A hybrid color name popularized by YouTuber Mark Rober during a viral 2024 video about why some people see a shade as more purple while others see it as more orange.
A hybrid color name popularized by YouTuber Mark Rober during a viral 2024 video about why some people see a shade as more purple while others see it as more orange. Used jokingly online to settle ambiguous color debates similar to ‘the dress.’ It also turns up in casual posts about anything that sits awkwardly between purple and orange, from sunsets to clothing. Treat as playful internet vocabulary rather than a real color term.
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Viral internet speak — memes, ratios, main-character moments, and the algospeak of every platform from Twitter to Reddit to TikTok comment sections.
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A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
(US, slang) A variety of marijuana with purple flowers.
(colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
(Internet slang) A dress, a photograph of which became an online viral phenomenon in 2015 as debate raged over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.
Is that shirt purple or orange? Idk, it’s ourple.
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A dark purple colour; eggplant.