@AbyssalMonkey My position on this site and the perception it may give isn't lost on me, but obviously I'm not coercing anyone lol.
If you can't tell it's most likely just your monitor. Either it's not good enough to display the colors properly or it's misconfigured. Adjusting the brightness of the image itself makes it more obvious what I'm talking about:
The background
should be pure white even after adjusting the brightness.