Why So Many Jails Are Painted This Exact Color

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  • @jonas1015119
    @jonas1015119 Před 2 lety +7138

    Maybe just having a jail cell that is freshly painted in a bright color instead of dirty grey helps. Same way that people are less likely to litter in a clean environment than in one that is already dirty.

    • @disorganizedorg
      @disorganizedorg Před 2 lety +251

      Good point. I bet they didn't paint the control cells freshly.

    • @LRM12o8
      @LRM12o8 Před 2 lety +199

      Literally any light color would be better than the dirty depressing grey typically used in prisons...

    • @fluoroantimonic
      @fluoroantimonic Před 2 lety +44

      Ey a broken window theory thingy

    • @igeljaeger
      @igeljaeger Před 2 lety +14

      good anime taste bro

    • @jonas1015119
      @jonas1015119 Před 2 lety +14

      @@igeljaeger a fellow man of culture

  • @killhour
    @killhour Před 2 lety +5309

    Painting literally the entirety of everything that color, including the furniture and metal fixtures really does capture the universal human mindset of "a little is good so more must be better." Just paint the cells in a way that's pleasant to look at and doesn't make you feel like you're inside a pepto bismol bottle!

    • @vladimirenlow4388
      @vladimirenlow4388 Před 2 lety +199

      Either that, or you start looking around for Corrections Officer Barbie.

    • @bosknight7837
      @bosknight7837 Před 2 lety +275

      Seriously,spending an entire night in a full on hot pink room would probably make me go crazy more than anything…

    • @crackedemerald4930
      @crackedemerald4930 Před 2 lety +121

      almost like the judicial system doesn't care about people only the numbers.

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Před 2 lety +59

      Yea, that much pink would hurt my eyes.

    • @soundscape26
      @soundscape26 Před 2 lety +65

      Totally, I don't get why they had to paint the _whole frigging_ cell to prove their point.

  • @snoozysnail1068
    @snoozysnail1068 Před 2 lety +3251

    I've heard that when the study on Baker Miller's calming effects were reported on, they left out the fact that they found the opposite results after long term exposure.

    • @bookle5829
      @bookle5829 Před 2 lety +137

      That's actually what happened

    • @doomkitty8386
      @doomkitty8386 Před 2 lety +552

      I would get angry if I was surrounded by that nasty color all day.

    • @theglitchcounter264
      @theglitchcounter264 Před 2 lety +246

      @@doomkitty8386 I got angry just looking at the first image of a cell

    • @genepozniak
      @genepozniak Před 2 lety +40

      That's what my psychology professor said. I can't find any reference to it though.

    • @theglitchcounter264
      @theglitchcounter264 Před 2 lety +129

      @@genepozniak I’d assume it has something to do with perception , as in a jail cell is SUPPOSED to be a form of white or black. That pink would probably become maddening if it was all you saw.

  • @youzerable
    @youzerable Před 2 lety +2393

    The jail in a town I used to live in was painted with that "puke pink" color.
    I went to pick up two different people from jail there on two different occasions and literally the first words out of their mouths when they got out the door was ranting and bitching about that horrible pink.
    It seemed to seriously agitate them.

    • @EALM95
      @EALM95 Před 2 lety +117

      sounds like peptbismol pink

    • @limehazard
      @limehazard Před 2 lety +70

      Ok, for a second there I thought you meant that you lived in jail.

    • @princessthyemis
      @princessthyemis Před 2 lety +14

      wow!

    • @eliseosterbrink8000
      @eliseosterbrink8000 Před 2 lety +144

      I think that this is the case with overexposure to any color...
      My boyfriend is in the Navy as a nuclear engineer on a sub. Apparently, almost everything is painted seafoam green, and he HATED being in my room when he visited recently because it's a similar seafoam green. I doubt that painting everything a single color has much of a positive impact on emotions, but because it's all you see, you end up hating it. I also wonder if subconsciously associating something like seafoam green with, say, the torture that is living and working on a submarine has more to do with the person's behavior than the color just being nice to look at or whatever.

    • @pinkmoonrabbit2072
      @pinkmoonrabbit2072 Před 2 lety +39

      @@eliseosterbrink8000 yeah tbh it sounds like because that color is associated with solitary confinement, and torture (or whatever reason ur man felt at his job) that they start to hate that color. its like that science experiment with the baby and the rabbit, and causing the child to be afraid of the rabbit by associatiom with a loud sound or something?
      like if that color becomes associated with something really painful, that color is going to trigger that pain. thats super sad.

  • @mnm1273
    @mnm1273 Před 2 lety +8008

    A psychology study gives shocking non replicable results? How surprising.

    • @ateyaba7253
      @ateyaba7253 Před 2 lety +355

      @Fira Wesira the link to your only fans really says “Ayy shiit” 💀

    • @Direblade11
      @Direblade11 Před 2 lety +355

      I was hoping there would be angry psyche students, but it seems everyone knows a lot of psychological studies aren't great.
      The quote I heard was 80% of studies can't be replicated, from Jordan Peterson, a psyche prof
      P.S. please report the two bots here :^)
      Edit: spoke with a coworker in a psyche program, and he explained to me that, while these studies are often not reproducable, they still have some relevance in their assessment (or something like that)

    • @uzundeprem5743
      @uzundeprem5743 Před 2 lety +3

      Yeah yeah it be like that

    • @BitterJoyXx
      @BitterJoyXx Před 2 lety +102

      @@ateyaba7253 Aishite means love me in Japanese, so they're not only annoying they're also desperate lmao

    • @NoManOdysseus
      @NoManOdysseus Před 2 lety +17

      I am shocked, shocked!... Well, not that shocked.

  • @mollycollins498
    @mollycollins498 Před 2 lety +1400

    Okay but technically, doesn't long term exposure to Baker-Miller have the opposite effect and make you irrationally angry? There's a very short frame of time where it's calming

    • @bellasmith7283
      @bellasmith7283 Před 2 lety +212

      I think I would be frustrated too, if everything was that color. I'd get sick of looking at it

    • @AndrooUK
      @AndrooUK Před 2 lety +97

      It sounds like it would be good for a drunk tank or other short term visit locations, then.
      Or, just in a common room of a psychiatric ward, rather than the bedrooms, too, and whatnot.

    • @Reverend_Salem
      @Reverend_Salem Před 2 lety +3

      @@AndrooUK l

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety +54

      @@AndrooUK wouldn't recommend it in a psych ward. They tried that at my local one, and even just visiting people there sent you mad in a few minutes.

    • @zakosist
      @zakosist Před 2 lety +72

      I doubt it is even the color itself, but rather the complete lack of variety in color. At least if it was like in these pictures. Normally I dont really think any color would affect you mentally that much

  • @cyee7
    @cyee7 Před 2 lety +1077

    This colour theory checks out. Like how they would use splotches of red against white walls and flooring in a children's hospital to symbolise energy and vitality.

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 Před 2 lety +233

      I like your shoelaces.

    • @ZombieWoman0908
      @ZombieWoman0908 Před 2 lety +244

      @@Bacopa68 Thanks, I stole them from the president

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 Před 2 lety +78

      @@ZombieWoman0908 Why is this happening to me, I don't deserve this.

    • @pandoraeve9751
      @pandoraeve9751 Před 2 lety +140

      Don't forget, lust was ALSO one of the options to "prove" that red has more positive than negative connotations! For a children's hospital.

    • @MachiNoShaku
      @MachiNoShaku Před 2 lety +137

      color theory dont mean shit when you is leaving blood splatters on the wall tho

  • @noamz9527
    @noamz9527 Před 2 lety +2062

    I like how in 5:18 in the chess game clip one player just takes the opponent king and the other side just casually keeps playing. While there are some chess variants where you can capture the king as far as I'm aware the only one where it doesn't ends the game is giftgiving chess. But in this variant the other player has to capture back and can't move the rook as he does. So this game is just illegal no matter how you look at it.

    • @bigpeenerpeen
      @bigpeenerpeen Před 2 lety +21

      lol

    • @nathanbickel4362
      @nathanbickel4362 Před 2 lety +112

      Hey maybe it was antichess

    • @nathanbickel4362
      @nathanbickel4362 Před 2 lety +132

      Update. It wasn't. The next move was Rh3 and not taking the bishop. (Also, just realizing that's probably what you meant by gift-giving chess).
      But I love that someone else noticed this, I was scrolling until I found someone mention it lol

    • @Skwertydogs
      @Skwertydogs Před 2 lety +25

      Maybe we should #suggest this game for Agadmator to analyze.

    • @joshuacheung6518
      @joshuacheung6518 Před 2 lety +11

      Suicide chess

  • @Frenchaboo
    @Frenchaboo Před 2 lety +367

    Pink is my favorite color, but the idea of shanking someone in an all-pink room sounds so ridiculous I would not even attempt. That might be the case LOL

    • @debbiemcpherson2426
      @debbiemcpherson2426 Před 2 lety +24

      I love pink too, but I am very picky about the shade.

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety +21

      Now imagine you've been in there for months and shanking someone is the only way to see a room that isn't covered in pink. It becomes a lot less ridiculous when you need to see something that looks normal.

    • @Tilith
      @Tilith Před 2 lety +6

      @Same Same But dried one actually would.

    • @KOmyself
      @KOmyself Před 2 lety +2

      @@Tilith true, true

    • @jackryan4313
      @jackryan4313 Před rokem

      Nah, if I was locked in a cell with another man for extended periods (especially if in a 23&1 situation), that shade of pink is going to make me stab that cell mate.
      The color was proven to increase agitation with time. So while initially it might be good, it's essentially horrible for this type of use, because this isn't a temporary use by any means

  • @Pifeo
    @Pifeo Před 2 lety +274

    I would go insane if I was in a room that color for like a day

    • @k1263
      @k1263 Před 2 lety +35

      Yeah, it feels very weird seeing that color all over the place where it shouldn't be present naturally.
      It would be a torture for me if I was kept in a cell painted in this color.

    • @Kalitayy
      @Kalitayy Před 2 lety +17

      Well i would go insane if I was in a room for a day regardless of the color. 24 hrs without no distractions or any way out that is

    • @Mulgah
      @Mulgah Před 2 lety +4

      @@Kalitayy segregation isn't just being in a room without distractions, correctional officers are bored too and tormenting someone that can't physically react (and will be reprimanded if they try) passes the time well

    • @Super-wx6br
      @Super-wx6br Před 2 lety +1

      Itd probably just make me more pissed off

    • @Kalitayy
      @Kalitayy Před 2 lety +2

      @@Mulgah yeah but you gotta check out this Mind Field episode called Isolation. The White Room is basically what I meant

  • @parkerpeter8024
    @parkerpeter8024 Před 2 lety +137

    1:49 "Women hadn't been invented yet" is just about the funniest thing I have ever heard.

  • @yeenbean3318
    @yeenbean3318 Před 2 lety +553

    If I were a prisoner, yeah it would make me slightly calmer because it would force me to stop and think "This room is so ugly. Why on earth would they paint it this color?"
    And the few seconds I'd take to ponder it would probably distract me enough to slightly lower my heart rate.

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Před 2 lety +65

      I was thinking the exact same thing. "Are you sure they're calmer, and not very confused?"

    • @ivy4958
      @ivy4958 Před 2 lety +12

      i think it would make me think ''this room is pretty!,i mean i love pink so at least one thing at jail is great! its my favorite color''

  • @danielduncan6806
    @danielduncan6806 Před 2 lety +986

    I went into our local jailhouse that is painted pink for 6 months. I went in a strung out alcoholic, skinny as a rail, could barely even stand. I came out built like an ox. There was nothing else to do, it was boring as hell, so I just exercised the entire time, just for something to do. However, there were quite a few confrontations with other inmates. And those confrontations mostly led to nothing. Perhaps the color had no effect on me, but had an effect the others? Or maybe the working out had something to do with it; perhaps after the confrontations started their survival instincts kicked in and they fully assessed their situation and decided it might be a bad idea to fight the guy who has been constantly working out.
    Yeah, we see that a lot in pseudo science. Where people come to "concrete" conclusions when there are still a lot of things they have yet to consider.

    • @dortoka
      @dortoka Před 2 lety +94

      I know a guy who went to the local jailhouse for 6 months and came back fruity

    • @SylviaRustyFae
      @SylviaRustyFae Před 2 lety +83

      @@dortoka Good thing he didnt come back with scurvy at least

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 Před 2 lety +43

      I mean it could also just be that painting an entire area one color is really boring and boredom will make people less active and less aggressive, and this color just happens to work because it's not super dark so it doesn't make it depressing because of the lack of light but it's also not so light that it looks like shit if it just gets a little dirty.

    • @vladimirenlow4388
      @vladimirenlow4388 Před 2 lety +29

      Congratulations on your recovery! Keep working on yourself, physically and emotionally, and you'll get where you want to go.

    • @paterpillar5997
      @paterpillar5997 Před 2 lety +34

      @@dortoka that guy went in fruity, he came out of the closet, not county.

  • @CaptNSquared
    @CaptNSquared Před 2 lety +589

    As an autistic person I feel like putting me in a room entirely such an aggressive shade of pink is what some old guys hundreds of years ago called "cruel and unusual punishment".
    I would be a well behaved prisoner too if it meant I didn't have to spend 15 minutes in the pink room

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 2 lety +111

      I'm imagining the prison warden as a kindergarten teacher saying, "now, you boys behave, or else I'm going to have to put you in time out in the pink room."

    • @CaptNSquared
      @CaptNSquared Před 2 lety +28

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 New Prison Archetect idea!

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Před 2 lety +22

      What does it have to do with autism? I feel like many people feel this way regardless of being autistic or not.

    • @JNSquire
      @JNSquire Před 2 lety +17

      @@rachelcookie321 If I remember Wikipedia correctly, surveys found out that red/pink is an unpleasant color for a bigger proportion of people diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder than those that weren't.

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Před 2 lety +3

      @@JNSquire can I please know where you found this info? I’ve just done a quick google and not find any results stating the same as you.

  • @hedgehog3180
    @hedgehog3180 Před 2 lety +433

    I kinda have to wonder if maybe the reduction in violence and aggressiveness might not also be linked to the simple fact that they just repainted the entire room so now it looks a lot nicer and people tend to want to avoid breaking things that look pristine but we generally don't care that much if something is already damaged. Otherwise prisons probably don't get a ton of maintenance and if you're just looking at whether you have a drop in violence in the period after the repaint then it's kinda impossible to tell which effect is at play, is it the color or just the renovation? You'd have to compare with another prison that also got renovated at the same time with a fairly similar population that had similar levels of violence before the renovation to be sure.

    • @redalt58
      @redalt58 Před 2 lety +15

      unfathomably based pfp

    • @imarchello
      @imarchello Před 2 lety +1

      @@redalt58 Get topped

    • @cakeisyummy5755
      @cakeisyummy5755 Před 2 lety +2

      I remember that Kurzgezart mentioned a study that says that Removations and Beauty affect People's Mental Health more than Safety.

    • @WeavementSesestea
      @WeavementSesestea Před 2 lety +3

      Norway's prisons have already proven this to be true.

    • @AndrooUK
      @AndrooUK Před 2 lety +3

      Well, paint cells different colours in different locations and don't tell inmates about it, and see whet kind of results you get in aggregate.

  • @pirobot668beta
    @pirobot668beta Před 2 lety +54

    I worked at King County Jail before it was 'open for business'.
    The longest any of us 'normal' people could stand being in the Pink Room was about 2 minutes.
    If you are calm, it will drive you nuts.
    If you are agitated, it will drive you over the top!
    Any 'calming' effect is physical and mental exhaustion and a dread for going back in...

  • @Nylak-Otter
    @Nylak-Otter Před 2 lety +931

    I'd love to participate in a study like this adjusted for animals, and considering animals' varying perceptions of color.
    I've been observing and experimenting with it at the shelter I work at, and we settled on low saturation light blue, light yellow, and pastel green was the most calming for dogs, depending on the individual with breed and history actually having a statistically significant impact on preference. Combining it with lighting (dogs are more likely to move towards well-lit areas, and cats do the opposite), it's really interesting and useful.

    • @a.7642
      @a.7642 Před 2 lety +49

      That's really interesting, I've never even thought about colors affecting animal behaviors. Thank you for sharing!

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 2 lety +26

      Yeah, we should find out whether Baker-Miller pink would be effective for dog prisons.

    • @Nylak-Otter
      @Nylak-Otter Před 2 lety +37

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 It was actually the first color I tried! It definitely brought up some behaviors that were symptomatic of anxiety, and it was much too dark with our available lighting for the dogs.
      We also noticed that it made a few discolourations (like mud brought in on paws and smeared in the kennel) look like watery blood, which was disconcerting for customers.

    • @juliaxiao5320
      @juliaxiao5320 Před 2 lety +7

      @@Nylak-Otter can you inform ue more about the experiment? im really curious about this.

    • @alextorchia2289
      @alextorchia2289 Před 2 lety +15

      @@juliaxiao5320 especially because dogs can't see as many colors as humans

  • @Tomwithnonumbers
    @Tomwithnonumbers Před 2 lety +259

    That prison data taking place over such a short time frame is very dubious. There's a lot of things that would be hard to control - including inmates clearly recieving more attention than normal. You'd want data over a much longer period of time, ideally years.

    • @EnderofGames
      @EnderofGames Před 2 lety +24

      Yes, given how "calm" an inmate is as a dubious measurement, I figure they were also pretty far from a double blind study. It seems like people were expecting a result.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 2 lety +2

      Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to just compare the data of all of the prisons in an area, divided into categories based on color.

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety +5

      Given that some studies showed that the colour increased aggression based on duration of exposure, I'd imagine that doing studies for that long would probably have resulted in someone losing money and a few people losing votes, hence why it was such a short study...

    • @internetbodhi1009
      @internetbodhi1009 Před 2 lety +4

      Whaaaat, you want long term data and well-vetted research procedures?
      I'm sorry, funding is given in a hunger games style battle royale, please submit a study as fast as possible to win.

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 Před 2 lety +84

    There was a movie made years ago where several people wake up in a large room with 6 doors leading out. One in the floor one in the ceiling and one in each of the four walls.
    Each door leads to an identical room with another 6 doors, and possible different colored lights.
    It turns out to be some kind of maze with the "dead ends" being that some of the rooms are death traps, and it being difficult to know for sure if any given room is safe to enter without actually entering it.
    In reality there was only one room, and for filming they would film all the scenes that would take place in a room lit with a given color, then change the lights in the room to a different color.
    The mood of both the cast and crew was dramatically effected by the color of the light, especially towards to end of the day as everyone grew tired. The director stated it was quite startling.

    • @walter1824
      @walter1824 Před 2 lety +27

      Could it be "Cube" from 1997?

    • @AVI-lh6rm
      @AVI-lh6rm Před 2 lety +15

      @@walter1824 i think its definitely cube :D

  • @bbgun061
    @bbgun061 Před 2 lety +55

    Personally, if I'm in a space that is painted entirely one color, it's going to make me more nervous and aggravated.

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Před 2 lety +12

      Having multiple colours (when picked to match nicely) actually works much better if you ask me. We recently did up our bathroom and painted one of the walls green and got bamboo furniture and it looks so much nicer now and more calming than just white.

  • @janAlekantuwa
    @janAlekantuwa Před 2 lety +55

    I associate that color pink with psych hospitals, so it tends to put me on edge and make things feel unnerving, which feels like the oppisute of the intended effect

    • @vysharra
      @vysharra Před 2 lety +19

      Mine was _aggressively_ beige. Why is it so hard to just decorate normally? It’s not like they were cleaning the walls or anything.

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety +19

      @@vysharra yeah, just go for something neutral for the walls, some cheap wood or monochrome based furniture, and some tastefully coloured accessories is really all that's needed to make a place feel comfortable to be in and not like the god damn backrooms.

    • @lukecremecheese597
      @lukecremecheese597 Před 2 lety +9

      mine had a fun shade of vomit green, very exciting

  • @robertjarman3703
    @robertjarman3703 Před 2 lety +340

    Fun fact, 50 Shades of Grey was only given a 12+ rating in France, and the committee vote to make it so was not unanimous only because a faction wanted it to have no age limit at all.

    • @hillppari
      @hillppari Před 2 lety +14

      how can you age limit a book? its just letters

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 Před 2 lety +141

      @@hillppari The movie, not the book.

    • @trla6505
      @trla6505 Před 2 lety +144

      @@hillppari erotic books are a thing and sex scenes are also a thing in books

    • @chlorobyte_projects
      @chlorobyte_projects Před 2 lety +53

      speaking of sex scenes...

    • @krishnamaggarwal9167
      @krishnamaggarwal9167 Před 2 lety +11

      @@hillppari see even fira disagree

  • @michaelnelson2976
    @michaelnelson2976 Před 2 lety +77

    It's a very important distinction for me that it is UNIVERSITY of Iowa, not actually Iowa State that did this. HUGE difference in schools and personalities

  • @Recman700
    @Recman700 Před 2 lety +313

    You should do a video on the blue color they use in soviet/russian planes. Apparently it's meant to be calming for the pilots.

    • @barsdogukankarakoyun8798
      @barsdogukankarakoyun8798 Před 2 lety +73

      Soviet/Russian planes are painted blue on their undersides to act as some sort of camoflage with, well, sky.
      The color you’re referring to is used in cockpits of many heavy machinery, trains, planes, basically anything with a mechanical instrument panel. It’s called “MiG Green” and the reason for that is because it makes the instruments pop, protects night vision and doesn’t create an afterimage when you take your eye off it.

    • @thespiffingamerican
      @thespiffingamerican Před 2 lety +17

      @Fira Wesira Stop scamming people.

    • @VisibilityFoggy
      @VisibilityFoggy Před 2 lety +18

      @@barsdogukankarakoyun8798 Russia's newer planes (Su-57 prototypes and the proposed Su-75 "Checkmate") do not have the Soviet green. It has nothing to do with making the instruments "pop." They've been using this color since the planes had steam gauges. The engineers of the day felt that this color scheme actually helped keep pilots awake during long ferry flights, bomber patrols or extended combat patrols once tanking was invented. Given the size of the USSR (and Russia today) this was considered particularly important. The "calming" part is more of a side effect than the reason behind it.

    • @ZioStalin
      @ZioStalin Před 2 lety +10

      @@VisibilityFoggy In planes, submarines, etc. they also use red lights because red light doesn't saturate the receptors of the eye, so when you switch to a dark environment you're not blinded for a few seconds.
      Cars often have green dashboard lighting because it's less straining for the eye

    • @SPOcepSS
      @SPOcepSS Před 2 lety +4

      or how the US Navy uses seafoam green for ships to be calming

  • @dagoose4373
    @dagoose4373 Před 2 lety +77

    Weird, my inmates made me sniff some salt, and now I see a rainbow of colours inside the prison!

    • @TG-uj5fp
      @TG-uj5fp Před 2 lety +3

      Oh don't worry about that I'll supply your inmates with the other salt if you don't like this one. That will make you see everything in black and white

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety +1

      @@TG-uj5fp then there's the other other salt that'll make everything octarine.

    • @Elrog3
      @Elrog3 Před 2 lety

      just don't start eating peoples faces

  • @BurakBoraKapan
    @BurakBoraKapan Před 2 lety +23

    I thought it was because Paddington mixed a red sock with the inmate uniforms when doing laundry

  • @davimurph
    @davimurph Před 2 lety +62

    Fun fact: the old Australian House of Representatives chamber looks very like the British House of Commons chamber with dark wood and dark green leather. When they built a new, larger Parliament building in the 1980s, they decorated the House of Representatives chamber in pale green, the colour of eucalyptus leaves, which somebody suggested might be more soothing than dark wood and leather.

    • @AdamOwenBrowning
      @AdamOwenBrowning Před 2 lety +7

      It looks sick, like the room is suffering an illness. British Parliament has this "comfy-ugly" look to it, like the dated but sturdy furniture in yer nan's house.
      Aussie House of Representatives is painted similarly to some hospitals I have been on lol. It looks like the film set of where some insidious, evil group of characters make poor decisions.

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety +3

      @@AdamOwenBrowning don't go insulting insidious, evil groups of characters by comparing them to the house of reps...

    • @k.umquat8604
      @k.umquat8604 Před 2 lety +3

      It looks very corporate.

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety +2

      @@k.umquat8604 well, considering where half of the representatives' money comes from, it basically is corporate.

  • @bookle5829
    @bookle5829 Před 2 lety +25

    Kinda disappointed how you didn't show us that the experiment didn't meet their expectation after 15 minutes. The people gotten angrier after that.

  • @connorflammer8577
    @connorflammer8577 Před 2 lety +7

    While an entire cell being pink might drive me insane, personally if my jail had as much as a new paint job on the walls i think id feel alot less stressed than in a rundown concrete cube

  • @CaptOrbit
    @CaptOrbit Před 2 lety +11

    I seem to remember Jack Palance as the host of Ripley's Believe It or not did some experiments with this color. Including having a weightlifter that was shown interchangeably blue cards directly in front of their face and then Baker Miller pink cards directly in front of their face. The weightlifter never had any problem raising the barbell when facing the blue card but always struggled with the weight when facing the pink one and some cases was not able to lift it at all. They also visited a police station with a pink cell and showed the police dealing with someone who was drunk, agitated and being very physically aggressive. After they removed him from the normal cell and placed him in the pink cell within a few moments he simply sat down quietly and apparently remained so until he sobered back up.
    I'd like to see that episode again.

  • @ixyzyxi
    @ixyzyxi Před 2 lety +8

    Fun fact:
    In the Netherlands they just give prisoners a tv so they don’t get bored and don’t start shit.

  • @vaszgul736
    @vaszgul736 Před 2 lety +233

    This shade of pink might also be at least a little biological. After all, we evolved to cry tears that irritate our eyes to turn the whites pinkish and to flush our faces with red blood when we are distressed, embarrassed, in need of help, or trying to convey sincerity. Blushing is a HUGE social cue, especially in people with lighter skin where its even more noticeable. It could be culture there too, but our brains being hardwired to respond to exactly that shade of pink makes sense when a good portion of our species flashes our face that color as a physical communication.
    Studies have shown that people perceive someone as more honest and truthful, and become less hostile towards that individual during an altercation, if they are blushing / their face is red.

    • @hpsmash77
      @hpsmash77 Před 2 lety +3

      blush looks more red than pink

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob Před 2 lety +10

      Studies on people with really light complexions obviously

    • @imarchello
      @imarchello Před 2 lety +6

      blah blah baseless speculation.

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety +4

      @@gumbowallace well, his was technically in base debt given that it only calmed people down for a maximum of a few hours, after which it became increasingly distressing and aggregating (which is conveniently ignored in many studies).

  • @some1purple
    @some1purple Před 2 lety +11

    If I painted my house a color designed to suppress my appetite I'd just be reminded of food every time I saw it...

  • @jpe1
    @jpe1 Před 2 lety +44

    I remember seeing a bit about this on TV back in the mid- to late-1980’s, and the conclusion was that while there was an initial calming effect, that after a few hours exposure, people became *more* aggressive, so the host of the TV program said, “So, don’t pick up that paintbrush yet. Unless you already painted your room pink, in which case, better get started painting.” Or words to that effect. For some bizarre reason I think the host was Bob Saget, I can’t imagine why he would have been talking about pink paint…

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 Před 2 lety +10

      I'm going to guess America's Funniest Home Videos. Introduce factoid, tell joke, segue to funny video montage of painting accidents. Probably set to Paint It Black.

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 Před 2 lety +7

      @@johnladuke6475 America's Funniest Home Videos is like the pre-internet CZcams.

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Před 2 lety

      @@dannypipewrench533 I remember seeing that show on tv as a kid and I hated it because it was mostly laughing at people getting hurt. It wasn’t funny at all.

    • @jpe1
      @jpe1 Před 2 lety

      @@rachelcookie321 I had the same response to AFV as a kid! I also hated the Three Stooges. TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes, the predecessor to AFV, was OK, but early AFV had way too many nut shots.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 Před 2 lety

      @@dannypipewrench533 I've had the same thought... notice that the rebooted version got canceled just as yt was getting big.

  • @Roboute-Guilliman
    @Roboute-Guilliman Před 2 lety +19

    Some of the toughest men in prison: exist
    Prison: pink

  • @FilipSrbin
    @FilipSrbin Před 2 lety +8

    So basically I can wear clothes with certain colors to get various stat boosts according to the color of the clothes that I'm wearing, that's cool

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 Před 2 lety

      I mean, technically yes, though they usually follow a simple trend: your favourite colours to wear make you feel slightly better, colours that are more muted have less effect, colours that are vibrant make you feel more exposed, and dirty or stained clothes make you feel worse.
      Also, you have to be able to see what you're wearing.
      On the other hand: comfy clothes make you feel good, clothes that hug your chest, biceps, and muscles make you feel more attractive, and clothes that cling to your fat make you feel ugly. This is far more effective than the colour of your clothes.

    • @FilipSrbin
      @FilipSrbin Před 2 lety

      @@theapexsurvivor9538 interesting

    • @rockytom5889
      @rockytom5889 Před 2 lety +2

      @@theapexsurvivor9538
      And kevlar vests or armor plates give you passive training cause you gotta wear all the weight constantly. And some damage resistance.

  • @Croz89
    @Croz89 Před 2 lety +5

    That shade of pink make me think of sweet things mainly, like doughnuts and cakes since it's a popular frosting/icing colour.

  • @mathieubonaparte
    @mathieubonaparte Před 2 lety +32

    That ECG at 3:56 drives me mad. The left-to-right axis is time and a higher amplitude should NOT slow it down.

    • @FiveToedSloth1
      @FiveToedSloth1 Před 2 lety +3

      Yes, I nearly flatlined when I saw that.

    • @EnderofGames
      @EnderofGames Před 2 lety +6

      Since we are complaining about stock footage, 5:17 features a terrible chess player who let their queen get taken from starting position and didn't even take the bishop in response.

  • @aesyamazeli8804
    @aesyamazeli8804 Před 2 lety +4

    I think simply because the cells are painted at all, and not just left as bare concrete. Try baby blue or pastel yellow or light green.

  • @abelb.7997
    @abelb.7997 Před 2 lety +15

    "It may be the case that seeing pink calms men down the same way listening to Pink does... by bringing out their inner femininity" Best line of this video.

  • @JuraIbis
    @JuraIbis Před 2 lety +80

    Pink is a nonspectral color, and it is a vibrant one. I would from the list put my vote for it to be the dominant one (brown is very common it has no effect). Any effect it has has nothing to do with it being linked to women, i think it just feels unnatural to see it on non-living things. Pink to me is eerie, and the movie "The color out of space" shows i'm not the only one who thinks the same way. It definitely has some psychological effects.

    • @joseloera5849
      @joseloera5849 Před 2 lety +12

      lol same, when the video showed that pink jail it looked so weird and scary to me

    • @SacredDaturana
      @SacredDaturana Před 2 lety +1

      But if this is right, would that not put convicts on edge and increase aggression significantly?

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob Před 2 lety +5

      Brown has no effect? I'm sure the difference between people who live in cities and people who live with lots of wood and earth around is noticeable

    • @bestgun9994
      @bestgun9994 Před 2 lety +3

      It is on the spectrum. All colors are on it. It's just light red.

    • @impedimentahamartia9864
      @impedimentahamartia9864 Před 2 lety +1

      The color our of space is actually majenta which is different from pink

  • @na195097
    @na195097 Před 2 lety +7

    Being trapped in a room painted that color seems like cruel and unusual punishment.

  • @MarvelousButter
    @MarvelousButter Před 2 lety +5

    Sam saying banging beach bod is one of the most cursed things I've ever heard

  • @klaaskingma7435
    @klaaskingma7435 Před 2 lety +7

    Apparently Baker-Miller Pink was proven to cause more aggression over longer periods of time/ after the initial lowering

  • @7-ten
    @7-ten Před 2 lety +8

    So that's why Pepto is that color! To calm your stomach down with pink 😂 it all makes sense now.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 2 lety +1

      Of course! Your stomach sees the pink and becomes less aggressive.

    • @7-ten
      @7-ten Před 2 lety +2

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 this whole time I thought it was the terrible flavor that fixed your stomach. Turns out it's the color 😂 funny thing is, the flavor of Pepto is just Wintergreen. Once you know that you can't untaste it...

  • @thebigdog360
    @thebigdog360 Před 2 lety +5

    4:40 rip to all of southern Canada. Gotta love when Washington is almost touching Grande Prairie.

    • @jaylenjackson2403
      @jaylenjackson2403 Před 7 měsíci

      😂 Somebody needs to retake their geography class 😃

  • @JH-ee5xv
    @JH-ee5xv Před 2 lety +6

    I don’t know how this color could make anyone lessen their appetite…I just got a craving for strawberry starburst

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Před 2 lety

      I just got reminded of calamine lotion and how much of a godsend a bath of it was to my very itchy, chicken poxy child self and I'm now feeling very conscious of how NOT itchy I feel.
      Also I want strawberry ice cream because of you now.

  • @yanikkunitsin1466
    @yanikkunitsin1466 Před 2 lety +8

    Interesting, I remember in my school first two floors, where primary and middle school classes where concentrated, were painted blue-green (turquoise), and third floor for secondary school - this kind of muted pink (salmon pink) . In my perception the latter felt way more "tense" and heart rate boosting than the first two.But maybe it was just stairs and anxiety before serious classes.

  • @gefitrop3496
    @gefitrop3496 Před 2 lety +14

    Interesting, I read about this in a magazine from ~2010

  • @midimusicforever
    @midimusicforever Před 2 lety +8

    Let's go all in on something that was found in a study that was never replicated.

  • @AKKK1182
    @AKKK1182 Před 2 lety +2

    What amazes me most about these videos is the variety of stock footage that is available.

  • @QuwapaQuwapus
    @QuwapaQuwapus Před 6 měsíci +2

    Out of curiosity, I googled and took a couple of the colour quiz from the beginning, did a couple rounds of just random colours and got some inaccurate results, and then did one where i actually focused on the colours and chose honestly. And all the sites i used gave me a very honest description of exactly the issues i've been having and exactly what I've been trying to deal with.
    I had assumed that it was like a Zodiac sign situation where it's sort of vague enough that 90% of the time your personality matches with your sign pretty well (or can be explained away by your [insert sub sign here], but it was scary accurate. . .

  • @blackfalcon594
    @blackfalcon594 Před 2 lety +9

    5:18 the bishop captures the king and then white just makes another move??? This "chess" stock footage seems cater made to disturb chess players while looking perfectly normal to everyone else

    • @bonaaq86
      @bonaaq86 Před 2 lety +3

      White it's now a republic, it doesn't need a king anymore, and given the fact they didn't even recapture the bishop it probably wasn't a good king anyway lol

  • @curtislow255
    @curtislow255 Před 2 lety +3

    I worked in a jail under construction once. The painter had cans of paint labeled "Battleship Grey". I can't think of a more fitting name for it.

  • @ExplodingDarth
    @ExplodingDarth Před 2 lety +7

    I do like the ending of "what's the lesson? I don't know, life is complicated."

  • @yuvalne
    @yuvalne Před 2 lety +8

    Also like, wouldn't painting cells in anything other than boring-shade grey have the same results?

  • @taylorverrall118
    @taylorverrall118 Před 2 lety +4

    Baker-Miller pink woke up and did not choose violence.

  • @drakegrandx5914
    @drakegrandx5914 Před 2 lety +9

    "swiss penal system"
    You understand you're broken when despite being so far into the video you actually ask yourself what penises has to do at all with jails once the above-mentioned sentence arrives.

  • @stefanchannel11
    @stefanchannel11 Před 2 lety +3

    I think just the weird colour kind of shocks you and puts you more in the present moment

  • @jiyama
    @jiyama Před 2 lety +4

    i always felt uncomfy looking at this color since as a child. i had no favorite color growing up so my default color when asked are black, grey, brown or white. mostly mute colors that doesnt stand out and easy on the eye. tho by the time i reached my 20s, dark shades of red became appealing to me but thats it. reds are the only legit color i like besides monochrome colors

  • @deftheocelot9125
    @deftheocelot9125 Před 2 lety +9

    Orrrr maybe it has nothing to do with psychology or biology or gender roles
    Maybe those inmates just were happy to have some bright colors instead of depressing, scary metal and concrete.
    Violence and fear are sisters.

  • @TheWebstaff
    @TheWebstaff Před 2 lety +3

    Listening to pink calms you down?
    There must be two music makers called pink then.
    The main song words I think of when you say pink is,
    "I'm gonna start a fight!"

  • @gutobernardo7457
    @gutobernardo7457 Před 2 lety +4

    The kitchen in an apartment I rented was painted with a slightly stronger and magenta hue. At the time we thought it was really weird, but it was also one of the times I ate healthier. Or it could be the fact that my cousin really loved cooking 😂

  • @NatureXwars
    @NatureXwars Před 2 lety +4

    This pink reminds me so much of the strawberry tasted chocolate products of Pocky, Yan Yan & Hello Panda, they're a bliss to consume!

  • @Crosshair84
    @Crosshair84 Před 2 lety +3

    This is interesting, as I do contractor work in over 100 Midwestern jails, not prisons, and MIGHT have seen it used in a couple drunk tanks/holding cells. Other than that, I've never seen it used.
    Why? Easy. Lighter colors like this are VERY easy to deface and mark with graffiti. So jails often go either with darker colors that are harder to deface, browns and tans are very popular, or a gloss white that is consistent and easy to paint over. An added bonus for white, since jails are county ran, any unused white paint can be diverted to be used to maintain other county buildings if needed.

  • @silver9802
    @silver9802 Před 2 lety +3

    I took the Luscher test and it said that I'm colorblind.

  • @AlexR2648
    @AlexR2648 Před 2 lety +1

    I guess this was the inspiration for the "Placid Pink" paint in Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.

  • @nefwaenre
    @nefwaenre Před 2 lety +1

    Ngl that pink is truly some chill colour in the world. i could just look at that colour all day long and be light headed and happy~

  • @Yamezzzz
    @Yamezzzz Před 2 lety +6

    Just to be clear, purple is still seen as a colour of royalty in France and has for hundreds of years.

  • @firedropcutie
    @firedropcutie Před 2 lety +4

    As someone who's had her room painted in pink for 2 years, I can confirm it's pleasant to be in

  • @harley_trader
    @harley_trader Před 2 lety +1

    Now we need a video on the color institutional green.

  • @HATECELL
    @HATECELL Před 2 lety +4

    Now I really want to run a counter-experiment with a prison cell painted in a vibrant "oxygen-rich blood" red. Maybe it will make prisoners more aggressive, or at the very least the cell will get faster

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Před 2 lety

      well that was a reference I didn't expect

  • @mikewheeler9011
    @mikewheeler9011 Před 2 lety +3

    The prisons Ive been to in Australia (one max security, one min) were painted with whatever off white was cheapest. Also our clothes were scratchy green rags basically.

  • @whydontyouhandledeez
    @whydontyouhandledeez Před 2 lety +3

    It's interesting that purple isn't associated with Royalty in Italy because the whole reason purple is associated with Royalty is because it was really expensive to make purple stuff cause you had to get it from like Mediterranean oysters or something weird.

  • @thewerdna
    @thewerdna Před 2 lety +2

    There is a similar thing where some cities put up blue street lights, which reduced crime in the area. Its theorized its either due to the color being calming, or perhaps that people tend to associate blue lights with police and thus feel more like you are being watched

    • @disorganizedorg
      @disorganizedorg Před 2 lety +5

      The blue does a better job of destroying night vision. Once you leave the blue lit areas, I bet you're slightly more prone to accidents as a result. Plus the way blue scatters int he atmosphere makes this a horrible idea for people who like dark skies; you already need to go much further out in the boondocks than when I was a kid.

  • @drmaniac5763
    @drmaniac5763 Před 2 lety +4

    Surely the reason that painting jail cells something other than grey leads to happier prisoners is purely because being surrounded by grey is depressing, while being surrounded by vibrant colours is, yknow, not miserable?

  • @XenoMike
    @XenoMike Před 2 lety +3

    Man this has to be one of the more clever advertisement-pretending-to-be-content videos I've seen on this site. You had me hooked for 5 minutes before revealing what a sucker I am

  • @mikeh5399
    @mikeh5399 Před 2 lety +4

    Red is actually a really good colour for children’s hospitals; you know? Because of colour theory.

  • @GeneralNickles
    @GeneralNickles Před 2 lety +3

    Fun fact:
    That exact shade of pink is also by far the most popular color for chastity cages. (Which is a form of voluntary prison, so maybe there's something to this.)

  • @shingshongshamalama
    @shingshongshamalama Před 2 lety +3

    The fucking stock footage this channel goes through is absolutely amazing. Where do you even find some of this stuff?
    "Confused Man In Pink Room"
    "Extremely Unenthusiastic Magician"
    "Teen Trying Not To Be Embarrassed About Art Project"

    • @corberus3119
      @corberus3119 Před 2 lety

      it was mentioned in another video whee HAI gets stock footage

  • @Rubrickety
    @Rubrickety Před 2 lety +3

    Holy crap - I _am_ complex and not very smart! You’re some kind of a psychic!!

  • @hlo695
    @hlo695 Před 2 lety +2

    3:10 "The swiss penile system" hehe

  • @disgruntledwelsh3817
    @disgruntledwelsh3817 Před 2 lety +12

    Ah yes, colour theory

  • @rashidisw
    @rashidisw Před 2 lety +3

    "It works somewhat, but why? is there scientific explanation for this?"
    "... um ... magic?"

  • @eoinh
    @eoinh Před 2 lety +6

    It's been a while since I've done statistics I'll admit, but how on earth is 121 a statistically significant difference from 117 (3:40) when they have deviations of p/m 30 each?? Seems a bit noisy to me

  • @ericbarnes3829
    @ericbarnes3829 Před 2 lety +1

    They jailed a man in a cell here painted pink and it pushed him over the edge. The paper said he told the jailers he did not like the color. They said too bad and he refused to speak for 3 days. Day 3 as the jailers were talking to him he then stood up and killed both the jailers. The police showed up, tased him to no use as he killed 2 officers and hospitalized 1 who is not expected to make it as he escaped.

  • @kaioocarvalho
    @kaioocarvalho Před 2 lety +5

    It lowers your appetite? It just made me want to eat yogurt. Or chew bubblegum. It just reminded me of a sort of candy.

  • @Thebreakdownshow1
    @Thebreakdownshow1 Před 2 lety +15

    LOL pink is the kryptonite for these men. SO PINK IS the new BLACK.

  • @notfiction9241
    @notfiction9241 Před 2 lety +4

    Before watching this video, I swear I could bench 300lbs. Now I can’t, thanks HAI and your colour voodoo.

  • @Lewisking50
    @Lewisking50 Před 2 lety

    This video got my heart pumping, might be the colors.

  • @PiousMoltar
    @PiousMoltar Před 2 lety +2

    After this video, Baker Miller Pink is going to send me into a seething rage.

    • @PiousMoltar
      @PiousMoltar Před 2 lety +1

      To be fair, it is an absolutely hideous colour to begin with.

  • @schmack221
    @schmack221 Před 2 lety +3

    4:24 yassification color....

    • @wendywithagun
      @wendywithagun Před 2 lety

      If you stay yassified you ain't got to get yassified

  • @randombrit13
    @randombrit13 Před 2 lety +3

    That colour fills me with immense and irrepressible rage, it makes me want to violence anything painted it.

  • @PsRohrbaugh
    @PsRohrbaugh Před 2 lety +2

    I am red-green colorblind and cannot see pink. Finally a circumstance where it's an advantage.

  • @carmatic
    @carmatic Před 2 lety +1

    what a coincidence! I was listening to Gourmet Race from the Kirby games just now, and it's countless YTPMV interpretations ...

  • @kiriikitten8467
    @kiriikitten8467 Před 2 lety +4

    Maybe give inmates an opportunity to paint theeir cells how they want them to? Because that shade of pink all on its own is wayyyy too much and would be sickening to look at day after day.

  • @Nobody-gm9si
    @Nobody-gm9si Před 2 lety +3

    Is there anyone else that thinks this color is super irritating? It makes me twitch and feel tense and I can't see how this is better so I would take the grey color over something making me feel anxious in a tiny room

  • @dustinbarton9994
    @dustinbarton9994 Před 2 lety

    It’s a crude concept, the baker miller pink color has a high upkeep / maintenance cost, means after a few years the pink looks diseased, worn out lackluster shows blemish and looks raunchy when dirty/unkempt (Like most all jails)

  • @munkle1732
    @munkle1732 Před rokem +1

    Its a nice shade of pink

  • @BlazeMakesGames
    @BlazeMakesGames Před 2 lety +5

    "The whole world is NOT the united states" What!? I mean everything else you've said makes sense but I just don't understand this at all