The use of yellow paint in video games has sparked a heated debate once again, thanks to a viral tweet about the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth demo. The topic has attracted endless discussions and arguments, with people sharing their opinions and jokes about the significance of yellow splotches in games.
Last week, thanks to the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth demo, some old video game discourse returned and overtook social media : The use of yellow paint to mark certain in-game objects or ledges. All it took was a now-viral tweet of Cloud climbing some yellow rocks in the new demo and a comment about how yellow paint was a “virus” and, bam, the debate is raging all over again.
Like a comet returning for another scheduled pass by Earth, the yellow paint topic has once again predictably appeared, leading to endless takes, jokes, threads, opinions, and arguments. Why is this topic so incredibly capable of sucking in everyone around it for days or weeks on end? Well, it’s not really because of the paint, but everything the yellow splotches represent. Quickly, people began sharing the post from Dave Oshry, the boss of indie publisher New Blood, who has over 100k followers on Twitter. From there, we were once again inundated with debates about yellow paint in video game
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