robotcas:

mlmspyke:

Y’all non-aromantics making aro icons and stuff to include us in pride posts: hey thanks! That’s really cool of you! But please, can you make sure you’re using the right flag? The aro flag got changed up a lot when people were first putting one together and I see a lot of you using really old designs that the aro community doesn’t use anymore (like, the one with the orange stripe). Since three different ones come up when you search on google images, the confusion is completely understandable and if I weren’t aro and hanging around aro spaces online a lot, I would get confused too.

Here is the current one:

Note the five stripes and the one in the middle being white and not yellow. A lot of aros at the time of the flag’s creation had issues with eye strain when the yellow one was more common, so the yellow stripe was switched out for white to accommodate them.

Thank you for including us, but we’d really appreciate it if you used the flag we’re using!

yes I agree!!! but it’s not just non aros, and I wanna ask that other aros be aware of the current flag and why the community had problems with the others too. if you’re making stuff for other aros, its important that it be something that the community is most comfortable with.