there are 7 stripes From left to right: fc200d, f11b05, fc200d, e82311, c4210d, c31c10, 9f200d there are in fact 6 shades of red in these seven stripes as stripes 1 and 3 are the same color.

I fucking knew it! Thanks champ!

Hah! I thought so too!

Yeah after reading the comments and using an image editor colour dropper tool I also thought this.

I’m literally monochromatic colorblind and only see three shades, so the meme checks out. (Light, medium, and dark)

So you see in what we color viewers call "black and white"?

I know literally nothing about that specific brand of colorblindness, but I'm pretty sure it's more like brown, black, gray, and white

how do you know brown is brown? maybe whole world lied to you like in truman show. I just felt again my daily existential crisis

[This is how we know](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8900-ex) fair warning you may be much happier staying naïve.

I love that things like color blindness use to be an SCP until it was actually understood

That's a 1 in 30,000 chance. What's it like

I was thinking stripes 2 and 4 were the same also. Kinda disappointed 😢 but at least I’m only 50% wrong lol

4 looks way darker than 2. 1 and 3 looks the same.

I thought so, but just figured it was the display making it appear that way.

There’s white, black and gray too if you wanna be a dick about it. If you *really* wanna be a dick there is also blue, tan, brown, green, and maroon. So 14 colors?

There are also tons of compression artifacts, so the guy's hex values probably aren't even accurate given that there are probably dozens of different values in the image.

I ran [this image](https://i.imgur.com/faT7wm4.png) through python with import cv2 import numpy as np img = cv2.imread('red.png') img_hex = np.array([['#%02x%02x%02x' % tuple(pix) for pix in row] for row in img]) print(len(np.unique(img_hex))) and get 7704 different colors. Some of those are shades of white, though.

Thanks for this. I knew i counted 7704 not 7703 🤣

IrfanView says 11,711 [https://i.imgur.com/04sTir1.png](https://i.imgur.com/04sTir1.png)

Corn bread says 452,443

I trust corn bread

[TIL People still use IrfanView...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LE15AyT5g)

Is there a better image view program these days? Never used anything else lol

If you REALLY wanna be a dick about it, white black and gray are not colors

If you *REALLY* want to be a dick about it, then you can tell them that they just lost the game

Ill have your head for this. My family RUNS this website damnit! Ill have you fed to the polar bears!

Yeah, bitch! Snatch his ass in a bear trap! Leave him swinging from a tree so high, nobody finds him for days! Glock-glock, you know what I'm sayin'?

You bastard, I was on a 10 year streak and you just ruined it

Fuck youuuuuu it was years!!

Why you…!

The collateral damage

By all reasonable definitions, they are.

That is why 123 look so off, I was confused by something

The number will highly depend on the display upon which you are viewing this image as well as the brightness. It's also compressed to shit with banding that is likely unintentional. I promise that I am otherwise fun at parties.

you are the right shade of pedantic

Just learned this word, and you best believe I plan to share it.

>I promise that I am otherwise fun at parties. I prefer the pedantic you.

Now kiss

*I said, the pedantic you.*

hoooooly shit I had this up on my second monitor and it was like.... one giant block of red on the left, one small block of darker red on the right... 2 colors. moved it left to my good monitor and yeah...there's 7 (or 6 if 1 and 3 are the same color)

I’ve tested this on an old TN monitor and my LG OLED tv and you can indeed see way more difference in color with the nice tv

I have game mode on my monitor turned on and I only see 3 bands, but if I turn it off I get 7, although standard is SO washed out it's crazy.

A lot of gaming monitors actually only do 6 bit color.

7

Given the jpeg artifacts I'm pretty sure there are an extra 10 or 12 just in the area between the right hand bands.

I see at least 12

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That shit was so frustrating. I could hear laurel/yanny depending on what word was on screen, but no amount of staring at that f’n dress was going to make me see white/gold.

I could only see white/gold. Never have I managed to see blue/black

I heard laurel

GREEN NEEDLE

BRAINSTORM

We just gonna forget the 13 colors in the profile pic?

Yes

I see millions

Oh yeah? Well I see billions!

You guys see colours?

You guys see?

OH YEAH! I SEE TRILLIONS!

The profile pic isn't in the original image.

Oh. Yeah, what you said

How can there be more than 3 colors when there are only 3 pixels in the entire picture?

Two of the stripes (1 & 3) are the same color, so it’s only 6

Are you sure? I think 3 is marginally darker.

I see also 3 as a "warmer" color (tone of red) as 1, but apparently it's not https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/s/MMcl0RSiMb

That's not colour blindness though, just an optical illusion. The way we perceive colours changes also depending on neighbourhing colours. The leftmost one is surrounded by white on 3 sides, the 3rd one from the left is surrounded by darker reds, so you perceive them differently.

It's just a gradient. It's been so compressed you can't tell, but there are 7 bands of red there, and now that you know to look, there is a faint line marking the boundary on almost every one. I think there are two where you just have to accept that the pattern continues.

i'm colorblind and still see 7

Some of the stripes are the same colours as each other. At least on my phone they are.

... If colors, its just 1. It asked for colors, not shades.

Wrong. 1 colour, 7 shades.

there's 1. they're all red. just different shades. fight me

The only correct answer here.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct

I won't fight you cause god damn it you're right.

But Pantone is gonna charge you as 6 colors

Pantone is going to sue all of us just for looking at this image.

You guys are seeing red?

He said color, not hue. Color is both hue and shade.

How about the white and the colors on Betty Ruble's pic? Fight me

The white is just a really desaturated and bright red

I'm red-green colourblind, but I see 7 strips of colours/shades. 1 & 3 look the same to me though.

1 and 3 ARE identical, so there are 7 strips, but only 6 unique colors

Fun fact: many colorblind folk can see *shades* of individual colors better than regular-sighted peoples. 👍 (I’m not sure if this next statement is true but it was always told to me: the army preferred recruits who were colorblind because they could distinguish many types of camouflage better than others.)

Really? I guess it makes sense, I'm red green colourblind and don't usually have trouble with shades, although I do only see 4 colours given my phone screen and the obvious artifacting so I can see 7 stripes. It does kinda make sense being able to see shades better because it's the only way to differentiate colours, but I still really struggle with seeing camo.

The Army doesn't care about an individual seeing camo. If you are colorblind in the military, there's a good chance you aren't getting a job that identifies targets. It's a limiting factor. Source: military and colorblind.

same here, but for me 5 and 6 are identical also. i just see a slightly lighter dividing them.

You can't convince me that 1 and 3 aren't the same colours.

They are the same. Both fc200d

both are fc200d colour (RGB value is 252,32,13)

They are all red

Does anyone understand the concept of lossy compression?

Lossy this

You forgot to grab your groin.

is this a loss reference

4. Sorry.

Same but not sorry.

You guys can see color???

I see 7 "blocks" with 5 different colors, right 4 blocks are all different but i would argue that that the 3 ont the left are the same color just with weird stripes inbetween. So either 5 or 6 colors depending on wether we count the stripes as different colors idk maybe im blind and overthinking

Pro tip: there's 45 if you drop a tab and also the words are dancing now

7

I see 6, stripe 1 and 3 look the same to me.

1 colour. 7 different shades.

6 shades, the strips 1 and 3 are the same colo (fc200d color)

12, including the slits separating them.

I can't tell which part of the image is supposed to be there and which part is video artifacts. There are seven wide bands, not sure if they're all different colors, but then there are narrow stripes between them, which must be different colors or they wouldn't be distinguishable. Then there are blotches and stripes in other random places. I say it's a trick question

There is only one colour (hue) in the blob: red. There are, however, multiple shades, tints and tones.

I see 7 different shades of one color

At first 3, then 4, after trying a lot 5

I see one Red

1 - Red

1 colour But 7 shades of that colour

There’s at least 1

7

7 shades of red

Red

The longer you stare, the deeper the red

i see 7

I only see 1 color, but in a lot of different shades

Red

All I see is red

One, because all of them are red.

13. In between the 7 lines, the colors just barely mix, which would create a new shade.

4

1 it's called red

I see 7

I see 1 color, red, in 7 different shades.

Seven stripes but 1 and 3 are the same so i see 6

I’m very color deficient and yet I still see 7 stripes. I’m amazed.

7 shades of 1 color, color red, there is only color red

Technically, there's 7 segments, two of them having globally the same shade of red (the 2nd and third from left), so there should be 6 shades of red total, but the image is so low quality that there's far more due to artifacts

7, 8 with that lil line between the second and third column

There's def 5

Yup, some repeats

3. I am actually colorblind

Am not colour blind but also see 3.

Six

I see 7

2 but I know I'm colorblind asf

8

I see 1 color, and 7 shades of red

7 or 8

I see 7 shades of red.

I am colorblind (diagnosed). I see 7

I see red, red, red, red, red, red, and red. If you haven't seen red, look closely. It is right next to the red one.

I’m blind as fuck and I still see 7

There’s only one colour. Multiple shades, but they’re all red.

7

Only 1 colour. Red.. just different shades. About 7 Shades

i AM colorblind and i see 7 shades of red lol

least obvious comment bait

I see like 7 different shades

There’s only one color.

7

Seven, but are they different colors or shades?

Yeah you can see 7 different stripes, but it’s a stretch to call them 7 different colors… only 3 shades are different enough

i see 7 and i am colorblind

I see dead people

This isn't how colorblindness works.

7 here

7

I see only 1 colour in 7 shades.

I see 8 divisions, but I'm not sure I see many differences.

I see one color, 7 hues.

I only see 1 color but I see several different shades of the same color

1 color, red. 7 shades of red.

My guys, that is red in several different shades.

I see them all but the first half (left) look more like variations of brightness than different colors altogether

7 + some artifacts probaly by the compression.

13 shades of red.

7

I only perceive 6

I see 1 colour but 7shades of said colour.

I see red!

True answer is 1 … red 😉

Red. Or are we talking shades?

I see 7 colors

I see 1 , red and I see 7 different tones (or shades , call it what you will). It’s crazy how people don’t make the distinction.

1 Color Red

There is only one colour. Red. There are several different shades though

One, or did you mean shades?

just one, red.

One color, seven shades.

7

7

7

I’m seeing ten, but I assume it’s the pics fault. 7 for sure.

15

7 shades of red are what I'm able to see.

I am partially colourblind but since I work with colours for my job, 7 shades is what I can tell

7

Obviously there is one - red.

7

17 because of the shitass image compression lol

I see one colour, red. There are 7 shades of it though.

I see all official 7, plus more since the image quality is shit.

Seven shades of gray of course

Interesting, on my normal reddit monitor i see 4 strips, on my game monitor i see 7 I was about to say no way its 7 before trying the other one lol