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[[Image:Furryislife.jpg|thumb|A [[furry]] colorbar]]
[[Image:Ana-colorbar.jpg|thumb|[[pro-ana|Emaciation]] = head-to-toe [[love]]]]
A '''colorbar''' is a pseudo-[[meme]] which originated as Marriage is love by {{lj|shared_boxers}}.  Generally composed of a table with [[HTML]] color codes or an image-based strip of pictures manipulated in [[photoshop]] to be colored as a rainbow, a colorbar is generally subtitled with the expression "X is love," wherein "X" denotes whatever vile perversion the colorbar is about.

Very soon after the first colorbar ("marriage is love"), a second colorbar came out, titled "marriage is between a man and a woman".  This second colorbar received much negative [[attention]] but was nowhere near as popular as the first one, because most Americans are idiotic, [[Bible]]-thumping [[redneck]]s who disagree with all-around equality, but have been brainwashed by a media campaign designed to portray [[sodomy]] as a natural expression of love.

Since then, colorbars have joined the ranks of other types of meme art such as the [[image macro]] in becoming increasingly complex and often finely crafted, and being used for the purposes of [[troll]]ing or making amusing or ironic points.  Some of the best image-based colorbars are presented here.

===Marriage Is Love===
[[Image:Marriage_is_love.png|thumb|Original bars]]
'''"Marriage is Love"''' was the [[OP|very]] first [[colorbar]] [[meme]], intended to promote [[gay]] marriage, it quickly became a [http://www.livejournal.com/users/shared_boxers/578528.html trainwreck] of drama when anti-gay [[LJers]] came to act superior to gays.

The [http://www.livejournal.com/users/shared_boxers/578528.html original post], by {{lj|shared_boxers}}, eventually reached 11007 comments before [[LiveJournal]] barfed.

This has led to hundreds of derivative memes supporting everything from Christian beliefs to shitty [[fanfic]]. It also helped to inspire [[moroveus]]' [[leeching|image leeching]] prank.

There are three things that contributed the epidemic spread of this [[meme]]:
# It took a hot-button issue ([[gay marriage]]) and skull-fucked it.
# The "image" was implemented in pure [[html]]. Anyone could post it without having an image host or pulling bandwidth from the creator.
# The [http://www.livejournal.com/users/shared_boxers/578528.html post] that started it provides easily copy-and-pastable mark-up.

The [[meme]] eventually came to an ironic full-circle finish when [[crazayjillay]], a [[Teenmommies| whore of unrivaled stupidity]], used the colorbar to create a petition to ban [[dead_babies]]&mdash;a [[LiveJournal]] humor community which is [[irony|oh-so-coincidentally]] moderated by none other than {{lj|shared_boxers}}.

<center><table width="55%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="8%" bgcolor="#ff0000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#cc0000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#990000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#660000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#330000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#000000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#330000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#660000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#990000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#cc0000">&nbsp;</td><td width="8%" bgcolor="#ff0000">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td colspan="11" align="center">[http://www.livejournal.com/users/crazayjillay/14677.html Babies are love. Petition to ban dead_babies Community]</td></tr></table></center>

==What Makes a Good Colorbar?==
It should have a rainbow motif or at least be various shades of colors. If images are used they should relate to whatever the bar is about and each color should have a unique and different image to help the bar stand out. Be aware that there is a high chance of [[leeching]] if images are used as bastards are too lazy to upload that shit to photobucket or whatever.
[[Image:deathnotecolorbar.jpg|frame|center|A [[Death Note]] colorbar. [[DeviantArt|Crap art]], but you get the picture.]]

[[Image:Deicolorbar.png|center|frame|DOING IT WRONG! Note the complete lack of color differences and how each image is pretty much the same image]]


== See Also ==

* [[Userbars]]
* [[Gay hanky code]]

== External Links ==

* [http://www.dutchfurs.com/~haze/islove/ isLove generator]
* {{ljcomm|~colorbar_love|Colorbar_love LJ community}}

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