Shen color theory comic

Color Theory Comic

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About

The Color Theory Comic is a short comic drawn by Shen Comix in 2020, in which he shares his feelings about color theory, expressing confusion about how yellow and blue combine to make green. The comic has been wildly used online as an object labeling meme template.

Origin

On April 11th, 2020, Shen uploaded on his Newgrounds[1] and Reddit[2] accounts a comic titled "This… can't be…". In it, he depicts himself reacting to the mixes of the three primary colors; saying "Yeah, that makes sense!" about red and yellow creating orange, "Yeah, I can see that" about red and blue creating purple, and "What the fuck…" about blue and yellow creating green. His Reddit post gained more than 10,000 upvotes in four years.


+ + 11 YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. + SHEN COMIX WHAT THE F---

Spread

The comic spread, especially on Reddit, as an object-labeling exploitable, in which Shen reacts to increasingly hard-to-believe facts and affirmations. For example, on April 14th, 2020, Redditor Skittleman06 made an edit to joke about Mega Man's weaknesses in /r/megaman,[3] gaining over 240 points in four years.


SHEN COMIX YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. WHAT THE F---

On September 10th, 2022, Redditor tin_sigma posted a joke to /r/mathmemes[4] that gained over 2,400 points in two years.


SHEN COMIX Σ YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! S YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. WHAT THE F---

Various Examples


Droids using full-auto weapons against Jedi. Mandalorians using shotguns againt jedi. YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. Jocasta Nu using a rifle that fires literal lightsabers and nearly killing Vader with it WHAT THE F--- SHEN COMIX (ONE) YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! (ZERO) = (TWO) YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. WHAT THE F--- M =Milion B FBillion YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! K EThousand WHAT THE F--- ... SHEN COMIX YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. WHAT THE F--- SHEN COMIX 40k crossovers Mass Effect Trilogy (29) Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game) (39) Star Wars - All Media Types (40) Me imgflip.com YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. RWBY (75) WHAT THE F--- SHEN COMIX THE YEAR 2000 IS 24 YEARS AGO YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! 2010 IS.14 YEARS AGO YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. 2020 IS 4 YEARS AGO WHAT THE F---

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SHEN COMIX YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE! YEAH, I CAN SEE THAT. WHAT THE F---

External References

[1] Newgrounds – This… can't be…

[2] r/comics – This… can't be…

[3] Reddit – /r/megaman

[4] Reddit – /r/mathmemes

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VinchVolt
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Fun fact: blue was actually considered a shade of green for the vast majority of human history. It being a distinct color is relatively recent, hence why you see things like The Odyssey describing the ocean as "wine dark." Many parts of the world still don't make a clear distinction between the two colors. In Japan for instance, "ao" was historically used to refer to blue and green alike before being limited to blue, with "midori" being created later on as a distinct term for green. However, "ao" is still used to refer to stuff like green grass, green peppers, green apples, and most notoriously, the "go" bulb on a spotlight.

Wikipedia has a whole article about how fucky the blue-green distinction is around the world.

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