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There's nothing in this world that I love more than COLORS! Meaningless
aestheticism unmoored from the bonds of taste, manners, and intellect! The
experience of color brought to you by your LCD screen is as close to perfect (under
the right conditions) as we currently have the technology to process! Digital color doesn't
have the familiar limitations of expensive pigments, dyes, or materials, so it can bring
everyone pure colors with the press of a button. Digital artists around the world have utilized the vast array of the visible spectrum now at their fingertips to bring you and me this fabulous display of tastelessness! This is my humble attempt at creating a webpage my younger self would dream of! Please enjoy!
C u l t u r a l A s s o c i a t i o n s o f C o l o r s
traditionally symbolizes strength, excitement, passion, romance, and emotion! It's associated with blood, roses, and power!
symbolizes cheer, enthusiasm, playfullness, fun, and confidence! It's a warm color associated with autumn, food, fire, and fun! It gets its name from the citrus fruit, oranges!
symbolizes friendship, hope, joy, optimism, and warmth! It's also a warm color, traditionally associated with the sun, flowers, happiness, and food!
is a cooler color, symbolizing growth, harmony, creativity, luck, and peace! It's commonly associated with nature, spring and summer, and money!
is a cool color symbolizing trust, loyalty, dependability, wisdom, and relaxation! It's associated with the sky, the sea, religion, and feelings of tranquility!
symbolizes magic, mystery, wealth, rarity, and royalty. It's often associated with gemstones, the occult, and flowers!
is a lighter shade of red, and is culturally associated with charm, politeness, sweetness, childhood, femininity, and flowers! It gets its name from a flower in the Dianthus genus called a "pink!"
symbolizes elegance, sophistication, power, mystery, mourning, and darkness! It's associated with the night sky, shadows, european mourning traditions, and death! It's thought that black was the first pigment ever used by artists in prehistory!
symbolizes purity, cleanliness, and beginnings! It's associated across many cultures with spirituality and honesty, and occurs in many flowers to attract nocturnal pollinators!
W h y a r e R a i n b o w s G a y ?
Rainbows and their association with homosexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon; in the past, things associated with queerness were styles of dress, flower symbolism, quotes from poetry, movies, and stage plays, and simply knowing someone in the (often underground) queer scene. "Lavender" was a color and word also commonly used to politely imply homosexuality to/about someone "in the know". Until Gilbert Baker's pride flag was created in 1978, "lavender" was the difinitive gay color!
The creation of the rainbow pride flag began with eight colors, each symbolizing a different aspect of queer identity:
Following extensive activism throughout the decades, the community adopted an updated version of the pride flag in 2017 (the Philadelphia design) to include a black and brown stripe to recognize the discrimination people of color face in the queer community.
An updated version of this flag created in 2018 by Daniel Quasar, commonly dubbed the "progress pride flag",
replaces the top black and brown stripes with a chevron and includes the pink, blue, and white of the transgender pride flag.
Another updated version from Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK adds the intersex pride flag design to the inner chevron; yellow and purple as an inversion of the societally gendered pink and blue. This flag has been widely adopted since its creation, and it's my personal favorite version :)
The creation of the rainbow pride flag began with eight colors, each symbolizing a different aspect of queer identity:
Hot Pink: Sex 
Red: Life Orange: Healing Yellow: Sunlight Green: Serenity and Nature Turquoise: Art Indigo: Harmony 
Violet: Spirit
Following extensive activism throughout the decades, the community adopted an updated version of the pride flag in 2017 (the Philadelphia design) to include a black and brown stripe to recognize the discrimination people of color face in the queer community.
An updated version of this flag created in 2018 by Daniel Quasar, commonly dubbed the "progress pride flag",
replaces the top black and brown stripes with a chevron and includes the pink, blue, and white of the transgender pride flag.
Another updated version from Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK adds the intersex pride flag design to the inner chevron; yellow and purple as an inversion of the societally gendered pink and blue. This flag has been widely adopted since its creation, and it's my personal favorite version :)
R a i n b o w i s S c e n e ? D a f u q i s S c e n e ?
Scene culture began in the early 2000s as a subculture of emo and hardcore, proliferating amongst younger people on myspace, geocities, music forums, and facebook. The scenecore revival kicked off in the 2020s as part of the "rawring 20s" and has quietly persisted since. Scene aesthetics and music taste overlap heavily with the emo subculture, but often focuses more on whimsy, randomness, fashion, and cuteness. Scene kids communicate online with various forms of "leet speak", emoticons, and acronyms. L337 (leet) is a typing convention that replaces letters and phrases with numbers and symbols.
Bands associated with scenecore actually vary widely in genre, but popular ones include 3OH!3, All Time Low, Avril Lavigne, Black Veil Brides, Bubblegum Octopus, Cobra Starship, Fall Out Boy, Falling in Reverse, Flyleaf, My Chemical Romance, Owl City, Hellogoodbye, Hollywood Undead, I See Stars, Mindless Self Indulgence, OMFG, Pierce the Veil, Skrillex, Simple Plan, We Came as Romans, and Whitechapel.
Scene fashion has some common motifs: neon colors contrasted with black, stripes, rainbows, checks, diamonds, sketchy style printed symbols like stars and hearts, studs and spikes, beads, fandom merch, eyeliner, and heavily styled and dyed hair. Scene can be differentiated from emo at a glance simply by the amount of colors the subculture emphasizes.
Check out the Scenecore wiki for a longer look!
Does this webpage serve any purpose? No! It's Baby Sensory Videos for my rainbow addicted brain! I made my first website (a wix site dedicated to Animal Jam cheats that I don't remember the url to) in 2012 and it looked a LOT like this. I may have a better head for design on my shoulders now, but I'll never NOT be addicted to throwing rainbows everywhere!!
