What color is gossip?

A plurality say gossip is pink.
Click a color to add your vote.

“Embarrassment causes blushing, and blushing is pink. One can be embarrassed from a rumor that expanded via gossip.”
“Sometimes pink is nice, but sometimes its like ‘fake nice’ or bossy, so I think gossip is really pink.”
“Because it is considered girly and glamorous and often about beauty. And also because it’s sort of bad which is red but people normalise it which lightens the colour, I guess.”
“Because of the Burn Book.”
“Pink because it reminds me of fashionable popular girls. Also, dating is pink because it’s like love because love is red but dating is sort of less pure, like sort of diluted? If you get what I mean? And lots of gossip is about dating.”
“Gossip is usually shown as a feminine thing; pink is the colour of femininity.”
“It’s like popular, mean girls.”
“It reminds me of Gossip Girl.”
“Women do it a lot. (The feminist in me disapproves of this review, but us females gossip so much it’s got to be true...)”

“Because purple is more violent. Gossip poisons your reputation, and I associate purple with poison.”
“Purple is jealous of pink, the ‘popular girl.’”
“It’s not a typical color, and gossip isn’t typical talk.”
“Gossip is cruelty and jabs disguised as care and sympathy. Cruelty is red and care is blue, when you mix them together you get purple.”
“I would say pink, but stereotyping girls like that isn’t true. Men also do it, and if you mix blue and pink, you get a shade of purple.”
“It is strong and threatening but not outright dangerous.”
“Pink is too much of a soft color; gossip is more blunt, sassy, and mean. ”
“Gossip is secretive and dark but fun and that’s how I view purple.”
“Pink is too pretty, purple has that grit to it.”
“It’s dark.”
“It’s dark and kind of scary?”
“Purple is sassy. ”
“It’s the more intense version of pink. And pink is fantasy and made-up stories.”

“Gossip is green since its disgusting to partake in.”
“Generally, in my head, gossip is associated with envy.”
“People gossip if they’re like envious, and envy is green.”
“Green is a jealousy color or toxic color, even if it is sometimes calm, kind of like gossip. Also alliteration with the g’s.”
“Green usually reminds me of intellect and too much witty intellect is gossip, which leads to green, and also because they start with the same letter.”
“Green is jealousy which drives gossip.”
“It reminds me of disgust from Inside Out. Also the ‘zz’ sound reminds me of a snake.”
“Green equals envy. ”
“I associate gossip with green for two reasons. First, gossip and green start with the same letter. Second, most of the gossip I have heard is often mean-spirited and envious, and envy is usually green.”
“Most times when you hear gossip, its either something really interesting, or something really disgusting. Like really disgusting, and nausea is green.”
“You spill the tea, and green tea, I guess. Also it starts with G.”
“Gossip is toxic. Toxic waste is green.”
“Green-eyed jealousy.”

“Meaner than pink… pink is the nice light gossip among friends, red is the mean gossip the popular people do.”
“It’s a suave and ‘femme fatale’ color; think lipstick marks on white button ups. It’s a tempting color but red also represents evil.”
“Gossip is blood on a knife.”
“It’s evil.”
“Gossip makes me think of Sassy girls. They love gossip.”
“Gossip is red because words can be red or hurtful and 99% of the time, gossip is that.”
“Red is the color of being mean, and it feels like something that would be associated with blood which is red.”
“First of all, sometimes it can be mean, and second of all, I feel like people with red lipstick are usually gossiping… IDK.”

“Gossip was popular in Rome; the average colour of the SPQR Rome flag is orange; therefore gossip is orange.”
“Orange is a bright color that I associate with lying, so I think gossiping, which is similar, is orange.”

“Gossip is sort of a bubbly, exciting thing, which reminds me of yellow—though, of course, it leads to no happiness. It brings things out of the dark, whether the things should’ve been kept there or not.”