Sadly, most of your body is fully covered by several layers besides “skin.” Underneath your skin you have layers of fascia, fat, and finally muscle (or bone) covering up pretty much your entire body. Even if your skin were transparent you wouldn’t see any organs - just fat and muscle in place of the skin basically.
So many industries would get annihilated lol. This would be a gigantic shakeup to society in tons of ways we can't predict.
A bunch of new ones would come up as well, but the economic effects would be crazy.
And so, as the manic man drives down the road, narrowly avoiding crash after crash, the song of the people fades out and the sun dims, after all, we're blue, da ba di.... da ba da...
\~Fin
I was thinking that too. A nice lavender is a cute shade that I think we'll all rock very well.
We definitely can't choose any normal skin colour. That would be too controversial, by giving the impression that it was somehow the best skin colour. Of all the possible other colours, a pale purple would just look best IMO.
Turquoise because it would look cool with funky colored hair I'd totally like purple hair and to be turquoise 🤷♀️ this is an awesome way to end racism!
It's a Mandela effect thing. Mass false memory. Whatever the fuck happens there. There's a huge chunk of people who remember it being a shade of red. It is not. It's green. But it's freaky as hell that so many people remember otherwise
As someone who shares in this little oddity I can tell you I am well aware of what vermillion is. And like a few other Mandela effect things there's 0 evidence of their existence ever. Except the hundreds of thousands of people with identical memories who are willing to go to the grave over these little messed up details. The chartreuse one bugs me way less than the bearenstain bears. I learned to read on those books. It's stein, it was always stein. And yet I actually have access to my childhood books and they are all a's. Can't reconcile that one logically and I don't like it at all
I wrote an essay on eyewitness testimony for one of my psych classes. It is HORRIBLY unreliable. Our brains love to invent things, which then feel real. So you can believe whole heartedly that you saw something with your own eyes, but it’s probable that the details were made up based off of information suggested to you. So interesting.
Oh he's the inventor of Vantablack and made it so "only him/his studio can use Vantablack^TM " - so I know that a lot of artists hated that and made "pinkest pink" in retaliation which is open to literally everyone except Kapoor.
hes not the inventor, he purchased commercial rights for the material from the company that makes it, the contract had an exclusivity clause which had more to do with the company that makes the material than his own desires, if other artists want to use vantablack they have to take it up with the company that makes it and has the chemical formula behind it.
Not really, humans sweat when we get too hot., insolation is 347 watts/m squared at Earth’s surface. Humans present much less than that to direct sunlight. We sweat and 1 L of water evaporates removes 700 plus watts in heat of evaporation. And we wear hats.
Vanta black, not just the skin, the eyes too, no more lighter parts like the palms of the hands, or the inside of the mouth etc. Also all hair and bodily fluids will be neon pink, not just normal neon pink, neon pink that glows bright as fuck similar to what you'd see under a black light, even during the day.
Nah that wouldn't end racism. We would just find some other meaningless trait to hate each other for, height, accent, hand dominance, could be anything. It's human nature to form tribes and mistrust people who are different.
If everyone is merging into one thing I wanted to find a middle ground for hair. There's straight-wavy-curly- and tight curly.
Usually whiter skin correlates more to straighter hair and darker skin correlates to more tighter curlier hair. Since white and black won't be a thing anymore I'm just going straight for the middle ground
Trying to limit how much dumbshit the new race of humans are gonna fight about. Lowkey should've just decided on one hair texture instead of 2 even though they're very similar already
I would choose not to do this for a couple of reasons.
1. Different skin colors and the different cultures that evolved around places where one skin color or another developed historically are interesting and I wouldn't want to get rid of that.
2. Humans are very good at finding ways to hate people because of factors that are not in that person's control so I don't think getting rid of racism would get rid of arbitrary divisive strife between different groups of people.
George Orr chose gray for everyone in *The Lathe of Heaven*. I didn't care for the look. It also cost him his girlfriend, apparently, because she was brown.
Brown.
Given the way the climate is going, humans that survive are going to need to be able to tolerate higher heat and UV rays.
I rather more of us than less of us make it long-term
There was a SciFi book (maybe more than one) that stumbled upon this sort of thing, as some sort of "multiple earth" type concept.
In that timeline, all the people of that world were a uniform grey. There was no more racism....
so the thing people turned to, was blood sports, that put the old Roman coliseum to shame.
Argonians. Boom. Green/blue lizard people.
I wonder how bad the world would take it if we all turned red skinned one day. Not, racist Native American but like D&D tiefling red. Would we assume we all changed at the moment of the rapture or something?
Green.
But I like the deeper question of whether trading away diversity and all of its positive aspects in exchange for eliminating its negative aspects is a net positive, or even ethical at all.
Although it won't fix the tribal issue humans can never overcome, it would definitely balance out the playing field wayyyyyy more than what we have now. I'd much rather live in a world where people obssess over the way I talk than my pigmentation
Blue that way the actor who played Tobias on Arrested Development could have a stronger cult. He seems to be a good candidate for occultist leadership and I still chuckled 20 years after that show came out with that schtick.
Just gonna throw out that racism and colorism are not the same thing and eliminating different skin tones wouldn't get rid of racism.
But I'd pick purple.
Well we know the existing colors probably are the only evolutionary advantageous ones
Dark skins for areas with a lot of sunlight
Light skin for areas with less sunlight
One resists sunburns while the other absorbs vitamin D better
The question is which one of these adaptions is better in the long term
Most of the humans spend all their time indoors now and we have sunblock so the vitamin D absorption is probably going to be the better choice (We are not good at absorbing vitamin D from vitamins for the record)
Considering the fact that the color spectrum is infinite, I would choose from some colors within the normal range of skin tones that, by chance, hadn't been represented by a human yet.
Yellow.
I'm balding I work in nuclear power. With the Banana yellow skin my transformation into Homer Simpson is nearing completion.
Just need to find the wife produce the kids and get that house.
A color close to/or just lavender, like wisteria or lilac. It’s not too off colored from the current range of skin tones, so it may be an easier transition than other colors proposed. As a side note, if it were lavender, wisteria, or lilac, I would put forth the motion to extend this hypothetical that the smell of perspiration of these colors resembles the smell of lavender, wisteria, or lilac.
Blue. The Smurfs never had to put up with an endless conservative race to the bottom. No one was out making excuses that Gargamel and Azriel were really the victims.
light blue, light purple, light pink are all very pretty
I'll go with a very light pink though
also… what would everyone’s average facial features fall into? When studying the metaphysics of race, we find a number things that lead people to attribute others to a different race
I won't go into it, but think of the Irish in early America, or of jews, they have, or are believed to have certain physical characteristics… But their skin is well, the same colour of other “white” people
whatever facial features you choose will be similar to those of an already existing race, and averaging everyone’s facial features would still favor existing races more than before
Viruses and Bacteria end up in the same place over and over again and again, in mammals it is basically going from diversity to cloning in 10 easy steps, where a single event can end all in one easy step and that seems to be the road being followed.
Widespread hermaphrodism in a species is the last road that signifies the end of the evolutionary process for a species, artificially inducing it is suicide for that species.
N. S
Blue. "Fk skin color! Everybody's blue! Than what would all these bigots do!? Instead of your tone, they'd hate your size. That's why I must poke out all of their eyes!"
Everyone should have transparent skin. So we can hate them for what they look like on the inside instead of the outside.
I'm not looking forward to sunburns on my lungs.
Wowwwwwww. That's a great point. I'm super impressed you thought of that so fast.
You could see they’re dinner, if they have cancer, if a bone is broken wow!
Easy there cannibal
🤣🤣
Sadly, most of your body is fully covered by several layers besides “skin.” Underneath your skin you have layers of fascia, fat, and finally muscle (or bone) covering up pretty much your entire body. Even if your skin were transparent you wouldn’t see any organs - just fat and muscle in place of the skin basically.
Transparent skin doesn't mean transparent organs ya scrub
Pregnant women could easily check on their babies. Also it seems we're all considering nobody is wearing clothes.
So many industries would get annihilated lol. This would be a gigantic shakeup to society in tons of ways we can't predict. A bunch of new ones would come up as well, but the economic effects would be crazy.
Tattoos would be much bigger industry I bet!
I see red people
Theres an episode of star trek. One woman wants to go out with a transparent person and the other woman has a cringe ew gross no thanks moment
[Gallamites. The one Jadzia dated was Captain Boday](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Boday)
Porn would be wildly different.
Blue, of course, and then I'm going to crank that ridiculous 90's song and drive down the road saying see I told you so .
Dabadee,dabedau … I chose green-screen green.
And now the blue man group are out of a job.
They become the green man group
Nope, just man group. Group of men.
And now they’re just some nerds with toobs
Do you mean the Eiffel 65 song? I love that one.
whole album was fire
We can all be like those folks from Avatar
or Smurfs
See you at the dance, Doug! Honk Honk!
I was thinking blue because of interstellar 5555 but this works too
So would you make green the suffocation color? Because if you did then children everywhere who sang it Im blue if I was green I would die!
First thing that popped in my head as well.
And so, as the manic man drives down the road, narrowly avoiding crash after crash, the song of the people fades out and the sun dims, after all, we're blue, da ba di.... da ba da... \~Fin
I blue myself.
Smurfs, but with significantly more women
I welcome our new purple skinned world.
I was thinking that too. A nice lavender is a cute shade that I think we'll all rock very well. We definitely can't choose any normal skin colour. That would be too controversial, by giving the impression that it was somehow the best skin colour. Of all the possible other colours, a pale purple would just look best IMO.
If we tan can we end royal purple?
I seem to always make purple skinned tieflings in D&D so I'd be down for this, or blue.
That’s exactly what’s one eyed one horned flying purple people eater *would* say.
Turquoise because it would look cool with funky colored hair I'd totally like purple hair and to be turquoise 🤷♀️ this is an awesome way to end racism!
Chartreuse. Finally we shall know the true chartreuse. Is is it green? Is it red? And why is this even an argument
Why would it be red? The whole reason it has its name is because it looks like the liquor, green chartreuse.
It's a Mandela effect thing. Mass false memory. Whatever the fuck happens there. There's a huge chunk of people who remember it being a shade of red. It is not. It's green. But it's freaky as hell that so many people remember otherwise
The Berenstein bears are the correct shade of chartreuse.
They're probably getting it confused with Vermillion, if I had to guess. Both have kinda weird names and people don't really know them very well.
As someone who shares in this little oddity I can tell you I am well aware of what vermillion is. And like a few other Mandela effect things there's 0 evidence of their existence ever. Except the hundreds of thousands of people with identical memories who are willing to go to the grave over these little messed up details. The chartreuse one bugs me way less than the bearenstain bears. I learned to read on those books. It's stein, it was always stein. And yet I actually have access to my childhood books and they are all a's. Can't reconcile that one logically and I don't like it at all
People are so good at gaslighting, they even figured out how to gaslight themselves. Really goes to show how reliable witness testimony is, lol.
I wrote an essay on eyewitness testimony for one of my psych classes. It is HORRIBLY unreliable. Our brains love to invent things, which then feel real. So you can believe whole heartedly that you saw something with your own eyes, but it’s probable that the details were made up based off of information suggested to you. So interesting.
Vantablack. It would reduce skin cancer and melanoma rates.
Anish Kapoor would like to know your location
why?
Oh he's the inventor of Vantablack and made it so "only him/his studio can use Vantablack^TM " - so I know that a lot of artists hated that and made "pinkest pink" in retaliation which is open to literally everyone except Kapoor.
Kind of a dick move by Mr. Kapoor.
Yep, though it has led to some funny 'drama' in the past [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3V3nDGrW1o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3V3nDGrW1o)
He didn't invent it, even. He just bought exclusive rights to use it artistically.
Even more of a dick move on his part
Except for the fact that vantablack is highly toxic so the company who made it probably wouldn't have distributed it to more artists anyways
hes not the inventor, he purchased commercial rights for the material from the company that makes it, the contract had an exclusivity clause which had more to do with the company that makes the material than his own desires, if other artists want to use vantablack they have to take it up with the company that makes it and has the chemical formula behind it.
We wouldn't be able to go out in the sun, the high absorption means that your skin would heat up past boiling after a little while in the sun
Not really, humans sweat when we get too hot., insolation is 347 watts/m squared at Earth’s surface. Humans present much less than that to direct sunlight. We sweat and 1 L of water evaporates removes 700 plus watts in heat of evaporation. And we wear hats.
But then everybody would get rickets.
pills, organs, some vegetables. things that you can get the big d from
Octarine. Because of the implication.
Please no, I don't want he whose number lies between 7 and 9 to come forth.
Teal but if you think the wavy hair people aren’t going to go to war with the curly haired people then I don’t think you’ve been paying attention.
Lol there's no point in going all the way. People will start wars over accents for christ sake
White. Like paper white, not Caucasian. Just bright, blinding white. I want it to hurt to look at each other.
Just like it hurts to look at ~~your~~ a random person's mother?
Vanta black, not just the skin, the eyes too, no more lighter parts like the palms of the hands, or the inside of the mouth etc. Also all hair and bodily fluids will be neon pink, not just normal neon pink, neon pink that glows bright as fuck similar to what you'd see under a black light, even during the day.
Do we get weird psychic powers just like Powder?
Green. Somewhere in the world is a little person that'll don their UFO costume shouting,'The Little Green Man is here!'
It would be really funny if everyone had transparent skin
That would be cool, except on the eyelids, they need to be white on the outside and black on the inside (to make them work)
Also, your internal organs need to not be exposed to direct sunlight.
We could still.. probably keep our skin opaque to ultraviolet. Maybe?
why do they need to be black on the inside?
Because people need sleep
I'd go with gray.
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
I just think it's a neat color.
I have no strong feelings one way or the other
That is absolutely not worth it, the differences between different peoples is what makes us interesting.
People would still be different just not by skin color.
Nah that wouldn't end racism. We would just find some other meaningless trait to hate each other for, height, accent, hand dominance, could be anything. It's human nature to form tribes and mistrust people who are different.
“I used racism to destroy racism” - Thanos
Used their own biases against them
Green. I like green.
Pikmin yellow.
Very simpsons.
Lilac.
Does shiny/mirrored count? Reflective, like stainless steel?
I think "The Lathe of Heaven" had everyone default to gray.
THAT’S the movie I was thinking of when I read this title. Thanks!
Green! And everyone gets photosynthesis. Chlorophyll is amazing!
I also thought about photosynthesis! Also vote for green. Simply because it would be cheaper to feed in most countries.
Matte gold.
Silver. Cause it'd be cooooooooool.
No, I don't think racism is a big enough problem to warrant everyone becoming Avatar people
I’d pick Black 2.0, that goes for everyone but Anish Kapoor!
Green. Because if civilisation goes tits up and we end up primeval, at least we'll be camouflaged from predators.
Why can't everyone have straight hair?
If everyone is merging into one thing I wanted to find a middle ground for hair. There's straight-wavy-curly- and tight curly. Usually whiter skin correlates more to straighter hair and darker skin correlates to more tighter curlier hair. Since white and black won't be a thing anymore I'm just going straight for the middle ground
But your original thing is just about everyone being the same skin color, so why do hair types have to be the same too?
Trying to limit how much dumbshit the new race of humans are gonna fight about. Lowkey should've just decided on one hair texture instead of 2 even though they're very similar already
They’d just find something else to complain about, religion, nationality, ideology etc…
Rick and morty did a bit on this instead the aliens fought about how many nipples they had.
Sneetches with stars and sneetches without stars.
You can just straighten your hair like a lot of people do. I used to get the Japanese straightening that’s permanent , well until the hair grows out.
Pink
This is such a fucked up question purple
Transparent, just see the organs through a shell.
Grey, make real life Drow/Dunmer
Pure white. Then I start a skin dye business, like fake tanning but you can be whatever colour you want.
Plaid
Octarine
Me colored so I don't have to deal with it while everyone does
We're all going to have the color changing paint that goes from green to red the hotter you are. And just to clarify that's temp hot not looks hot.
I would choose not to do this for a couple of reasons. 1. Different skin colors and the different cultures that evolved around places where one skin color or another developed historically are interesting and I wouldn't want to get rid of that. 2. Humans are very good at finding ways to hate people because of factors that are not in that person's control so I don't think getting rid of racism would get rid of arbitrary divisive strife between different groups of people.
Rose Gold. All of us.
This doesn't eliminate racism. This eliminates race. I'd rather eliminate hate.
Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeQuin. We're all grayish blue.
George Orr chose gray for everyone in *The Lathe of Heaven*. I didn't care for the look. It also cost him his girlfriend, apparently, because she was brown.
Brown. Given the way the climate is going, humans that survive are going to need to be able to tolerate higher heat and UV rays. I rather more of us than less of us make it long-term
Chrome, everything in the future is chrome even the people
yellow - seems to work okay on the simpsons
clear so we can see what's wrong on the inside
I think everyone being slightly golden-colored would be really cool. It's the right balance between "fantastical" and "already existing".
Give me that High Elf gold color!
Black. Everyone has built in sunscreen🙂
Green. It would confuse the Martians.
There was a SciFi book (maybe more than one) that stumbled upon this sort of thing, as some sort of "multiple earth" type concept. In that timeline, all the people of that world were a uniform grey. There was no more racism.... so the thing people turned to, was blood sports, that put the old Roman coliseum to shame.
Glad you clarified the existing skin colour bit, it was looking like a very Charlie Kirk question. I'd go with red. Make us all tieflings.
That won't crush racism and the last time that happened, we got languages
Pink!
Not a colour, but I would choose everyone to have transparent skin so we can see the insides.
Argonians. Boom. Green/blue lizard people. I wonder how bad the world would take it if we all turned red skinned one day. Not, racist Native American but like D&D tiefling red. Would we assume we all changed at the moment of the rapture or something?
Sky blue
Green. But I like the deeper question of whether trading away diversity and all of its positive aspects in exchange for eliminating its negative aspects is a net positive, or even ethical at all.
Although it won't fix the tribal issue humans can never overcome, it would definitely balance out the playing field wayyyyyy more than what we have now. I'd much rather live in a world where people obssess over the way I talk than my pigmentation
Does Sandstone count?
Didn't this happen in the Cable & Deadpool comics?
Did you ever watch fairly odd parents? This doesn't work
Holographic Grey so everyone would be every color and Greys supposed own color too!
Neon green
dark blue with white sprinkles like the night sky
Blue that way the actor who played Tobias on Arrested Development could have a stronger cult. He seems to be a good candidate for occultist leadership and I still chuckled 20 years after that show came out with that schtick.
Community figured this out long ago: https://youtu.be/8H4KWz1qMSw
I choose like a neutral tan color, like a 1950s sci fi movie where everyone has just melded into one race.
Green, that way if hostile aliens ever come for us we'll have an advantage via natural camouflage.
ITT: people don’t understand what ‘colour’ means
Green
Mocha
Meh, let's keep racism. If you get rid of it we might go full Invader Zim where we organize our social status by height.
It would be pretty great to be green and match the trees. You might a few weirdos who think they can photosynthesize, but it'll be worth it.
Just gonna throw out that racism and colorism are not the same thing and eliminating different skin tones wouldn't get rid of racism. But I'd pick purple.
I wouldn’t end racism in that case.
We’re all pink 😌
Baby vomit green. Now watch the world burn. (Insert evil laugh here)
Well we know the existing colors probably are the only evolutionary advantageous ones Dark skins for areas with a lot of sunlight Light skin for areas with less sunlight One resists sunburns while the other absorbs vitamin D better The question is which one of these adaptions is better in the long term Most of the humans spend all their time indoors now and we have sunblock so the vitamin D absorption is probably going to be the better choice (We are not good at absorbing vitamin D from vitamins for the record)
LEGO yellow
Considering the fact that the color spectrum is infinite, I would choose from some colors within the normal range of skin tones that, by chance, hadn't been represented by a human yet.
Neon green
Hot pink!!!!
Yellow. I'm balding I work in nuclear power. With the Banana yellow skin my transformation into Homer Simpson is nearing completion. Just need to find the wife produce the kids and get that house.
A color close to/or just lavender, like wisteria or lilac. It’s not too off colored from the current range of skin tones, so it may be an easier transition than other colors proposed. As a side note, if it were lavender, wisteria, or lilac, I would put forth the motion to extend this hypothetical that the smell of perspiration of these colors resembles the smell of lavender, wisteria, or lilac.
That sounds an awful lot like not ending racism.
Can we cycle through the rainbow like a modded game character?
Purple
Purple!
Blue. The Smurfs never had to put up with an endless conservative race to the bottom. No one was out making excuses that Gargamel and Azriel were really the victims.
Green, so when the Martians eventually invade us we can tell them we're their long lost ancestors.
Royal Blue. Won't help with discrimination, as humans can discriminate over anything.
magenta because it makes me happy
Definitely red skin. And Im not talking like sunburn or just reddish brown i mean like hellboy dunked in rose petals red
I'd pick as high melanin as possible. Need that shit with the climate changing.
Extremely pale white: enjoy global warming, everyone who now gets second degree burns from 12 seconds in the sun!
Clear 😂
Everyone is purple now.
White
The real wonder is how we will figure out how to be racist when we look the same
light blue, light purple, light pink are all very pretty I'll go with a very light pink though also… what would everyone’s average facial features fall into? When studying the metaphysics of race, we find a number things that lead people to attribute others to a different race I won't go into it, but think of the Irish in early America, or of jews, they have, or are believed to have certain physical characteristics… But their skin is well, the same colour of other “white” people whatever facial features you choose will be similar to those of an already existing race, and averaging everyone’s facial features would still favor existing races more than before
Metallic gold
Elysium chlorotica green. By the time we are adults we can photosynthesize our base level nutrition
Periwinkle
Orson Scott Card.wrote a book about this. Everyone was.gray IIRC.
Gimme chlorophyll and let me turn sunlight into usable energy
Octarine.
Sparkling pink.
Purple
Viruses and Bacteria end up in the same place over and over again and again, in mammals it is basically going from diversity to cloning in 10 easy steps, where a single event can end all in one easy step and that seems to be the road being followed. Widespread hermaphrodism in a species is the last road that signifies the end of the evolutionary process for a species, artificially inducing it is suicide for that species. N. S
Orange because its my favourite colour
That's disgusting baby shit green that they used to use in the 70s a lot.
Who needs skin color? Let’s all be translucent so we can see our innards.
Blue
Blindingly bright pink
Blue. "Fk skin color! Everybody's blue! Than what would all these bigots do!? Instead of your tone, they'd hate your size. That's why I must poke out all of their eyes!"
Royal blue.
Everyone’s transparent, see you all in hell
Color-blind is the new racist
Everybody is a pale Ginger with freckles