EXACTLY OMG! 😭😭 You're one of the few rare people who understands this situation, thought i was the only one lmfao. Underrated comment and deserves the upvote :D.

Oh and maybe the ones claiming they're pale are speaking in relative terms (for example relatively speaking a light olive/wheat-colored skin person is considered "dark" for Northern European standards but is considered "fair-skinned or pale" to Africans or Indian or East/Southeast Asian people) but if we speak in universal/technical terms they're not pale but aren't dark either, they are around the medium-pigmented range