's brain: shoot on a railway bridge.
One take too
Worse than that, shoot in England, where the sky itself is perpetually gery.
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@Basedand Chadpilled its a bot..
@@ricoparadiso i don't believe this is the place for that
Me, with the "night light" setting on my computer so high everything is bright orange: "I'll just take your word for it."
1pm with the artificial colour looks green
Stolen.
i can’t stand orange-y screen temperatures, you must be some kinda of sociopath
@@nola- Some software (f.lux is good) adjusts it over the course of an hour or so. I never notice the change, but at some point I look at a white image and realise "oh hey, that's a bit more orange now".
@@4P5MC I myself don't like the look of the yellow tint and it is more harmfull for your sleep than blue light.
Tom revealed the exact color of the hoodie...now we just have to wait until someone paints their home walls “Tom’s Hoodie Grey” and the process will be complete :P
With “Tom’s Shirt Red” highlights
I now want to see Tom shoot a video in a room that matches the same colour as his hoodie and do the light thing again.
Home decor challenge : Tom's total look
the name Tom's Hoodie Gray is somehow catchy and creepy at the same time. Like you'd name a torture room or something like "Tom's Secret Toy Box" which sounds naughty
This kind of thing makes people stop meeting their fans.
As an artist, color perception is not only super interesting, but also CRUCIAL to know when you are composing a piece.
I just realized im more interested in the history of Laundry than doing Laundry myself
This is so true it hurts.
@@SnickersEatsCookies Well, without the truth you're just gonna make mistakes and hurt even more
@@cheshire1 that's true buddy
That's perfectly normal. I think.
I hadn't realised that Tom uses either the grey hoodie or the red shirt in all of his videos. That's some serious commitment...
Nah, it's just his personal brand. Which i love btw
I actually noticed, I did wonder why!
@@nicola_x Makes continuity easy. Don't have to worry about awkwardly changing shirts across shots if you always wear the same thing! It also means you don't have to decide what to wear every day, which is less taxing on your brain. Picking a personal style and sticking with it is super great.
It's not either - he's wearing a red t-shirt underneath a hoodie.
I don't know if Tom reads the comments, but I feel like we don't thank him enough for his weekly, high-quality videos. So thanks, Tom! I really love and appreciate your work
Amen.
His videos are polished so well !!
@F*СК MЕ - СНЕCK МY РR0FILЕ The bots are speaking cryptic now.
this post is underrated. and needs more upvotes
+
I can't believe tom scott's hoodie would be such an enigma
I love how they add fluorescent dyes into laundry detergent to make your clothes literally whiter than white.
Ooh so that's why Mr. White's meth is blue, because it makes it whiter..
That final, “I’m not sure that’s helpful,” has a lot of potential as a stand-alone clip.
We're gonna see it in YTPs and memes next month, I bet
While laundry bluing might not exist anymore, detergent companies add optical brighteners to their products. They absorb UV and emit blue to achieve the same illusion of 'cleaner' clothes.
Came here to say this. Same with white paper. It becomes really obvious with an UV flashlight.
Titanium oxide?
Go and put some TiO in your washing machine, see what happens
makeup for your clothes
It does. No idea how common it is to use anymore but I've seen it in stores every so often (and a quick look shows amazon sells it).
They needed this video back when there was that debate with the blue/gold dress image floating around
Talking about colour perception: Aw, okay...
History of laundry: Now THIS is what I subscribe for.
Anyone could tell you how color perception works. But the history of laundry? That's really something.
Clorur*
That laundry bluing was still prominent just 5 years ago in South East Asian countries. It was a very big part of our laundry in Bangladesh
I dunno, I'm partial to Wendover's Brick Info!
@@amabeeer2 still here in Malaysia - you can purchase Laundry Blue drops to make while laundry, brighter. Bonus: The drops are also is popular as folk remedy for soothing mumps when mixed in with a bit of vinegar.
Plot twist: Tom's hoodie is a hue of green and he's using video editing to mess with our heads.
It's actually Red
@@goodlad85 no its yellow
gray
Its a radio wavelength hoodie, cmon now.
Actually it’s deep purple, get working eyes next time 😤😤
I prefer a warm light setting on my computer screen. It's easier on my eyes.
The part about looking dirty is probably why Lego discontinued their original grey colors and replaced them with bluish-grey.
Interesting observation.
@CofferZ you* spelt suck wrong
@CofferZ incorrect grammar but ok
Two month ago: I'm running out of ideas.
Today: What color is my hoodie?
Checks out.
yup.
yup
yup?
yup!
dnʎ
As a kid, I discovered that all my white clothes were ever so slightly blue. I assumed that was because white was just a shade of blue and no other color could be brightened to pure white. Now I know what was really going on.
colour*
@@adamjones120w *color
@@sameldacamel3889 do you speak English?
@@adamjones120w color*
@@adamjones120w color*
the only mainstream video to get color right. congrats tom
I'm slightly convinced that Tom got a fancy new color detecting toy and then quickly threw together a video about colors just to use it on camera
Reminds me of Gus Johnson's video: This Video Is a Tax Write Off
Oh so you buy both your red t-shirts AND grey hoodies in bulk? Classic Tom Scott
His prismarine scarlet t shirts and amethyst sky hoodies you mean?
WE need those hoodies
And blue jeans
Sign of a genius.
A
"...That I couldn't understand"
That is terrifying.
Color Science is a deep deep rabithole that is maddening, I just have a spectrometer and colorimeter to keep the colors consistent between my monitors, don't want to go down that rabithole. Taran van hemert has a decent video series on color, far from complete but a good look down the rabithole.
I've noticed the same with car headlights. You can tell the age of a car by the headlight hue. The older it is, the more yellow, and the newer, the bluer.
Imagine asking someone an icebreaker like: What's your favourite colour? And them replying with 'Amethyst Sky'
You could get 'Barbie Pink' ...
When I was a little kid, I learned my colors off of the crayons, but nobody told me which ones were normal color names and which ones were special crayon color names. So there was me, two years old, telling everyone my favorite color was "wisteria."
Better than answering "Flesh Charm". (Still a real paint color, even if it's not made with real Dutch boys.)
I have a feeling that thanks to the slight stonewash patterning on that hoodie he'd get a different paint name every time.
Having used such a system in the past, (work term at a paint tinting manufacturer): Yep, we hated it when someone asked if we could find the mix to match fabric because we would have to make up half a dozen sample jars to see which scan was actually accurate. That was for fabric with a 'flat' colour, never mind something with any kind of patterning, (which would probably be worse than asking the software to figure out the mix for a purple¹ or green²).
1: Which would invariably be wrong.
2: For which it would insist on the no-no of using both blue and yellow pigments. You always use a green pigment and one of yellow or blue to avoid very noticeable colour changes as the yellow fades.
That's what I was thinking too. It works in a similar way to the colour picker in Photoshop etc and marled clothing is always made up of multiple shades. The device clearly has incredible magnification but that doesn't help when each section is a different shade. If it were solely grey like a spun shirt rather than a mix of shades creating a grey from a distance then it would obviously show as grey when scanned.
I'm from india and we have an interesting history of blue dye called indigo here. The Brits made the farmers grow it in huge amounts because they made lots of money by selling it. It was used as blue ink and to blue clothes. We still use it in indian households after washing the clothes, put a couple of drops in a bucket and soak the clothes in it. They look shiny as new.
@butti fdft noice
For the curious the product is called- "Ujala", which translate to light.
@@rocketgoose8753 there's other brands too, but that's the most popular one.
Was looking for this comment, my mom does this with my white clothes
@@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars shouldn't you wash your own clothes
this is probably the best explanation of perception of Colour there is on the internet
The flicker between the US an UK english was brilliant 😂
where?
Ah, found it! 2:55
o.O made my eye twitch
Imagine thinking color is right tho lmfao
US English is watered down real English.
Maybe the real colour of your hoodie is the friends we made along the way.
"applause"
I didn't understand, can you please explain?
@@harsharya545 " the real ___ is the friends we made along the way" is a movie cliche that has been overused into the ground, so he's making fun of it
I hate the fact that I literally laughed out loud at that
This guy can make a video about anything and still make it interesting
this makes me want to make tom scott into a dungeons and dragons character with a color changing hoodie used for camouflage
i once looked for "laundry bluing" in grocery stores (for reasons), and the only person i found who even knew what that was, just paused, before saying they hadn't heard those words, or seen any, in a _long_ time
Modern detergent powders include bluing alternatives, so they are no longer sold separately. I remember them from the 1960s, when soap was used for washing...
It'd be interesting if you could get that colour from Benjamin Moore and paint a wall with it and then stand in front of it to compare.
That's a really good idea I hope Tom sees this
me seeing the train coming at 1:08 : *the sound is about to get messy*
surprisingly quiet doe
@@denno445 train was quite quiet, didnt see a doe though, must have ran across the tracks faster than my eyes could see.
@@denno445 that's called good mastering
@@monad_tcp or maybe its a lubed ass train
Now the sweater is *_RED_*
Just love your videos Tom, you have unlocked interests for me and I am very grateful ::)
I once watched an animated TV program, in which the two main characters had slightly different skin tones. I got curious and sampled the colors from a still frame, and found the character who everyone read as "pale" was a slightly bluish white, while the character whose skin read to us as "normal human skin" was actually *pure white*.
What was the program... ·_·
You are stating “pure white” is “normal human skin”. Who are you? Come to the real world.
@@TheGrindelwald Congratulations for completely misunderstanding the comment and getting outraged by literally nothing. 💖
@@cynthiaaaa5204 A. nope, I’m not raging. But B. Skin tone is actually not nothing. Even in cartoons the skin tones are “a” skin tone and not skin toned. A big difference
@@TheGrindelwald How are you on a video about how colors read relatively to what they get compared to and still need to ask this
There's a whole psychological theory behind colour temperature as well. Generally cooler colours are more clinical, serious, factual. Generally warmer colours are more comforting, friendly, romantic. If you want to be taken seriously - be blue. If you want a more emotional, sympathetic connection, make your pictures warm. It's also interesting that the colour temperature of the light in a room affects a person's body temperature.
Cool info!! Maybe that's also the reason why yellow means friendship
@@rc_woshimao957 Where?
@@daleicious1528 ah, I think in general? Maybe from an artist point of view, yellow is always connected with out going and socializing and friendly...it's all subjective though :D
Every large light in my home is colour adjustable, some for the full spectrum, some just cold and warm white. I choose depending on task and mood, and it's improved my life significantly. I even installed an Apple Homekit switch into my bedroom light switch because I couldn't find the same product in a Smart Home compatible version: A light bulb with three different temperatures down to 2700k - and the tip of the bulb in a shape that spreads out the light non-uniformly, which in combination with my specifically chosen lampshades give the whole thing a visual aesthetic of something like a campfire in the sky.
"Whiter than white" actually added something that made white clothing luminesce (fluoresce? I'm never sure) under UV lighting. I remember a stage production from when I was younger that exploited that: they turned the visible lights off at one point and the white shirts literally glowed in the dark.
I'm just gonna say it: Tom running out of ideas is a blessing in disguise.
It is indeed
Toms buys his hoodies? I always though the universe just manifested the hoodies and red tshirts on his closet, to maintain cosmic balance.
Well, I mean, if you buy something in bulk, you will get them for cheap.
@@notthatcreativewithnames As the universe does, he's obviously lying here.
Sounds like something a TikToker would do
Does anyone mind if I wait for a person to get whooosed here ?
I just always see him in my recommended, I love this guy
Tom's like my spirit animal, overthink and overcomplicate absolutely anything possible.
i was so confused by the hoodie being as grey as the sky, and the wall not being white at all but very greyish.... and then i realized that my monitor had the "night light" setting on
I was in Reading Mode and it was all greyscale from the off hah
As a colorblind person this is a valid question
hey me too
Kinda Sad Dude.
Same
Spoiler: it’s grey
@@DyslexicMitochondria you're the only channel I've subscribed to that I see almost everywhere.
maybe the color was the friends we made along the way
"I'm not sure that's helpful" is a perfect phrase to describe Tom's internet presence.
Interesting, funny, and informative, sure.
But usually not helpful for anyone's daily life.
Love ya, Tom!
Hey I find it very helpful! I know never to try and jump over The Strid if I ever go there because I’ll DIE if I do. That’s very handy to know.
I mean, a certain amount entertaining content is helpful for mental health. Though admittedly, it's probably gone too far in the other direction for most of us especially during quarantine...
You don't seem to spent a lot of time on the internet - because this describes most of it.
Imagine staring out of your window on a train journey and seeing Tom just chilling with his cameraman on a hill with a grey hoodie.
@CofferZ fax
cameras still, it’s just him and the gopro
You know things are not going as usual if Tom's pinned comment is only 4 days old.
Yeaaaa
Yh normally it's like 2 weeks old or a month or something. Personally, I think Tom's going insane
a sign of the times
it was probably a private video for a couple of days
Yes.
I haven't even seen too many of his videos, neither have I met him, but the "they are not all the same, I have several, but they are all identical" just feels like a very Tom Scott thing to say
We have learned a lot of cool things because of your generic choice of clothing. I truly appreciate you. You’re one of a kind and I love it
I changed nearly all the bulbs in my house to 4000k/5000k color temperature LED's. In most cases, yellow lighting makes me sad.
EDIT: The 5000k does give off a bit of a blueish tint. In one light fixture in my bedroom, I did one 5000k LED, and one normal light bulb with a yellowish tint (don't know the exact temperature, probably around 2,700k-3000k) It's on a fixture where you can turn on each bulb separately. Not only can you choose the mood. But if you turn both on, it makes the off-white wall have an oddly pleasant, but not overpowering effect. I really like it. It was an experiment after the two 5000k bulbs seemed overpowering for my nighttime lamp.
Blue lights give me migraines. I did the opposite in my house. We could make a very banal sitcom together.
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Yellow lighting makes me sleepy, blue lighting makes me feel more awake and productive
My basement aka my abode has warm potlights so it feels like the sun is always up until I turn them off
You’re gonna melt your fuckin brain with a 5k in your bedroom. That’s for hospitals and factories my dude!!!
Google says your hoodie is deep purple with a generous gray undertone suggestive of storm clouds on a distant horizon
*nearby horizon
@@The_Horizon ok that took me a while to get but I’m glad I did
@@The_Horizon huh
@@The_Horizon you are the horizon
The way it flickered between color and colour was so funny
"But if I am filming against a grey sky" *LIVES IN THE UK*
@BitXubse There’s no when, only always.
as an Australian 😂😂😂
yo u m ou
better than an amethyst sky
I wasn't going to say it
Tom, you’re the only person who can make “The History of Laundry” interesting. Bravo 👏
@CofferZ ok
Technology Connections on yt. You're welcome.
No, I’m sure there are thousands of people who could make it interesting.
"they're not the same hoodie, but they're identical"
of course
That hoodie color is so cool
You literally have the most satisfying endings
As a professional colourist (dying and screenprinting) , when ever I wash my whites, I always add in a royal blue cotton towel. Top Tips. And thank goodness Tom didn't include the McCollough Effect into this explanation, that would be a massive rabbit hole to fall down...
Will you tell us more about the McCollough effect then, please?
I'm safe... I don't have a massive rabbit!
Falling...failling...fallllllllllllllen...plop!
The title gave me pstd from the "what color is this dress" thing from years ago
Ahh 2015, when you could walk out of your door without fearing for you live.
I miss the days before the plague....
@@sparkleprincess4621 That was 2015?? Oh no...
Please don't joke about PTSD.
On the blueing - you do something similar in baking. When you make buttercream, it's usually a bit yellow ('cause of the butter solids!) but if you want it whiter you add like, purple dye. It's completely counter productive, adding in a very dark dye into your mix to make it lighter, but it works!
Little known fact: Tom's red shirt is the only thing everyone can universally see as red. Yes, even blind people.
what about greyscale color blind people and wait... blind people can't see at all!
They just see a beacon of red.
How can blind people see it? Are am I missing something?
what about star trek red shirts
@@ThreeMountainsStudio wooosh
See the hoodie in whatever colour your heart desires, but the T-shirt is always gonna be red.
"This deep purple has a generous gray undertone suggestive of storm clouds on a distant horizon."
If a laundry detergent contains "optical brighteners" it contains traces of a fluorescent pigment which glows blue in UV light.
I guess that's why shirts seem so bright in like crime drama forensics/photography rooms.
Yep! If you take white and add just a touch of blue it starts to look ‘whiter than white’
@@Arikayx13 Depends very strongly on the type of blue dye. Azo blues aren't going to get you whiter than white.
...and makes you very self-conscious in a nightclub in the '90s.
@@rertnerfurtheng3771 fluorescence takes you outside the CIE Color Space.