>To recap, somebody mentioned addiction, to colors presumably, as a reason to prefer a monochrome display, and I thought that was ridiculous.
Somebody mentioned addiction, not "to colors" but to regular content doomscrolling, smartphone overuse, and so on. And the idea was that a monochrome display of videos, social media apps, webpages, TikToks etc makes them less enticing (and thus helps with reducing their use).
This is not only far from ridiculous (then again, some find the idea of a round earth ridiculous too), but something that has both tried with reported success by tons of people, and also the subject of study:
True colors: Grayscale setting reduces screen time in college students
Somebody mentioned addiction, not "to colors" but to regular content doomscrolling, smartphone overuse, and so on. And the idea was that a monochrome display of videos, social media apps, webpages, TikToks etc makes them less enticing (and thus helps with reducing their use).
This is not only far from ridiculous (then again, some find the idea of a round earth ridiculous too), but something that has both tried with reported success by tons of people, and also the subject of study:
True colors: Grayscale setting reduces screen time in college students
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03623319.2020.1...
Color me calm: Grayscale phone setting reduces anxiety and problematic smartphone use
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-021-02020-y
Suffering from problematic smartphone use? Why not use grayscale setting as an intervention! – An experimental study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245195882...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245195882...
Billions spent in making content more addictive - including the use of color to drive emotion and provide dopamine hits.
>But yeah, moral panic, or maybe virtue signalling, or tribalism
Or <insert other random middlebrow dismissal term>