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Re:Citi Missed a Fat Finger by shaftway on Thursday May 23, 2024 @06:42PM (#40460765)
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.

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Re:Citi Missed a Fat Finger by PyWoody on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:36PM (#40462009)
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.)

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Re:Citi Missed a Fat Finger by Charlie_e on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:14AM (#40464643)
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)
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Re:Citi Missed a Fat Finger by rurp on Friday May 24, 2024 @11:14AM (#40467044)
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.

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Re:Citi Missed a Fat Finger by TheNewsIsHere on Friday May 24, 2024 @11:57AM (#40467446)
Perhaps it’s just the Bard painting an artistic impression of Gemini using AI.
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Re:Citi Missed a Fat Finger by shaftway on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:29PM (#40469087)
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

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