"To dark mode or not to dark mode, that is the question." - William Shakespeare, 1600-ish, probably

For many years, light mode on devices, websites, apps, etc, was the default setting for everything. None of us questioned it for years, and it wasn't until nighttime that you were blinded by the flashbang of your phone in the middle of the night. That all changed in 2019 when both iOS and Android introduced Dark Mode , allowing everyone to choose for themselves whether they wanted to be team Light Mode or team Dark Mode. loading...

This rather inconsequential preference about what color scheme one chooses to run their device on ended up becoming a thing online, with people who use dark mode being sane as the sane ones, and light mode users being "crazy" for subjecting themselves

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