While others love dazzling purples, the glaring yellows, some of us are hopelessly drawn to black’s nightmarish embraces. We inexcusably and inexorably don this color on family events, as if we’re attending a funeral that has spanned for decades. Most of us don’t know how to get dark mode on Instagram, and we’re always left wondering what could’ve been.

Okay, apologies! That’s just my dark side extricating itself from its teen-emo origins, and getting a bit creepy. But seriously, for some of us, black is the ideal alternative. It saves us from the trouble of weaning through a truckload of colors. It has elegance, ubiquitousness – and of course, indomitable compatibility, which complements almost any other color as if it’s been tied to it in holy matrimony. These qualities make it almost impossible to extend its reach in our lives to our social media accounts. Who doesn’t love an Instagram, looking like a black cave, illuminating in its splendor, the starry-night of our pictures, bios, our Instagram stories?