{"id":5091,"date":"2025-01-01T01:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2025-01-01T01:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:57:43","slug":"scrappyland-now-with-even-less-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/scrappyland-now-with-even-less-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrappyland, Now With Even Less Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-paragraph\">Just a quick note: After grudgingly embedding YouTube videos that included color elements\u2014like that big red play button\u2014I have finally figured out how to ensure they&#8217;re as monochromatic as the rest of this silly website, which honors Scrappy by embracing the B&amp;W aesthetic of almost all his cartoons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, take a look at one of my favorite Scrappy shorts. It was always in black and white, but now the YouTube player is, too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"863\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BTzIb0FWnPE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My friend Ernie Smith\u2014creator of the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/tedium.co\/\">Tedium newsletter<\/a>\u2014got me started on this major upgrade by pointing out, <a href=\"https:\/\/writing.exchange\/@ernie\/113745461319948446\">over on Bluesky<\/a>, that it&#8217;s possible to desaturate YouTube videos. After some experimentation, I ended up using an alternative method that works better in Safari. That one I got from ChatGPT, which has also gotten smart enough to cite Scrappyland a lot when I ask Scrappy-related questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve gone back and tweaked old embedded videos on this site to be truly monochromatic; if I&#8217;ve missed any, I&#8217;ll get to them eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, I&#8217;m not a fanatic: When I embed those few Scrappy cartoons that were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3u8RGvBctPg\">in color in the first place<\/a>, I&#8217;ll leave them as is. I also recently wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/01\/seasons-greetings-from-charles-mintz\/\">a piece of art<\/a> that was so beautiful in color that I added a link to that version\u2014the first color image that has ever appeared on Scrappyland. Maybe I&#8217;ll weaken again someday. But it&#8217;s nice to know it&#8217;ll be my choice rather than somebody else&#8217;s newfangled design choices seeping into my site\u2014which is happy to remain stuck in the 1930s forever, thank you very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, and Happy New Year to you and yours. Scrappyland is about to turn 20, and I have plenty of material to keep it going well into the future, whatever it may bring on fronts less directly related to almost-forgotten old cartoons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note: After grudgingly embedding YouTube videos that included color elements\u2014like that big red play button\u2014I have finally figured out how to ensure they&#8217;re as monochromatic as the rest of this silly website, which honors Scrappy by embracing the B&amp;W aesthetic of almost all his cartoons. Here, take a look at one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/scrappyland-now-with-even-less-color\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scrappyland, Now With Even Less Color<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-1k7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/scrappyrainbow.jpg?fit=451%2C362&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}