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Just like the stock market in China. Red means the price is going up, green means it's going down.
by FartyMcFarter 1y ago
Just like the stock market in China. Red means the price is going up, green means it's going down.
- jsheard 1y agoThat's also why the stonks-going-up emoji traditionally has a red line, Japan shares that convention. https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-emoji-show-in-red/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-em...
- dlisboa 1y agoBy the way, people might think this has to do with communism but it’s cultural and way before the 20th century. Red is associated with happiness and celebration.
- MengerSponge 1y agoAlmost like the communists chose what iconography to use!
- mananaysiempre 1y agoThe (blood-)red flag as an anti-monarchist symbol originates in the French Revolution, was adopted by the Bolshevik faction (“the Reds”) in the Russian Civil War, and spread from there.
- kridsdale1 1y agoAnd ironically the news networks in 2000 chose red to show Bush’s electoral votes vs Gore, and thus we retain the notion of Red States and Blue States, even though it’s backwards.
- pnut 1y agoIt's backwards? Republicans are actively trying to install a single party authoritarian government modelled after the Chinese system, they're as red as it gets in America.