I still only see white/gold even though the actual dress was black/blue
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This is flicking between white and gold and black and blue each time I scroll past it.
Ten years? I remember clearly that I argued about this on my friends mailing list
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ARE YOU FR? WHO REMEMBERES THIS? IS THIS A SARCASTIC POST??? SAY SIKE OP
The blue of the dress is pretty obvious, the black details are a different, golden hue due to ambient light. I "know" it's black, but it looks dark gold
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It's strange. I'm wearing sunglasses right now and it looks white and gold but when I take them off it looks blue and black.
I stuck my foot in my mouth about this dress. It was about a year later, and I didn't realize it had been proven to be black and blue, and I said something snarky when someone I liked said it was black and blue. I was so sure it was gold and white, I made an ass of myself.
I see it obviously blue black, but I have some specific accessibility related colour filters on my screen that might influence this.
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I can sort of change it. Probably just my TN monitor though.
This was always the real trick. If you have a laptop you can probably tilt your screen to make it change between the two. What angle you use your screen at affects your perception.
The lighter color looks like a blue-ish white, but I can't see anything other than gold for the stripes.
Black and blue. You blind.
Oh yeah, the gold and white dress. I remember some people were acting crazy saying it is blue and white.
jokes aside the actual dress was blue and black
Its so funny that this meme has sparked the exact debate all over again.
There was also this bro science take, which is debunked:
When you see white and gold you are happy and when you see black and blue you are depressed.