Color has been disappearing from the world.

A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.

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Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.

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These aren’t data points, but they are comparisons between the ‘modern’ homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.

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Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.

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Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.

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The world is becoming colorless, why?

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