What Would You Do If The Accolade Presented Is A Different Color From the One Received?

Because Maxis is always lazy when it comes to animations.
The animation budget is one of the main reasons older iterations of the franchise had such limited activities for teens and why teens in TS4 are the same height as adults. In both cases, the primary reason is so they didn't have to do additional animation work. I also believe it was the main reason why toddlers weren't in the base game. They didn't have the time for all of the additional animations for them.