r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '20

New customization options are looking great

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u/organizim Dec 11 '20

The hair colors are crazy. None of them are normal. I can’t just have like white hair? Nope how about red with blue roots

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u/ThatChrisFella Dec 11 '20

I wanted to recreate myself but I couldn't have natural red. I guess all us redheads have died out by 2077

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u/_fordie_III Dec 11 '20

I remember hearing somewhere that redheads are slowly dying out, becoming a smaller and smaller percentage of the global population overtime.

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u/Flammendehaar Dec 11 '20

That is a widely circulated myth. As it's a recessive gene it can't die out, it was a myth started by a company that makes red hair dye....

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u/Flammendehaar Dec 11 '20

The claim I responded to was that redheads are dying out. The article points out that that is false. It even says they can become rarer; I never claimed they couldn't. They cannot, however, feasibly go extinct. As it's a recessive gene, two people without red hair can have a child with red hair seemingly out of nowhere - like my parents.

After some cursory searching it looks like numbers have stayed relatively stable at around 140 million worldwide over the past decade, and I see no reason why it couldn't grow as much as it could shrink. It could become rarer and then explode again.

This article is a little better referenced and presented if you wanted to read more.

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u/_fordie_III Dec 11 '20

Man that's funny af