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Kind of a bummer the youtube algorithm recommended me this video of all things :( I guess I didn't see the timestamp.

I've seen this color all over my state, it was the first color offered up when we put new siding on my house (and the cheapest) I've been joking referring to it as "gentrifier grey"

I live in the southwest where most of the houses are made of stucco and are made vaguely in the Pueblo style, so the grey just makes it look like they had to do a patch and kept going.

All the grey houses I see in Switzerland are due to age, wooden exteriors that are like a hundred years old. I don't see anyone painting their houses grey, although, give it 10 to 15 years, Switzerland will hop on that Bandwagon eventually :D

This man will not scream at you. Thanks for all the great videos! 🎉

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Quite the surge of videos lately.

Slightly off topic, but 2:06 a ghost inspired vaporwave video could be so interesting!

Similar trend where I live (east coast) -- but instead of various shades of gray it's entirely white, with black roof/trim. Saw it first in strip malls but it's spreading to houses. A very "unused coloring book" look

Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same There's a gray one and a gray one And a gray one and a grayish one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same And the people in the houses All went to the university Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same And there's doctors and lawyers And business executives And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same And they all play on the golf course And drink their martinis dry And they all have pretty children And the children go to school And the children go to summer camp And then to the university Where they are put in boxes And they come out all the same And the boys go into business And marry and raise a family In boxes made of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same There's a gray one and a gray one And a gray one and a grayish one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same

I'm sort of the same way when it comes to certain music, slang or aesthetic preferences. If I register something as "Not my sorta thing but okay." It will gradually begin to drive me up the wall the more I have to encounter it.

100% agree haha the greige agenda must be stopped

Same with cars. Why would you pay $50,000 for a primer grey car? A glossy primer grey car?

Gray houses look like absolute dog water. I'd never in a million YEARS paint my house like that. 🤢 Light grey as an accent shade is acceptable, but that would be it. I need pops of color in my life, or I'll die. 🌈

americans are aesthetically very unadventurous for the most part, my conspiracy theory is that not having compulsory arts education like most other countries makes it harder for us to develop real taste, which also makes us better consumers. my favorite quote from my friend Ceciley was "You haven't made it in this country until people with no taste like your stuff" XD

I mean, not everyone has their own style. Most people just want to blend in, and that's why everyone is painting their houses grey. The same reason you keep seeing those ugly-ass putty-colored cars - they think if they are bland enough, the apocalypse will ignore them. It's emotional camouflage for their scared, sad souls.

Our neighbourhood has some fairly old houses with a nice colour variety (in fact ours _used_ to be grey but is now red!) And then one of the houses decided to partition their yard, and on that new cramped plot they built a _solid black cuboid_ It's not directly on our street but it pokes out from behind the other house like some kind of untextured minecraft mob. And supposedly the rich owners barely even live there!!!

You're exactly right. Moved into an apartment and its builder's-grade-landlord's-special greige on the outside and patchy bad paint on the inside. I do what I can to use the interior as a backdrop to pop some really bright and colorful mid-century furniture and decor, but grey houses and greige and blandscapes are all just signs of lowest-viable-product flips and capitalism run amok. Bit of a stream of consciousness as my grey-hate took over in the end

you're right and you should say it #engagement

There are so many dark grey and black houses in my town, and all painted those tones in the last five years or so. I can only think that when this trend finally goes, they are all going to look so dated, like the houses that stuck yellow brick on their exteriors in the 70s and 80s.

Yeah, grey is the anti-colour colour. When I was in university in the late 1970s early 80s, I painted houses in the summer. Made OK money. I remember this one place we painted - very modern, boxy, flat roofed looking place located on top of a hill. It had a large blue square at the top front above the window. The exterior walls were recently redone in external panelling, vertical lined. The owner said he wanted it stained with beechwood stain. Seriously. Beechwood. So we went to the paint store and got I forget how many gallons of beechwood stain. My painter partner, Jimmy, and I - we both knew this was a fantastically BAD idea. We had enough stain to do the house, but we only did one wall to see how it looked. It looked like Paul Bunyan sneezed all over the wall. It was gross. We took the rest of the day off and agreed to come back at dinner time to talk to the owner. So, I went to my friend's house, drank beer, smoked a bale of weed and watched game shows with the sound off and listened to seriously deranged music. (listening to "I Pity Inanimate Objects" by Godley and Creme at full blast while watching the Price Is Right while you're baked AF is not for the weak hearted. Weak minded? Sure.) Anyway - we get back to the house and the owner arrives. He asks "how did it go?" we just said, "Follow us." We took him around the back and just pointed at the wall. "Oh. My." So, we blasted the entire house with grey primer. HE LIKED THE PRIMER. So, we got a similar colour of exterior grade finish paint and painted it grey. Like a Battleship. FUCKING HIDEOUS. The money was good, but this thing was a blight. The ugliest housepainting job I ever did.

One, i think grey is cozy, but thats just me. Two, the last housing market implosion was directly preceded by an overwhelming beigification of people's houses for resale value reasons as well. So, not a great sign.

Thank goodness we live in mostly brick homes in my area. Our bricks still have a nice variety of colors. Or different shades of orange and brown.

You're 100% right, not giving you confirmation bias, all ppl can do is defy the dull trend. And light yellow and aged golden yellow are great in the right places

This is absolutely dystopian. Let's not mince words. I'm pretty sure all of this drab, focus-group approved lack of color is the tag team partner of the houses that are all clones of the same boring suburban duplex that you see going on for miles and miles. I just watched a longer video on the enshittification of everything a few days ago, and yeah. I'm convinced it's by design to lull us into a stupor. Here in the 313, we had something called the Heidelberg Project that fights against this very thing.

I've seen a few houses painted grey with really vibrant trim like safety green or magenta. I think that's cool, but yeah, grey with a neutral trim is awful.

I thought you may have had a few more points than you did on the TikTok vids, but my god you just proved that gray feels like the favorite color of corporate homeowners associations across the board. Great point though on it being acceptable if it's alongside big ol' skeletons or the gargoyles. If we bring back gargoyles, then maybe I'll be more on board with the color.

I blame capitalism. A house is no longer a home that you pass down the to your children. A house is now an asset that you are supposed to sell for a profit very few years. And the more bland looking an asset, the less likely it is to offend potential buyers.

I’ve never agreed with a video more in my entire life

neoliberalism did this

True, people see their houses as investments than as homes. I think’s the same reason the vast majority of cars are white, black, or gray. They believe to it will help make their cars more saleable. People are afraid their creativity could cost them a lot of money in the future. All the pink and yellow houses I see in my neighborhood are very old and often run down.

6:13 Funny you mention the RPGs...remember an in-universe conspiracy theory from the Planescape days about grays being the medium thru which the yugoloths of _the _*_Gray_*_ Waste, the EVIL Evil plane,_ invoke their influence at a distance...

5:12 I live here too; not really a thing with me with rain. No, what brings on the seasonal depression is something I'd be hit with anywhere in this latitude: the CONSTANT DISSONANCE WITH THE TIME CHANGES WROUGHT WITH DST. STOP THE MENACE OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!

so angry i messed up the timing of the graphics XD

I think this video is really thought provoking and made me stop to think about myself. I'm just sharing some thoughts after watching this video. This video is kind of scary because it does describe me to an extent. Sorta. The thing is, I don't often reference online stuff IRL, but part of that might be because I primarily communicate with my family and they aren't online much, so maybe that helps. The thing about memory made me reflect on my time on the internet. I cannot remember every little detail, but I do remember them in clear broad strokes. I remember bits and pieces within these strokes and I can say that it made me who I am today, and I'm proud of it. Hell, I even remember where and how I found your channel. I also had my own online gaming phase like you but I do remember a good deal of it. Again, I can't remember the exact details of everything, but I do remember why I enjoy playing these games. I know what brings me joy. I don't think anyone would argue that social media is bad for you, but since I'm a very very very weird person, I'm doing pretty okay. Every single person I am friends with are either Paleontologists or fans of paleontology. So while yes, I do see stressful things once in awhile, more often than not, I am just reading and talking about paleontology and other hobbies with like minded folks. I'm willing to say 95% of the time my social media feed is like that. I think since I am so hyper focused on my niche, I don't deal with the same things as other people. I don't accept friend requests or send out friend requests unless you have multiple Paleontologists in your friends list. We're not comparing our lives on social media. Still, I do wonder how it would affect me as I grow older. Even if I think I am doing okay, I can't deny that I have seen stressful things online. It's not often to the point where I dread going online but it still makes me wonder.

The effect on memory is especially interesting. I work in information technology and I was talking with an older coworker yesterday and we both agreed that our ability to memorize technical things just isn't what it used to be. We don't remember things verbatim anymore, but we remember enough specifics of it to be able to quickly search and looked up. The fact that both of us were experiencing this now was interesting given our age differences. Maybe this just means that I am finally old at 39, but I have to imagine the amount of information we take in has at least some part in it. Another great example of this s trying to recite something you read or saw online, but not really being able to. So you grab your phone and pull it up real quick to reference it or show someone an article and be able to speak to it again.

Good video, thanks for sharing

I'm still upset STEAMBOY wasn't a hit here and thus they have not released a bluray copy yet. The color and resolution on my special edition DVD from 2003 of STEAMBOY is rekt. :crying_cat_face: Also FFVIII was my first Final Fantasy game I got to play through and beat and is still my favorite of the series to this day. :handshake:

I see what you mean about memories of Baal runs and raids but I don't feel I have much more of school or vacations or whatever else one might expect to have more vivid memories of.

I don't own a smartphone anymore and I'm trying to cut off my home internet. You know what I remember the most over the past four years? sitting in the garden reading Gormenghast over a week during lockdown when i just turned my phone off. Scary stuff. This video needed to be made - thankyou.

This feels really relevant to me now. I just went through a breakup and habe been thinking about my bad habits and coping mechinisns a lot

This is very real. I feel like I don't have anything else besides pacifying myself with endless noise or else the ennui suffocates me.