Got into color analysis about a year ago, and found this sub. I've felt for a while while browsing this sub that people here tended to overcategorize posters as either/both cool-toned and soft.

Since I program, I decided to use GPT-4 in a Python script to analyze what types this subreddit is most likely to recommend, and the findings surprised me!

I extracted the following information from each comment. Not every comment had every piece of information but below I plotted all of the information that was produced.

1. Season (Autumn/Summer/Spring/Winter)
2. Warm/Cool
3. Subseason type (Bright/Soft/etc)
4. Subseason (Bright Winter/Soft Summer/etc)
   

Results:

• Winter is the least likely type to be suggested to OP, so people who say that winter is gatekept might be onto something.
• Warm is actually MORE likely to be suggested than cool, with 57% of comments saying OP is warm.
• Soft is the most popular subseason type suggested by commenters.
• Soft summer is the most popular subseason suggested by commenters.

Number of comments typing the original poster as each season

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Number of comments typing OP as cool or warm

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Number of comments typing OP as a given subseason

GPT-4 (aka ChatGPT) was key here for comment interpretation. I've done some data analysis on subreddits before GPT, mostly using keyword search, which is a lot less accurate - "definitely not winter" might be mistaken as winter for example. It goes without saying that would have taken forever to manually do this.

One thing that's interesting about all of this is that even if there is a skew, it may not mean much.

• People who are confused about their type may be more likely to be a particular type and therefore post on the subreddit.
• There may be more Autumns/Springs in the world than there are Cool-toned people, there is no reason it must necessarily be an even split across all four.
• Same thing for soft - there might be more soft subseason people than bright subseason people.

It was cool to see that I was actually wrong thinking that this sub thinks everyone is cool toned. I guess that came from my personal experience of being pale all of my life and assuming that must mean I'm a summer.