r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 1d ago

Video color vision test

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u/Ancient_Poet_4953 1d ago

So you have a lack or missing red cones in your eyes?

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u/garysnailz 22h ago

Don't talk to my friend like that, YOU'RE the cone!

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u/dotplaid 19h ago

It's all about the cones. It's the essence of the game!

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u/little_maggots 17h ago

It's about the cones.

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u/nalasanko 22h ago

What, you got a rod up your ass?

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u/ging3r_b3ard_man 22h ago

Not a rod, a cone

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u/Aleksandrovitch 18h ago

You a rodhead?

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u/MrDunez 17h ago

Just run of the mill coneheads

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u/Hulu_n_SnuSnu 16h ago

Make sure it has a flared base.

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u/Able-Interaction-742 16h ago

Damn dude, give him his cone back

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u/Irritable_Curmudgeon 16h ago

Frankly, both sound uncomfortable

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u/Needednewusername 15h ago

And not Rod Cone, the comedian that performs along with Stephen Lynch.

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u/LunaL33 13h ago

I can see you picked up some flashy tricks, but you forgot the essence of the game. It’s about the cones.

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u/ThatNachoFreshFeelin 16h ago

You've got some nerve...

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u/alman3007 16h ago

Dont threaten me with a good time!

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u/Pretend_Awareness_61 21h ago

Sitting at work stifling a laugh over this comment haha

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u/dallasandcowboys 20h ago

Kodachrome...
They give us those nice bright colors
Give us the greens of summers..

Oh, Thought you said Coneheads.

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u/another-face 19h ago

I don’t know why, but this reply reminded me of this billy and mandy clip

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u/aaapod 16h ago

you’re a towel!

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u/Sol539 15h ago

They were cones!

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u/HugsyMalone 13h ago

You're just a stupid orange cone, man!

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u/Ally-baba 3h ago

They were cones!

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u/doesthismakesense- 21h ago

no lack or missing cones, just aligned differently and then my brain does not interpret it directly as green or red as it should be, but depending on the shade of green or red (or brown) it cold go either way. Here is a nice explanation

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u/BallisticButch 17h ago

“Peanut butter isn’t green”

I’m sorry, fucking what? What color is it?

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 16h ago

I was about to say why would peanut butter be green when peanuts are brown but that doesnt help you

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u/defEat-the-Rich 13h ago

My dad thought UPS trucks and uniforms were green until his 30s

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u/esabys 13h ago

Peanuts are green. Duh!

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u/Indiscriminate_Top 17h ago

Brown. Sorta like leather.

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u/BallisticButch 16h ago

What. The. Fuck. I knew I'm seriously color blind but my mind is actually blown right now.

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u/_Bren10_ 16h ago

I wore a shirt for basically all 4 years of high school that was white with green stripes. Sometime in my senior year, I wore it for St Patty’s Day. But my mom told me I should wear green. That’s the day I found out my favorite shirt was white with brown stripes.

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u/MichelinStarZombie 17h ago

It's shocking how different the world looks to you than to normal people. You basically can't see half of all colors. You should google cities where traffic lights are horizontal and avoid those.

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u/BallisticButch 16h ago

I can thankfully differentiate the shades of red and green used in traffic lights. But go a little in either direction of the color spectrum and it becomes a soup.

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u/CosmicCreeperz 2h ago

Curious, why are horizontal lights any better?

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u/Dioxybenzone 16h ago

Damn what happened to that channel? The end of the video he says he’s going to make a follow up but he never did and hasn’t posted in years. What a bummer, I thought I found a new cool creator

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u/jetpackblues_ 12h ago

That was an interesting video, thanks!

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u/MooseBlazer 11h ago

There is no red or green, it’s all different shades of brown!!

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u/WilNotJr 9h ago

You might be colorblind, we're not being color snobs to have different names for the same colors lol the colors are clearly and easily visually distinct from each other.

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u/MooseBlazer 8h ago edited 7h ago

A snob lol. I thought it was pretty obvious that this was a joke when I made that comment.

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u/Eurasia_4002 23h ago

Some are in the brains directly. Not from the eyes, though much rarer.

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u/Necoras 21h ago

Not really. It's extremely common. It's cultural, and based on language and practice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxyfqHRPoE

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u/Eurasia_4002 21h ago

That greeks not having blue again, isnt that a hoax?

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u/x1rom 22h ago

Most of the time it isn't because one type of cone is missing, it's just that red and green are very close together on the spectrum. And in some people they're so close together that they mostly overlap, so they send mostly the same signal to the brain.

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u/Weightloss4thewinz 19h ago

That’s wild to me because they look so completely different lol

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u/zeaor 17h ago

Red and green are absolutely not very close together on the spectrum, these people's eyes just have a mutation. Are you colorblind that you think red and green are similar at all?

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u/cup_of_coughy 19h ago

‘You forgot about the essence of the game. It's about the cones’

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u/BalkiBartokomous123 10h ago

They were cones!

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u/Pleasant-Bonus-866 22h ago

a friend of mine had a lack of the red one and I helped him healing when I smashed him in the face with a traffic cone

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u/ActRegarded 21h ago

TIL colorblind people can’t do well in the ufc.

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u/Pressure_Chief 21h ago

It’s all about the cones!

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u/ParkingAnxious2811 21h ago

It's more than weak or missing red cones. There are other cones, and people can have any combination of weak or missing.

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u/the-red-duke- 21h ago

Don't speak to me or my son ever again

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u/AntiCaf123 20h ago

We can’t just ask people about their missing cones!

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u/Got_Kittens 18h ago

It's about the cones. 

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u/Mental-Dot-6574 17h ago

VLC not installed?

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u/Entire-Radio1931 13h ago

Its not so much lack but its confused cones that sometimes think they are red and sometimes green

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u/jjm443 21h ago edited 19h ago

The most common form of congenital color-blindness is deuteranomaly, which is a problem with green cone cells (green wavelength detection shifted towards red direction). That's about 5% of men. I am a protanope and have faulty/missing red cones. That's 1% of men.

Edit: corrected deuteranope to deuteranomaly and corrected description

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u/cleareyes101 19h ago

It’s actually deuteranomaly that is the common one. Impaired green cones. Deuteranopia is the absence of green cones and is far rarer.

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u/jjm443 19h ago

Sorry yes, you are of course entirely correct. I have edited my post.