Only the terminally online can turn Pantone’s mundane ‘colour of the year’ announcement into a race row
As I’ve long maintained, the single most pressing question of the 21st century is this: has social media driven millions of people stark-staring bonkers, or were millions of people always stark-staring bonkers but we just didn’t realise it until they had social media?
I can’t say for certain. But it does very much feel as if the online world is growing barmier by the day. And for proof, look at the reaction to Pantone announcing its “colour of the year”.
