@noyoushutthefuckupdad @mangeurdenuage This is very frustrating because he misrepresents the argument right out of the gate and then claims the origin is an artist essay in 2018. I heard about this years and years before this as an explanation of the same adjective for green and blue in Japanese. The video and a bunch of the comments treat the argument like he's saying that they literally could not see the color blue when the argument is that they didn't distinguish it as a separate color.

He did mention a couple other youtube videos had already debunked the claims and I noticed one of them seemed to address the real argument so I'll watch them but this video seemed to be just usual deboonker crap before I stopped it halfway.

I still admit I gave the original video too much good faith. I have noticed the Why Files might be doing a confidence trick. They rightly point out when things have been disproven in many cases but this is to build up credibility when they make positive claims that may not be justifiable. I knew they were doing this but I fell into it anyway. This is a risk you take on when you immerse yourself in these types of claims as entertainment.