I couldn't tell which lights ,not the one's she drew, where pink or red (probably just my phone screen)

@@Maximus5641 my computer screen supposedly has HDR on and I couldn't tell either, just looks like there's too many pink bulbs

Aren't they both associated with valentine's' day already?

Red, pink, and white are Valentine's colors.

Technically, pink is as far away from red than yellow. Both pink(magenta) and yellow are secondary colors made from red + another primary

exactly what i was going to say!

I'd say blue is just as a Christmas colour as white is, but you are right. The problem is bad white lights tend to be "not white enough", because white is created by all three colours together, manufacturers tend to opt for an "unperfect white". What do you think of gold as a Christmas colour, as she said it's the most canonical Christmas colour and I think it fits well, but I can't really imagine it at the top of my head. I also think it has to fit in matches: red and green are always paired (eg: holy and ivy), blue and gold have to be paired (eg: the Star in the nightsky, the nightsky and the desert, King's crown and robe, light in dark, etc), but white... what does white match or pair up with? Also, what do you think of silver as a Christmas colour? Is it synonymous with white, I'd say white and silver tinsel are similar.

especially blue leds, which pierce the retinas so. comfy cozy holiday season cornea needles.

@@benos5669 for me it's the yellows that are super hard to the eyes. I'm cozy with a string of lights where reds and yellows are broken (idk if it's a wire problem or the led) and only the blue and green lights work It's the nicest ones for me

white like snow

Yay

You are my direct inspiration for watching this lol

Clicked on this video literally looking for you to chime in. 😂

i'm like 90% sure that watching the technology connections Christmas Special™ is the exact reason i got recommended this video lol

This made my week

Exactly, I was thinking that the 5 color lights would work better if warm white was used instead of pink.

Exactly. For me there are three "pairs" of Christmas colours: - Red & Green - Gold & Silver - Blue & White/Silver I'm particularly fond of the last one because I only celebrate Christmas as a cultural winter festival, so I love the cool wintery colours. That being said, some of these can combine well in other ways, such as Red & Gold, Green & Gold, Blue & Gold, Blue & White & Silver, Gold & Silver & White, and Red & Gold & White.

YES

Yes thank you!!! Blue and white for outside eveything else for inside! I love to make my outside lights look like snow!

@@WingedAsarath I totally agree with your pairs but I think that is because they also work as triplets. The whole method of criteria I use may be just a bit different as the color combos need to match the type of cookie. All must work with gingerbread or molasses based sweet breads or they are not quite right.

Thanks! I used Premiere's brightness+contrast effect, with an ellipse mask and feathered edge.

@@Vihart I was going to guess "elves with tiny flashlights". Only slightly disappointed that's not how it was done. 😞

​@@Vihart*Your inner child is always free!* we all love you, hope you suffer less from anxiety. Would love to see you're quirkiness be present without the doom.. honesty a *red* flag to me. Oooh pretty colors ooohh blinking lights ooohh subliminal subtrance induction... So much today is a doom sponsored psyop, its not even funny. i hope to hear back from you that it was an innocent moment, and not the objective of the video. All the best ∆

​@stevenclarke2655 Thanks for sharing Vi. I really hope you can respond to my other question about Math when you can Thanks very much.

now this is a collab we need to see

she'd be technology connections with a brown light

@@nicreven which is just orange, mind you

just a lil dim@@JGnLAU8OAWF6

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Agreed. The blue LEDs commonly on consumer string lights are very harsh and monochromatic. Probably the good blue lights you talk about were incandescent bulbs or white LEDs with a blue filter; these have a much broader spectral band.

Blue is a Hanukkah Color.

You are not alone. Blue LEDs are way too hard on the eyes. I genuinely don't understand why people use them. My theory is that people who use those lights are literally colorblind.

Those stupid electric blue lights are how I found out that my eyes cannot focus on high frequency LEDs. I thought that colour was just supposed to be blurry, but nope, it's my own stupid eyes. I have the same problem with those blue LED digital clocks that seem to be everywhere now.

​@@a3wagnerI also noticed that blue LED fairy lights appear blurry or difficult to focus on. Turns out it is a well documented phenomenon. Generally it's attributed to blue light dispersing/scattering more, as well as the fact that human eyes have less blue-sensitive cone cells and so the angular resolution is reduced for blue light.

The Nightmare before Christmas strikes again!

there's an xlcd about that

The Christmas trees are perfect places for them to make webs!

If you’re the type that gets real trees for Christmas trees, you might bring a few into your house, too… Christmas friends!!

I love spiders, but spiders with little elf shoes and bells is very nightmare fuel

Really hahaha

good LORD you did not have to accidentally call me out like this /lh

Same

I had this thought halfway through the video 😂

Omg yes Vi watcher to realizing we’re autistic pipeline 😭😂

This American Life had this Christmas Special episode a while back that I loved, and the one line that will always stick out to me as an adult and parent can be paraphrased as: "As a kid, Christmas is magical as a source of infinite possibilities. When you are an adult, Christmas sort of ossifies, it gets stuck as an attempt to recreate or recapture the magic of your youth." It's Episode 576, well worth it. Good luck out there, and try to find the copypasta about Santa being real in each of us.

Go ahead and drop the name of number two would ya

@@kaylanek1 Alec from Technology Connections. He has particularly strong opinions on the colours of LED lights, he made a several of videos about it already.

I considered making this comment! Happy hello, fellow Alec fan :)

@@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Hello to you as well! :) Little did I know, writing that comment, that Alec was about to drop another installment in the "blue LEDs aren't Christmassy" saga.

​@@Viniterat this point it's the traditional end to no effort november.

True when I buy LED lights I look for ones without blue, becasue it's always overpowering the whole thing. You have 3 lights in there, but somehow it turns out to be 90% blue. :P

my nana's tree lights always had pink as long as i can remember. it's glorious, a hot neon magenta color.

Older fairy lights with filament bulbs often had pinks.

I grew up with sets with pink, and sets without pink.

The ones HomeDepot sells have that pink color in them. I really like them

I've seen plenty of modern strings with purple. And the blue LEDs are too dark blue, the whites are now daylight instead of warm white, there's too many cheap, flickery LEDs... I want LED bulbs to save power and reduce heat, but it's impossible to find them in classic colors...

@MiaVilleneuve You never had those thoughts.🤦‍♂️

They're the kind of thoughts I never realized I had before, but I'll never be able to stop realizing from now on.

@@spanqueluv9ercalm down lil bro

In my mind, Xmas colors are "red, green, and WHITE." I get why Vi and other folks might dismiss "white" as a color, but the bright, mostly-full spectrum color of a white string light overcomes most of the failings of strong primary colors. But I also have strong opinions about yellow light and. though I see the point of having gold in there, I dislike the color that much.

​@@argentpuck I don't dismiss white as a color, I just... never had string lights with white in them. So I wouldn't even think to include it in the conversation about "string lights I've experienced and how they've changed over the years". I think I've seen "white and blue" lights, and probably "white and red", but I really don't think I've ever seen a tricolor "red and green and white" string light.

@@argentpuck Why would you think Vi would dismiss white as a color? She said she sees colors as an experience, not as a fact of nature.

​@@argentpuckI remember going out during Christmas and seeing the unintentional Italian flags everywhere. Very fun.

An OCTAL reference holy NUTS that's niche

@@Woodledude can you explain :'

As in a base-8 numbering system? Is that actually mathematically true?

@@_glint Gladly! We're talking about number bases here, so, for example, the one we're used to is base 10. All that means is that 10 is the place we go from 1 digit to 2 digits, and 100 is the place where we go from 2 digits to 3 digits, and so on. We add digits at the powers of ten, in other words. Other bases exist, and use more digits at different places - Binary is the classic example, and 10 in binary is equivalent to 2 in decimal - Binary counts like 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, and so on. Basically, pretend you're counting normally, but ignore any number that has a digit that's not 0 or 1. The numbers are the same as normal, but they're represented differently, and that can be useful for storage, convenience of writing, or discovering patterns in numbers. The joke here is that 25 in Decimal, our typical numbering system, will be represented as 31 in Octal. The numbers shift around, because Octal represents 8 as "10", 9 as "11", and 10 as "12". And yes, for those wondering, this is actually the correct conversion. It's okay if this is confusing! I'm doing a terrible job of explaining it, actually - If you want to find a better place to learn about this, I'd look up videos on "Numerical Bases," or maybe videos on specific bases. Base 6, Seximal, actually has some great videos! As does Dozenal (12), Hexadecimal (16), and Binary (2), I'm sure. The other bases tend to be poorly represented, as they're not as immediately relevant or useful - Hence why I was surprised to see anyone referencing Octal in a joke! Oh, by the way - Base 1 is tallies :3 Counts 1, 11, 111, 1111, 11111 - That last one is usually represented with the last "tally" being used as a strike through the others, but that's mostly a grouping thing, it's basically just showing the literal number you're referencing as the number of digits. It's the simplest possible base to write, but it's also not very useful for large numbers, hopefully for obvious reasons.

​@@sophiedowney1077It is, you can check it yourself!

I said almost the same thing!

Congratulations. Have fun on your mathy adventures.

​@@DeclanMBrennan Thank you!!

Vi Hart’s Pythagoras video from like 11 years ago eventually inspired me to go to university for math. I don’t regret a thing.

That would be very fun.

you lot are called technicians? not artists? 0.o

AGREED

Yes!!

Prime is good for Halloween. 13 feels creepy, much like 11 and 17, and I think 5 falls into it as well. "This, is, Hall-lo-ween. This, is, Hall-lo-ween. 1, 2, 3-4-5. 1, 2, 3-4-5."

In more eastern cultures, 4 is also a spooky number. 4 also happens to be the sum of the base decimal digits of 13.

The scariest thing of all would be trying to think of the right length for it!

I agree, I was expecting white to show up!

With white, you get all the colours already, so you wouldn't the need red and green bulbs anymore :-)

That's the combo we had when I was a kid and I miss it. Its hard to get multicoloured lights now. Most options are blue white or blue which I HATE with a fiery passion. Even warm white LEDs are not warm white enough when I grew up with incandescent bulbs. Plus LEDS flicker so quickly it triggers my migraines. :( Most people can't see the flicker as they cycle on off, but I think me being able to is part my severe astigmatism, part being autistic and hypersensitive to light in general.

Yes I miss the purple so much. I feel like they changed the purple to magenta for cost reasons. And the flicker, my God, xmas is mightmare for my epilepsy, people think I'm insane. How can they not see the flicker?

YES! Justice for pink!

yes! I was wondering why the Christmas lights on a lot of houses this year kinda stress me out, and this video and these comments helped me articulate. The pink kinda controls the blue, makes it so that it doesn't overwhelm, and balances all the colors better! pink isn't a Christmas color, but it always just served more of a balancer than a main character to me. It lets most of the focus be on the red and green. and it helps keep the whole thing from being overwhelming. Bring back the pink!

gold/yellow is also a color closely associated with Judaism and Hanukkah (the flames of the candles, and winter fires keeping you warm) so we could have a nice 3 color arrangement of string lights.

legit Hanukkah seems like an absolute blast

A few years back I saw a house absolutely decked out in Christmas lights and decorations and it included snowflake lights. And, in the middle of this mess, there were Star of David lights among the snowflakes. I had a good laugh.

Gambling vs the Messiah. I'll stick with Christmas 🎄 😊

@@Jabberwockybird That's the funny thing about it: only your religion thinks he's the Messiah. To the other 5 billion people in the world, he was just a dude. So I'll stick with gambling for chocolate 😊 (By the way... Christmas is a pagan holiday, and Jesus wasn't born in December. Just fyi. I have no issue with people celebrating pagan holidays, I just thought it's important to know what you're really celebrating if you're going to.)

Came here to find or add this comment!

Single colour lights should only be used as a complement to coloured lights (for example my parents have some over their fireplace vs the multicoloured lights on their big tree). And even then they should be white only (pref warm white). Monocrome blue or pink lights can get in the sea. Not literally though, that's pollution.

Ok but single white, a soft warmISH white, kicks ass! I love using just white lights but only if they’re of a specific warmth and then ONLY those. Whoever is mixing and matching whites is a monster and I fear them

closest I could find this year was red/green/blue/yellow/orange, so you can kind of pretend the yellow bulbs are warm white

@@kb_520 Acceptable

In a similar vein to 666, 888 is a number for Jesus, spiders have 8 legs :: QED Spiders are Xmas animals ;-D

OR ... have an 18 string with only 3 colors, and they are grouped together: 6 orange, 6 purple, 6 green - done!

1. Maybe buy all the colours available, be it online or elsewhere, and either you or another could swatch out most of the bulbs on one string and that'd basically make a reproduction. Worth a try. 2. Like srsly I'd love to invent a battery-powered full-string version of those necklaces with plastic bulbs resembling the old-timey fat ones (I quite like those but the modern ones are nice too). It'd have 8 colours of said plastic bulbs (what you mentioned, with pink and white added; will also have variants exclusively for each one). Bad idea, but I like it at least.

I laughed out loud at this. I'm all for it!

Wait... what the heck the time signature on the Mission Impossible theme?

Who is the other one ?

@@gogo_crunchy8926 technology connections!

I thought being surprised by the pink lights was weird. I grew up with those and you can see that color scheme in 80s and 90s films set during Christmas.

Might be a generation thing... Christmas is always red green gold and blue here... long before the modern LED rubbish lights that are never quite the right colour became a thing. And back in the real light bulb days if there was a 5th colour it wasn't pink.. it was magenta. Also the only time you saw chasing lights was in the street decorations that used to span across the street and not the rubbish lamp post frame things they have these days. And 40 was the maximum as any more would set fire to the tree

In my region of the US, it was always warm white, red and green, or red green blue yellow multi color as a “rainbow” option. Then with LED rise in popularity, so did the cool white , then just straight blue? Which doesn’t feel even super winter-y just Cold and Modern