Stockholm syndrome

Google's internal Memegen platform used to have a disturbing amount of #FF00FF in the UI. Since it was internal and not well funded, there was no designer associated with it. The only full-time engineer at the time asked a 20%-er if #FF00FF looked good, partially as a joke, but not knowing the 20%-er was color blind. The 20%-er responded with a strong positive. The full-timer thought that the 20%-er was saying that it would be funny to launch that way as a joke, so all accents in the UI became memegenta.

Source: was a memegeneer.

What in the world is going on with Google search.

I Google'd "#FF00FF" to see how bad it was but was instead returned with a rather pleasant blue. Confused, I tried again. I got a completely different color. Same exact search. Different color. I've done the same, simple "#FF00FF" search and I'm up to five different colors with none of them being magenta.

How do you fuck something so simple as a HEX color code up?

(Hilarious story by the way. For a hot second when I saw the blue come up I thought maybe I was colorblind, too.)

You're right, that's really weird... Initially didn't see that 'cause I don't usually include the '#' in my searches so it just comes up with the colorhexa result (which is clearly more accurate lol)

Hah, I just tried it and got a nice green color. Wtf Google? They really are phoning it in on all levels these days.

DDG showed the correct color fwiw.

Perhaps it’s just the Bard painting an artistic impression of Gemini using AI.

There's a long history of Memegen trolling for the lulz.

Here's a color link so nobody else has to struggle: https://www.colorhexa.com/ff00ff