Some Tumblr threads do a phenomenal job at taking our brains on wild and unexpected brain trips. For instance, this thread that suggests that the color magenta isn't actually a real color. Instead, that it's just our brains "guessing" at a color.
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Oh Tumblr, there you go again. This kind of puts magenta's existence in a tight spot. Apparently, our brains are tripping out and magenta doesn't actually exist. That's fun. Whether magenta exists or not, whatever we are seeing as "magenta" is wonderful, and appreciated. Apparently, magenta is an example of how our brains interpret two different colors that are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Groovy.
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Tumblr gets in real deep sometimes. Sure, a lot of it is just memes and thought exercises, but some threads get into stuff like the historical concept of the color purple in rhyming fashion, or how modern cats became domesticated. So anyway, here's why magenta is a made up color based on your brain just doing its best.
