ebay's green

i am so easily annoyed by things nowadays. never boiling mad or anything, but just enough to go, hey, what gives?

my latest annoyance is about phone cases. i recently obtained a samsung galaxy a17. this seems to be a more affordable line of phones compared to the S-series, at least given my understanding, and given how frequently i found myself struggling to find any good phone cases for the A17.

the nature of my annoyance this time... is the color green. in case you're viewing this from your rss feed and have forgotten how my page looks, or if you couldn't tell by looking, green is my favorite color. it's vibrant, it's warm, it's natural, it's full of life, and it has a very dynamic range. there are a lot of greens out there, including greens that could almost be yellow or blue or gray, but with just enough of a hint that you generally get the idea of 'green'.

however, scrolling through ebay listings for A17-compatible phone cases tagged as green.... i found myself wondering, you know, do people actually know what green ? more than that, actually. do they know that warm greens exist?

ideally, my favorite color of green looks like this, or perhaps like this. i like a warm yellow-green more than any other color in the world.

.... and here is an assortment of 35 different greens colorpicked generously from various listings on ebay for phone cases self-described as some flavor of green.

(this isn't screenreader friendly, sorry!)

of these colors, many were listed as 'army green', 'mint green', 'gunmetal green', or just... 'green'. the colors skew towards blue and gray in an overwhelming majority - even the ones that are 'warmer' are desaturated enough that they don't read as 'warm green' to me. i think a similar issue exists for yellows - i have not done proper research, but my own cursory search and feedback from my friend pebble tell me that yellow is also fairly sparse.

the primary phone case colors i found offered on general case listings are black, red, blue, purple, and occasionally white or gray. oftentimes they may have a "green" listed, but it's actually "blue".

i haven't really been able to come up with a satisfactory answer of why greens skew towards cooler tones in phone cases. my best guess is something with color psychology/theory, where yellow and green are bright, vivid, eye-catching, distracting, and possibly irritating. i imagine that scratches, smudges, dirt, and grime may show themselves more readily on a brighter case.

but why can't we just have a bit of fun anyway?