Baldi

Origin: Baldi's Basics Classic (2018)

Starting off "Strong" with the design of baldi himself.
lips: red
shirt: green
pants: blue
it is the correct order but also this is a ridiculous enough connection and if it's intentional then like. what
we will bring up his design later since it got very subtly changed in 0.9, but for now this is peak brainrot. moving on

YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE

Origin: Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash (2019)

this poster is featured in two places: the glitched school and bb+ floor 3
the glitched school is very tied to 99 which is interesting, though idk what to think of it being in floor 3 if it's a lore thing
under the chex interpretation of rgb i find it weird how "YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE" is like... it just doesn't fit for null to me he still seems somewhat hopeful at this point in the story, hence why this has some Brainrot on the meter even though it's very lore-y. still though this does feel important. it's a very weird asset especially in the context of plus, i wouldn't be surprised if it gets contextualized later and the colors are a part of that.
btw even though you can never see it in this context, the secret message being red means that it's the only thing you'd be able to see in the red school. so that's funky

Basically Games Logo

Origin: uhhh. basically games (2019)

So like. It's intentional
It's the logo. he got a professional logo designer to make this
At the very least, even if there's no deep lore stuff with RGB, this makes me believe Mystman includes the colors on purpose to represent the fact the game's lore is canonically a game. Since the most obvious connection RGB has to anything is the fact it's how monitor pixels work, with three subpixels in those colors.

Also, yellow (99) being separate from the RGB strips fits so well??? 99 is outside of the main world of the game. it's just forced its way into here. lurking over everything. or something like that
0 brainrot. this is my truth

Placeholder Tiles

Origin: Baldi's Basics Development Build (2019)

when the level is generating, floors, walls, and ceilings start out with these placeholder textures that are colored with RGB.
you can also see these placeholder textures in the glitched school of bbcr, with one room having a cube made of the textures and another room being entirely made out of them and containing a crying baldi you can only access once the red baldloons have started destroying the school.

as for my thoughts on it in regard to lore: eeuhhhhhhh??????
so like. these are placeholder assets
and like. yeah they are actually a part of the game in bbcr but
even though they're part of a theory i really like, a part of me just thinks "does this actually mean anything"
the interpetation of it is really cool though. so it's not complete brainrot. and they are in the trailer for baldi's basics plus so i wouldn't be surprised if they appear as an intentionally visible part of the game again

Elevator

Origin: Baldi's Basics Plus v0.2 (2020)

the uh... buttons? lights? i don't know what they are. but they're red blue and green alright
i don't have much to say

Party Style Ending

Origin: Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered (2022)

finally a juicy steak to crunch on. wwaait i don't think steak should be cr

okay. so in the party style ending, a bunch of red baldloons appear and fly all over the place and destroy the school.
then it cuts to this screen. red, blue, and green text separately says the same thing.

THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT

THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT

THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT

the theory says this is NULL, Baldi, and "Badsum" talking. and i believe them
I mean, both Baldi and NULL are portrayed as being distressed during the baldloon invasion. Baldi's crying and NULL freaks out if you talk to him during the event. We don't see Badsum's reaction but considering how he's generally distressed whenever the game's broken I think it's a good inference to assume he also isn't very happy about this.
0 brainrot here. just peak writing

Baldi's Books

Origin: Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered (2022)

In Baldi's Basement, there's a bunch of books that all have the same text inside but have different covers.
The first three use RGB, with 1 being red, 2 being green, and 3 being blue.
The next three use CMY (the inverse of RGB), but it's not in the right order there.
I personally don't think much of these being RGB, though I do think it's weird how he says "Don't pay attention to anything, that's how the pros win!" in the books. but that's unrelated to it being RGB.... i think
The association of 1 as red, 2 as green, and 3 as blue is the biggest takeaway for me, since this association is later reused in the map markers and Laboratory posters.

Conspiracy Board

Origin: Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered (2022)

the pins on this board are RGB, and they're reused later for the map markers
baldi made this board btw and i will take no arguments

Basically Games Website

Origin: the internet (2023... i think)

In the Basically Games Website, the colors Red, Green, and Blue are used for different sections in order throughout most pages, with Yellow being an accent color.
I don't feel like going through each page and analyzing the symbolism of which colors are included and where, but it's definitely intentional. it's literally the brand colors

NINENINE Secret Text

Origin: Baldi's Basics Plus v0.7 (2024)

oughhhh okay.
So, in the NINENINE Secret there's a lot of text. some of this text is in a different color, and those colors are RGB
Red is used when threatening the player in the "YOU ARE DOOMED" and LIAR text
Blue is in the entire section describing Badsum
and Green is used when talking about "BALDIS BASICS T"... and for the word "BUT"? weird

anyways. the use of blue and green to associate with Badsum and Baldi is obvious here.
the red fits a bit less but there's also this pattern of 99-adjacent stuff using red too just because it's scary (red baldloon... this text... the failure message in ninenine... something else probably) so it can be justified like that but that still weakens the connection.
still though these color choices are very intentional and lore-y so low brainrot levels here

Map Markers

Origin: Baldi's Basics Plus v0.8 (2024)

same numbers as the books, and same pins from the conspiracy board, except now there's also letters with the opposite CMY colors. idk if CMY is meant to mean anything but it's worth noting
anyways. the color choice is intentional since he's using the inverse colors too but i have no idea how this would be Important in any way so middle of the road brainrot here

Baldi (blue elbow version)

Origin: Baldi's Basics Plus v0.9 (2025)

technically this isn't rgb, this is just b, but i'm still going to talk about it
baldi's elbow used to be grey due to a modeling error. then mystman changed it to be blue for some reason
in the third basically games podcast, he said this was intentional and it's lore. i don't even know man
zero brainrot since it's confirmed to be lore

Laboratory posters

Origin: Baldi's Basics Plus v0.10 (2025)

in the 0.10 lab, there's posters that tell you which zone of the lab you're in. these use the number associations established earlier
1 is red, 2 is blue, and 3 is green,
and 4 is yellow?
the lab is likely associated with quantum shenanigans considering those have now been established with The Test, so i think it's interesting how that pairs with the idea of RGB representing these characters from different games, since cartoon logic often dictates quantum mechanics let you travel to different dimensions somehow. idk how/if that plays with anything though

"Canon" "Player" "Design"

Origin: Baldi's Basics Plus v0.10 (2025)

i don't even know man
in 0.10, there's now generic designs used for generic students in the school
the icon used for when you're squished by Dr. Reflex suggests the player character is Student_0
Student_0 uses the RGB colors. they aren't in order but they're there
green feels like a weird shoe color to me so i won't totally discount it but if this is intentional it tells me that RGB means something different than Unity Theory suggests.
idk

NINENINE

Origin: Baldi's Basics Plus v0.7 (2024)

All the 99s that appear before the terminal pops up are yellow. the sprite in the game's files is white, so he recolored it to be yellow using a shader ingame on purpose
this is where the idea of 99 being yellow comes from. zero brainrot since he did it on purpose, it's not any more/less readable than if it was a different color

Banana

Origin: Baldi's Basics Classic v1.3 (2018)

i'm breaking chronological order because starting with the banana would make me sound more stupid than starting with baldi's design did
this banana sprite appears in a few places. it was made for Null's secret ending in classic, then it reappears as generic decoration in later games, and finally it's used as a weapon against Null in BBCR's Null Style.
Since the origin of 99 is a Donkey Kong Country corruption, and bananas are heavily associated with Gorillas, I believe the bananas are meant to be related to 99, not to NULL. And the fact they're yellow adds on to this, even if retroactively.

Smalldi

Origin: Schoolhouse Trouble ARG (2023)

yay now i have to talk about smalldi
there's a non-canon ARG ran by Anthony Hampton, the composer of Schoolhouse Trouble. Smalldi is a character in this ARG, and Anthony has stated several times that Smalldi is the only canon part of it. i don't. i don't evenk
Smalldi opposes NULL which makes Smalldi feel close to 99 to me. and now 99 is associated with yellow, the color of smalldi's shirt
also some people think that the creepy face from the ninenine secret is smalldi. so. idk. 40% brainrot here

Student_9

Origin: Baldi's Basics Plus v0.10 (2025)

the 10th student (9 in the files since it's 0-indexed) wears a yellow shirt. i don't know what else to say