Ever-prevalent social media numbers.
Apparently hot on the heels on going "never mind" about the whole "don't link anywhere" thing, that one site about birds being doused in gasoline, or whatever it is now, that just about everyone I can see here loves to not love, myself included, somehow decided that more numbers were a good thing and threw on a view count on every post, and it's possible that might have some weird security flaw because of course. As if people didn't develop enough anxiety about comparing numbers. And of course given the whole React/Ajax/whatever-the-hell conglomeration of plugins and stuff that site is made of that obfuscates everything, it takes a multi-approach workaround style of thing to hide it.
Meanwhile, on Neocities, I was able to just throw together a quick userstyle to hide the follower count on the main UI because I don't really use the social aspect of that host. I do still see follower notifications on the rare occasion those happen, and in those cases I just have a quick look at their site to see what they're about because those can be neat, and I still insist on people having their own sites. But I'm not one to obsess over numbers like followers and whatnot, even though I leave the site view counters visible out of tradition I guess. Same goes on this site, and I appreciate that not being front and center. I also appreciate sites not all being weird automatically compiled obfuscated messes trying to defy the open standards of the web.
Long story short, I've been done with "blue sites" like the big social media pages for quite some time now, and I guess I've now moved on to "beige sites"? That seems to be a common color between the main UI of this and Neocities. Yet for some reason my themes that I apply to things usually involve a blue gradient. I guess I was inspired by Microsoft Office theming around 2000 or so. Might explain the frequent use of Verdana as well. But it's less about being forced to use specific colors to conform and more about having the choice of colors to throw in wherever.