My father in law was color blind and painted his porch pink thinking he was painting it white. He worked so hard on it we didn't have the heart to tell him so we just repainted it while he was at work.

It seems after the exposé video about these glasses people seem to think SciShow got it wrong and are endorsing these glasses. What scishow said is 100% correct, these glasses DO help you tell the difference between colours that a colourblind person might not be able to see. What it doesn't do, is let that person observe the actual natural colour like a non-colourblind person would. Once again, scishow is correct. The glasses are false advertising.

Many of those viral videos were advertising glasses that turned out to just be cheap colored sunglasses.. a total scam.

Do Those Glasses Really Fix Colorblindness? No. No, they don't.

As someone with deuteranomaly, all those side by sides weren't that effective.

I just watched georgenotfound used one and its sweet now this is ij my recommendation

I came here because I was curious of how GeorgeNotFound see after he used the colorblind glasses

KZfaq recommended this to me because of george :/

I've a friend with monochromacy. He gets real annoyed at people asking "is everything like a detective noir film to you?", just before he slams down a scotch, lights up 3 cigarettes simultaneously and gets in a gun fight with fedora-wearing gangsters. I kid. He does, however take some very impressive photography in both color and monochrome.

I actually panicked a little when he was talking about trying to find the red peppers and there were no red peppers but I was trying to find one anyway

90% of the comments: wHoS hErE aFtEr GeOrGeNoTfOuNd? 10% of the comments: actually telling stories about people with colorblindness they knew.

My severely red green colorblind grandfather worked his entire life as an electrician. He would tell what color was which by comparing the shades of the wires that looked too similar. Before that, he would mix printer ink. He learned how to use shades and tints to determine the difference between colors he couldn't see from art class. Now he's a potter and makes his living creating cups and bowls. Pretty wild story honestly. He's a great inspiration to me when someone says I cant do something. And if anyone wants to order a cup or something from him just let me know and ill try to get you in touch with em.

I might have a problem with Red and Green. The shirt he's wearing has some Red in it. So, am I seeing Hank Green or Red?

I have mild red-green colorblindness, and I have a pair of EnChroma sunglasses. I wouldn't say that I confuse red and green with each other, ever. It's that I don't always identify something as red or green. Certain shades of red look brown and light pinks can look gray. Certain shades of green look taupe or gold. What the sunglasses do for me is make it easier to drive. Red stop signs look bright red, rather than dark red. I don't have to work so hard to look for them, they're just there. I can see Emergency kiosks easily. Green signs pop out, and I can find street names easily. Orange cones are much more obvious. I didn't realize how hard I was concentrating to look for those things while I drove, until I got the sunglasses. It is interesting to see the effect of some wavelengths filtered out. A light green sweater my husband has became beige with the glasses on, but I discovered that the house across the street, which I would have described as not having any color, was actually pale green.

Who got this on their recommended after George's video

Got this recommended after George’s video

Who is this Hank Red that is hosting the SciShow this time?

I'm glad you didn't tell me they were fake.

Owning a pair of enchroma glasses, I can say this: yes you can in fact see colors you haven't seen before (for me that was purple) and sunny days are absolutely beautiful!

As an individual who suffers from moderate protanomaly and owns a pair of the glasses described, I find this video does an excellent job of both explaining colorblindness and the function of the glasses. They don't magically add colors to our visual spectrum, just help us to differentiate certain colors that cause confusion. Their use does lead to an interesting process of relearning what to call the colors we see through the glasses. (Blue and purple may have looked the same before, but now they look different. But having never seen true purple before, they both can still look "blue" to us, but we can suddenly tell there's a difference. Now, which one should we associate as purple, and which should be blue?) Another fun thing I learned, if you want to experience tritanopia (blue-yellow) colorblindness, go to the hardware store and buy a pair of shade 5 glasses (usually used for oxy-fuel welding/cutting) for $5. Take a colorblind test and enjoy seeing the world as someone who is missing their shortwave cones entirely. Thanks, and great video!

For this guy with Deuteronomly, the glasses helped me distinguish, reds and greens as other people see them, but while wearing them the world is a muted shade of purple-grey. It's a darker, less beautiful... you actually see less color because it is filtered out wavelengths of the light that confuse the brain. Apparently my brain learned to compensated for my cones by preceiving green where others see black and greys.

“Electricians” SciShow: _shows bombs_

imagine having eyes that have 4 cones, with CYMK color scheme.

“Some people freak out” “Some people cry” “Some people can’t stop staring at colors they said they’ve never seen” *and some people play Minecraft*

Wait 1 in 30,000 people are completely back and white color blind or are 1 in 30,000 color blind people completely black and white colorblind??

Something tells me Logan Paul didn't do a fifth of the research these guys did XD

Here after GeorgeNotFound used it for the first time

Monochromatic here. Thank you for this. I love seeing these sorts of things clarified for everyone. Great vid

as a mild duetan, watching this video was kinda funny every time a comparison came up it looked the same haha ive been wanting these glasses for a very long time and now after seeing this video gained a bit more hope in them working for my case since it is only mild... Thanks SciShow! love the content

An artist friend of mine has, if I remember, protonomaly, so the most visually appealing color to him is pink (as we see it), and the least visually appealing to him is blue (as we see it). It's very fascinating, because that is reflected in a lot of his original character designs.

Watching this now after the expose of colorblind glasses recently made. Quite interesting!

Here after i saw GeorgeNotFound try these out

Thanks for all your hard work researching, scishow team! I was seriously skeptical too.

YESSS!!!! I always wanted to know what the heck did these glasses do, but never found anything useful, I didn't buy them somehow magically fixing people's eyes just by putting them on. You are awesome (all of the scishow team), thank you!

Who saw George get these

That’s why Georgenotfound thought dream was yellow

Ur tripping us colorblind people up with those visuals 😂😂

Now I wonder what George saw when he wore the glasses...

This is probably the best video I've seen describing color vision deficiency and the eyeglasses that supposedly corrects the problem. There is a LOT of misinformation out there and this video helps dispel those myths. Way to go!

Thank you for making this! This is the explanation I’ve been giving for years while I wear them, but you said it much more elegantly. I’ll just send people this link now

3:50 The glasses only help with creating a stronger distingtion between the three but also they distort the colors more than they help to correct them, so if you are a professional colorist and you have no big problems with working with colors it's better to be without them because it's not possible to work with color accurately with the glasses. In short they are for people who struggle with basic colors on a daily basis and they don't really fix/correct the colors you see

Thank you! I've been wondering about those glasses for a while!

Thanks a lot, I think this is one of your most well made and informative videos. Great job!

Thank you writing staff! I have been waiting for this, but trusted that you would investigate thoroughly. :)

Great explanation! So these glasses do work but also have their limitations. I got confused between the reaction videos and comments saying that they are a scam. Turns out both are right. The people calling it a scam probably had the wrong expectations or a different type of color blindness than what the glasses can help with.

So the one type of colour blindness that would truly be an amazingly life changing experience to fix with glasses (monochromacy) can't be fixed

it just makes everything look like a flaming magenta. it does increase the contrast between some colors, but its not a "new" color.

I understood everything because it was explained so well. Great content, thank you!

this was in my recommendation when i watch george use colorblind glass

All the GeorgeNotFound fans invading the comments... lol

I just got this in my recommended because of George. Nice.

I was in a shopping mall once and decided to buy some prescription sunglasses. I didn't ask for it a special color or anything, but I think the color is kind of like purple. When I wore those sunglasses it help me see the difference in colors very well. I was kind of tripping out seeing all the colors.

Why is "Philippines" spelled with a "ph" but "Filipino" is spelled with an "f"?

I have normal vision and I used to have a pair of these glasses. Everything you said in this video is completely correct, based on the research I've done. The glasses gave be about a 4% boost in vividness, just enough for me to occasionally say "oh yeah, i'm not wearing normal glasses." Although, those rare moments are very trippy, if you have the spare money to spend. So I returned them after 29 days, for my full refund.

I first thought, the glasses are one of these cheap scam things, but this explanation was literally an eye-opener. Although I am not suffering from this disorder, I once got a hint how it feels, when on a winters day I wanted to look at a traffic light, but stared into the sinking sun right beside it, and suddenly found the red traffic light to be grey. This is of course not how color blindness works, but it was an interesting experience.

Oh George really needs these

I got this recommended to me after a Minecraft KZfaqr [Georgenotfound] who now has The Colorblindness Glasses, _What a coincidence!_

“you don’t wanna get the colours wrong when you’re an electrician” my dad who’s a colourblind electrician 👁👄👁

playing with people's emotions is really really sick. Honestly, I'm completely disgusted that only one person is speaking out. Thank you for telling us the truth.

This is so interesting! Thanks again for another great video, Scishow! :D

I just finished binge watching about 15 of these Enchroma glasses reaction videos and not one of them gave ANY huge reaction at all! They kinda just stood there and then finally said "Oh. So that's orange? Neat." or just "Oh. I never knew that was purple." in a very bored voice. Most of them kept saying everything was "Pretty much the same except for red purple and orange" and none of them were excited at all. The biggest reaction was "Cool." or "Wow." Maybe I just happened to click on the 15 most boring reactions, but they ALL seemed to be like, "Meh." They all kept raising and lowering the glasses as if they were trying to see if there was a big difference at all! Very strange! Maybe all us color-sighted people take color TOO seriously! Hahaha

I saw George not found got the glasses and then my KZfaq recommendation brought me here

Much respect for now launching a video when it was viral because of lack of conclusions! This show that you are a good science channel.

I remember those viral vids. This is the explanation I was looking for back then. Thank you so much.

All this stuff reminds me of my favorite paradox the Is your red my red paradox. We could all be seeing the world in different spectrum of colors but never know because we are still picking up the same reflected wavelengths of light so we both still call the red object red even though I'm might see what you think of as blue on a red object but that is the version of red I've known for my own life. There would be no real way to tell XD And I love this paradox for this reason we may all be seeing the world differently and never know!

1 word: *GeorgeNotFound*

Thank you so much for the video! It was specially elucidating!!! ❤❤

This is why I subscribe to SciShow. You take the time to research things and check the validity.

Finally someone has explained color blindness to me. I've waited so long.

Idk why i got this after George's video lol

I've always wondered how those things worked! Really neat video!

This is fascinating! The SciShow writers really did do a great job! :)

I received these enchroma glasses for father's day. I wore them into a wedding gown store next to the eye doctor. They let me look at all the various shades. I found a wall with about 16 shades of pink. It was kind of crazy as i was seeing colors of pink i had not previously seen. For instance, i had trouble describing this one dress, which i found kind of pink, but kind of gold, and kind of silver, all at the same time. The shop owner told me that it was champaign. This was the first time I saw champaign as a color. I then took off the glasses and all 16 of those beautifully different pinks immediately turned into a wall of grayish/pinkish dresses. A couple of them were darker, and couple were lighter, but they were all a grayish/pinkish color...nothing like just moments earlier with the glasses on. Also, my daughter was wearing a Coca Cola shirt that was a washed out red color, but once i put on the glasses, it was a neon bright red color....red is amazing! Red is my new favorite color. I love driving the road and noticing red cars and red signs....it's just so pleasing. Other things...i now see purple and no longer confuse it with blue (while wearing the glasses). I also can see neon orange in the sunsets. I asked my wife, "how come people don't talk more about sunsets...they are just so mesmerizing!?"

"Dream, You're green!" :')

Nicely explained. Well done.

THANK YOU! I saw some of those videos and wondered how these glasses worked! Now I know!

They don't see color "normally," but they still see a brand new color that they've never seen before. That's something that most people only experience as a newborn, and they forget it. That's an amazing, possibly life changing experience of beauty.

I remember my friend showing up to high school in a green skirt and pink top. She had no idea her top was pink (to her it was the same color as the skirt). She was horrified by that information. I think her color blindness was too severe to be corrected by those glasses. Also sucks cause she was quite an artist, but she couldn't distinguish many of her color pencils.

This was informative. Thank you.

Thanks for a nice explanation of colorblindness and the glasses. Fascinating.

Nobody: Almost everyone: *got recommend after they watched Georgenotfound*

this got recommended after i watched george’s vid lmao

Thanks for covering this. I really wanted to know more and just never took the time to investigate.

I am protan with moderate to strong red deficiency and some green (at least according to the on line Enchroma test I took). I finally took the plunge last year and bought a pair of Enchroma sun glasses. There was a very definite improvement and lots of things that looked bla before really stand out with the glasses. Autumn colors, flowers, sunset and sunrises…etc. The change was nice, but not a life changing moment. The only crying I did was when I paid the credit card bill. But, in the end, I kept the glasses because they are excellent sun glasses. I wear them often but not all the time. It was worthwhile for me if for no other reason than I am 71 and I always wanted to get some idea of what I was missing.

Imagine a video going a lot more viral then it originally was just bcz of a minecrafter does stuff which is explained in it

Hey guys I have one minor suggestion regarding the title of the video. Maybe try "COLOR BLIND GLASSES SHAM???? LOGAN PAUL EXPOSED (not clickbait)" you're welcome

I really appreciate the effort you go through when taking on online trends which seems to have little scientific evidence to back up the claims made.

Thanks for this. I figured it was something like this, just not as finely tuned. Before I found your video all I could find is the company and a lot of hype. I saw the videos and dismissed it as making the reds brighter by filtering our blue and green... but that's not what's going on I was ready to write the whole thing off but there in my Google list was KZfaq SciShow. You're explanation made the lenses sound far more interesting and useful than the company website presented them. And as a guy with normal color vision (but unable to identify more than 6 colors by name....)I'd like to try the lenses. As a photographer I have (somewhere) a red enhancement filter. I'd read that Playboy magazine always used them so I was curious. The effect seems small on skin tones, but none of my subjects were showing as much skin.... So SciShow good work. Much appreciated.

Hello, SciShow! Do you think you could make a video explaining the current knowledge of cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and after learning so much about them, I would love for a bigger audience to learn of them!

Hi there! We make "those glasses" here at Enchroma! If you have any questions, please let us know!

Brilliant! Thanks!

What great job. Kudos to the research writing staff

2:38 That's why I couldn't join the army.

Now let's make glasses that can make normal people experience tetrachromacy.

Thank you so much! I used to look for this video believing that you must have made it. Now you did :-D

man George just gave this man so many views

Logan Paul BUSTED

Got this in my recommendations after MegaLag's video😂

If you take a sip of water everytime you see the word George not found you would literally drown.

Thank you very informative