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Who remember this dress?

The Dress.

What is the color of this dress?

93 comments

I love that it was so "everywhere' they even animated it into American Dad

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Was anyone ever able to see it as both like one of those perspective illusions? I can only see it as white and gold.

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- It was white and gold when I opened the post. I use dark mode in Lemmy. Then I opened Wikipedia and read about it for a few minutes in light mode. When I came back, the dress was black and blue suddenly.
  
  I can't usually switch it on command, but it does switch for me.
  
  And as of posting this and looking at Lemmy in dark mode, it's white and gold again.....
  
  ....and now it's blue and brown.
  
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- ive seen it as both. it depends on several factors (brightness of screen, environment, eyes). basically how your eye adapts with the picture.
  
  the picture was taken with the perfect conditions in order for the problem to be a real problem (lit dress with an overly blown out background light) to cause eye adaption to trigger for some and not others.
  
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- I've never seen it as anything but white and gold.
  
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- Try squinting. I see white and gold normally but blue and black when I squint.
  
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- I cannot at all see the white. I can see it as blue and gold (from the top) but from the bottom, it definitely looks more like black and blue to me.
  
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- It's weird, back when this was trending, I always saw it as white and gold, but, looking at the picture above on my phone, it does kinda look blue and black
  
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- I just forced myself to. Kinda turned my phone away at an angle and tried covering the right side of the pic and forced myself to see it as blue and black. Then I couldn't stop seeing it unless I did a mental reset.
  
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  I'm also focusing on the bottom half of the dress.
  
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- I constantly switch between seeing both.
  
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- I’ve seen both. The first time, the colors changed as I was looking at it. That was freaky
  
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- Few times it literally changed as I was looking at it, from top to bottom
  
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Augh, not this again! It was clearly white and gold when I opened this thread. Scrolled through comments, and now I can only see it as blue and black. Damn it, messing with my mind man!!!

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- Literally same. I've gone back and looked at it a few times, and I can't see white and gold anymore. I think my brain broke.
  
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- It's white from the top down, but blue from the bottom up
  
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  all I've got is blue and darkish gold.
  
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It's just not possible for it to be white and gold.

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- And it for real isn’t.
  
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- That's all I see.
  
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  Damn, your world must look really weird.
  
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- It's still gold and white to me damn it!
  
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  🎵 Whether you hear it as Laurel or Yanny,
  
  Whether you prefer Oliver or Annie,
  
  Brainstorm, Green Needle
  
  Terrence Howard, Don Cheadle,
  
  Still white and gold to me-e-e. 🎶
  
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  Have fun being wrong!
  
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- There is no consensus on why the dress elicits such discordant perceptions.[31] The neuroscientists Bevil Conway and Jay Neitz believe they are a result of how the human brain perceives colour and chromatic adaptation.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#Scientific_explanations
  
  The interesting thing, for me, is how people's reactions to the dress sparked that many studies of the phenomenon.
  
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  The interesting thing for me is how badly I want one side to be wrong and one to be right. It's weird that that feeling is there and so strong... for something seemingly insignificant
  
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- I can't see blue and black
  
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  Me neither. Usually I can twist my brain to see illusions the other way, but even covering up the surroundings doesn't flip it
  
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Literally everyone

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- Nope, never seen this fugly thing before
  
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Did you know that the husband of this woman from the viral photo went to prison because he tried to kill her?

Edit: they were married

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- Did we need to? That's like the most "anyway" piece of info ever
  
  Anyway, can you believe people see white n gold here? And we just let these freaks live among us??
  
  Seriously though, I had never once considered the people that shared the image. And likely never will again so kudos lol
  
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- That's interesting
  
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- Husband.
  
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- Bruh that is a dress not a person
  
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The dress can make you feel crazy if you’re talking to someone who sees the other colors, but this diagram from the wiki page makes me feel like i’m having a goddamn stroke just by looking at it.

they’re clearly not the same co- HOW ARE THEY THE SAME COLOR

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- What i dont get is that there is clearly no dim blue light where the picture was taken. By the background you can see everything is lit up plain as day. White-gold people are absolutely zonked for thinking that.
  
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  It's totally white and gold
  
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  i envy the perspective of a white/gold person.
  
  i had this ex, one time she was driving and we were stopped at a light. she asks me “did you see that car?” and i hadn’t, so i said as much. she continued “there was no one driving it.”
  
  now the way my brain works is, even though i didn’t even see the car, i know there had to be a driver. she died on the hill that there couldn’t have been a driver because she didn’t see one.
  
  coincidentally a few years later she was also a white/gold person.
  
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  I'm white gold person. Where do I get my zonking sticker?
  
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  If you look at the very top of the dress in the middle, and use a color picker from your favorite image editing tool, the color of those pixels are a brownish gold.
  
  That is part of the reason why some of us see it as white and gold.
  
  Alternately, if you take a color picker to the sleeve part of the dress, the color of those pixels are a light blue.
  
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Laurel

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- Yanny
  
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  Yo Yo Mardy
  
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I don't think I've ever seen it as anything but black and blue.

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- really? It's gold and white for me.. xD
  
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I'm colorblind this pic doesn't have power here

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- Same here.
  
  I've never understood what these folks were arguing about.
  
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Blue and yanny.

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Oh so we're going to have an argument for dinner?

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The famous red and green dress

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- Grey and white for me…
  
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Ban all of the trolls on team blue/black

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Someone bust out the hex code color picker...

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- Hell yea, please do. I need the results
  
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  It's been done; it's a grayish blue and a dark goldish brown. The lighting really messes with the coloring. Iirc the actually dress was discovered to be blue and black at some point.
  
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Still blue after all these years

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For me it was always light blue and brownish gold. Which is a shame, because that's a much less nice-looking color combination than either of the other two.

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A global phenomenon from 2015 counts as nostalgia?

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- That is nearly a decade ago
  
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  Which is like real world centuries in internet years.
  
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I can see it as both at the same time now and i don’t like it.

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- They almost certainly changed the picture to the one that was using a filter to make it more blue. I'm fairly confident the earlier photo was easier to distinguish
  
  Edit:
  
  I'm being downvoted, but either this thread or another thread did literally use a different picture similar to this before.
  
  https://images.app.goo.gl/VNi1HLeFWEPpex2S6
  
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A true blue post. 💙

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It's very obviously white and gold.

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I've only ever been able to see blue & gold, the frill being the gold part.

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Some things should stay forgotten.

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This isn't what comes first to my mind when I think nostalgia.... It wasn't all that long ago

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It's gold and white.

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No!

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