Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color

[@jonas1015119]

Maybe just having a jail cell that is freshly painted in a bright color instead of dirty grey helps. Same way that people are less likely to litter in a clean environment than in one that is already dirty.

[@disorganizedorg]

Good point. I bet they didn't paint the control cells freshly.

[@LRM12o8]

Literally any light color would be better than the dirty depressing grey typically used in prisons...

[@fluoroantimonic]

Ey a broken window theory thingy

[@igeljaeger]

good anime taste bro

[@jonas1015119]

@@igeljaeger a fellow man of culture

[@snoozysnail1068]

I've heard that when the study on Baker Miller's calming effects were reported on, they left out the fact that they found the opposite results after long term exposure.

[@bookle5829]

That's actually what happened

[@doomkitty8386]

I would get angry if I was surrounded by that nasty color all day.

[@theglitchcounter264]

@@doomkitty8386 I got angry just looking at the first image of a cell

[@genepozniak]

That's what my psychology professor said. I can't find any reference to it though.

[@theglitchcounter264]

@@genepozniak I’d assume it has something to do with perception , as in a jail cell is SUPPOSED to be a form of white or black. That pink would probably become maddening if it was all you saw.

[@youzerable]

The jail in a town I used to live in was painted with that "puke pink" color. I went to pick up two different people from jail there on two different occasions and literally the first words out of their mouths when they got out the door was ranting and bitching about that horrible pink. It seemed to seriously agitate them.

[@EALM95]

sounds like peptbismol pink

[@limehazard]

Ok, for a second there I thought you meant that you lived in jail.

[@princessthyemis]

wow!

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

I think that this is the case with overexposure to any color... My boyfriend is in the Navy as a nuclear engineer on a sub. Apparently, almost everything is painted seafoam green, and he HATED being in my room when he visited recently because it's a similar seafoam green. I doubt that painting everything a single color has much of a positive impact on emotions, but because it's all you see, you end up hating it. I also wonder if subconsciously associating something like seafoam green with, say, the torture that is living and working on a submarine has more to do with the person's behavior than the color just being nice to look at or whatever.

[@fr33f4l4st1ne]

@@eliseosterbrink8000 yeah tbh it sounds like because that color is associated with solitary confinement, and torture (or whatever reason ur man felt at his job) that they start to hate that color. its like that science experiment with the baby and the rabbit, and causing the child to be afraid of the rabbit by associatiom with a loud sound or something? like if that color becomes associated with something really painful, that color is going to trigger that pain. thats super sad.

[@mollycollins498]

Okay but technically, doesn't long term exposure to Baker-Miller have the opposite effect and make you irrationally angry? There's a very short frame of time where it's calming

[@bellasmith7283]

I think I would be frustrated too, if everything was that color. I'd get sick of looking at it

[@AndrooUK]

It sounds like it would be good for a drunk tank or other short term visit locations, then. Or, just in a common room of a psychiatric ward, rather than the bedrooms, too, and whatnot.

[@Reverend_Salem]

@@AndrooUK l

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@AndrooUK wouldn't recommend it in a psych ward. They tried that at my local one, and even just visiting people there sent you mad in a few minutes.

[@zakosist]

I doubt it is even the color itself, but rather the complete lack of variety in color. At least if it was like in these pictures. Normally I dont really think any color would affect you mentally that much

[@noamz9527]

I like how in 5:18 in the chess game clip one player just takes the opponent king and the other side just casually keeps playing. While there are some chess variants where you can capture the king as far as I'm aware the only one where it doesn't ends the game is giftgiving chess. But in this variant the other player has to capture back and can't move the rook as he does. So this game is just illegal no matter how you look at it.

[@bigpeenerpeen]

lol

[@nathanbickel4362]

Hey maybe it was antichess

[@nathanbickel4362]

Update. It wasn't. The next move was Rh3 and not taking the bishop. (Also, just realizing that's probably what you meant by gift-giving chess). But I love that someone else noticed this, I was scrolling until I found someone mention it lol

[@Skwertydogs]

Maybe we should #suggest this game for Agadmator to analyze.

[@joshuacheung6518]

Suicide chess

[@mnm1273]

A psychology study gives shocking non replicable results? How surprising.

[@ateyaba7253]

@Fira Wesira the link to your only fans really says “Ayy shiit” 💀

[@Direblade11]

I was hoping there would be angry psyche students, but it seems everyone knows a lot of psychological studies aren't great. The quote I heard was 80% of studies can't be replicated, from Jordan Peterson, a psyche prof P.S. please report the two bots here :^) Edit: spoke with a coworker in a psyche program, and he explained to me that, while these studies are often not reproducable, they still have some relevance in their assessment (or something like that)

[@uzundeprem5743]

Yeah yeah it be like that

[@BitterJoyXx]

@@ateyaba7253 Aishite means love me in Japanese, so they're not only annoying they're also desperate lmao

[@NoManOdysseus]

I am shocked, shocked!... Well, not that shocked.

[@cyee7]

This colour theory checks out. Like how they would use splotches of red against white walls and flooring in a children's hospital to symbolise energy and vitality.

[@Bacopa68]

I like your shoelaces.

[@ZombieWoman0908]

@@Bacopa68 Thanks, I stole them from the president

[@hedgehog3180]

@@ZombieWoman0908 Why is this happening to me, I don't deserve this.

[@pandoraeve9751]

Don't forget, lust was ALSO one of the options to "prove" that red has more positive than negative connotations! For a children's hospital.

[@MachiNoShaku]

color theory dont mean shit when you is leaving blood splatters on the wall tho

[@selkiefluff]

Pink is my favorite color, but the idea of shanking someone in an all-pink room sounds so ridiculous I would not even attempt. That might be the case LOL

[@debbiemcpherson2426]

I love pink too, but I am very picky about the shade.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Now imagine you've been in there for months and shanking someone is the only way to see a room that isn't covered in pink. It becomes a lot less ridiculous when you need to see something that looks normal.

[@Tilith]

@Same Same But dried one actually would.

[@KOmyself]

@@Tilith true, true

[@jackryan4313]

Nah, if I was locked in a cell with another man for extended periods (especially if in a 23&1 situation), that shade of pink is going to make me stab that cell mate. The color was proven to increase agitation with time. So while initially it might be good, it's essentially horrible for this type of use, because this isn't a temporary use by any means

[@yeenbean3318]

If I were a prisoner, yeah it would make me slightly calmer because it would force me to stop and think "This room is so ugly. Why on earth would they paint it this color?" And the few seconds I'd take to ponder it would probably distract me enough to slightly lower my heart rate.

[@neoqwerty]

I was thinking the exact same thing. "Are you sure they're calmer, and not very confused?"

[@ivy4958]

i think it would make me think ''this room is pretty!,i mean i love pink so at least one thing at jail is great! its my favorite color''

[@Pifeo]

I would go insane if I was in a room that color for like a day

[@khka2178]

Yeah, it feels very weird seeing that color all over the place where it shouldn't be present naturally. It would be a torture for me if I was kept in a cell painted in this color.

[@Kalitayy]

Well i would go insane if I was in a room for a day regardless of the color. 24 hrs without no distractions or any way out that is

[@Mulgah]

@@Kalitayy segregation isn't just being in a room without distractions, correctional officers are bored too and tormenting someone that can't physically react (and will be reprimanded if they try) passes the time well

[@Super-wx6br]

Itd probably just make me more pissed off

[@Kalitayy]

@@Mulgah yeah but you gotta check out this Mind Field episode called Isolation. The White Room is basically what I meant

[@danielduncan6806]

I went into our local jailhouse that is painted pink for 6 months. I went in a strung out alcoholic, skinny as a rail, could barely even stand. I came out built like an ox. There was nothing else to do, it was boring as hell, so I just exercised the entire time, just for something to do. However, there were quite a few confrontations with other inmates. And those confrontations mostly led to nothing. Perhaps the color had no effect on me, but had an effect the others? Or maybe the working out had something to do with it; perhaps after the confrontations started their survival instincts kicked in and they fully assessed their situation and decided it might be a bad idea to fight the guy who has been constantly working out. Yeah, we see that a lot in pseudo science. Where people come to "concrete" conclusions when there are still a lot of things they have yet to consider.

[@dortoka]

I know a guy who went to the local jailhouse for 6 months and came back fruity

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@dortoka Good thing he didnt come back with scurvy at least

[@hedgehog3180]

I mean it could also just be that painting an entire area one color is really boring and boredom will make people less active and less aggressive, and this color just happens to work because it's not super dark so it doesn't make it depressing because of the lack of light but it's also not so light that it looks like shit if it just gets a little dirty.

[@vladimirenlow4388]

Congratulations on your recovery! Keep working on yourself, physically and emotionally, and you'll get where you want to go.

[@ckoala16]

@@dortoka that guy went in fruity, he came out of the closet, not county.

[@hedgehog3180]

I kinda have to wonder if maybe the reduction in violence and aggressiveness might not also be linked to the simple fact that they just repainted the entire room so now it looks a lot nicer and people tend to want to avoid breaking things that look pristine but we generally don't care that much if something is already damaged. Otherwise prisons probably don't get a ton of maintenance and if you're just looking at whether you have a drop in violence in the period after the repaint then it's kinda impossible to tell which effect is at play, is it the color or just the renovation? You'd have to compare with another prison that also got renovated at the same time with a fairly similar population that had similar levels of violence before the renovation to be sure.

[@redalt58]

unfathomably based pfp

[@imarchello]

@@redalt58 Get topped

[@cakeisyummy5755]

I remember that Kurzgezart mentioned a study that says that Removations and Beauty affect People's Mental Health more than Safety.

[@WeavementSesestea]

Norway's prisons have already proven this to be true.

[@AndrooUK]

Well, paint cells different colours in different locations and don't tell inmates about it, and see whet kind of results you get in aggregate.

[@Nylak-Otter]

I'd love to participate in a study like this adjusted for animals, and considering animals' varying perceptions of color. I've been observing and experimenting with it at the shelter I work at, and we settled on low saturation light blue, light yellow, and pastel green was the most calming for dogs, depending on the individual with breed and history actually having a statistically significant impact on preference. Combining it with lighting (dogs are more likely to move towards well-lit areas, and cats do the opposite), it's really interesting and useful.

[@a.7642]

That's really interesting, I've never even thought about colors affecting animal behaviors. Thank you for sharing!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Yeah, we should find out whether Baker-Miller pink would be effective for dog prisons.

[@Nylak-Otter]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 It was actually the first color I tried! It definitely brought up some behaviors that were symptomatic of anxiety, and it was much too dark with our available lighting for the dogs. We also noticed that it made a few discolourations (like mud brought in on paws and smeared in the kennel) look like watery blood, which was disconcerting for customers.

[@juliaxiao5320]

@@Nylak-Otter can you inform ue more about the experiment? im really curious about this.

[@alextorchia2289]

@@juliaxiao5320 especially because dogs can't see as many colors as humans

[@pirobot668beta]

I worked at King County Jail before it was 'open for business'. The longest any of us 'normal' people could stand being in the Pink Room was about 2 minutes. If you are calm, it will drive you nuts. If you are agitated, it will drive you over the top! Any 'calming' effect is physical and mental exhaustion and a dread for going back in...

[@parkerpeter8024]

1:49 "Women hadn't been invented yet" is just about the funniest thing I have ever heard.

[@deletdis6173]

😂

[@Tomwithnonumbers]

That prison data taking place over such a short time frame is very dubious. There's a lot of things that would be hard to control - including inmates clearly recieving more attention than normal. You'd want data over a much longer period of time, ideally years.

[@EnderofGames]

Yes, given how "calm" an inmate is as a dubious measurement, I figure they were also pretty far from a double blind study. It seems like people were expecting a result.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to just compare the data of all of the prisons in an area, divided into categories based on color.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Given that some studies showed that the colour increased aggression based on duration of exposure, I'd imagine that doing studies for that long would probably have resulted in someone losing money and a few people losing votes, hence why it was such a short study...

[@internetbodhi1009]

Whaaaat, you want long term data and well-vetted research procedures? I'm sorry, funding is given in a hunger games style battle royale, please submit a study as fast as possible to win.

[@erictaylor5462]

There was a movie made years ago where several people wake up in a large room with 6 doors leading out. One in the floor one in the ceiling and one in each of the four walls. Each door leads to an identical room with another 6 doors, and possible different colored lights. It turns out to be some kind of maze with the "dead ends" being that some of the rooms are death traps, and it being difficult to know for sure if any given room is safe to enter without actually entering it. In reality there was only one room, and for filming they would film all the scenes that would take place in a room lit with a given color, then change the lights in the room to a different color. The mood of both the cast and crew was dramatically effected by the color of the light, especially towards to end of the day as everyone grew tired. The director stated it was quite startling.

[@walter1824]

Could it be "Cube" from 1997?

[@AVI-lh6rm]

@@walter1824 i think its definitely cube :D

[@bbgun061]

Personally, if I'm in a space that is painted entirely one color, it's going to make me more nervous and aggravated.

[@rachelcookie321]

Having multiple colours (when picked to match nicely) actually works much better if you ask me. We recently did up our bathroom and painted one of the walls green and got bamboo furniture and it looks so much nicer now and more calming than just white.

[@janAlekantuwa]

I associate that color pink with psych hospitals, so it tends to put me on edge and make things feel unnerving, which feels like the oppisute of the intended effect

[@vysharra]

Mine was _aggressively_ beige. Why is it so hard to just decorate normally? It’s not like they were cleaning the walls or anything.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@vysharra yeah, just go for something neutral for the walls, some cheap wood or monochrome based furniture, and some tastefully coloured accessories is really all that's needed to make a place feel comfortable to be in and not like the god damn backrooms.

[@lukecremecheese597]

mine had a fun shade of vomit green, very exciting

[@michaelnelson2976]

It's a very important distinction for me that it is UNIVERSITY of Iowa, not actually Iowa State that did this. HUGE difference in schools and personalities

[@harrychufan]

Yep. CyHawk rivalry runs deep

[@Recman700]

You should do a video on the blue color they use in soviet/russian planes. Apparently it's meant to be calming for the pilots.

[@barsdogukankarakoyun8798]

Soviet/Russian planes are painted blue on their undersides to act as some sort of camoflage with, well, sky. The color you’re referring to is used in cockpits of many heavy machinery, trains, planes, basically anything with a mechanical instrument panel. It’s called “MiG Green” and the reason for that is because it makes the instruments pop, protects night vision and doesn’t create an afterimage when you take your eye off it.

[@thespiffingamerican]

@Fira Wesira Stop scamming people.

[@VisibilityFoggy]

@@barsdogukankarakoyun8798 Russia's newer planes (Su-57 prototypes and the proposed Su-75 "Checkmate") do not have the Soviet green. It has nothing to do with making the instruments "pop." They've been using this color since the planes had steam gauges. The engineers of the day felt that this color scheme actually helped keep pilots awake during long ferry flights, bomber patrols or extended combat patrols once tanking was invented. Given the size of the USSR (and Russia today) this was considered particularly important. The "calming" part is more of a side effect than the reason behind it.

[@ZioStalin]

@@VisibilityFoggy In planes, submarines, etc. they also use red lights because red light doesn't saturate the receptors of the eye, so when you switch to a dark environment you're not blinded for a few seconds. Cars often have green dashboard lighting because it's less straining for the eye

[@SPOcepSS]

or how the US Navy uses seafoam green for ships to be calming

[@robertjarman3703]

Fun fact, 50 Shades of Grey was only given a 12+ rating in France, and the committee vote to make it so was not unanimous only because a faction wanted it to have no age limit at all.

[@hillppari]

how can you age limit a book? its just letters

[@robertjarman3703]

@@hillppari The movie, not the book.

[@trla6505]

@@hillppari erotic books are a thing and sex scenes are also a thing in books

[@chlorobyte_projects]

speaking of sex scenes...

[@krishnamaggarwal9167]

@@hillppari see even fira disagree

[@davimurph]

Fun fact: the old Australian House of Representatives chamber looks very like the British House of Commons chamber with dark wood and dark green leather. When they built a new, larger Parliament building in the 1980s, they decorated the House of Representatives chamber in pale green, the colour of eucalyptus leaves, which somebody suggested might be more soothing than dark wood and leather.

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

It looks sick, like the room is suffering an illness. British Parliament has this "comfy-ugly" look to it, like the dated but sturdy furniture in yer nan's house. Aussie House of Representatives is painted similarly to some hospitals I have been on lol. It looks like the film set of where some insidious, evil group of characters make poor decisions.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@AdamOwenBrowning don't go insulting insidious, evil groups of characters by comparing them to the house of reps...

[@k.umquat8604]

It looks very corporate.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@k.umquat8604 well, considering where half of the representatives' money comes from, it basically is corporate.

[@CaptNSquared]

As an autistic person I feel like putting me in a room entirely such an aggressive shade of pink is what some old guys hundreds of years ago called "cruel and unusual punishment". I would be a well behaved prisoner too if it meant I didn't have to spend 15 minutes in the pink room

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I'm imagining the prison warden as a kindergarten teacher saying, "now, you boys behave, or else I'm going to have to put you in time out in the pink room."

[@CaptNSquared]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 New Prison Archetect idea!

[@rachelcookie321]

What does it have to do with autism? I feel like many people feel this way regardless of being autistic or not.

[@JNSquire]

@@rachelcookie321 If I remember Wikipedia correctly, surveys found out that red/pink is an unpleasant color for a bigger proportion of people diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder than those that weren't.

[@rachelcookie321]

@@JNSquire can I please know where you found this info? I’ve just done a quick google and not find any results stating the same as you.

[@dagoose4373]

Weird, my inmates made me sniff some salt, and now I see a rainbow of colours inside the prison!

[@TG-uj5fp]

Oh don't worry about that I'll supply your inmates with the other salt if you don't like this one. That will make you see everything in black and white

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@TG-uj5fp then there's the other other salt that'll make everything octarine.

[@Elrog3]

just don't start eating peoples faces

[@BurakBoraKapan]

I thought it was because Paddington mixed a red sock with the inmate uniforms when doing laundry

[@GoharFatima1920]

😂😂

[@CaptOrbit]

I seem to remember Jack Palance as the host of Ripley's Believe It or not did some experiments with this color. Including having a weightlifter that was shown interchangeably blue cards directly in front of their face and then Baker Miller pink cards directly in front of their face. The weightlifter never had any problem raising the barbell when facing the blue card but always struggled with the weight when facing the pink one and some cases was not able to lift it at all. They also visited a police station with a pink cell and showed the police dealing with someone who was drunk, agitated and being very physically aggressive. After they removed him from the normal cell and placed him in the pink cell within a few moments he simply sat down quietly and apparently remained so until he sobered back up. I'd like to see that episode again.

[@connorflammer8577]

While an entire cell being pink might drive me insane, personally if my jail had as much as a new paint job on the walls i think id feel alot less stressed than in a rundown concrete cube

[@ixyzyxi]

Fun fact: In the Netherlands they just give prisoners a tv so they don’t get bored and don’t start shit.

[@kjl3080]

Lol

[@bookle5829]

Kinda disappointed how you didn't show us that the experiment didn't meet their expectation after 15 minutes. The people gotten angrier after that.

[@vaszgul736]

This shade of pink might also be at least a little biological. After all, we evolved to cry tears that irritate our eyes to turn the whites pinkish and to flush our faces with red blood when we are distressed, embarrassed, in need of help, or trying to convey sincerity. Blushing is a HUGE social cue, especially in people with lighter skin where its even more noticeable. It could be culture there too, but our brains being hardwired to respond to exactly that shade of pink makes sense when a good portion of our species flashes our face that color as a physical communication. Studies have shown that people perceive someone as more honest and truthful, and become less hostile towards that individual during an altercation, if they are blushing / their face is red.

[@hpsmash77]

blush looks more red than pink

[@zyaicob]

Studies on people with really light complexions obviously

[@imarchello]

blah blah baseless speculation.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@gumbowallace well, his was technically in base debt given that it only calmed people down for a maximum of a few hours, after which it became increasingly distressing and aggregating (which is conveniently ignored in many studies).

[@some1purple]

If I painted my house a color designed to suppress my appetite I'd just be reminded of food every time I saw it...

[@JuraIbis]

Pink is a nonspectral color, and it is a vibrant one. I would from the list put my vote for it to be the dominant one (brown is very common it has no effect). Any effect it has has nothing to do with it being linked to women, i think it just feels unnatural to see it on non-living things. Pink to me is eerie, and the movie "The color out of space" shows i'm not the only one who thinks the same way. It definitely has some psychological effects.

[@joseloera5849]

lol same, when the video showed that pink jail it looked so weird and scary to me

[@SacredDaturaa]

But if this is right, would that not put convicts on edge and increase aggression significantly?

[@zyaicob]

Brown has no effect? I'm sure the difference between people who live in cities and people who live with lots of wood and earth around is noticeable

[@bestgun9994]

It is on the spectrum. All colors are on it. It's just light red.

[@impedimentahamartia9864]

The color our of space is actually majenta which is different from pink

[@jpe1]

I remember seeing a bit about this on TV back in the mid- to late-1980’s, and the conclusion was that while there was an initial calming effect, that after a few hours exposure, people became *more* aggressive, so the host of the TV program said, “So, don’t pick up that paintbrush yet. Unless you already painted your room pink, in which case, better get started painting.” Or words to that effect. For some bizarre reason I think the host was Bob Saget, I can’t imagine why he would have been talking about pink paint…

[@johnladuke6475]

I'm going to guess America's Funniest Home Videos. Introduce factoid, tell joke, segue to funny video montage of painting accidents. Probably set to Paint It Black.

[@dannypipewrench533]

@@johnladuke6475 America's Funniest Home Videos is like the pre-internet KZbin.

[@rachelcookie321]

@@dannypipewrench533 I remember seeing that show on tv as a kid and I hated it because it was mostly laughing at people getting hurt. It wasn’t funny at all.

[@jpe1]

@@rachelcookie321 I had the same response to AFV as a kid! I also hated the Three Stooges. TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes, the predecessor to AFV, was OK, but early AFV had way too many nut shots.

[@johnladuke6475]

@@dannypipewrench533 I've had the same thought... notice that the rebooted version got canceled just as yt was getting big.

[@mathieubonaparte]

That ECG at 3:56 drives me mad. The left-to-right axis is time and a higher amplitude should NOT slow it down.

[@FiveToedSloth1]

Yes, I nearly flatlined when I saw that.

[@EnderofGames]

Since we are complaining about stock footage, 5:17 features a terrible chess player who let their queen get taken from starting position and didn't even take the bishop in response.

[@abelb.7997]

"It may be the case that seeing pink calms men down the same way listening to Pink does... by bringing out their inner femininity" Best line of this video.

[@Croz89]

That shade of pink make me think of sweet things mainly, like doughnuts and cakes since it's a popular frosting/icing colour.

[@na195097]

Being trapped in a room painted that color seems like cruel and unusual punishment.

[@FilipFCB]

So basically I can wear clothes with certain colors to get various stat boosts according to the color of the clothes that I'm wearing, that's cool

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

I mean, technically yes, though they usually follow a simple trend: your favourite colours to wear make you feel slightly better, colours that are more muted have less effect, colours that are vibrant make you feel more exposed, and dirty or stained clothes make you feel worse. Also, you have to be able to see what you're wearing. On the other hand: comfy clothes make you feel good, clothes that hug your chest, biceps, and muscles make you feel more attractive, and clothes that cling to your fat make you feel ugly. This is far more effective than the colour of your clothes.

[@FilipFCB]

@@theapexsurvivor9538 interesting

[@rockytom5889]

@@theapexsurvivor9538 And kevlar vests or armor plates give you passive training cause you gotta wear all the weight constantly. And some damage resistance.

[@thebigdog360]

4:40 rip to all of southern Canada. Gotta love when Washington is almost touching Grande Prairie.

[@jaylenjackson2403]

😂 Somebody needs to retake their geography class 😃

[@klaaskingma7435]

Apparently Baker-Miller Pink was proven to cause more aggression over longer periods of time/ after the initial lowering

[@AKKK1182]

What amazes me most about these videos is the variety of stock footage that is available.

[@blackfalcon594]

5:18 the bishop captures the king and then white just makes another move??? This "chess" stock footage seems cater made to disturb chess players while looking perfectly normal to everyone else

[@bonaaq86]

White it's now a republic, it doesn't need a king anymore, and given the fact they didn't even recapture the bishop it probably wasn't a good king anyway lol

[@MarvelousButter]

Sam saying banging beach bod is one of the most cursed things I've ever heard

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

Interesting, I remember in my school first two floors, where primary and middle school classes where concentrated, were painted blue-green (turquoise), and third floor for secondary school - this kind of muted pink (salmon pink) . In my perception the latter felt way more "tense" and heart rate boosting than the first two.But maybe it was just stairs and anxiety before serious classes.

[@syasyaishavingfun]

I think simply because the cells are painted at all, and not just left as bare concrete. Try baby blue or pastel yellow or light green.

[@ExplodingDarth]

I do like the ending of "what's the lesson? I don't know, life is complicated."

[@gefitrop3496]

Interesting, I read about this in a magazine from ~2010

[@recitationtohear]

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[@JH-ee5xv]

I don’t know how this color could make anyone lessen their appetite…I just got a craving for strawberry starburst

[@neoqwerty]

I just got reminded of calamine lotion and how much of a godsend a bath of it was to my very itchy, chicken poxy child self and I'm now feeling very conscious of how NOT itchy I feel. Also I want strawberry ice cream because of you now.

[@midimusicforever]

Let's go all in on something that was found in a study that was never replicated.

[@TheWebstaff]

Listening to pink calms you down? There must be two music makers called pink then. The main song words I think of when you say pink is, "I'm gonna start a fight!"

[@curtislow255]

I worked in a jail under construction once. The painter had cans of paint labeled "Battleship Grey". I can't think of a more fitting name for it.

[@7-ten]

So that's why Pepto is that color! To calm your stomach down with pink 😂 it all makes sense now.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Of course! Your stomach sees the pink and becomes less aggressive.

[@7-ten]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 this whole time I thought it was the terrible flavor that fixed your stomach. Turns out it's the color 😂 funny thing is, the flavor of Pepto is just Wintergreen. Once you know that you can't untaste it...

[@taylorverrall118]

Baker-Miller pink woke up and did not choose violence.

[@XenoMike]

Man this has to be one of the more clever advertisement-pretending-to-be-content videos I've seen on this site. You had me hooked for 5 minutes before revealing what a sucker I am

[@yuvalne]

Also like, wouldn't painting cells in anything other than boring-shade grey have the same results?

[@stefanchannel11]

I think just the weird colour kind of shocks you and puts you more in the present moment

[@Crosshair84]

This is interesting, as I do contractor work in over 100 Midwestern jails, not prisons, and MIGHT have seen it used in a couple drunk tanks/holding cells. Other than that, I've never seen it used. Why? Easy. Lighter colors like this are VERY easy to deface and mark with graffiti. So jails often go either with darker colors that are harder to deface, browns and tans are very popular, or a gloss white that is consistent and easy to paint over. An added bonus for white, since jails are county ran, any unused white paint can be diverted to be used to maintain other county buildings if needed.

[@shingshongshamalama]

The fucking stock footage this channel goes through is absolutely amazing. Where do you even find some of this stuff? "Confused Man In Pink Room" "Extremely Unenthusiastic Magician" "Teen Trying Not To Be Embarrassed About Art Project"

[@corberus3119]

it was mentioned in another video whee HAI gets stock footage

[@nefwaenre]

Ngl that pink is truly some chill colour in the world. i could just look at that colour all day long and be light headed and happy~

[@deftheocelot9125]

Orrrr maybe it has nothing to do with psychology or biology or gender roles Maybe those inmates just were happy to have some bright colors instead of depressing, scary metal and concrete. Violence and fear are sisters.

[@drmaniac5763]

Surely the reason that painting jail cells something other than grey leads to happier prisoners is purely because being surrounded by grey is depressing, while being surrounded by vibrant colours is, yknow, not miserable?

[@rashidisw]

"It works somewhat, but why? is there scientific explanation for this?" "... um ... magic?"

[@QuwapaQuwapus]

Out of curiosity, I googled and took a couple of the colour quiz from the beginning, did a couple rounds of just random colours and got some inaccurate results, and then did one where i actually focused on the colours and chose honestly. And all the sites i used gave me a very honest description of exactly the issues i've been having and exactly what I've been trying to deal with. I had assumed that it was like a Zodiac sign situation where it's sort of vague enough that 90% of the time your personality matches with your sign pretty well (or can be explained away by your [insert sub sign here], but it was scary accurate. . .

[@CricketsBay]

Have you heard of Western Sidereal Astrology? It uses the actual locations in the constellations where each celestial object appears to be, instead of where they were 4000 years ago. It's fascinating and much more accurate than Tropical Astrology.

[@CricketsBay]

Also, the U.S. Navy's pages about Sidereal Time and Precession of the Equinoxes are the best description of those things ever produced.

[@gutobernardo7457]

The kitchen in an apartment I rented was painted with a slightly stronger and magenta hue. At the time we thought it was really weird, but it was also one of the times I ate healthier. Or it could be the fact that my cousin really loved cooking 😂

[@PiousMoltar]

After this video, Baker Miller Pink is going to send me into a seething rage.

[@PiousMoltar]

To be fair, it is an absolutely hideous colour to begin with.

[@HATECELL]

Now I really want to run a counter-experiment with a prison cell painted in a vibrant "oxygen-rich blood" red. Maybe it will make prisoners more aggressive, or at the very least the cell will get faster

[@neoqwerty]

well that was a reference I didn't expect

[@thewerdna]

There is a similar thing where some cities put up blue street lights, which reduced crime in the area. Its theorized its either due to the color being calming, or perhaps that people tend to associate blue lights with police and thus feel more like you are being watched

[@disorganizedorg]

The blue does a better job of destroying night vision. Once you leave the blue lit areas, I bet you're slightly more prone to accidents as a result. Plus the way blue scatters int he atmosphere makes this a horrible idea for people who like dark skies; you already need to go much further out in the boondocks than when I was a kid.

[@drakegrandx5914]

"swiss penal system" You understand you're broken when despite being so far into the video you actually ask yourself what penises has to do at all with jails once the above-mentioned sentence arrives.

[@Marylandbrony]

4:45 This is devastating news, I thought it was true ever since Childish Gambino pointed at globe and said "This is America".

[@firedropcutie]

As someone who's had her room painted in pink for 2 years, I can confirm it's pleasant to be in

[@bettschwere]

everyone in the comments talking about how much they hate the color and i'm sitting here like 'i think it's nice....'

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

Why not ? Tastes are different . . .

[@eoinh]

It's been a while since I've done statistics I'll admit, but how on earth is 121 a statistically significant difference from 117 (3:40) when they have deviations of p/m 30 each?? Seems a bit noisy to me

[@melody3741]

I would prefer this over grey. Even if it doesn’t have massive changes in mood better than a drug, its just less fucking depressing

[@NatureXwars]

This pink reminds me so much of the strawberry tasted chocolate products of Pocky, Yan Yan & Hello Panda, they're a bliss to consume!

[@GeneralNickles]

Fun fact: That exact shade of pink is also by far the most popular color for chastity cages. (Which is a form of voluntary prison, so maybe there's something to this.)

[@mikeh5399]

Red is actually a really good colour for children’s hospitals; you know? Because of colour theory.

[@asi3808]

one of my history professors once explained to me that the reason why pink was considered masculine before WWII, was because men just entering the industrial workforce would get issued their new jumpsuits, generally these were bright red, and the detergents at the time were really good at washing out dirt and grime, but also dye, so over time, your bright red jumpsuit would turn pink. The paler it got, the longer you had been working at a single job. When the men went off to war, and women replaced them, rationing meant that women weren't issued new jumpsuits, and had to hem up the old pink ones to fit them. After the war, men returned to the industrial workforce, and women took their pink jumpsuits with them, so new suits were needed, and new, more colorfast dyes had been developed. Those dyes were predominantly blue, so that became the new masculine color.

[@jiyama]

i always felt uncomfy looking at this color since as a child. i had no favorite color growing up so my default color when asked are black, grey, brown or white. mostly mute colors that doesnt stand out and easy on the eye. tho by the time i reached my 20s, dark shades of red became appealing to me but thats it. reds are the only legit color i like besides monochrome colors

[@AlexR2648]

I guess this was the inspiration for the "Placid Pink" paint in Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.

[@mikewheeler9011]

The prisons Ive been to in Australia (one max security, one min) were painted with whatever off white was cheapest. Also our clothes were scratchy green rags basically.

[@americascreepyuncle]

Listening to Pink isn't calming, she literally sings about getting into bar fights and breaking up with people. If anything I bop to Pink

[@Yamezzzz]

Just to be clear, purple is still seen as a colour of royalty in France and has for hundreds of years.

[@HiHi-ed2ud]

At 5:19 mans just captures the king and the game just continues

[@onetomeplz5825]

0:55 astrology girls: I will ignore that

[@snowless456]

Of course I got an ad on this video with the exact shade of pink used…

[@AlexanderVlasov]

The book at 1:03 is Gospel of Luke in Russian, for some reason.

[@ericbarnes3829]

They jailed a man in a cell here painted pink and it pushed him over the edge. The paper said he told the jailers he did not like the color. They said too bad and he refused to speak for 3 days. Day 3 as the jailers were talking to him he then stood up and killed both the jailers. The police showed up, tased him to no use as he killed 2 officers and hospitalized 1 who is not expected to make it as he escaped.

[@Rubrickety]

Holy crap - I _am_ complex and not very smart! You’re some kind of a psychic!!

[@ungodlytemptations]

Something similar was recently done in UK and Ireland. (And upon researching for this post, discovered that it was Australia to first implement this.) A study/survey was conducted to determine the "world's ugliest colour." Which, as the results concluded, was a mucky, greenish-brown colour. (Pantone 448-C, Hex code: #4a412a) This colour was then applied to all cigarette and tobacco products, along with very heavy deterrent sentences (such as "Tobacco is known to contain over 170 substances which cause cancer." "Smoking kills - quit now.") and gore imagery (such as fresh amputations, extracted tumours, dead people and more.) and it is actually working. In Ireland, there are now more people who have quit smoking, than current smokers.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

In Australia we found that gory images actually increased tobacco and cigarette sales in people under 30. So the colour must be putting in a lot of work.

[@neoqwerty]

I expected it to be baby-shit khaki and trigger our poop-disgust response but no. It's this weird khaki-ish BROWN IS REALISTIC toxic wasteland scorched earth type of color, to anyone who's wondering what color it is. I can't tell why I don't like that color but I can definitely say that it's one of the fugliest colors I've ever seen and it's consistent with how I think using that color in games makes for the fugliest graphics I've ever seen, too.

[@ungodlytemptations]

@@theapexsurvivor9538 Damn our generation really is scared up huh 😂

[@disgruntledwelsh3817]

Ah yes, colour theory

[@vanillaburger]

@UC5ewQpRAVJoA-sMps_vC6pg coler*

[@harley_trader]

Now we need a video on the color institutional green.

[@CrepuscularQueen]

Is there anyone else that thinks this color is super irritating? It makes me twitch and feel tense and I can't see how this is better so I would take the grey color over something making me feel anxious in a tiny room

[@EvanKnightly]

I use this exact shade of pink to highlight things during online work when I'm angry. I knew it looked familiar

[@Thebreakdownshow1]

LOL pink is the kryptonite for these men. SO PINK IS the new BLACK.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

I am red-green colorblind and cannot see pink. Finally a circumstance where it's an advantage.

[@kiriikitten8467]

Maybe give inmates an opportunity to paint theeir cells how they want them to? Because that shade of pink all on its own is wayyyy too much and would be sickening to look at day after day.

[@a_beverley_photo]

4:05 Kingston penitentiary in Canada, dont see it much on KZbin stock images haha

[@silver9802]

I took the Luscher test and it said that I'm colorblind.

[@hlo695]

3:10 "The swiss penile system" hehe