A plurality say disapproval is red. Click a color to add your vote.
Disapproval is red because…
“People in many places are taught to associate things considered ‘negative,’ like disapproval, with the color red.”
“The ‘X’ emoji is red.”
“Disapproval means someone is raising an alarm towards something that is not right, or not done right. Alarms that signal something that needs immediate attention usually have red lights.”
“Red means wrong.”
“Disapproval is often harsh, and red exemplifies that.”
“Incorrect marks on tests.”
Disapproval is grey because…
“When someone looks down at you their eyes get shadowed with grey. ”
“It’s bleak and unforgiving.”
“After you get disapproved, you feel ‘under the weather,’ and grey says bad weather.”
“Disapproval is hard to describe; it’s not an intense feeling, but a dull sense of under-accomplishment. And grey is dull.”
“Grey feels inherently empty, stuck between two phases with little identity for itself, and that’s what disapproval feels like.”
“It comes from people who often wear grey because they’ve forgotten what joy is.”
“Grey is disapproval because it gives off that feeling of dissatisfaction and emptiness. ”
“It’s not black which would be fully hate, its just there, grey and lurking, dark and light, a faded memory that refuses to wash out.”
“Gray best encapsulates the feeling of being disapproved of, which is sad and can be depressing.”
Disapproval is black because…
“Feels like emptiness and the feeling you get when someone you love is disappointed in you.”
“Getting disapproval from someone is a dark and bad feeling, like the color black.”
“It’s a dark, dreadful feeling when it comes from someone you value.”
“Black makes me feel the same way disapproval does sometimes.”
Disapproval is brown because…
“Bad colour; bad feeling.
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“The colour brown is associated with emptiness and loneliness, and that’s how I feel when someone disapproves of me.”
“It’s not a bold, angry color like red or black, but it’s not warm either. Like disapproval.”
Disapproval is purple because…
“It’s like red but less straightforward.”
“It just seems like an ugly colour.”
Disapproval is orange because…
“It’s annoyed at you. That’s just the vibe. It doesn’t approve and you’re pissing it off.”
Disapproval is green because…
“Bitter. Kinda like green vegetables. Not the most bitter thing in the world, but certainly unpleasant.”
Disapproval is blue because…
“Blue just seems like a bit of snooty colour that slightly disapproves of the other colours sometimes. ”