Last week, thanks to the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Demo, an old video game discourse returned and overtook social media: The use of yellow color to mark certain objects or ledges in the game. All it took was a nowviral tweet from Cloud climbing some yellow rocks in the new demo and a comment about yellow paint being a “virus” and bam, the debate rages again. Like a comet returning for another scheduled flyby of Earth, the topic of the yellow color has predictably resurfaced, giving rise to endless takes, jokes, threads, opinions and arguments. Why is this topic so incredibly capable of captivating anyone who deals with it for days or weeks? Well, it’s not really the color, but everything the yellow spots represent. – Zack Zwiezen Read more
