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Google's internal Memegen platform used to have a disturbing amount of #FF00FF in the UI. Since it was internal and not well funded, there was no designer assoc
by shaftway 2y ago
Google's internal Memegen platform used to have a disturbing amount of #FF00FF in the UI. Since it was internal and not well funded, there was no designer associated with it. The only full-time engineer at the time asked a 20%-er if #FF00FF looked good, partially as a joke, but not knowing the 20%-er was color blind. The 20%-er responded with a strong positive. The full-timer thought that the 20%-er was saying that it would be funny to launch that way as a joke, so all accents in the UI became memegenta.
Source: was a memegeneer.
- PyWoody 2y agoWhat in the world is going on with Google search. I Google'd "#FF00FF" to see how bad it was but was instead returned with a rather pleasant blue. Confused, I tried again. I got a completely different color. Same exact search. Different color. I've done the same, simple "#FF00FF" search and I'm up to five different colors with none of them being magenta. How do you fuck something so simple as a HEX color code up? (Hilarious story by the way. For a hot second when I saw the blue come up I thought maybe I was colorblind, too.)
- Charlie_e 2y agoYou're right, that's really weird... Initially didn't see that 'cause I don't usually include the '#' in my searches so it just comes up with the colorhexa result (which is clearly more accurate lol)
- rurp 2y agoHah, I just tried it and got a nice green color. Wtf Google? They really are phoning it in on all levels these days. DDG showed the correct color fwiw.
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoPerhaps it’s just the Bard painting an artistic impression of Gemini using AI.
- shaftway 2y agoThere's a long history of Memegen trolling for the lulz. Here's a color link so nobody else has to struggle: https://www.colorhexa.com/ff00ff https://www.colorhexa.com/ff00ff