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Love reading Ground news in the morning BTW. But I wanted to just say that I love seeing you in purple I bet you would look great in a purple trilby hat. I’m a big fan of purple and have several pieces including a suit that I use at my best friends wedding. But sometimes people think I’m trying to look like a Batman villain. So I have to stop myself from mixing in green, even though I also love green and have quite a few green items. If I didn’t like Batman I’d be so pissed at the colorist responsible. As for purple, green and yellow apparently not being real; I think that while the physical wave lengths of light might determine “real colors” and the properties or both absorption and reflection determine the properties of color, color is an abstract determined by our brains. Also nobody sees color the same as anybody else. So I think all the colors are as real as we interpret them to be.
i feel the joke gets even funnier when you remember the fact the movie was filmed in Australia and is kind of semi meant to be set in and around the sub tropics of fiji
Tangentially related, I recently watched Scooby-Doo 2002 with the director and producer's commentary and found out a cool bit of trivia about the wardrobe. The director really didn't want the gang's clothes to be affected by shadows and light. They wanted the clothes to always look the same color regardless of the environment, much like the og cartoon, which didn't use much shading or highlighting on the character models. This was also done so you could easily identify the characters based on their color coding. To achieve this they made a version of the wardrobe that was really brightly colored for them to wear at night (to compensate for shadows) and a version that was really dark and muted for them to wear in bright sun on the beach (so they wouldn't look washed out). They also seemed to hint at using different types of fabrics as well to absorb or reflect more or less light to keep the colors consistent.
When you contact an expert for a quote but accidentally give an autistic person the opportunity to put together a presentation based on their special interest ... 😂❤ (Also, I like that purple intro.)
Quoting a curated selection from a string of Tumblr posts in response (I would just link it but I know a lot of comment sections delete links): user: corrie-zodori (Nov 23, 2022) [ "Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene." ] user: webbyghost (Jun 5, 2023) format - response to a text message: [ "Oh good I get to explain this to you" "You will regret this" "..." ] user: fuzzyhairedfreak (Aug 10, 2023) another text message response: [ "im glad you asked" ] followed by an attached audio file with a runtime of 6 days, 94 hrs, 20 minutes
to be fair, i don't think the joke was referencing color seasons, but seasonal color, i.e. color palettes that fashion and other designers use based on season (you know, just like florals for spring?). and the reasons, as far as i can tell, why purple turns up in autumn are 1. halloween obviously and 2. harvest season, specifically we'd be thinking of aubergine, which appears a lot in harvest spreads. i got married last fall and my decor theme was "dark autumn", which featured a wine red and a warm aubergine. (that all said, i'm not sure the purple daphne wears would count) really fun video tho, would have honestly loved to hear more of your color theory research!
Yeah that was my immediate thought too and I'm surprised Scott didn't bring it up. There's a difference between a personal color season and seasonal trends in fashion.
Came here to say it... All the research and points brought up are very interesting, but it feels like it has almost nothing to do with what the actual content of the joke is? Even though it may still be wrong (I hardly think purple is excluded from spring fashion collections).
I thought the same thing. I did a quick search online for seasonal color and only two results came back with anything about seasonal colors rather than color seasons. Even color seasons were termed seasonal colors. Either way, the light purple Daphne is wearing falls into the spring range of purple rather than the dark fall purple, as you mentioned. Even then, what is "in" for any season changes any given year. Apparently last year, one of the spring/summer colors was "fiery red." 🤷♀
If you google spring fashion color 2001 you’ll see a lot of browns and a few black and white outfits, but googling fall fashion color 2001 you do see a few purple dresses and one of the first results has a purple scarf. So it’s possible that when that joke was written, it was either still 2001 or the movie was planned to release in 2001. Although if you google spring fashion color 2002 there is a lot of purple. Which means the joke works in 2001 and not 2002.
I always took that joke as not about personal color theory, but that the fashion industry dictates seasonal trends that should be deemed universal (e.g. no white after Labor Day), I always thought the joke was actually about wearing the right color at a specific time of the year
That is how I perceived the joke too. You really were wearing the same colors, just a darker shade of it. For instance: lavender for Spring, Deep purple for Fall and Winter. Mint green for Spring and deep forest green for Fall and Winter, etc.
This reminds me of a running joke I accidentally started at an old job. I was a programmer, I was debating with one of my coworkers about an issue with one of our applications. He insisted it was a "style issue." The was an aspect of his outfit that was kind of bothering me that day, so I responded "No, wearing black shoes with a brown belt is a style issue, this is a disaster." I thought it was just another throwaway joke, but I heard so many variations of the "style issue" joke from my coworkers over the next year or so.
Your old Nerdsync videos were mostly about comics, and I always thought your choice of Navy and Red was because it was high contrast like a super hero.
Okay, was I the only one thinking that "atum colour" refer to the style that was in fashion for that year seasons? Like how fashion magazines tend to say "this are the colours for this spring", wich have nothing to do with personal colour season.
Yeah, I hadn't looked at the runtime before then, and still didn't for like another ten minutes, so I was expecting it to be a two-hour video after his comment.
I don't think I need to explain how bringing in not just one but two experts to talk about a meme based around a single line from a 15+ year old movie is one of the most Scott things I've ever seen
Newton's breakdown of the visible spectrum into 7 colours when there's not much difference between indigo & violet was very much dependent on his rather esoteric belief system, 7 been a more significant number to his worldview than 6.
Not really esoteric. Influenced by Western culture at large. 7 classical planets = 7 is a special number. Same reason we've got 7 weekdays, named after those 7 classical planets.
@@bigredjanie the 7 days of creation is likely because of the Babylonian 7 day week inspired by the 7 classical planets, since the Torah was likely compiled during or after the Babylonian exile
9:33 maybe it’s because I’m still kinda high from surgery but Essie explaining fashion in the context of musical terms just unlocked my understanding of clothes better than anything in 40+ years of existence. Also, more purple Scott always
If you start wearing purple and green, to signify your bi-ness and agender-ness, you could start on your comic villain era, going from the 'heroic' blues and reds to the more 'evil' colours
I'm about 10 minutes in right now, but I had to pause it, go get my laptop (I'm watching it on a TV) and type out this comment: Scott, I hope you see this: I am so, so grateful we have creators like you around. Your presence on camera is so gentle and welcoming, you clearly really care about every single shot and think about every little detail and you really find new and creative ways to incorporate the things you (and we) love into new subject matter. Like sure, this is very tangentially related to Scooby-Doo, but you took that little seed, a weird meme exploding on the internet, and turned it into a quest to see how accurate it actually was in the first place. And you took us with you! We are lucky to have you, please never forget that.
but... but I thought the literal seasons had their own sets of "trendy" colors 😭 the "fall season" color category and "trendy during fall" colors both exist, right? ............ right??
Absolutely. It’s harder to make a joke about them because they’re more specific than your normal “red, orange, yellow, etc” colors, but there are seasonal color palettes. He even showed some examples off earlier in the video. Everything gets weird because personal fashion had commandeered the seasons and removed them from the literal passage of time. Given that the joke is from 20 years ago, my theory is it was a lot more prevalent for the “rule” to be everyone wears fall colors in the fall. But given the recent upswing in encouraging originality, it’s swung more to “if you like yourself in fall colors, wear them whenever”. A classic example of language evolving over time.
Me at the start of the video: I should've known Scott was behind that meme! Me in the middle of the video: Wow, I never thought I'd be so intrigued by this discussion, but that's why I love NerdSync. Me at the end of the video: Oooh, kitty.
@@TitularHeroine here's a good example: Interior designer. I work near the rich part of Nashville selling paint. I've met maybe 1 designer who seems like she knows what she's talking about and all the others have just been insane. They charge ridiculous prices and will be the most expensive versions of everything since their clients are rich and fully taking them at their word. The company I work for lets contractors, painters, building maintenance guys, ECT ECT set up accounts to get better pricing. The way it usually works is the more they buy the better their discount. Except for designers... I'm using real numbers here just to make this clear. A $110 gallon of paint that a contractor will get for $35 (giving the store like $2 in profit) a designer will get for $85. Because if you give them the painter's full discount they will just assume you're trying to push low quality product on them. So their clients end up way over spending on even simple projects and the designers get big commissions from them for their services when really 5 minutes of talking to one of our staff would get you a better result for way way less money.
I wanna say yes, but also no. Colour analysts are just doing a fraction of what a personal stylist does, and having someone whose job it is to make you look as nice as possible isn’t really a scam, especially for special occasions where they’re going to have pictures taken that they’d have to look at forever. So if you don’t have the access to a personal stylist, you could have colour analysis done and at the very least be pointed in a generally good direction. And if you know the rules you know how to break them so you can build off from there.
@@TitularHeroine I'm just now seeing that my big rant yesterday about interior designers didn't post and now I'm sad 😐 But yeah being an interior designer is a great way to scam the rich
I always thought that this was a joke about fast fashion and trends,, like how certain clothing styles and colors will cycle out seasonally at your local Macy's or JCPenny or something
As soon as I heard "Personal Color Analysis" I thought "Oh my god, that tumblr post about Color Theory and the picture of blood painted on a hospital floor."
nothing brings me more joy than an autistic person being encouraged to infodump and everybody loving it. like her entire job? infodumping. thats incredible i wish i was her
I wondered if you'd jump into the color seasons stuff from tiktok, but getting someone to interview on it all AND going into such depth is above and beyond. Great video!
I really love the video effects that you added when Essie was talking about contrast, undertone, and chroma. It was a wonderful way to highlight the concepts she was talking about in a very visual way!
There's something very comforting about Scott talking about Scooby-Doo. There's something just very soothing and informative about it and for about half an hour everything is right in the world :)
Scott, a whole purple-themed video without the ususal suspects: "Flying Purple People Eater"; "The Color Purple"; "Purple Rain." I'm in a "Purple Haze."
I cannot believe you did not end that "restrictive framing" gag with you extending your arm towards the jacket and cathartically breaking the prescriptions. Aaaaarhg
You know what would be hilarious yet an even twister twistier twist? If Daphne's reaction is 100% genuine in the fact of her being a fashion expert and her brain is having a hard time computing how: 1. This random voodoo witch doctor she came across (who is about to "sacrifice" an already dead chicken) is aware of fashion color theory 2. He got the factoid completely wrong no matter what way you slice it 3. How random it is when it's not relating to the question she just asked in any way
Holy shit... It wasn't until you showed the actor's name in the credits I realized he's the "damn enchiladas" guy from Friday the 13th Part 5 Good for him getting more work after that masterpiece of a scene
You literally found the perfect person to talk to about colour theory, I've learned so much from this short break down about colour seasons and how different palettes work with or against your skin tones and that what you're looking for specifically is how the colour either brings attention to or removes attention from certain areas or colours that already exist in your own skin tone. I have super dark under eye circles and I blush pretty intensely. I'm very pale so it's very easily noticeable. This helps me so much in understanding what to look for going forward
"I've been hyper-fixating on this small fashion detail so I found someone whose special interest is style theory and we talked extensively about Scooby-Doo" might be the most neurodivergent thing Scott has ever done (affectionate) And I love the purple intro, I hope you use it!
1:12 actually you were not the only one! we had this meme in Brazilian twitter but it was with the dubbed version so it probably didn't show up in your search
I think purple itself does exist, violet is a colour on the visible light spectrum, but magenta doesn't. If you throw up a colour wheel, magenta is there across from green, in between purple and red, but it doesn't exist on the visible light spectrum. The spectrum goes from red to purple and ththe one in the middle is green. But being able to see "colour that is between red and purple, and isn't green" is very useful when trying to determine what's a fruit and what's a leaf, so our brains just kinda throw magenta up there in confusion
I mean non-spectral colors exist. The thing about magenta is its just an excitation of both blue-violet and red. But its not the only non spectral color. Pink is too. Likewise brown
Gotta say Scott, already watched this on Nebula, but I had to go here to say: One of your best videos yet. So much fun and very unique. I saw you were stressing about it on Twitter and I just wanted to say no one would be able to tell. The graphics, the context the PURPLE!! 💜It’s really your color. (Also funny it’s in both the bi and the nonbinary flag! How fitting!) Continue the good work!💜
What I'm thinking about is that I'm pretty sure that actor is the guy from Friday The 13th Part V... "Those damn enchiladas!" That and I hope James Gunn watches this video. I think he would enjoy it.
Easily one of the best examples of why I love this channel. I finished the video, then looked back at the title, and felt like I just got grabbed by the shirt and taken on a journey. I forgot where I started and loved where I ended up. This was awesome!
In a way, this video captures the charm of original Scooby-Doo. Like, I wouldn't think of the series without their use of color in the designs of the characters, the scenarios and even the transitions. I remember when I was a child, my parents bought me a digital Scooby-Doo watch. It had a teal purple color, and groovy flowers in yellow and cyan. I loved my Scooby-watch because I loved the series, but I also remember a kid telling me that I had a "girl's watch" because it was "pink." I guess I stopped wearing the watch, but I never forgot about it. Now that I think of it, I think it's kinda groovy, to be honest, and I like that I wasn't like that kid when I was young. Now I don't really like to wear purple and I wear quite a "traditional" color palette, as I'm fair skinned and dark haired, but I also acknowledge that my style is not really what other men around my age wear. I guess I've always liked to experiment, as clothes don't always fit me "as naturally". In the end, I think Scooby Doo is interesting because it blurs those lines, characters are fashion icons in and off themselves. It's kinda sexy in it's own way and I find that premise to be more interesting than series that are focused on male or female demographics.
The color orange tends to give me anxiety about the passage of time (i am adhd and the passing of time is a complicated thing for me) because of a strong mental association with the approach of autumn and nearing the end of the year, as well as sunset at the end of the day.
I LOVE that you (or your editor idk your life) adjusted the screen along with what terms StylingByPriest was using because not everyone would catch on without a visual aid
Okay, first I wanna say, I love this video, I love your content; and the research that went into this video is fantastic. I think you had great speakers, and their sections were super interesting. That being said. The quote in the movie is *NOT* about personal color stories; it is about the literal seasons. I don't know a ton about it, but I grew up with a aunt who was very in to fashion and the rules around fashion that she was taught growing up, and you can also find things about this in other media. There *are* certain colors that you wear based on the literal season. Like how you're not supposed to wear white (like all white, not pieces of white) after labor day because summer is over and you're going in to fall and winter; you're not "supposed to wear" black in the spring and summer, it's a winter and fall color. Pastel purple *is* a spring color, the spring purples tend to be cooler tones, with more blue and pink based purples. The color of purple Daphne is wearing in the film is a very warm purple, which would be a fall color. It's like one of those archaic rules for women that came up especially in the mid 20th century, think like etiquette classes of the 40s-60s; which paved way for the rules for women's fashion in the 90s and 2000s. Like you're not wrong for the interpretation of this quote being about personal color seasons; and I love the deep dive in to that; but you're not debunking the quote because that's not what the quote is about.
23:20 you are absolutely correct. Idk the first time I saw you in the jacket… the muted purple with kind of grayish tones/wash just seems to really fit you
JG is on his sh*t. He’s a character in the DC multiverse at this point that made it from the MCU after some ridiculous cosmic ordeal that he started. If Loki was cool to me he’d be more like Mr JG.
Purple is ridiculously hard to find in fashion, and I don't know why. Even harder is one that leans more blue than red. It's stupid. Purple is an awesome color, and I want to wear more of it. I can't even find fabric to make my own stuff with it. WHY?!
Imo I thought that joke was more so a jab at Daphne being the “ditzy fashion girl” that he assumed she would take it as an insult instead of investigating for clues further.
I'm colourblind, so for me purple _literally_ doesn't exist - if I look at something purple, it either looks like a dull red or a navy blue, and sometimes it looks like both *_at the same time,_* but not in the sense that it looks like a distinct colour. It's more like seeing two different shapes in a cloud, where you can see one, see another and switch between them but there's _also_ a moment when it transitions and it's somehow both at once... language kinda breaks down when it comes to subjective colour perception.
Me: "I don't really get this color season stuff, it's probably because of my autism" Color theorist: "I have autism." Me: "Damnit! There goes my excuse."
No amount of putting color stripes behind actor faces will make the idea of a personal palette actually make sense to me. It would look the same to me no matter what color stripes were in those pictures… fashion is not my thing clearly
The poetry of your assigned colors being binary, and your preferred color being those same colors mixed together, a third option on a spectrum between the two, is incredible.
You know what's funny? Back when I was binging your entire channel to get caught up to real time, I remember thinking that the dark, primary reds and blues of your channel pallete didn't feel right. I assumed you were going for super hero / Superman vibes, which of course was on brand, so it made perfect sense. Turns out, all along you needed villain colors 🤷♀️. Rock those purples, Scott!
@@heartscapesreiki1496One of the older videos on this channel 100% looks at primary/hero and secondary/villain colors, talks about why Hulk is kind of a villain in comics and the coloring of their skin/pants reflects that, etc.
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Great video
The ad read segue is an art form, and you have mastered it!
@@lyledal I bet he has
Love reading Ground news in the morning BTW. But I wanted to just say that I love seeing you in purple I bet you would look great in a purple trilby hat. I’m a big fan of purple and have several pieces including a suit that I use at my best friends wedding. But sometimes people think I’m trying to look like a Batman villain. So I have to stop myself from mixing in green, even though I also love green and have quite a few green items. If I didn’t like Batman I’d be so pissed at the colorist responsible.
As for purple, green and yellow apparently not being real; I think that while the physical wave lengths of light might determine “real colors” and the properties or both absorption and reflection determine the properties of color, color is an abstract determined by our brains. Also nobody sees color the same as anybody else. So I think all the colors are as real as we interpret them to be.
@@jabrow7135 True
This is a May meme. It's the first day of June!
Oh, shoot, it is. Happy First Day of June!
Very on brand for this channel for a planned video to come out later than when the joke works for it
Happy pride month
@@Doomsword0well the idea is that the meme was posted in May not that this video was in May even though it almost made it
Makes perfect sense.
This video started out as a joke but then this happened.
I love it. I learned a lot and it reminded me that I also had to figure out what I like to wear and colors I'm drawn to.
7:58 Here to say how you visually explained her descriptions as she was making them was genius and extremely helpful.
Those are the best ones though! While you're not exclusively a Scooby Doo channel IMO you make the best Scooby Doo videos I've seen.
Emmie 100% needs to release her Scooby Doo analysis data on her accounts so she can be swallowed up by the Scooby Doo fandom too, lol!
i feel the joke gets even funnier when you remember the fact the movie was filmed in Australia and is kind of semi meant to be set in and around the sub tropics of fiji
Tangentially related, I recently watched Scooby-Doo 2002 with the director and producer's commentary and found out a cool bit of trivia about the wardrobe. The director really didn't want the gang's clothes to be affected by shadows and light. They wanted the clothes to always look the same color regardless of the environment, much like the og cartoon, which didn't use much shading or highlighting on the character models. This was also done so you could easily identify the characters based on their color coding. To achieve this they made a version of the wardrobe that was really brightly colored for them to wear at night (to compensate for shadows) and a version that was really dark and muted for them to wear in bright sun on the beach (so they wouldn't look washed out). They also seemed to hint at using different types of fabrics as well to absorb or reflect more or less light to keep the colors consistent.
That is genuinely awesome
That’s super interesting, thanks for sharing!
That is fascinating, and very clever of them!
Wow thanks for this tidbit that's so clever
I always wondered why the gang stood out despite the clothes being in the decade
When you contact an expert for a quote but accidentally give an autistic person the opportunity to put together a presentation based on their special interest ... 😂❤ (Also, I like that purple intro.)
Quoting a curated selection from a string of Tumblr posts in response (I would just link it but I know a lot of comment sections delete links):
user: corrie-zodori (Nov 23, 2022)
[ "Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)?
Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene." ]
user: webbyghost (Jun 5, 2023)
format - response to a text message:
[ "Oh good I get to explain this to you" "You will regret this" "..." ]
user: fuzzyhairedfreak (Aug 10, 2023)
another text message response:
[ "im glad you asked" ]
followed by an attached audio file with a runtime of 6 days, 94 hrs, 20 minutes
How do you think we end up with experts in things? 🤣🤣🤣
@@jasonninja55 true 😂 But not all experts would go that above and beyond for a guest appearance on a youtube channel with an entirely different theme.
Emmie seems like an absolutely amazing guest. We must protect her at all costs!
That's like 99% of experts tbh
I hate it when I accidentally make a viral meme that I then have to explain in a 40 minute video essay
You mean 30 minute?
@@GothicPixie I’ll make a 10 minute video essay explaining my lie in the original comment
@@FlynnTheRedhead Actually do it.
I know, right? We've all been there.
Yeah every other week, it really takes time out of your day
to be fair, i don't think the joke was referencing color seasons, but seasonal color, i.e. color palettes that fashion and other designers use based on season (you know, just like florals for spring?). and the reasons, as far as i can tell, why purple turns up in autumn are 1. halloween obviously and 2. harvest season, specifically we'd be thinking of aubergine, which appears a lot in harvest spreads. i got married last fall and my decor theme was "dark autumn", which featured a wine red and a warm aubergine. (that all said, i'm not sure the purple daphne wears would count)
really fun video tho, would have honestly loved to hear more of your color theory research!
that's what I thought too!
Yeah that was my immediate thought too and I'm surprised Scott didn't bring it up. There's a difference between a personal color season and seasonal trends in fashion.
Came here to say it... All the research and points brought up are very interesting, but it feels like it has almost nothing to do with what the actual content of the joke is? Even though it may still be wrong (I hardly think purple is excluded from spring fashion collections).
I thought the same thing. I did a quick search online for seasonal color and only two results came back with anything about seasonal colors rather than color seasons. Even color seasons were termed seasonal colors. Either way, the light purple Daphne is wearing falls into the spring range of purple rather than the dark fall purple, as you mentioned. Even then, what is "in" for any season changes any given year. Apparently last year, one of the spring/summer colors was "fiery red." 🤷♀
If you google spring fashion color 2001 you’ll see a lot of browns and a few black and white outfits, but googling fall fashion color 2001 you do see a few purple dresses and one of the first results has a purple scarf. So it’s possible that when that joke was written, it was either still 2001 or the movie was planned to release in 2001. Although if you google spring fashion color 2002 there is a lot of purple. Which means the joke works in 2001 and not 2002.
Color spectrum meets neuro-divergent spectrum. Tickles my brain
Lmao just read "neuro-divergent" as Naruto-Divergent. Dyslexia's crazy
We neurodivergants are amazing at our special interests
"You have all seen the runtime"
I had not. I saw Sarah Michelle Gellar in the thumbnail and then I promptly zoned out until just now.
You get it.
Yep, she has that effect on people.
I always took that joke as not about personal color theory, but that the fashion industry dictates seasonal trends that should be deemed universal (e.g. no white after Labor Day), I always thought the joke was actually about wearing the right color at a specific time of the year
Yeah - surely that’s what it is. It’s a combination of social norms (fit in) and capitalism (buy more things)
That is how I perceived the joke too. You really were wearing the same colors, just a darker shade of it. For instance: lavender for Spring, Deep purple for Fall and Winter. Mint green for Spring and deep forest green for Fall and Winter, etc.
Imagine that, a company telling someone who has a channel (primarily) about comics, that they have a Superman/Spiderman color palette.
Spiderman but if he wore jeans (so basically spiderman india)
This reminds me of a running joke I accidentally started at an old job. I was a programmer, I was debating with one of my coworkers about an issue with one of our applications. He insisted it was a "style issue." The was an aspect of his outfit that was kind of bothering me that day, so I responded "No, wearing black shoes with a brown belt is a style issue, this is a disaster."
I thought it was just another throwaway joke, but I heard so many variations of the "style issue" joke from my coworkers over the next year or so.
Your old Nerdsync videos were mostly about comics, and I always thought your choice of Navy and Red was because it was high contrast like a super hero.
Okay, was I the only one thinking that "atum colour" refer to the style that was in fashion for that year seasons? Like how fashion magazines tend to say "this are the colours for this spring", wich have nothing to do with personal colour season.
nope, lmao, I thought that was what the joke was referring to as well
"But you've seen the runtime of this video"
Ngl was expecting this to somehow be a 4 hour video essay at that line
Little did they know, I had not actually seen the runtime of the video, LOL
SAME! I was expecting a HBomberguy runtime length jumpscare, lol!
Good concept for a short movie. Self-aware video makes itself longer during views to trap nerds in a rabbit hole that never ends.
Yeah, I hadn't looked at the runtime before then, and still didn't for like another ten minutes, so I was expecting it to be a two-hour video after his comment.
@@willow8783 I mean...I thought it WAS HBomberguy from the thumbnail, this is the first time this channel has come up in my algorithm!
I don't think I need to explain how bringing in not just one but two experts to talk about a meme based around a single line from a 15+ year old movie is one of the most Scott things I've ever seen
"I learned so much about colour theory, and you're not gonna see ANY of it!" That sounds like a Brilliant/Patreon video if I've ever seen one.
Newton's breakdown of the visible spectrum into 7 colours when there's not much difference between indigo & violet was very much dependent on his rather esoteric belief system, 7 been a more significant number to his worldview than 6.
Not really esoteric. Influenced by Western culture at large. 7 classical planets = 7 is a special number. Same reason we've got 7 weekdays, named after those 7 classical planets.
@@4rtie Also the 7 days that God is said to have created the Earth in the Book of Genesis.
@@bigredjanie the 7 days of creation is likely because of the Babylonian 7 day week inspired by the 7 classical planets, since the Torah was likely compiled during or after the Babylonian exile
When you're colorblind, all these worries just fade away!
They're definitely heightened for me. I'm WAY too worried about it
And worsened when partly colorblind 🫡
I genuinely just delegated the worry, instead relying on others' opinions of what matches/clashes and should or shouldn't be worn for my skintone.
Since I'm a goth I don't know if I should worry more or less about personal colours.
9:33 maybe it’s because I’m still kinda high from surgery but Essie explaining fashion in the context of musical terms just unlocked my understanding of clothes better than anything in 40+ years of existence. Also, more purple Scott always
James Gunn being the writer of the Scooby Doo movies will never not be my favorite fact ever 😂
i still haven't forgiven him for making scrappy-doo the surprise villain of the live action movie
He also helped create the game Lolipop Chainsaw. Now that is a weird fact.
@@pocketsizedweeb I didn't know that but it is one of the least surprising things I've heard in a while.
@@pocketsizedweebI love the Scooby-Doo movies and Lollipop Chainsaw.
@@kelpklepto Season 2 of Velma will help you with that
halloween uses orange and purple which is why i always thought they gave the girls those palattes
If you start wearing purple and green, to signify your bi-ness and agender-ness, you could start on your comic villain era, going from the 'heroic' blues and reds to the more 'evil' colours
As someone who is neither of these things and yet wears these colours, i feel judged on a number of levels 😂
If he throws some orange red and blue into the mix it'll loop back around to hero colors. 🐢🐢🐢🐢
Taking be gay do crimes too literally😛
going from the heroic primary colors to the villainous secondary colors
I'm about 10 minutes in right now, but I had to pause it, go get my laptop (I'm watching it on a TV) and type out this comment:
Scott, I hope you see this: I am so, so grateful we have creators like you around. Your presence on camera is so gentle and welcoming, you clearly really care about every single shot and think about every little detail and you really find new and creative ways to incorporate the things you (and we) love into new subject matter.
Like sure, this is very tangentially related to Scooby-Doo, but you took that little seed, a weird meme exploding on the internet, and turned it into a quest to see how accurate it actually was in the first place. And you took us with you! We are lucky to have you, please never forget that.
but... but I thought the literal seasons had their own sets of "trendy" colors 😭 the "fall season" color category and "trendy during fall" colors both exist, right?
............ right??
Absolutely. It’s harder to make a joke about them because they’re more specific than your normal “red, orange, yellow, etc” colors, but there are seasonal color palettes. He even showed some examples off earlier in the video. Everything gets weird because personal fashion had commandeered the seasons and removed them from the literal passage of time. Given that the joke is from 20 years ago, my theory is it was a lot more prevalent for the “rule” to be everyone wears fall colors in the fall. But given the recent upswing in encouraging originality, it’s swung more to “if you like yourself in fall colors, wear them whenever”. A classic example of language evolving over time.
i think so
"well i have autism" thats how i start most conversations
Me at the start of the video: I should've known Scott was behind that meme!
Me in the middle of the video: Wow, I never thought I'd be so intrigued by this discussion, but that's why I love NerdSync.
Me at the end of the video: Oooh, kitty.
Halloween forever associated with purple and orange in my mind
Red white and green for Christmas. Pink and yellow for Easter. Orange black and purple for Halloween.
Pumpkins and plums remind me of fall and they are orange and purple, so yeah I associate those colors with fall too
@@TonyLambregtsPastels for Easter!
S-tier hallowe'en palettes include purple.
The people who advised you to wear red and blue clothes weren't completely wrong, because if you mix red and blue you get purple.
Well, you get dark magenta.
@@gljames24 Depends on the mix
It's like when you go to a psychic and 6-degrees yourself into believing they actually predicted stuff 😂
I like all 3 colors but I like red more
When you first put that jacket on my immediate thought was that it looks good on you and I'm no fashionista or anything.
I feel like whoever "chose" your colors on that day, just looked at your channel, and said, "Oh, you do comic books? Superman colors!"
My biggest takeaway from this is there's a way to scam rich people i never even considered
That must mean that there are probably other ways too...
@@TitularHeroine here's a good example:
Interior designer. I work near the rich part of Nashville selling paint. I've met maybe 1 designer who seems like she knows what she's talking about and all the others have just been insane. They charge ridiculous prices and will be the most expensive versions of everything since their clients are rich and fully taking them at their word.
The company I work for lets contractors, painters, building maintenance guys, ECT ECT set up accounts to get better pricing. The way it usually works is the more they buy the better their discount. Except for designers... I'm using real numbers here just to make this clear. A $110 gallon of paint that a contractor will get for $35 (giving the store like $2 in profit) a designer will get for $85. Because if you give them the painter's full discount they will just assume you're trying to push low quality product on them.
So their clients end up way over spending on even simple projects and the designers get big commissions from them for their services when really 5 minutes of talking to one of our staff would get you a better result for way way less money.
I wanna say yes, but also no. Colour analysts are just doing a fraction of what a personal stylist does, and having someone whose job it is to make you look as nice as possible isn’t really a scam, especially for special occasions where they’re going to have pictures taken that they’d have to look at forever. So if you don’t have the access to a personal stylist, you could have colour analysis done and at the very least be pointed in a generally good direction. And if you know the rules you know how to break them so you can build off from there.
@@TitularHeroine I'm just now seeing that my big rant yesterday about interior designers didn't post and now I'm sad 😐
But yeah being an interior designer is a great way to scam the rich
I had cataract surgery recently, and I can see purple again. My original lens was tinted a bit yellow, so purple came out as grayish
"I haven't but my wife has and she tells me about it"
Mood
I always thought that this was a joke about fast fashion and trends,, like how certain clothing styles and colors will cycle out seasonally at your local Macy's or JCPenny or something
Man was age 10 and 20 years later he’s now 30. Crazy.
Scott once again adding to my favorite genre of video essay: a mix of children's media, niche academic material, and earnest self exploration
As soon as I heard "Personal Color Analysis" I thought "Oh my god, that tumblr post about Color Theory and the picture of blood painted on a hospital floor."
But red has more positive connotations than negative ones! 😂
Homicide detectives: why are you dragging that bleeding corpse around?
Me, an intellectual: well you see it’s basic colour theory….
It's like asking if green is warm. It depends on a lot of factors, but FAR too many vegetables are purple to ignore it as a thematic color.
i love how you are able to find personal connections in so many places, it really makes the ideas come together
A whole segment on tiktok's vibe based colour theory that just looks at colours side by side and says "Oh I like that"
I love that James Gunn doesn't shy away from the fact that he wrote the Scooby Doo films.
So from Comics to Scooby Doo to Fashion. I've only been here from the Scooby Doo stuff but I'm here for this too; From one ADHD brain to another lol
nothing brings me more joy than an autistic person being encouraged to infodump and everybody loving it. like her entire job? infodumping. thats incredible i wish i was her
As for aliens and the cosmos, the "Color Out of Space" is, indeed, purple. Nicholas Cage told me so.
I wondered if you'd jump into the color seasons stuff from tiktok, but getting someone to interview on it all AND going into such depth is above and beyond. Great video!
I really love the video effects that you added when Essie was talking about contrast, undertone, and chroma. It was a wonderful way to highlight the concepts she was talking about in a very visual way!
I love how you bring all of these topics back to Scooby Doo somehow. It's wonderful.
Do you think they just saw you did comic content and prescribed you Superman's colors?
There's something very comforting about Scott talking about Scooby-Doo. There's something just very soothing and informative about it and for about half an hour everything is right in the world :)
Love how you waited until June so everyone could enjoy your meme to the fullest one last time.
Jesus, Scott. I swear there's a point in like every one of your videos that makes me tear up. The student "coming alive" part did it this time.
"You've seen the run time" 30 minutes? I was prepped for hours, this is just a nice little treat
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”
― E.B. White
laughs in lack of seasons. We only get dry or rainy season so we don't get to choose colors accordingly.
i imagine you get to choose "not white" in rainy seasons anyway
Scott, a whole purple-themed video without the ususal suspects: "Flying Purple People Eater"; "The Color Purple"; "Purple Rain." I'm in a "Purple Haze."
"Rather than colours that were assigned to me by somebody else"
Assigned Summer at Birth.
I cannot believe you did not end that "restrictive framing" gag with you extending your arm towards the jacket and cathartically breaking the prescriptions. Aaaaarhg
You know what would be hilarious yet an even twister twistier twist? If Daphne's reaction is 100% genuine in the fact of her being a fashion expert and her brain is having a hard time computing how:
1. This random voodoo witch doctor she came across (who is about to "sacrifice" an already dead chicken) is aware of fashion color theory
2. He got the factoid completely wrong no matter what way you slice it
3. How random it is when it's not relating to the question she just asked in any way
1:07 that's a lie too. Twitter was never fun.
Holy shit... It wasn't until you showed the actor's name in the credits I realized he's the "damn enchiladas" guy from Friday the 13th Part 5
Good for him getting more work after that masterpiece of a scene
Not the short sleeve on long sleeve trend 😭 it haunts me still
Haunts you? It’s dope
Nah, it's amazing.
It’s good for cold temperatures when you still want to wear a short sleeve shirt that you really like. So you put a long sleeve shirt on first.
Everything after JNCOs was just a pale attempt at Fashion.
Nah that shit goes hard
Right when he mentions "you've seen the run time of this video" there's exactly 30 minutes left in the video 😂
Did Scott find a counterpart to themselvef that slipped in from a parallel universe where they got into fashion instead of comics?
You literally found the perfect person to talk to about colour theory, I've learned so much from this short break down about colour seasons and how different palettes work with or against your skin tones and that what you're looking for specifically is how the colour either brings attention to or removes attention from certain areas or colours that already exist in your own skin tone. I have super dark under eye circles and I blush pretty intensely. I'm very pale so it's very easily noticeable. This helps me so much in understanding what to look for going forward
"30" "oh no" sticker, felt
"I've been hyper-fixating on this small fashion detail so I found someone whose special interest is style theory and we talked extensively about Scooby-Doo" might be the most neurodivergent thing Scott has ever done (affectionate)
And I love the purple intro, I hope you use it!
So cool that you got Parker York Smith for this video!
1:12 actually you were not the only one! we had this meme in Brazilian twitter but it was with the dubbed version so it probably didn't show up in your search
22:00 I always thought the Red and Blue colors were, like, a Superman theme...Because comic books. The lore goes deeper, lol.
I know this joke is two months late but, the looking for alien life that is purple, Starts singing "The Purple People Eater"
"So, how'd you get into fashion?"
"I watched a 30 minute video about Scooby-Doo"
"What?"
also, that intro is great 👍
I think purple itself does exist, violet is a colour on the visible light spectrum, but magenta doesn't. If you throw up a colour wheel, magenta is there across from green, in between purple and red, but it doesn't exist on the visible light spectrum. The spectrum goes from red to purple and ththe one in the middle is green. But being able to see "colour that is between red and purple, and isn't green" is very useful when trying to determine what's a fruit and what's a leaf, so our brains just kinda throw magenta up there in confusion
I mean non-spectral colors exist. The thing about magenta is its just an excitation of both blue-violet and red. But its not the only non spectral color. Pink is too. Likewise brown
Gotta say Scott, already watched this on Nebula, but I had to go here to say: One of your best videos yet. So much fun and very unique. I saw you were stressing about it on Twitter and I just wanted to say no one would be able to tell. The graphics, the context the PURPLE!! 💜It’s really your color. (Also funny it’s in both the bi and the nonbinary flag! How fitting!) Continue the good work!💜
“And I being a very colorblind man, had to take his word for it, on basically everything.”
What I'm thinking about is that I'm pretty sure that actor is the guy from Friday The 13th Part V... "Those damn enchiladas!" That and I hope James Gunn watches this video. I think he would enjoy it.
My god I checked and you’re right, it’s the damn enchiladas guy! Good eye
Easily one of the best examples of why I love this channel. I finished the video, then looked back at the title, and felt like I just got grabbed by the shirt and taken on a journey. I forgot where I started and loved where I ended up. This was awesome!
In a way, this video captures the charm of original Scooby-Doo. Like, I wouldn't think of the series without their use of color in the designs of the characters, the scenarios and even the transitions. I remember when I was a child, my parents bought me a digital Scooby-Doo watch. It had a teal purple color, and groovy flowers in yellow and cyan. I loved my Scooby-watch because I loved the series, but I also remember a kid telling me that I had a "girl's watch" because it was "pink." I guess I stopped wearing the watch, but I never forgot about it. Now that I think of it, I think it's kinda groovy, to be honest, and I like that I wasn't like that kid when I was young. Now I don't really like to wear purple and I wear quite a "traditional" color palette, as I'm fair skinned and dark haired, but I also acknowledge that my style is not really what other men around my age wear. I guess I've always liked to experiment, as clothes don't always fit me "as naturally".
In the end, I think Scooby Doo is interesting because it blurs those lines, characters are fashion icons in and off themselves. It's kinda sexy in it's own way and I find that premise to be more interesting than series that are focused on male or female demographics.
As someone who went to art school and is really into the academics of fashion, you have not idea how satisfying this video is to me ❤❤❤
I always knew Scott was to powerful for Scott's own good...
The color orange tends to give me anxiety about the passage of time (i am adhd and the passing of time is a complicated thing for me) because of a strong mental association with the approach of autumn and nearing the end of the year, as well as sunset at the end of the day.
I LOVE that you (or your editor idk your life) adjusted the screen along with what terms StylingByPriest was using because not everyone would catch on without a visual aid
3:19 Damn. Why didn't I look at the runtime? I just clicked on the video. Now I'm invested.
Okay, first I wanna say, I love this video, I love your content; and the research that went into this video is fantastic. I think you had great speakers, and their sections were super interesting.
That being said. The quote in the movie is *NOT* about personal color stories; it is about the literal seasons. I don't know a ton about it, but I grew up with a aunt who was very in to fashion and the rules around fashion that she was taught growing up, and you can also find things about this in other media. There *are* certain colors that you wear based on the literal season. Like how you're not supposed to wear white (like all white, not pieces of white) after labor day because summer is over and you're going in to fall and winter; you're not "supposed to wear" black in the spring and summer, it's a winter and fall color. Pastel purple *is* a spring color, the spring purples tend to be cooler tones, with more blue and pink based purples. The color of purple Daphne is wearing in the film is a very warm purple, which would be a fall color. It's like one of those archaic rules for women that came up especially in the mid 20th century, think like etiquette classes of the 40s-60s; which paved way for the rules for women's fashion in the 90s and 2000s.
Like you're not wrong for the interpretation of this quote being about personal color seasons; and I love the deep dive in to that; but you're not debunking the quote because that's not what the quote is about.
23:20 you are absolutely correct. Idk the first time I saw you in the jacket… the muted purple with kind of grayish tones/wash just seems to really fit you
JG is on his sh*t. He’s a character in the DC multiverse at this point that made it from the MCU after some ridiculous cosmic ordeal that he started. If Loki was cool to me he’d be more like Mr JG.
It wouldn't really be a NerdSync video if Scott didn't go overboard with the research.
Purple is ridiculously hard to find in fashion, and I don't know why. Even harder is one that leans more blue than red. It's stupid. Purple is an awesome color, and I want to wear more of it. I can't even find fabric to make my own stuff with it. WHY?!
Imo I thought that joke was more so a jab at Daphne being the “ditzy fashion girl” that he assumed she would take it as an insult instead of investigating for clues further.
I'm colourblind, so for me purple _literally_ doesn't exist - if I look at something purple, it either looks like a dull red or a navy blue, and sometimes it looks like both *_at the same time,_* but not in the sense that it looks like a distinct colour. It's more like seeing two different shapes in a cloud, where you can see one, see another and switch between them but there's _also_ a moment when it transitions and it's somehow both at once... language kinda breaks down when it comes to subjective colour perception.
Neat. Kinda sounds like people with normal color vision see stygian green
Even more confusing in Australia where the middle of May is in Fall/Autumn.
This joke has lived rent-free in my mind since I saw the movie for the first time as well. I love to see it get some recognition!
A Parker Smith x NerdSync crossover is not what I had in my bingo card, but I'm so glad to see all of it!
I feel like I just watched a video essay version of an episode of "How To with John Wilson" titled "How To Make a Viral Meme"
29:56 I made an entire presentation out of “magenta is a lie” years ago for my tech design company. It was so much fun. 😁
Purple is a hermit color, obviously
Me: "I don't really get this color season stuff, it's probably because of my autism"
Color theorist: "I have autism."
Me: "Damnit! There goes my excuse."
No amount of putting color stripes behind actor faces will make the idea of a personal palette actually make sense to me. It would look the same to me no matter what color stripes were in those pictures… fashion is not my thing clearly
The poetry of your assigned colors being binary, and your preferred color being those same colors mixed together, a third option on a spectrum between the two, is incredible.
You know what's funny? Back when I was binging your entire channel to get caught up to real time, I remember thinking that the dark, primary reds and blues of your channel pallete didn't feel right. I assumed you were going for super hero / Superman vibes, which of course was on brand, so it made perfect sense. Turns out, all along you needed villain colors 🤷♀️. Rock those purples, Scott!
And now do we get a video on why primary colors are thought of as hero colors while secondary colors are more villainous?
@@ZipplyZane Hmmm...I have definitely seen such a video, but not sure if it was on Nerdsync. Hey, Scott @NerdSyncProductions , was that you?
@@heartscapesreiki1496One of the older videos on this channel 100% looks at primary/hero and secondary/villain colors, talks about why Hulk is kind of a villain in comics and the coloring of their skin/pants reflects that, etc.
@@acgeewhiz Awesome, thanks for confirming.