- Hey, everyone.
Welcome back to my channel.
I'm Hannah and today I got my friend, Stevie, with me.
- Hi.
- Stevie is an obsessed expert--
- I'm on the edge of my seat.
- Of the colour code.
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- Oh, cute.
That's, okay, am I an expert?
Interesting.
- In my life you're an expert,
'cause you're the only person I know who knows
anything about it.
- No one, so there's lots of things
people call me an expert of.
No one's ever said I'm an expert of a colour code
to introduce me before so I am excited.
- Yeah.
So, what is the colour code?
- So, the colour code, it was designed, developed,
invented by Dr Taylor Hartman in the '80s
and it's just a way to separate you
into four main personality types
and then you can steal things
from the other personality types
to create your secondary colour.
- Does that mean there's an element of choice?
You can choose your second one?
- Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Interesting.
- But you have to work, you can't just be like,
I'm a blue now, you have to actually learn things.
- Okay, so you have to take action in --
- So basically it mixes nature and nurture, right?
So, the theory is that every baby is born a colour
and then based on their experiences
or their traumas or their family members
or whatever's around them, they adapt things
from another colour.
So you can either adapt things,
because this other colour was too much in your life
and you're like, fuck no, I'm gonna be this other colour then
or you can be like, oh, I really love my mom
and she's this colour,
and I learned all these traits from her, you know?
- So, what are the four colours?
- So, there's blue, white, red and yellow.
So, blue quickly just means
that you are motivated by emotional intimacy.
Whites are motivated by peace and comfort.
Yellows are motivated by pleasure and fun
and reds are motivated by power and control.
- So, Stevie is a red.
(laughing)
- I am a red.
- Stevie's a red.
I've never done this quiz before,
and I think I'm a yellow,
but I remember you being like, no, you're a blue.
- You're a blue. - No.
I'm a yellow.
- You're a blue-yellow. - No.
No, I'm a yellow-blue.
- You can't lie on this test
so that you can get a yellow answer I swear to God.
- No, I won't, I'll answer it truthfully.
- Did people call you a fuck boy
when you were dating?
- No, I don't think so.
- Then you're not yellow.
- Oh, my parents would, any guy
that I was dating, my parents were like,
oh, poor that person.
- Oh my God.
- No, but, because they would get their heart broken.
It was because I would date them for a week
and then be like sorry.
- Yeah, then you have been called a fuck boy.
(laughing)
- So explain how the different combinations
of colours have different names.
- Yeah, so, my friend's ex, came up with that names for them
to call them things and so you,
well, I suspect you're a blue-yellow,
and so, you would be called a Medusa.
- Okay.
So this isn't official?
This is just someone's, okay.
- This is just someone who I know through the grapevine
made up names.
- Ah, okay.
So blue-yellow is a Medusa,
and you're red what?
- I think I'm a red-blue.
But I've never taken the test that tells me
my secondary before, so this is my first time too.
Which is an emperor, but I really hated that name
and then I realised that it's because
it was miss-gendering me, so I call myself an empress.
- What would a yellow-blue be?
- Yellow-blue is a Pegasus.
That's, so Jessica is a yellow-blue.
- Yeah, Jessica's a yellow blue.
So we're gonna do the quiz.
I remember one thing you told me about it
is the fact that it's asking you questions
based on who you were as a child.
- Yeah, so.
- But I've not done a test like this,
all of the other ones are all about who are you now?
- So we're basically trying to see
what you were like
before you developed any secondary traits.
Because you could accidentally get your secondary
if you're just answering who you are now, right?
- I just can't remember what I was like as a child.
- So,
(laughing)
I was such a fucking little murderous sociopath as a child.
- Cool, so red.
- I tried to murder my little brother.
I poisoned him on purpose.
I was like 18 months old?
No, I must've been like two.
- Cool.
So, part one, strengths and limitations.
For each cluster choose one trait
that best describes how you behaved as a child.
That's in all caps and underlined.
- Yeah, you should try to do before age five.
So, if you could think of age four or five.
- I was American.
- Oh you were?
- That was the year I lived in America,
so I'll be like, cool, is there American on here?
(laughing)
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The only thing I remember about myself from that time,
is I remember being jealous of my tall friends.
- [Stevie] Of your tall friends?
- Yeah. - Ah.
- And I remember fancying a boy in school.
Do you have any idea of what you like at that age?
- I told you this test was really hard for me
because of childhood trauma.
I'm like, was I like that because I was being abused?
Or was I like that because I was gay?
Or was I like that because where I lived?
What the fuck, what is my natural state of being?
I can't remember.
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I swear to God, if I get something different,
I'm gonna be mad.
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- Okay, I just picked, I managed to find one
that I was like yes, I was always this.
Which is enthusiastic, kind, caring, productive.
I think I've always been enthusiastic.
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I could've been the voice of reason as a child?
- Yeah, what the fuck?
I mean, I did have a cousin who was always like,
that would be like, hey let's go and do this bad stuff
and she'd be like, actually if you do that bad stuff,
we will get in trouble, so maybe we shouldn't do
that bad stuff and if you do it anyway,
I'm gonna go tell on you. - That might've been me.
- Voice of reason.
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- So if you wanna guess somebody's colour,
most of the population is blue.
- Oh really?
- Yeah, so. - Okay, so there you go.
- Blues are, they find it easiest to connect with people,
because all movie eds and music and whatever,
if you think about, think capitalism, right?
Like, things that are popular are the things
that keep getting made, and keep making money,
so, most of the population is blue,
so things that appeal to blues like the dramatic things
and overly emotional things, are gonna get made more, right?
- So what would appeal to a red?
- The show "Billions", where it's all about power
and money and manipulation and control
I fucking love that show.
The lowest number of the population is yellow.
So, yellows are, most songs are written either by a yellow
or by a blue about a yellow.
- Where'd you hear that?
Or is that just your perception?
- It's my perception,
because yellows are the fuck boys, right?
Taylor Hartman is a yellow though.
The guy that made this is a yellow.
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Am I self regulated and I clicked on it
and it was like, controlling one's emotional responses.
Yes, that's me.
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- I feel like I was an obnoxious child,
but I think that's me being self critical.
If I watch home videos of myself,
I'm just like, ah what a fucking obnoxious little child.
She's like, look at me!
Look at me.
- I don't know how the fuck the adults
in my life handled me.
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- Not persuasive at all.
I was the one being persuaded and crying.
It's like (crying) you hurt my feelings.
- Not a yellow.
- But now as an adult I think I'm a yellow.
- Yeah, I think you have a secondary yellow for sure.
- Because you're so good at performance,
you love to make other people happy and entertained,
but you're not flighty, you're not a bad friend.
- Oh, so you're saying I don't have any of the bad traits.
- Right, that's how you know.
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Number eight is a great sum-up
of what all the colours are.
- I picked bossy.
- Me too.
So bossy would be red, self critical would be blue,
unfocused would be yellow
and avoids conflict would be white.
- Yeah.
I think I was a bossy child.
- It's so great too,
because you could be really charactered, right,
you don't have to have just one secondary colour,
you can have all three of them.
They're just separated into thirds.
- Yeah, we're gonna get our full pie chart,
I fucking love a good pie chart.
I love number 22, one of the options is, always right.
Like as if that's --
- That's the one I chose.
It is a personality, literally,
have you ever fucking met someone
that cannot be wrong.
They're just like, I was that as a fucking child,
I was like, I will prove it to you, no, I'm right.
I'm right.
- Yeah, but what if you weren't right?
- Oh, that doesn't matter, 'cause I was right.
- Right, right.
- Have you ever met someone like that?
They're fucking insufferable.
- My partner.
My partner is like that.
- Your partner might be a red.
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Maybe you're a vampire.
You can't be a vampire, you're too likeable.
No offence to vampires.
- What's the vampire?
- So basically. - Which colour?
- So you have to think about the reason
why a primary colour would pick that secondary colour, right?
So, if you're a blue, your main goal is
to have emotional connections with others.
So, why would you put red on top of it?
- 'Cause that's not gonna help you achieve that.
- It would, but why would you do it?
It's usually either, remember, either,
because you admire that in people
or because something's hurt you, right?
So a reason a blue would pick a red would be
because they need control,
because they'd been hurt emotionally.
- So, blue-red is a vampire?
- Yes. - Oh okay.
- So, there's a Twitter account called Colour Code Culture
where you can read all these threads
about the different colours and it says,
so it'll say, at worst, empresses are this,
at best they're this.
So the at worst is, empresses will use their knowledge
that they've learned of feelings and emotions to manipulate.
- Cool.
- And then at best, it's they use their knowledge
of being able to not be emotionally affected
by as many things as blues to fight for the underdog
and protect them.
So I'd like to think that I'm one of that side of things.
- Oh, I think you're on that side of things.
I'm on part two which is Situations.
It gives you 15 situations with four possible reactions
and again, you have to consider your response as a child.
So it's like, as a child when my friend was in trouble,
I was concerned, empathetic and loyal regardless
of the problem, supportive, patient
and a good listener, non-judgmental, optimistic
and downplaying the seriousness of the situation.
Protective, resourceful and recommending of solutions.
- That one's me, the last one.
I'll be like, oh, you have a problem?
Here's how to fix it.
Do you wanna do it now or later
or do you want me to do it for you, what do you want?
- See, when I hear in trouble,
I think, oh they're in trouble with a teacher
which means, maybe they deserved it
and so, I'll leave them to it.
(laughing)
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- Have you seen that ad where there's a porcupine
that goes to school with a bunch of squirrels?
- No.
- Makes me cry every time 'cause I relate
to the porcupine so much. - My God, such a blue.
- I relate to the porcupine so much,
'cause he's so sharp and so he keeps hurting
all of his friends on accident.
And then one day, they all stop talking to him as much
but his best friend was a squirrel.
And then the squirrel got him a present
and he opened it and it's full of little packing peanuts
and he's trying to dig into it
and he gets to the bottom and there's nothing in there.
And they're like, what is that for?
And then they break the packing peanuts on his little--
so that's my blue.
My blue is the packing peanuts
and I'm the porcupine and I accidentally hurt people
because I'm just too honest and blunt and mean.
So, I had to go and buy some packing peanuts.
(laughing and yelling)
I gotta send this video to my therapist.
(laughing)
- I've just come across the first one
that I'm like, oh my God, that's me,
I've not even had to read the other three,
I'm just like, that one.
And it's when I was embarrassed as a child,
my natural reaction was to distance myself
and downplay the situation to others
while silently feeling the pain.
- White.
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- So this one is 39.95 American dollars.
- But there's also a free version
that'll give you your primary but not your secondary.
- Yeah, there is a free version.
View assessment results, I'm nervous.
But I also, I was guessing for most of that.
(laughing)
- Goddammit!
- What are you?
- First of all I'm 90% red.
Oh my God.
- The white is the tiniest, that.
- That is so funny.
- 34.94% yellow and 34.77% red and then blue, 27.97.
- But they're all so close to each other.
- Three is so big and then white is like, nope.
- So you have to take it again.
- I think what I'm gonna have to do is--
- Make your parents do it. - Make my parents take it.
- 'Cause they're so close you have no idea
which one it is. - Yeah.
- Damn, it's definitely not white though.
(laughing)
- It's not white.
- Look.
(laughing)
- oh my God, please.
- 86% red.
Also because your secondary colour is in your adult life
I wonder what would happen if you answered it
to how you are now.
'Cause I was answering it to how I was as a kid.
- Also, blue is your lowest and that's what you're trying
to work on.
- Yeah, that's not true.
Because you're answering it as a child, right?
So, when I was a child, I had no blue.
- Yeah, that's true.
Well, apparently whites and yellows are the same amount
of the general population.
So, blues are the most common than reds
and then white and yellow.
- Well, in his book he says yellows are more rare,
but maybe they hadn't done enough research yet.
- Yeah, I don't know what research.
(laughing)
- They hadn't done enough polls yet.
- Your strengths and limitations.
It's not giving me any white limitations.
- Yes, so look at these and see
which ones you least relate to as limitation.
- Okay, so limitations, yellow.
Uncommitted, no, I'm very committed.
self-centered, yes, I'm self-centered.
Naive, sometimes.
Vain, yeah, obnoxious, yeah,
afraid to face facts, depends what the facts are,
I mean, the planet is warming, climate change is happening,
I'm not afraid to face that is fine.
- Making it political, here we go, love it.
- Right, red limitations, tactless, sometimes,
arrogant, yes, bossy, yes, impatient, yes,
blue limitations, emotionally intense, sometimes,
well, actually no, all the time, I get,
but it's only in my excitement.
It's my excitement emotions is the intense one.
Judgmental, yeah.
Worry prone, meh.
Overly sensitive, meh.
Low self-esteem, when I was a child yes, but not now.
Now go on what the ones that it comes up for you.
'Cause this doesn't say anything
under white limitations for me.
- So my yellow strengths are persuasive,
my yellow limitations are an interrupter.
I'm a fucking interrupter, hard core.
My red limitations, 'cause yours are different than mine,
so mine is selfish, tactless, insensitive,
always right, calculating, arrogant, relentless,
bossy, critical of others, demanding, impatient,
argumentative, overly aggressive and intimidating.
And I identify with all of those.
- Your strengths, come on, your strengths.
- My strengths are motivated, articulate,
pragmatic, productive, decisive, assertive,
determined, a leader and focused.
- Here's the one thing that makes me really identify
as a yellow.
The yellow needs are to look good socially,
to gain general approval, to be adored and to be happy.
- Yeah, your biggest fear
about your children. - Why do you think
I make YouTube videos.
- Yeah, you're telling me all these are unhealthy traits,
but listen, I was a child.
I did try to poison my brother.
(laughing)
Which unhealthy trait would that be, tactless, insensitive?
Calculating?
Yeah, those three.
- Relentless. - Relentless.
Fuck.
That's giving you advice.
Here's some advice about work.
You should start being more sensitive
to others you work with.
- I need to start following through on promises
that I make to others.
- I need to enjoy living in the moment.
I have my most successful relationships
with romantic partners with whites.
And short flings with yellows.
- I don't know I've never categorised people like this.
- Well, I just think about the colour code a lot--
- But if I'm the blue and Dan's a red,
that's not supposed to go well.
- I believe in the book they call it blood, sweat and tears,
is the name of the relationship.
- Ice and fire.
- Ice and fire is white and red.
Maybe he's not, maybe he's a white.
- No.
- 'Cause he's logic based then, right?
- He's definitely logic based.
- In British culture I feel like, is very white.
They tell people to be more white basically in everything.
- Because we like queueing and we don't like confrontation
and we like manners, manners where are your manners?
- And here I feel like our culture,
especially Hollywood if very yellow.
But we gender people, so we teach little girls
to be blue and we teach little boys to be red.
- This has been fascinating.
I've loved this.
I'm gonna dive into this a bit more.
But I also really want my parents to take this for me.
Okay, I got my parents here.
You have to answer these questions
as how you behaved as a child.
But I don't really know how I behaved.
- We left you in an orphanage for 10 years.
We have no idea.
- No.
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They did it, well done.
Okay, so, the way that you answered
based on what I was like as a child,
I think I'm gonna come out more red.
- Which was?
- Which is power.
- Oh, right. - yeah.
And less the fun and emotional side.
So, I'm gonna show you what my original results were
when I did it.
Ooh! - The white's grown.
- See?
Yeah, okay, so you thought that I was more peaceful
than I thought I was, but I was right, more red.
- Not white. - A lot more red.
- 'Cause it's actually much more.
- My motive is power.
That's so funny, Stevie's gonna be like,
what, you're red?
- We've cut your blue down lots.
But the thing is we were worried in all of your redness.
- Maybe.
- 'Cause you were like--
- But you weren't mean though.
- You were the person who finished her homework
before we told you to do it.
- Then my second color's
- Maybe white? - Yellow.
- I think out of the now choices
for what we should quiz.
(laughing) - There we go.
- Thank you for watching,
thanks for Stevie for being here,
go check out her YouTube channel.
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