Brown; color is weird

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  • @TechnologyConnections
    @TechnologyConnections  5 років тому +11000

    IMPORTANT NOTE:
    If your display has a dynamic backlight, the color of the square may in fact be changing along with the average image brightness. I underestimated how common this is so I didn't mention it. So, if you're seeing it change - that wasn't me! Those colors in the video file are identical.
    And, just so's ya know, there are indeed many browns and not all of them are necessarily derived from orange. As you saw, the Pantone 448C is much more like a very dark yellow. But, to me, the classic *_brown_* is definitely a descendant of orange.
    And don't get me started on beige!

    • @tomgidden
      @tomgidden 5 років тому +267

      I hate to say it, but your jacket isn't a million miles from 448C :/

    • @KevinT3141
      @KevinT3141 5 років тому +223

      Diversion: Salmon is the beige of fish. Can't pick a paint colour? Use beige. Can't decide what fish to order? Get salmon. Now salmon as a colour... that's a bold choice.

    • @pricelesshistory
      @pricelesshistory 5 років тому +46

      You know, you talk and showed a many examples of those magnetic tapes, video tapes, cassette tapes, reel to reel tapes. I think you are suffering from Tape worm disease with this fascination for brown.

    • @moi01887
      @moi01887 5 років тому +73

      Duh... beige is just light brown. So beige = orange. ;^)

    • @killsalot78
      @killsalot78 5 років тому +52

      Just wanna say, at 8:15 all I can see is brown. Sure its an orangey brown, but so much darker than any color id describe as orange. Also when the background switches back and forth it doesnt really change in color at all. This video is really interesting to me, hopefully im not color blind lol especially since im a painter. I think if you spend enough time paying attention to colors, you can see how much red, green, or even blue is in them. Its kinda like looking at color temperature or color balance.

  • @door-chan
    @door-chan 5 років тому +21519

    "Hey, what's your eye color?"
    " Uhh... *_c o n t e x t u a l o r a n g e_* "

    • @SYatesie
      @SYatesie 4 роки тому +127

      Me too :3

    • @warwolf715
      @warwolf715 4 роки тому +440

      Well, that's not half-wrong.
      My mother's eyes are so bright brown, that they look orange when they're in the light.
      Likewise, my eyes come off almost a cyan colour in the light, when they're in-fact green.
      And, my father has boring blue. Nothing interesting there

    • @DanteYewToob
      @DanteYewToob 4 роки тому +409

      Trump is our second black president.
      He's a bright skinned black man.

    • @yusriyahbagheri8843
      @yusriyahbagheri8843 4 роки тому +128

      @@DanteYewToob this means he is the second president able to say the n-word *Donald rubbing hands together* "This was my plan all along." *maniacal laughing and stuff*

    • @kirayoshikage7122
      @kirayoshikage7122 4 роки тому +4

      Hello jojo fan

  • @Jus_Joj
    @Jus_Joj 4 роки тому +17163

    as a colorblind guy who's got brown hair, the Revelation that brown is just orange, but darker, has actually rocked my world.

    • @gob8883
      @gob8883 4 роки тому +299

      same man, same.

    • @noahandrews628
      @noahandrews628 4 роки тому +457

      Can you describe that at all? Does it help you visualize what orange might look like?

    • @Erin0040
      @Erin0040 4 роки тому +267

      @@noahandrews628 no

    • @bobrowder4776
      @bobrowder4776 4 роки тому +479

      I’m also color blind so next time I confused orange and brown... technically I’m not though 😂

    • @andrewemery8495
      @andrewemery8495 4 роки тому +98

      Who told you you had brown hair?

  • @011mph
    @011mph 4 роки тому +23497

    "brown doesn't really exist"
    Me, a person with brown skin, "so long my friends" *fades away *

    • @JohnSapato
      @JohnSapato 4 роки тому +355

      😂 Lol.

    • @troyforce1
      @troyforce1 4 роки тому +2104

      Change de world
      My final message
      Goodbye

    • @alexschuster1618
      @alexschuster1618 4 роки тому +52

      😆

    • @lafleurstudios
      @lafleurstudios 4 роки тому +1666

      Trump is orange, african americans are dark orange.. therefore trump is a light skinned african american?????

    • @anissodon3714
      @anissodon3714 4 роки тому +38

      😭🤣🤣🤣

  • @dreariestcoma9254
    @dreariestcoma9254 Рік тому +108

    I've been a color technician using dyes and pigments for a decade and am very familiar with subtractive color.
    It was fun to learn more about additive color! Fun fact, with subtractive color, we can achieve a brown out of any two colors that are opposite on the color wheel, like green and red, or orange and purple.
    Depending on the strength of the pigment, there is some perfect ratio of the two colors that will achieve some variation of brown.
    Cpnsidering orange as we did in the video, I would probably have added just a touch of green to neutralize the redness of the orange. If that shifts me into too much of a yellow space, you could add a very small amount of red (or more orange) to shift it back into a true brown.

    • @annenelson5656
      @annenelson5656 Місяць тому +1

      This sounds like part of the color theory class I had way back in art school. Bravo! It’s so nice to see someone who appreciates the art+science of color.

  • @lordfeish1927
    @lordfeish1927 4 роки тому +2353

    The fact that brown is dark orange is actually quite useful if you’re using a paint program or something with that kind of color selector

    • @dashiellgillingham4579
      @dashiellgillingham4579 4 роки тому +91

      This video is why I can digitally paint in Orange now. I was literally finding ways to get around the color brown until now.

    • @koibubbles3302
      @koibubbles3302 4 роки тому +69

      I figured out a while ago you can achieve a nice skin color by desaturating a dark orange

    • @lady_deaths_head
      @lady_deaths_head 4 роки тому +17

      Man it's annoying to find brown

    • @Kionum
      @Kionum 4 роки тому +26

      I read your name as Lord fetish

    • @lordfeish1927
      @lordfeish1927 4 роки тому +13

      @@Kionum -_- you aint the first

  • @dimitri_tsm
    @dimitri_tsm 4 роки тому +3729

    "Maybe red-yellow.... Rellow?..."
    My brain: *YED*

  • @skylernova489
    @skylernova489 5 років тому +1906

    "This works best when in a pitch black room"
    Me watching this at 3am:
    "It's like I was made for this"

    • @kristinewidere1008
      @kristinewidere1008 5 років тому +16

      @Eissari4 I want that on a shirt, preferably a comfy t-shirt to wear whilst watching youtube, at 4am.

    • @milksoda655
      @milksoda655 5 років тому +2

      Me too!!

    • @grn1
      @grn1 5 років тому +3

      That used to be me but now I work day shift and have to up at 5 in the morning. I also didn't turn off my bright LED light in my room but I still saw the effect by focusing in on my screen.

    • @PixelPumpkin
      @PixelPumpkin 5 років тому +2

      My moment has come!

    • @Doctor_Straing_Strange
      @Doctor_Straing_Strange 5 років тому +1

      Same

  • @talibjordan9605
    @talibjordan9605 Рік тому +218

    The aging wheels cameo caught me extremely off guard but I love both of your channels!

    • @nomusicrc
      @nomusicrc 2 місяці тому

      What's his other channel

    • @unclvinny
      @unclvinny 2 місяці тому +1

      @@nomusicrcAging Wheels

  • @Limbolots0
    @Limbolots0 4 роки тому +11669

    Some people: wait brown is just darker Orange?
    Artist's : *always has been*

    • @timelordwarrior4394
      @timelordwarrior4394 4 роки тому +142

      Omg 😂😂 I relized this just now

    • @Vsuvi
      @Vsuvi 4 роки тому +561

      Wait normal ppl dont know dis?

    • @mosspetal7835
      @mosspetal7835 4 роки тому +350

      you mean non-digital artists don’t know this already????

    • @timelordwarrior4394
      @timelordwarrior4394 4 роки тому +519

      As a digital artist on the color picker you have to go to orange and then darken it to get brown so I suppose its more common knowledge then someone who doesn't do that.

    • @gamistry2947
      @gamistry2947 4 роки тому +161

      I mean, I'm not a digital artist, but I kinda figured it out myself when I was mixing paint as a kid. I just thought "What can make brown? I'm pretty sure it's orange and black", not to mention that I have a slightly more than average sense of colour (I guess)

  • @Erik-p8h2f
    @Erik-p8h2f 5 років тому +857

    The thing that really helped this concept 'click' for me: there's no such thing as gray light. You can dim a white light source but it's always white.

    • @Snickarz1337
      @Snickarz1337 5 років тому +2

      imagine that would happen.

    • @jmalmsten
      @jmalmsten 5 років тому +25

      As someone who deals with projectors a lot, it is kind of hard to convey the simple truth about projectors that they, by the laws of physics, cannot project darkness. It can only make other pixels brighter by comparison. So a projected pixel cannot be darker than the white screens surrounding illumination lets it.

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 4 роки тому +6

      When I was little I had a life crisis over actual black light. I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that a black light wasn’t a black light. What is a black light of a black light isn’t a black light? WtfffffFfFf?

    • @RD-BRAUNSIN
      @RD-BRAUNSIN 2 місяці тому

      Well it's a blue one of course.

  • @gutzbin
    @gutzbin 4 роки тому +1835

    “It’s not actually brown. It’s orange... but darker”
    that just sounds like brown with extra steps

    • @thomasvajhoj
      @thomasvajhoj 4 роки тому +3

      Adi Septiana no its brown with extra steps

    • @matthewchandler7845
      @matthewchandler7845 4 роки тому +3

      Rick and Morty Roll...Successful Execution!

    • @stalemurfies2031
      @stalemurfies2031 4 роки тому +5

      Jeez someone’s getting laid in college

    • @olivernicholds
      @olivernicholds 4 роки тому

      Mazen Fisher bless your soul

    • @rogierdancona8462
      @rogierdancona8462 4 роки тому +2

      Oh no, just as I read this comment my phone stopped charging in my car.. NOT AGAIN

  • @misseli1
    @misseli1 Рік тому +13

    This channel is reminiscent of educational videos my elementary school teachers would put in class. It's kind of comforting in a way.

  • @whodis5152
    @whodis5152 5 років тому +3762

    "I'm black"
    no, you are very dark orange

    • @CrashHeadroom
      @CrashHeadroom 4 роки тому +20

      @Duribethin Soooo everyone gon' look like tha tango man tony!?

    • @whodis5152
      @whodis5152 4 роки тому +11

      xDD haha wow i didnt Think i had more than 3 likes

    • @lafleurstudios
      @lafleurstudios 4 роки тому +100

      So does that mean Trump is just a really bright skinned "black" man?

    • @FM-er6xy
      @FM-er6xy 4 роки тому +81

      Actualy black people with hella dark skin are more on a red hue, as a digital artist it was hell for me to figure out the proper hue so it looks normal and not borderline racist caricature

    •  4 роки тому +10

      @@FM-er6xy how drawing a brotha black racist?

  • @ezekielwilliams9857
    @ezekielwilliams9857 3 роки тому +2788

    Joke: calling brown "dark orange"
    Bespoke: calling orange "bright brown"

    • @Lanausse
      @Lanausse 3 роки тому +8

      Wait this isn’t SiIvagunner

    • @czyh
      @czyh 3 роки тому +7

      who tf came up with your name, boy be sufferin

    • @ow_su
      @ow_su 3 роки тому +11

      @@czyh 💀I forgor

    • @pretendtheresaname9213
      @pretendtheresaname9213 3 роки тому +2

      Bright brown doesn't look like orange though, it's just beige.

    • @spookbag24
      @spookbag24 3 роки тому +2

      @@Thukuna.my_thpecial rember*

  • @JuliusCaminus
    @JuliusCaminus 3 роки тому +3575

    "Brown doesn't exist. But it kind of does."
    * vsauce music plays

    • @makishizi
      @makishizi 3 роки тому +103

      “Brown is a color, or is it?”

    • @UnclePengy
      @UnclePengy 3 роки тому +35

      Michael suddenly pops up

    • @hkayakh
      @hkayakh 3 роки тому +6

      It kind of. Or does it?

    • @camilleremiano8463
      @camilleremiano8463 3 роки тому +27

      @@UnclePengy "Hey VSauce,Michael here.Look at your pants,they are Brown,right?"

    • @Hidration1
      @Hidration1 3 роки тому +3

      *Vsauce Theme Plays*

  • @BubblesCuckoo
    @BubblesCuckoo Рік тому +14

    I appreciate this video, and you have opened my eyes to some RGB weirdness that I have wondered about. I've spent decades working with print and mixing inks, and wanted to share regarding your paint mixing demo. Orange and black paints make brown not because you are changing the contrast around the orange, but because there is almost no true black pigment available. What we call black paint is extremely dark blue. Orange is the combo of red and yellow, so mixing super dark blue into it will create brown. I have enjoyed watching your videos. Thanks for putting so much informative content out there.

    • @alicemonsell1352
      @alicemonsell1352 Місяць тому

      Thats true, sometimes when you dilute a black, you get dark magenta tones, or blue tones. Try real black from wood burning stove soot! Really good pigment.

  • @nocurvegaming2092
    @nocurvegaming2092 4 роки тому +1900

    “Are you in your dark place?” Me through tears, Always

    • @idkidk9522
      @idkidk9522 4 роки тому +22

      Did you not get the epic victory Royale

    • @mightyakkylex
      @mightyakkylex 4 роки тому +17

      Are you OK bud? You can always reach out if u need someone to talk to

    • @chrisB_OG
      @chrisB_OG 4 роки тому

      haha

    • @imnotvladimirputin
      @imnotvladimirputin 4 роки тому +5

      @@idkidk9522 Fortnite? more like, Fartnite. hehe... fartnite... he....
      Get it? cause I hate fortnite? huh? no? ok...

    • @idkidk9522
      @idkidk9522 4 роки тому +5

      @@imnotvladimirputin fortnite is trash

  • @florianbertram9451
    @florianbertram9451 4 роки тому +417

    Me, 22 minutes ago: "How can you talk about brown for 21 minutes?"
    Me, now: Hmmm, yes...fascinating

  • @silentsong5397
    @silentsong5397 4 роки тому +1034

    And then there’s the digital artists watching this that knew brown was dark orange all along

  • @codedinfortran
    @codedinfortran 2 місяці тому +6

    Excellent presentation! In the early 80s I worked for a computer slidemaking software company, managing the hotline that supported their users, who were largely graphic artists having their very first experience with any kind of computer. (For historical context the high end computer at the time was a $5000 IBM PCAT with a 286 processor) And having, also their very first experience with additive as opposed to subtractive color.
    Thus, I had many occasions to give some version of your excellent presentation.
    Over the phone. With no visual aids.
    Hard topic. Good job!

  • @SilverCraft15987
    @SilverCraft15987 4 роки тому +3535

    "brown doesn't exist"
    Me: looks at my skin, looks at the screen, looks back at my skin.
    _i am orange_

    • @vickiesanders7519
      @vickiesanders7519 4 роки тому +201

      so, basically you could call "brown" "midnight-Orange", "Forest Orange", "Dark Orange", or "Wood Orange".

    • @MegaMewHyperLucario
      @MegaMewHyperLucario 4 роки тому +248

      Are you maybe related to Mr. Trump? :D

    • @Heezbungus
      @Heezbungus 4 роки тому +68

      @@MegaMewHyperLucario 👁️👄👁️

    • @nazrarain1452
      @nazrarain1452 4 роки тому +99

      We are all shades of orange...

    • @BaNaiNai105
      @BaNaiNai105 4 роки тому +7

      Eh, I just call it black

  • @korbencabby
    @korbencabby 4 роки тому +1864

    Does this mean my brown hair is actually "Dark Ginger"?

    • @Densoro
      @Densoro 4 роки тому +266

      I wasn't ready for the implications of this comment.

    • @Blanddog
      @Blanddog 4 роки тому +86

      If you think it is. It is. Definitions change over time. Congrats on your thought process. When I see a police car w/ its lights on. "I think the purple got him/her another one." purple = police. You will now think Brown hair = dark ginger hair. But in a sentence. Look at that dark ginger-haired person over there. Sounds funny, or possibly racist whatever mindset the other people around you are in. You could get into some hot water. It's fun to make your brain think differently than others.
      My 2 cents. We as a society have been calling black people "black" but, really we should be calling them orange? It puts a new meaning to "orange is the new black."

    • @rickkarrer8370
      @rickkarrer8370 4 роки тому +58

      Pretty much lol. Humans make such a big deal about being different, but we're all just a mix of the same basic stuff.

    • @Gattsu_the_struggler
      @Gattsu_the_struggler 4 роки тому +36

      Technically every hair natural colour(apart from white which is the absence of brown pigment) is a shade of brown... So yes?

    • @88marome
      @88marome 4 роки тому

      @korbencabby O-M-G!

  • @typryor2227
    @typryor2227 4 роки тому +2599

    Person: “Brown”
    Me an intellectual: “Dark orange”

    • @cerebrummaximus3762
      @cerebrummaximus3762 4 роки тому +38

      Person: Light Blue
      Me: Sky.
      Person: Light green
      Me: Lime.
      Person: Reddish-Orange
      Me: VERMILLION. FULL. STOP.

    • @doughboywhine
      @doughboywhine 4 роки тому +10

      Actually, dark beige.

    • @hace1hora599
      @hace1hora599 4 роки тому +3

      yo todo un ctm: naranja oscuro

    • @SayAhh
      @SayAhh 4 роки тому +3

      The Cleveland Dark Oranges defeated the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday.

    • @surprisetroll5700
      @surprisetroll5700 4 роки тому

      Ha yes a fellow intellectual

  • @Johnfrooshlover
    @Johnfrooshlover Рік тому +6

    Wow, this may be the longest informative UA-cam video I’ve ever watched and couldn’t bring myself to stop at any point or fast forward at any point. Packed full of information, and entertaining at the same time.

  • @vojacked305
    @vojacked305 5 років тому +4049

    *looks at my skin:
    Hey look at it. I'm not brown. I'm orange, with context.

    • @-ahvilable-6654
      @-ahvilable-6654 5 років тому +233

      Orange man bad? 🤔

    • @vojacked305
      @vojacked305 5 років тому +59

      @@-ahvilable-6654 nahh I'm just proud that I'm an orange. No emojis might give a wrong context 😅

    • @Glycheer
      @Glycheer 5 років тому +59

      @@vojacked305 orange man bad leader

    • @KSPAtlas
      @KSPAtlas 5 років тому +15

      I am orange lol

    • @dante_rf
      @dante_rf 5 років тому +148

      Then you could say Trump is light brown

  • @dahawk8574
    @dahawk8574 5 років тому +1768

    "I speak Mandarin."
    "...and if you take away the brightness in my voice, you will hear that I actually am speaking Brown."

    •  5 років тому +29

      Well done!

    • @samspencer7765
      @samspencer7765 5 років тому +18

      Excellent.

    • @kabochaVA
      @kabochaVA 5 років тому +11

      Good one! xD

    • @brandonchan4537
      @brandonchan4537 5 років тому +6

      我讲华文,如果你把我的声音暗掉,你会听到我会讲“褐色”

    • @brandonchan4537
      @brandonchan4537 5 років тому +10

      oh yea,in madarin we call brown 褐色

  • @fear416
    @fear416 5 років тому +914

    Can't wait to see my doctors face when i tell her my stool is dark orange.

    • @matt47110815
      @matt47110815 5 років тому +25

      LMAO

    • @lukmly013
      @lukmly013 5 років тому +19

      _Good idea!_

    • @marlboro1771
      @marlboro1771 5 років тому +29

      My diagnosis is, you have bowel cancer

    • @patdthomas
      @patdthomas 5 років тому +27

      Here I am, sitting on the toilet and this video appears on my recommended videos list. Smart phones are getting just a little too smart if you ask me.

    • @gabejuhasz3743
      @gabejuhasz3743 5 років тому +12

      Do you have a wooden stool?

  • @angelaarmstrong4941
    @angelaarmstrong4941 Рік тому +34

    When painting, if you combine any complimentary colors (blue w/ orange, red w/ green or yellow w/ purple) you’ll get great variations of brown ❤️

    • @S7i7mon
      @S7i7mon Рік тому +6

      because you are mixing the primary colours (of the real world, not RGB): red, blue and yellow to some decree, brown is basically every colour mixed.

    • @warrenaubry8415
      @warrenaubry8415 10 місяців тому

      RGB is light ​@@S7i7mon

    • @eintyp
      @eintyp 8 місяців тому +5

      interestingly, if you mix ideal complementary colors, you _should_ get grey, not brown, but pigments in the real world are rarely perfect colors.

    • @aidenaune7008
      @aidenaune7008 5 місяців тому

      because the three combined are black. all you need to do to make brown is ensure that the ratios of the three main colors give predominantly red with a bit of green and you have brown.

    • @pinkroses135
      @pinkroses135 4 місяці тому

      I tend to get a grayish color but I do like to play with softer colors

  • @ЛевХорошилов
    @ЛевХорошилов 4 роки тому +420

    Basicaly the whole point of this video:
    -No?
    -Yes
    -Yes?
    -No

  • @Sluppie
    @Sluppie 4 роки тому +1567

    "Brown is just Dark Orange?"
    "Always has been."

    • @hiderikanzaki7313
      @hiderikanzaki7313 4 роки тому +25

      But he didn’t talk about pink is a brighter red

    • @moya_2392
      @moya_2392 4 роки тому +3

      Haha funni mem

    • @effyleven
      @effyleven 4 роки тому +2

      Not orange.
      50/50 Red and Green make Yellow. It is Yellow that is Brown, but at lower levels of luminance... the sort of Yellow you get when mixing paint instead of light. Paint contains lots of black pigment, but light has no *darkness* in it. This is why RED and GREEN paint mixed 50/50 makes BROWN.
      (For the purposes of explaining browness, "Orange" is a red herring. Sorry.)

    • @SallyStangler
      @SallyStangler 4 роки тому +4

      @I C Tried that actually since i work with paint. all i really ended up with was a dark dark brownish gray

    • @gusty7153
      @gusty7153 4 роки тому +1

      @@hiderikanzaki7313 depends on what shade of pink. magenta in particular and all it's derivative shades technically doesn't exist as it's a blending of wavelengths on the furthest extremes of the visible spectrum. but most shades of pink are indeed just bright red

  • @garydemonic
    @garydemonic 4 роки тому +2267

    so, basically you could call "brown" "midnight-Orange", "Forest Orange", "Dark Orange", or "Wood Orange".

    • @dragonfeets2032
      @dragonfeets2032 4 роки тому +185

      Wood is brown, brown isn't real, wood isn't real. This is proof we're all in a simulation.

    • @jupiterkaos
      @jupiterkaos 4 роки тому +36

      I will adhere to wood orange

    • @Darkawk
      @Darkawk 4 роки тому +32

      Navy orange

    • @j.qesperas1450
      @j.qesperas1450 4 роки тому +14

      Poop Orange

    • @sunrisespartan1765
      @sunrisespartan1765 4 роки тому +15

      i like midnight-orange

  • @rosielisamoreno
    @rosielisamoreno Рік тому +13

    I was never a fan of brown, especially when I was a kid. When I painted in preschool I was a fan of all colors but always got frustrated whenever I try to come up with a new color combination, but always got brown whenever I mixed three colors. Great video btw

  • @itzolie
    @itzolie 3 роки тому +2014

    Yeah, as a digital artist it always trips me up when I want to use a darker shade of orange and I end up choosing between a bunch of browns. It’s like, no! I don’t want brown I want a darker shade of orange!

    • @JJAB91
      @JJAB91 3 роки тому +182

      Turn the brightness up but keep the saturation!

    • @GogiTavadze
      @GogiTavadze 3 роки тому +182

      Yep it's me in the school trying to select "not so bright yellow" in Paint with no success

    • @graxmccoar8678
      @graxmccoar8678 2 роки тому +26

      You want tremendously saturated orange.

    • @jakehero95
      @jakehero95 2 роки тому +4

      Haha idk why but this was really funny 😆

    • @werrkowalski2985
      @werrkowalski2985 2 роки тому +8

      Maybe there is just no such thing as a darker orange, what he calls an "orange" in this video I wouldn't call orange, ok, it's a borderline case, you could call it dark orange, but when thinking about orange I would never think about "dark orange"

  • @seenukarthi
    @seenukarthi 5 років тому +245

    I was wearing a brown shirt and asked my 4 year old what color is the shirt he replied dark orange. He was correct after all.

    • @Dev-san
      @Dev-san 5 років тому +9

      Damn r/imverysmart

    • @songbird7450
      @songbird7450 5 років тому +13

      Probably because his view on colors isn't influenced by language yet. If you taught him to call dark orange brown and, let's say, dark green xyz, you could probably show him a dark orange and dark green shirt in a few years and he would swear on both of his parents that brown and xyz are definitly not forms of orange and green.

    • @okovermekeamglight4563
      @okovermekeamglight4563 5 років тому +2

      @Filip white is all (visible) wavelengths equally. it is not bright anything.

    • @SimonSalmon
      @SimonSalmon 5 років тому

      @@okovermekeamglight4563 Well it is light everything...

    • @JC19021
      @JC19021 5 років тому +1

      Dev that’s not really in the spirit of that sub at all

  • @jamalcolmson
    @jamalcolmson 3 роки тому +843

    When I was a kid, I didn't understand how pink was just light red, and I couldn't tell the difference between pink and magenta. Learning color theory shifted my entire understanding of the world.

    • @nahli8619
      @nahli8619 3 роки тому +3

      Whats the color theory

    • @babyxblue
      @babyxblue 3 роки тому +28

      When i was a kid i didnt even know that there was a color called magenta

    • @specialknees6798
      @specialknees6798 3 роки тому +11

      I always saw pink and orange as two sides of the same coin for that reason.

    • @castielffboi
      @castielffboi 3 роки тому +10

      Pink is my least favourite colour because it’s just a worse version of red to my brain

    • @LukesPrivateChannelig
      @LukesPrivateChannelig 3 роки тому +7

      MAGENTA ISNT REAL

  • @muontsy
    @muontsy Рік тому +7

    amazing video! you certainly did well on making a video on something so 'mundane' as a color, i was interested the whole video and learned some new things!

  • @mattyjpg
    @mattyjpg 5 років тому +707

    “It’s just orange with context” sounds like a punchline to a joke that I don’t know the set up to

    • @carlosprieto2231
      @carlosprieto2231 5 років тому +1

      Jesus Phish I know of at least one; it’s here in the comments section

    • @scottbreon9448
      @scottbreon9448 5 років тому +30

      Trump is Orange without context

    • @JohnnyThousand605
      @JohnnyThousand605 5 років тому +3

      “It’s just orange with context” sounds like a bullshit zen koan =D

    • @Myrtone
      @Myrtone 5 років тому +4

      Brown is apparently not the only colour like this. Purple is also magenta/pink with the same sort of context. Maroon is also red with that same context.
      There is a difference between the way we perceive objects that reflect light and objects that emit light.

    • @scottbreon9448
      @scottbreon9448 5 років тому +4

      @@Myrtone Actually purple is a shade of violet, which IS one of the legit colors on the spectrum. Why are there 7 colors in the rainbow? There are seven colors in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

  • @TempestKrimps
    @TempestKrimps 4 роки тому +723

    "we named this color until we realized its not actually a color but now we can't unname it and it's weird"

    • @justinbrown8214
      @justinbrown8214 4 роки тому +18

      We named the color that we perceive

    • @midnighttpb
      @midnighttpb 4 роки тому +5

      Dark orange

    • @carmadme
      @carmadme 4 роки тому

      Midnight / TPB but orange used to be called red

    • @sodiboo
      @sodiboo 4 роки тому +2

      We can fix that by naming all dark colors

    • @liamsemicolon
      @liamsemicolon 4 роки тому +5

      @@MitsyWuzHere in spanish that's also the case: darker blues are just "azul" and lighter blues (almost heading toward cyan sometimes) are "celeste".

  • @Dara-ho9qc
    @Dara-ho9qc 4 роки тому +606

    “Human skins are different shades of orange” - Neil Harbisson, who can hear color

    • @vayasaberlo8
      @vayasaberlo8 4 роки тому +11

      LIke Trump?

    • @johnuferbach9166
      @johnuferbach9166 4 роки тому +4

      he can't actually hear color tho, his brain just mixes stuff up^^

    • @jessicat3762
      @jessicat3762 4 роки тому +33

      @@johnuferbach9166 untrue, colors have wavelengths just like sounds do. Synesthesia means you have INCREASED communication between sensory regions not that the sensory regions are misfiring or in a sense of disorder.

    • @johnuferbach9166
      @johnuferbach9166 4 роки тому +10

      @@jessicat3762 that both have wavelength does not matter here, unless you are trying to tell me, that somehow the eye can see sound waves all of a sudden^^ (or the ear somehow vibrates at a couple hundred gigahertz^^)
      But yeah, I meant the brain is doing unnormal stuff that connects things that are normally not connected, but the output of the sensors isn't changed

    • @l1wolf14av
      @l1wolf14av 4 роки тому +13

      @@johnuferbach9166 you can kind of see sound waves in the right conditions. Explosions, for example, create overpressure which you can see. If you pour sand or salt or anything granular over a plate and place that over a speaker you can actually see the sound waves. And yeah, I know that you need something else to see them. Atmosphere for overpressure and sand for my second example, meaning that you dont actually see the sound but to be fair you cant actually see an object's color either. What you see is the light it reflects off of it and you perceive that as it's color. I dont actually have too much of a problem with what you're saying btw, I just kinda wanted to be fair to both sides of this discussion. I believe that you are correct in that he can't actually hear colors, he's just developed another way of percieving them.

  • @GregOughton
    @GregOughton Рік тому +5

    This is the first time ive watched your videos with closed captioning, and I was delighted with the little meya humor. Once again I find myself impressed with the level of attention to detail you put into these videos, even just to deliver a joke.

  • @kaleiah2800
    @kaleiah2800 3 роки тому +2612

    my online friends : “what skin color do you have?”
    me : “dark orange.”

  • @TheMilanMovies
    @TheMilanMovies 5 років тому +181

    “What did you do on Valentine’s Day?”
    “Watched a man explaining the color brown.”
    I’m not kidding when I say that I am fascinated by this. I had this question for multiple times when editing something in photoshop for example. I just asked myself “what the hell even is the color brown?”
    The part where you showed us the “context” of the color surrounding that brown (or dark orange) really opened my eyes.
    Fascinating stuff man!

  • @mohlomiraswoko4169
    @mohlomiraswoko4169 4 роки тому +2113

    “Brown doesn’t really exist”
    Me a with brown skin: “Mr. Stark I don’t feel so good” *fades away*

    • @laurenpinschannels
      @laurenpinschannels 4 роки тому +64

      your skin is the color it is regardless of what we call it
      also I think all orange is secretly brown, brown isn't secretly orange

    • @penisman3315
      @penisman3315 4 роки тому +59

      Brown is just orange with context
      You wouldn't fade away you would change pigment

    • @smartaIec
      @smartaIec 4 роки тому +1

      I would like but it's at 69

    • @PepASad
      @PepASad 4 роки тому +3

      Alec Ryan G-Get it? Because 69?

    • @ttmfndng201
      @ttmfndng201 4 роки тому +1

      @@laurenpinschannels I wouldn't say one is actually the other, just that they're the same, in the same way that dark green isn't actually green or vice versa, just that they're the same

  • @NathanRyan-v6s
    @NathanRyan-v6s 2 місяці тому +3

    I wondered why old brown glass bottles were called "Amber!" Amazing!!

  • @zacknetic1463
    @zacknetic1463 4 роки тому +354

    "Rainbows aren't physical objects. They're just the result of weird things that happen when electromagnetic radiation gets diffracted and reflected through water droplets and observed from one location in space."
    Leprechauns are having to get really technical protecting their pot of gold these days huh.

    • @puncheex2
      @puncheex2 4 роки тому +4

      They may not be physical, but they represent the only objects you can see that are single wavelength color (i.e., "spectral" color). Everything else in the world is mixes of colors that the brain interprets to be pure, but are not.

  • @BThings
    @BThings 4 роки тому +452

    I feel like brown has an underrated capacity to look classy while also being warmer and more inviting than other “classy” colors, like blue, black, or grey.

    • @chrishale5213
      @chrishale5213 4 роки тому +49

      It feels like home. The color is the same as land or nourishing soil. Or a comforting tree. I think green and brown would be a color a human on a foreign planet would start to miss.

    • @ArtForSwans
      @ArtForSwans 4 роки тому +6

      The first Zune had a brown option. It... decidedly did not look classy. I think the idea that brown is contextual applies to how it's used as well.

    • @BThings
      @BThings 4 роки тому +7

      @@ArtForSwans Oh, definitely! I completely agree that brown is not always classy. I would argue any color has the capacity to look un-classy or inappropriate in a given context. That's part of the reason for having design, so that things are right for their situation.

    • @sas3dx
      @sas3dx 4 роки тому +2

      Think about leather

    • @blackoceancreativeuniverse
      @blackoceancreativeuniverse 4 роки тому

      @@sas3dx like this? ua-cam.com/video/E_HMIN0nGl0/v-deo.html

  • @XShaneX19
    @XShaneX19 4 роки тому +1340

    "Doctor my poo is orange!"
    "WHAT?"
    "Yes a very dark orange!"

  • @phillwainewright4221
    @phillwainewright4221 Рік тому +4

    "Orange wasn't a colour until we stole the word from the fruit" ... true.
    Red deer, red squirrels, red hair ... they're all orange.

  • @johnchesterfield9726
    @johnchesterfield9726 4 роки тому +530

    “Yes, this sure is dark. Not a lot to see here that’s for sure.” 8:00
    My ugly ass reflection staring at me: 👁👄👁

    • @TemphinFD
      @TemphinFD 4 роки тому +10

      You best be watching that bit in the dark buddy!

    • @Rickrollmachine23
      @Rickrollmachine23 4 роки тому +10

      I agree, _I can see your reflection right now_

    • @chokedonthedust
      @chokedonthedust 4 роки тому +1

      After I read your comment the reflection in it looked like: 😄

    • @wyntryx7977
      @wyntryx7977 4 роки тому +1

      mood

    • @gibbous_silver
      @gibbous_silver 4 роки тому

      *My phone showing a grey screen*

  • @jokey8461
    @jokey8461 4 роки тому +1218

    Day 167 in quarantine : I now know everything about the "color" brown

    • @dubbled5287
      @dubbled5287 4 роки тому +18

      *colour.

    • @jokey8461
      @jokey8461 4 роки тому +43

      @@dubbled5287 this is America

    • @korbinadkins2610
      @korbinadkins2610 4 роки тому +5

      @@jokey8461°○°

    • @BenjamintYT
      @BenjamintYT 4 роки тому +22

      @@dubbled5287 Actually, both ways of writing "color" are correct. It depends on the country.
      British:Colour
      America:Color

    • @wolfboi7104
      @wolfboi7104 4 роки тому +2

      Colors are odd

  • @dumdum93
    @dumdum93 5 років тому +339

    "Are you in your dark place?"
    Too real man

    • @reckarthack3018
      @reckarthack3018 5 років тому +4

      Alec it's 1am, of course I am

    • @1ucasvb
      @1ucasvb 5 років тому +5

      That's my secret. I'm always in my dark place.

    • @pujeetjha8265
      @pujeetjha8265 5 років тому

      Too soon

    • @lukmly013
      @lukmly013 5 років тому

      We don't have windows at toilet so yes

  • @donk918
    @donk918 11 місяців тому +3

    Probably one of your most interesting videos. I miss you braking down simple devices as well. I'd show them off to students. Like the touch lamp, rice cooker, tape deck aux cord. Keep up the good work.

  • @raapija
    @raapija 5 років тому +1448

    "Does brown exist?"
    "Yesn't."

    • @Gucek001
      @Gucek001 5 років тому +11

      so much underappreciated comment. :D

    • @santiagorain6918
      @santiagorain6918 5 років тому +8

      Well yes but, actually no.

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 5 років тому +6

      Jein.

    • @DarwinskiYT
      @DarwinskiYT 5 років тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/Vh4Ta2DH1pM/v-deo.html

    • @klausstock8020
      @klausstock8020 5 років тому +7

      Brown is orange where the sun doesn't shine.

  • @Jake1702
    @Jake1702 4 роки тому +813

    This is one of those things that once you find out, it seems obvious.

    • @visualaudio22
      @visualaudio22 4 роки тому +1

      Ikr

    • @mittron2556
      @mittron2556 3 роки тому +20

      It is obvious if you tried to get brown in any graphics program

    • @ireadysucks3026
      @ireadysucks3026 3 роки тому +1

      @@mittron2556 yeah, I didn’t even use graphic software when I found out about this (I used geometry dash)

    • @victorsitkevicz8312
      @victorsitkevicz8312 3 роки тому +1

      This represents exactly the shortfall of digital photography in respect to film.
      If you look at color film photos, you will see rich beautiful browns, whereas digital photos have orangeish hues.

    • @Laeiryn
      @Laeiryn 3 роки тому

      spend five seconds trying to design a Waja and you'll get there

  • @SharpieVlog
    @SharpieVlog 4 роки тому +218

    10% interest because I’m an artist
    90% interest because Brown is my last name

    • @andrewgwilliam4831
      @andrewgwilliam4831 4 роки тому +8

      You only think that Brown is your last name.

    • @rainbow_vader
      @rainbow_vader 4 роки тому +9

      Nah your last name is Orange, brown doesn't exist.

    • @hab407
      @hab407 4 роки тому +1

      100% why I’m here....cousin

    • @AbadyonYT
      @AbadyonYT 4 роки тому +2

      Look at your last name on a dark background and you'll be surprised

    • @midnighttpb
      @midnighttpb 4 роки тому

      Holy shit same I’m an artist and my last name is fkn brown

  • @jlsgarage872
    @jlsgarage872 Рік тому +14

    Reaching the point in life where I watch a documentary on brown. Wow.

  • @michaelbrown2294
    @michaelbrown2294 3 роки тому +324

    Wow I've never appreciated my last name so much. Thank you sir!

  • @introvertairways
    @introvertairways 4 роки тому +131

    My mom came into my room and wondered why I was listening to a guy rant about the colour brown whilst locked in my darkened closet.

    • @randallmokjialung3592
      @randallmokjialung3592 4 роки тому +11

      Why are you in a cl-
      *sees name*
      Ah. I see

    • @introvertairways
      @introvertairways 4 роки тому

      @@randallmokjialung3592 the joke was there was an illusion that works best in the dark in this video

    • @pinkroses135
      @pinkroses135 4 місяці тому

      emo time

  • @choog2752
    @choog2752 4 роки тому +1337

    So you’re telling me that brown is a social construct.

    • @pagatryx5451
      @pagatryx5451 4 роки тому +109

      All words are social constructs. Words allow us to make certain things distinct. Without specific words to make things distinct, we don't recognize said things as their own separate thing. Brown is as much of a social construct as Red. The difference is, most colours were named after differences in hue or differences on the light spectrum where as Brown is a colour that is different not in hue but in brightness. What this means is that it really isn't exactly real. Well, it's a real colour but there is no such thing as brown light. Just as there is no such thing as grey light or pink light. Colour doesn't really exist. Light exists but colour is a human perception of that light. Technically, light only 'exists' on the colour spectrum on the axis of hue. Saturation and brightness of colour is a construct of a brain over any social construct. So brown, like pink and grey, are three colours that are different because they only exist because our brain told us they exist. They have no real existence outside our brains.

    • @choog2752
      @choog2752 4 роки тому +19

      Pagatryx 😳

    • @elvintiranbalan5882
      @elvintiranbalan5882 4 роки тому +9

      @@pagatryx5451 thank you for this. i guess you just summed out the whole video

    • @MaddesG1
      @MaddesG1 4 роки тому +6

      If brown is a social construct than the universe is a physical manifestation for all our random thoughts

    • @Robo-xk4jm
      @Robo-xk4jm 4 роки тому +13

      @@pagatryx5451 there's also the fact that there's a whole spectrum outside of the little "visible light" part. Imagine what kind of colors would be produced from a mind and eyes capable of detecting and processing everything from radiowaves UV microwaves gamma etc.

  • @Alex-vr8gw
    @Alex-vr8gw 4 місяці тому +1

    The final aging wheels appearance of "BROWN" is perfect cinema.

  • @de7io407
    @de7io407 4 роки тому +669

    0:32
    This guys examples for brown were: Wood, Wood, Beans, Beans.

    • @realerdealers1924
      @realerdealers1924 4 роки тому +122

      Did you want him to say niggas?

    • @baszotek5819
      @baszotek5819 4 роки тому +29

      @@realerdealers1924 ha ha, funny. ---__---

    • @smapa1185
      @smapa1185 4 роки тому +25

      Coffee beans aren't actually beans, they're seeds. Also almonds and I think hazelnuts were shown.

    • @rndmbs
      @rndmbs 4 роки тому +13

      @@smapa1185 beans

    • @smapa1185
      @smapa1185 4 роки тому +8

      @@rndmbs Nuts and beans are different... beans are legumes, nuts can be legumes (like peanuts) but are not necessarily legumes.

  • @GhostSickness
    @GhostSickness 5 років тому +225

    Damn, I really just watched a 20 minute video about a color.
    And it was fantastic.

    • @zsin128
      @zsin128 5 років тому

      Sure it is

    • @TehVulpez
      @TehVulpez 5 років тому +4

      *about a not color

    • @laurinneff4304
      @laurinneff4304 5 років тому

      Didn't even notice until now

    • @SidecarBob
      @SidecarBob 5 років тому +1

      Imagine how I feel having watched about 45 minutes of previous videos first to put it into context...
      Actually, this is timely because I'm going to be doing some graphics in RGB today.

    • @SidecarBob
      @SidecarBob 5 років тому

      Imagine how I feel having watched about 45 minutes of previous videos first to put it in context...
      Actually, this is timely because I will be working on some RGB graphics today.

  • @micke_mango
    @micke_mango Місяць тому +1

    I lacked info about other ways to create brown using subtractive colouring, i. e. mixing colour pigments.
    Red+green is one way, but it seems like all pairs of complementary colours will yield brown.
    Yellow + purple, blue + orange etc.
    This is even more fascinating to me than what's mentioned in this video, which I liked a lot

  • @Somethin5041
    @Somethin5041 4 роки тому +651

    "Brown is a weird color."
    The 1970s: And I took that personally.

    • @alexandria_aesthetic
      @alexandria_aesthetic 4 роки тому +9

      huh? (Like my comment when you respond so I can get a nofitaction)

    • @alexandria_aesthetic
      @alexandria_aesthetic 4 роки тому +1

      @HenriK Hald oh ok , thanks👑

    • @Useless_Rift
      @Useless_Rift 4 роки тому +4

      @@alexandria_aesthetic also, people back then was racist

    • @sexfuk2119
      @sexfuk2119 4 роки тому +6

      @@Useless_Rift an they still are 😔

    • @bigbag6709
      @bigbag6709 4 роки тому +6

      @@sexfuk2119 he meant deeply racist. Stores black people couldn't go in, foods we couldn't eat and we could barely travel. Weren't equal under the law what so ever.

  • @thatrecord5313
    @thatrecord5313 5 років тому +180

    I first thought, "Aw man, is Technology Connections already running out of ideas?!"
    I never knew that this man could interest me with such a simple topic and make it super detailed. Brown M&Ms, yes...

  • @kailikespenguins
    @kailikespenguins 4 роки тому +531

    This video is the definition of: 'Well yes, but actually no.'

  • @astrobot3000
    @astrobot3000 3 місяці тому

    I did not expect to see technology connections shitting out a youtube card today and yet here we are

  • @lolsflint7598
    @lolsflint7598 4 роки тому +512

    This video: "Brown is just dark orange"
    Autoplay next video: "There's no such thing as orange" - Exurb1a

  • @DeviantOllam
    @DeviantOllam 5 років тому +308

    This entire episode made my heart glow. From the absolute perfection that is your quirky humor to the cross-pollination with another creator to ending the credits with Justin Brown... just one hit after another. Great work and thank you SO MUCH for delving deeply into a subject that has literally been part of my mental processes for years. I, too, have thought longer and harder about the color brown than I felt anyone else around me did.
    Thank you for being you and for making our blue eyes brown with this one. (That's a good thing)

    • @hipu
      @hipu 5 років тому +15

      fancy seeing you here

    • @cmwh1te
      @cmwh1te 5 років тому +17

      Two of my favorite thing explainers in one place! Collab idea: Offensive Technology Connections

    • @therealergo
      @therealergo 5 років тому +6

      Just saw my favorite car channel show up in a video on my favorite tech channel, scrolled down to make a stupid comment, and Deviant's here too??
      This is some Twilight Zone stuff.

    • @josuelservin2409
      @josuelservin2409 5 років тому +3

      Right! This channel is one of my favourite discoveries of last year, the quirky exploration of all the things this man finds interesting is just fascinating.

    • @UCkU0SrpEeCdPX-2cBVndj7g
      @UCkU0SrpEeCdPX-2cBVndj7g 5 років тому +4

      I keep stumbling across you in the most wonderful corners of the internet deviant ollam ❤️ I can't wait to see where our paths cross next!

  • @SkepticalCaveman
    @SkepticalCaveman 3 роки тому +1168

    The word "orange" is much newer than "brown", so it would make more sense to call orange "light brown".

    • @jamesowen6100
      @jamesowen6100 3 роки тому +71

      Technically wouldn't bit be bright brown rather than light brown?

    • @ahwhite2022
      @ahwhite2022 3 роки тому +67

      @@jamesowen6100, maybe technically, but not by custom. English has "light blue," not "bright blue." Interestingly, we don't really have "light red," we have "pink." Other languages have a version of "pink" for "light blue."

    • @InaZeaAnaZazi
      @InaZeaAnaZazi 3 роки тому +18

      @@ahwhite2022 maybe that is because in nature we have a lot more red than blue. Like in flowers, you have red, pink, purple and many more, but blue is not really a color that occurs in nature outside the sky, which is not a solid object, so it's different again

    • @jamesowen6100
      @jamesowen6100 3 роки тому +10

      @Sepanta Jan what I mean to say is that orange is increased light value brown, not increased saturation brown, because brown can already be fully saturated. But that brings up the confusion, is bright and light talking about saturation or value? To me, light brown means desaturated brown, but now that I think about, light brown should be increased value brown, or orange

    • @jamesowen6100
      @jamesowen6100 3 роки тому +2

      @Sepanta Jan Thats odd. I thought you were replying to me because I got a notification from UA-cam

  • @vermojonson8835
    @vermojonson8835 5 місяців тому

    i like how the video is slightly out of focus except when aging wheels makes a cameo. it's like getting shocked back to life every time

  • @KurosakiYukigo
    @KurosakiYukigo 5 років тому +1607

    The chinese caught me off guard, but then again, nothing surprises me about Alec anymore.

    • @jendorei
      @jendorei 5 років тому +20

      I believe he has mentioned that before in a video. Can’t say which though.

    • @muchozolf
      @muchozolf 5 років тому +25

      And there I was, thinking I was special, just cause I learned Russian in high school

    • @usaverageguy
      @usaverageguy 5 років тому +15

      I learned pig Latin.

    • @awo1fman
      @awo1fman 5 років тому +25

      @@usaverageguy You mean, "Igpay Atinlay"? 😝

    • @andregon4366
      @andregon4366 5 років тому +12

      One of his days Alec will make a video just to reveal in the end that his dick was on fire the whole time.

  • @CristinaAlmarazLopez
    @CristinaAlmarazLopez 4 роки тому +795

    8:13 I can’t believe I actually went and locked myself in my dark bathroom because a UA-cam video told me to.

  • @typecasto
    @typecasto 5 років тому +477

    "There are some... Less appealing substances made of brown"
    A certain jacket comes to mind.

  • @paddor
    @paddor 5 місяців тому +1

    Yo you turned the forest black with this video. This got me nervous for a moment. But this video blew my mind. Thx man

  • @stevesrover
    @stevesrover 4 роки тому +55

    When my son was six, he asked what colour is brown? Several years later, I see this was a far deeper question than it first seemed.

  • @CrimsonQuandary
    @CrimsonQuandary 5 років тому +212

    "Taste the brown" is an underrated line. It got me good.

    • @off_mah_lawn2074
      @off_mah_lawn2074 5 років тому +6

      CrimsonQuandary Made me stop the video and go to the comment section to look for fans

  • @CorbiniteVids
    @CorbiniteVids 5 років тому +509

    "brown, it's everywhere: the bark of a majestic tree" *shows a redwood*

    • @ripthischannel5947
      @ripthischannel5947 5 років тому +15

      of all the trees lol

    • @jeffc5974
      @jeffc5974 5 років тому +9

      Looked brown to me.

    • @CorbiniteVids
      @CorbiniteVids 5 років тому +2

      @@jeffc5974 I see more of a maroon, but it's desaturated enough that it almost looks brown

    • @Llorx
      @Llorx 5 років тому +1

      @@CorbiniteVids You know how is called brown in spanish? "marrón". Kinda curious.

    • @Llorx
      @Llorx 5 років тому

      @Boethius ha, is pretty interesting actually.

  • @Zackfish12345
    @Zackfish12345 Рік тому +1

    Just came across your channel, this is the first video I’ve seen from you and it’s very well done! Never thought I’d watch 20min of a dude explaining to me the nuance of language and the color brown, but here we are and it was great!

  • @SirLancelotTheBrave
    @SirLancelotTheBrave 5 років тому +718

    “We can’t take away light”
    *unscrews and steals lightbulb*
    I bet you feel so stupid right now

    • @TheGuardDuck
      @TheGuardDuck 5 років тому +5

      Blank stare...
      😶

    • @dosnotmatter
      @dosnotmatter 4 роки тому +4

      So you are brown after all

    • @RF-Ataraxia
      @RF-Ataraxia 4 роки тому +14

      STOP. YOU VIOLATED THE LAW.

    • @wrentheelf2656
      @wrentheelf2656 4 роки тому +2

      @@RF-Ataraxia PAY THE COURT A FINE OR SERVE YOUR SENTENCE.

    • @duuqnd
      @duuqnd 4 роки тому +2

      @@wrentheelf2656 YOUR STOLEN GOODS ARE *NOW* FOREFIT.

  • @colehaney8836
    @colehaney8836 4 роки тому +441

    I looked at the thumbnail and thought “why is it green but it says brown”
    Boy, do I love being colorblind

    • @stylisthicc7873
      @stylisthicc7873 4 роки тому +9

      Cool

    • @ninagalvani1007
      @ninagalvani1007 4 роки тому +24

      Wow. I can’t comprehend what that’s like

    • @FrickenDweeb
      @FrickenDweeb 4 роки тому +8

      There's special expensive glasses both indoor and outdoor that's supposed to help with colorblindness.

    • @eli9264
      @eli9264 4 роки тому +7

      Bruh that’s not how being color blind works

    • @hyejuwolff
      @hyejuwolff 4 роки тому +13

      Peet Rat THERES different types of color blindness
      P

  • @AlexandruCarjan
    @AlexandruCarjan 5 років тому +442

    Teacher: What color is a bear?
    Random kid: Dark orange

    • @majorjohnson8001
      @majorjohnson8001 5 років тому +27

      Me, being a smartass: "Black, sometimes white."

    • @steinarlaumann3840
      @steinarlaumann3840 5 років тому +4

      Panda anyone?

    • @five-toedslothbear4051
      @five-toedslothbear4051 5 років тому +17

      That's actually an interesting question, because if you look at the names for bear in some languages (think of "bruin") in English, they literally mean "brown one." The ancient root for bear is seen in the Greek "arctos". The reason for this is that bears were considered powerful and sacred; you didn't call it an "arctos" because that might invite one to be in your presence, so they were referred to obliquely as "the brown one" or other euphemisms. So while our word for the color orange is named after the fruit, our words for a bear come from the color, which itself comes from an old word for "dusky". A good book on bear mythology is The Sacred Paw by Paul Shepard, Barry Sanders, and Gary Snyder.

    • @majorjohnson8001
      @majorjohnson8001 5 років тому +4

      @@five-toedslothbear4051 Language (and etymology) is fun. Speaking of "orange" that word actually comes from the *tree* not the fruit. The fruit was called "the fruit of the orange tree" before we called it "an orange" (the color was then later derived from the color of said fruit).
      Might I recommend the channel Xidnaf?

    • @Xygif
      @Xygif 5 років тому +1

      @@five-toedslothbear4051 huh, so that's why the Boston Bruins' name is what it is and mascot or whatever is a bear, the more you know.

  • @ZinniaFoxx
    @ZinniaFoxx 7 місяців тому +2

    Great video! Reminds me of the color pink. We could just call it "light red" but we don't.

  • @ianhudson1438
    @ianhudson1438 5 років тому +245

    Me: k time to go to sleep
    Recommendations: b r o w n

    • @Meh
      @Meh 5 років тому +1

      Ian Hudson YOU JUST READED MY MIND

    • @averageteaenjoyer752
      @averageteaenjoyer752 5 років тому +2

      Sleep is for the weak. I need b r o w n .

  • @fensoxx
    @fensoxx 5 років тому +145

    You succeeded sir. My wife sitting nearby, said at your opening line "oooh that sounds riveting" or some such. By the end of it we were both hooked. Well done and very informative thank you.

  • @madinator3000
    @madinator3000 4 роки тому +886

    so that means that every kid who colored people orange was technically right

    • @Daniel-qn3wr
      @Daniel-qn3wr 4 роки тому +69

      yeah man i never had those sweet sweet s k i n pencils

    • @subparlario4916
      @subparlario4916 4 роки тому +62

      @@Daniel-qn3wr the crayola color "peach" was originally known as "flesh", but it was changed for... obvious reasons
      so you're not wrong

    • @theman13532
      @theman13532 4 роки тому +2

      Cameron T what the hell

    • @pierceyu4546
      @pierceyu4546 4 роки тому +9

      @@subparlario4916 yeah, i could remember borrowing peach from my classmates lmao. Although my parents refer to it as flesh lol

    • @michaelhoffman9573
      @michaelhoffman9573 4 роки тому +1

      @@subparlario4916 is this actually true

  • @Waiting_To_Retire
    @Waiting_To_Retire 2 місяці тому

    I watch this every few months and it still makes me chuckle.

  • @freedomjunkie7843
    @freedomjunkie7843 4 роки тому +1241

    "Brown is just orange, but darker..." - what does this mean for Trump when he dims the lights?

    • @taliesinriver
      @taliesinriver 4 роки тому +18

      😆

    • @chinmeysway
      @chinmeysway 4 роки тому +120

      Nighttime self-xenophobia?

    • @jimlarsen6782
      @jimlarsen6782 4 роки тому +5

      So, perhaps not a scandanavian then!

    • @steave1425
      @steave1425 4 роки тому +10

      But he would have to make the lights around him brighter so that the orange appears darke in relation. :)

    • @averagejoe1468
      @averagejoe1468 4 роки тому +29

      "NO NO! Shut those lights off!" Now we know why

  • @tomasgutierrez6954
    @tomasgutierrez6954 5 років тому +367

    So, I don’t have brown eyes; my eyes color is “contextual orange”

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 5 років тому +8

      From now on this will be part of my vocabulary!

    • @MrDustpile
      @MrDustpile 5 років тому +5

      Never mind all that crap, he should do the Brown Noise. I know it's only myth but he should play with it.

    • @guerra_dos_bichos
      @guerra_dos_bichos 5 років тому +1

      @@MrDustpile I sure would love that to be truth right now

    • @pryingeyes1551
      @pryingeyes1551 5 років тому

      @@MrDustpile Brown noise exists.

    • @hero9402
      @hero9402 5 років тому

      same lol

  • @shadowfoxxie7182
    @shadowfoxxie7182 3 роки тому +476

    something that opened my eyes to this was as a game developer when i tried to create dirt sprites and i kept thinking "this isn't brown damn it this is orange" spent hours trying different "browns" not realising it was all technically orange.

  • @bigthey1827
    @bigthey1827 5 місяців тому +3

    As a colorblind, I feel slightly vindicated for the times people have laughed at me for confusing a dark/faded orange with brown

  • @chowmein0941
    @chowmein0941 3 роки тому +928

    "this video will be exploring the color brown. Viewer discretion is advised."
    Child: (looks at dirt)
    Mom: (Covers child's eyes) "Oh no sweetie! Not until you're older!"

    • @sirhaydn-1
      @sirhaydn-1 3 роки тому +41

      Sounds like something from asdfmovie lol

    • @xabeirr
      @xabeirr 3 роки тому

      bassujn

    • @Krakyy
      @Krakyy 3 роки тому +16

      Child: (looks at black perso

    • @xabeirr
      @xabeirr 3 роки тому +4

      @@Krakyy what???

    • @untitledname4102
      @untitledname4102 3 роки тому +3

      @@Krakyy guess I can’t be around children

  • @kennythawsh
    @kennythawsh 4 роки тому +92

    I tried so hard one time to make my mechanical keyboard brown and I couldn’t comprehend why I got brown on my rgb monitor and not on my rgb keyboard. Thank you for this video

    • @petroll.02
      @petroll.02 4 роки тому +2

      No offense, but why brown for your rgb keyboard

    • @vhroom3436
      @vhroom3436 4 роки тому +2

      skeylinktenking brown works well with pretty much every color

    • @uzairgangat
      @uzairgangat 4 роки тому

      why brown?

  • @albertbatfinder5240
    @albertbatfinder5240 5 років тому +344

    The Chinese “coffee colour” quip alone was enough to earn you the schoolboy nickname “Smart Alec”.

    • @joeespin4377
      @joeespin4377 5 років тому +1

      i wonder if mister baldwin or mister guinness dislike being called a Smart Alec?:)

    • @primekrunkergamer188
      @primekrunkergamer188 5 років тому

      isnt it spelled color. Which country are you from because they have different spelling.

    • @skyletoft
      @skyletoft 5 років тому +8

      @@primekrunkergamer188 Literally every other country in the anglosphere spells it that way

    • @michaelwarner5277
      @michaelwarner5277 5 років тому +2

      @@primekrunkergamer188 it's spelled "colour" in countries that have adopted British English and not American English.

    • @burke615
      @burke615 5 років тому +4

      @@skyletoft Fun fact: Noah Webster (of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language fame) worked to "rationalize" the spelling of the language he tried to rename "American." That's why we dropped the superfluous "u" in words like color, and also why we tend to represent the "z" sound with a z instead of an s in words like rationalize.
      Not every spelling of his was adopted though, like his suggestion of "aker" instead of "acre", nor did we stop calling the language "English." As the title of his dictionary suggests, he eventually admitted defeat on the naming front.

  • @AlbaMinor
    @AlbaMinor Рік тому +3

    One of my favourite gemstones is smokey quartz, a brown variety of quartz. It's absolutely gorgeous in gold jewellery and very much an underrated gemstone, in my opinion

  • @joshuawilliams4741
    @joshuawilliams4741 3 роки тому +2248

    “Brown is really a dark orange.”
    Me: “America had two orange presidents.”

    • @angieb5720
      @angieb5720 3 роки тому +32

      Hilarious 😂

    • @minteasip
      @minteasip 3 роки тому +52

      Ah, my favorite American president:
      Trump's hair!

    • @danielawesome36
      @danielawesome36 3 роки тому +44

      One has a last name nobody knows.

    • @minteasip
      @minteasip 3 роки тому +73

      @@danielawesome36 Obama bin Laden?

    • @mattmatthews5414
      @mattmatthews5414 3 роки тому +15

      When I have a genuine laugh, it sounds like if woody woodpecker were a baritone. I made that sound at this.

  • @RÅNÇIÐ
    @RÅNÇIР5 років тому +415

    "Are you in your dark place?"
    Every day, my friend. Every day...

    • @ewmegoolies
      @ewmegoolies 5 років тому +8

      dont get browned off, it'll be all white

    • @Kamel419
      @Kamel419 5 років тому +10

      hello darkness, my old friend

    • @ganryu415
      @ganryu415 5 років тому +1

      My exact words were something like "Are you in your dark place?" "Always, bro."

    • @RichardBronosky
      @RichardBronosky 5 років тому +1

      Samesies

    • @RichardBronosky
      @RichardBronosky 5 років тому +2

      All humans are brown. There are no black or white people.

  • @davecahyo
    @davecahyo 3 роки тому +732

    in Indonesian language, we called "brown" as "coklat" which comes from the word " chocolate". The weird thing is, chocolate was introduced by Spanish colonialists around the 16th century from South America. So before that, we didn't even recognize the color brown and didn't have a specific word for it. What makes me curious is, we do have a native word for orange (unlike European) which is "jingga", I wonder if we just considered brown as one of the shades of orange before we invented the word "coklat".
    Another interesting thing, as Asian our eye color is dark brown, but we never recognize it as brown but as black

    • @fetterkeks2796
      @fetterkeks2796 2 роки тому +36

      The idea of calling brown eyes straight up "black" is so freaky to me!

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 2 роки тому +5

      What do you mean « unlike Europeans » ?

    • @fetterkeks2796
      @fetterkeks2796 2 роки тому +9

      @@nathanjora7627 Do you have one where you're from? In Germany we only got orange and that's it.

    • @nathanjora7627
      @nathanjora7627 2 роки тому +13

      @@fetterkeks2796 Orange is the name we came up with, we didn’t get the name from anywhere. I mean we did get it from somewhere, but it doesn’t even vaguely resemble the original name. And when I say « we » I mean we French, English and apparently Germans took it from the name we gave it, we gave a name to it that’s…. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to have been similar to an Italian word, or with the same structure as the Italian word for it (aka a literal translation that used all French words).
      Either way it’s not like non Europeans had a word « orange » for the orange fruit and we took that and also called the color with the same name, there was a non European word from orange that either inspired or was completely transformed into orange

    • @fetterkeks2796
      @fetterkeks2796 2 роки тому +3

      @@nathanjora7627 interesting, thanks!

  • @thegorn
    @thegorn Рік тому +1

    I knew a builder in the 90’s and his favourite color was always “mission brown”