Why are they all so orange?

https://lemmy.ca/post/39084674

Why are they all so orange? - Lemmy.ca

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Suckups like to imitate aspects of the person they’re sucking up to.
must suck the boots of the guy who set all this in motion
I dont know who the guy under Reagan is but he looks sunburned
Hate to say it, but you have been living under a rock if you don’t know who he is. Not that I would blame you for doing so in these days.
I’ve been intentionally not paying attention
Assuming you live in the U.S. Mr Sunburn is your new health secretary - Robert F Kennedy Jr. I would not expect good things from this appointment.
Possibly hypertension.
he thinks UV kills brain worms
When the obvious answer is horse dewormer

A high enough dose of UV would definitely kill the brain worms.
Yeeting them into the sun would be a proper posology.

Also: Obligatory “so does a handgun” XKCD

Cells

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“Mirroring”. They are cowards who want to look like Dear Leader…
this executive order brought to you by BronZee: fake tanning mousse for a fake democracy!
Well no, those dudes are red they have high blood pressure not orange from fake tan, the other two are probably just bad spray tans.
Reagan hates everyone in this picture
he built the foundations for everyone in this picture.

Even Reagan would be like

i doubt it. he would be praising how successful they have been at dismantling america
Realistically he’d probably think they’re all his grandchildren or something.

Reagan was evil, but he subtly evil. He got off on getting his agenda across just with charm. He’d be flipping out about how overtly evil today’s malefactors are operating

The bull in a china shop approach is only going to provoke backlash

Reagan would not approve

Well, most of us hate Reagan, so…?
Faye, Ronald, or Youth?

The unfunny answer is likely that somebody tweaked the picture to up the orange, because haha funny. Especially likely since the reverse image search pulls up reddit as the first source. Finding pictures that were from the same event, most people are noticeably less orange colored. Even RFK who does have an orange ting isn’t oompla loompa colored like in the OP picture.

Idk this isn’t much better lol… RFK still looks like he was left in the air fryer a few minutes too long.

If you don’t want to see the difference in the hue/saturation between the photos, I think continuing back and forth would be pointless. The colors are to my eye, clearly tweaked. In the OP image even Ronald Reagan looks like he used a little spray tan.

I touched on this above but did a very quick modification on mobile and only adjusted black levels. Not warmth, hue, saturation etc. The man is, unquestionably, of the “fake tan / orange” variety - and the woman, while more “natural,” is effectively leather. I left our head dried apricot in charge out of the picture because he is easily the worst one in the image. The painting is catching some bad light - but it’s still a bit too washed out regardless.

Original:

Black levels eyeballed:

Look at the guy in the far right of the original photo vs the photo I put up. He has a fairly normal skintone in the photo I put in, and is positively oranged up in the OP photo. I think he is a good barometer of the change. This isn’t to say RFK is a baseline normal looking person, but two things can be true- RFK looks weird and the colors were heightened.

Sure. There are absolutely people in that photo who have a normal skin tone. If the saturation were being brutally jacked up to make RFK look orange then they too would be off color completely (most likely beet red.) The point I was getting at is this doesn’t take much modification (even to fairly benign levels like my example shows) to land him firmly in the topic’s question.

Yes - the observation is being made because it’s funny; but if we’re being honest - the pictures don’t really need all that much assistance to make OPs point, though.

While I won’t disagree that someone upped the saturation on the above photo slightly - and slightly is the key here: it easily could have been auto corrected to that level on a simple photo editor automatically. I wouldn’t be comfortable with malice being the underlying reason for what appears to be an attempt to make the photo look less washed out - which your example appears to be.

The problem is a lot of these people are positively off of an actual human color. Spray / fake tan or years of sun exposure and subsequent damage. Take your pick. Either way: correcting color without intentionally distorting the spectrum to make them look ‘normal’ is not kind to most of the people in the original photo… and not drastically far off from what it appears to be.

Disclaimer: I’m not looking at this at the office where I have a display that has been properly calibrated - but I’m reasonably certain of my assessment.

While we’re on the subject of oompa loopmas… What’s up with Cindy Loo Who and the guy behind her? Holy canoli.
They think it makes them look human

They’re Terminators, but from the Idiocracy universe

The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human - sweat, bad breath, shitty spray-on tanner, everything. Very hard to spot.

“Orange is the new scum.”
Orange is the new white

It's en vogue now.

You know like Kim Young In is the most powerful in North Korea so being fat like him exudes strength and power and is admired by everyone.

I guess the Dons orangeness does the same to Americans.

They are all lizard people
So gross. This picture is disgusting.
omg. they’re all using the spraytan now? like they were wearing gauze pads over their ear after lord diaper had his, umm, ‘pierced’?
For some reason this makes me think of the movie “They Live”?
Maybe that’s the problem. The self tanner causes brain damage. Or is it the opposite, brain damaged people are drawn to self tanner.
They all look like Bethesda NPCs
Vibrancy was turned up.
See? This is what happens when you go on the carnivore diet.
Oh Cheryl, so sad too see you caught up in this.
I’m glad I found out about her personal life after the show finished so it didn’t ruin my enjoyment.
It’s radiation poisoning from being near their glowing turd of a leader. They’re ghouls.
The spay tan mafia
MTG’s face always reminds me of one of those old school puffy catcher’s mitts.
Jeez I can see MTGs boner from here.
Bone her? I hardly know her!

Comments like this is why incels are creepy, and also why they are incels. But they blame woke and feminism for their own creepy behavior.

Would be sad, really, if they weren’t so hateful.

Not saying the above commenter is an incel. But this is the type of comment I would expect from someone who identifies with that community, so I thought I would take the opprotunity to point it out.

They must be mainlining V8 juice to stay healthy

Seeing Cheryl Hines there makes the “episode is over and Larry David is screwed” music play in my head.

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Wow I did not recognize her or know she was married to the Crypt Keeper. That’s wild
Yep, lost a ton of respect for her. She said she’d divorce RFK Jr if he backed Trump. Now here she is mere feet away from him in the oval fucking office.