The Famous Dress That Broke the Internet: A Scientific Breakdown

[@user-yt5rr6js9q]

"White and gold or black and blue" I see blue and gold I feel like such a hipster

[@hans.7078]

Actually a lot of other people think that. It is what the majority of the comment section says. #blueblackforlife

[@avac8751]

i see that too, its just if someone isnt REALLY sussestible to to suggestion, they make sure that thateir minds see it as dark black instead of a wierd bronze ish gold color

[@alimarleau]

Yup.

[@laytongoeckeritz6085]

Yep same here, is my mind messed up or something?

[@actionjackson2721]

me too

[@TheSUPERHAPPY1]

I saw it as light blue & gold

[@maxgooseboy1991]

Same.

[@incognitodc670]

Same here

[@spencermowrer7154]

Yeah same here...

[@yoshihirotogashi4691]

You're on some psychotropic compounds my friend.

[@MPythonGirl]

I saw blue and black, stared at it for five seconds, and got gold and periwinkle (that's a blue purple if anyone's wondering)

[@vocaloid4ever]

It baffles me how anyone could call that blue colour "white" when clearly there is white in the background and margin and it's clearly not the same colour as the "supposedly white" in the dress. This truly baffles me.

[@KeaJei]

those who said the blue part is white, the white part is slightly darker than the white background, so they identify the color of the dress white.

[@erindorsey3870]

Well I see the dress as white and gold and I see it like that because there is black in the background and it is clearly not the same color as the dress. You can look, there is a table cloth on the left that definitely has black in it, but its not anywhere near the same color as the "gold" in the dress. Neither of our perspectives prove anything, because as hank points out, we're all just seeing it differently.

[@googleslocik]

So much this. I could get how someone calls the dark part golden, its more of a dirty brown that is nether 100% black or brown. But the blue part ? Its one of the most bluish things i saw, and just next to it you got white tinted blue on top right and white tinted orange on bottom right. My opinion ? At 90% of people saying its white are probably trolling, i wouldnt trust an internet pool if my life depended on it.

[@Siberius-]

googleslocik I see the dress as having white.. but it's not as bright white as the white in the background to the right of the image.. it's darker but still clearly white from my personal perspective, I can't even see a tinge of blue in the white.. pretty interesting stuff. (Just explaining the white thing to you, not arguing since that's silly.. all about perspectives obviously).

[@Kvakonik]

What you call white can very well be just overexposed... Most of people who see the dress white consider that white stuff to be over exposed and the white balace of the picture to be slighly off - so they are aware of the dress being little bluish (at least I was), they just disregard it. Please note, that you do that every time you enter a differently lid room or put on a dark glasses. With photos this is even more complicated...

[@nina2761]

Why do people say you either see blue and black or white and gold??? What about us people who see blue and gold???

[@breadddie]

+Scarlet Kitty YAS!!!!

[@lioong3433]

Yay I'm not the only one who sees blue and gold!!

[@jakkob5488]

#TeamBlueAndGold

[@meroastisruined3039]

+Celina ZC purple and gold for me

[@fruitperiod]

Omfg dude preach I know how u feel. No love for the blue and gold team -.-

[@quigli]

Initially I saw white and gold... on closer inspection I see it as a very pale blue and gold... I have NO idea how anyone could see the lace as being black, but whatever lol

[@quigli]

Even when they do that colour shift thing... it still looks blue and gold to me

[@FantashticIdeas]

Tasha Sturm I'm with you. When I first saw it, I think I may have read the words white and gold and so I saw it as white and gold but as more and more time has passed, I'm seeing it as a very faint pale blue. Glad that I'm not the only one! :) Definitely not saying that it can't be black and blue but at the moment that's all I see. Hope you're having a good day! :)

[@skates3540]

SAME I see it as a grayish, bluish, but still quite light white, and a brownish gold. There seems to be a third, smaller, unexplained category of us who see the dress close to the actual colors in the photograph. I wonder how this happens.

[@thepip3599]

EXACLY WHAT I DID!!! Word for word!

[@TheEmptyLocket]

At first glance I saw it as light blue and tan, but after Hank said white and gold I thought that made more sense and began seeing it that way. I wish I was able to make myself perceive the black and blue though! The color I see as gold doesn't come close to being dark enough to be interpreted as black...

[@UzumakiNaruto-ez8jc]

I can see it both black and blue and white and gold. But not voluntary. It just switches from time to time.

[@Fawksthephoenix1]

For me it depends where I am. When I'm in my room, it is often white and gold. However, when I'm at school and everyone is talking about it and showing me the picture, it's always blue and black.

[@anniemiller2817]

Same with me - it really messes with me ^^

[@megl6104]

YES! Me too, sometimes I will look at it (literally the exact same image) and it's white and gold, but then I'll come back to the image 5 minutes later and it's changed to blue and black! It's weirding me out since everyone seems to be saying that you can only see one, not both! But yeah like you said it's not voluntary it just seems to switch randomly! :/

[@uta21]

First I always saw it as black and blue but after some time when I viewed it again it was white and gold but only for a few seconds then it changed again like it was a video and actually changed colour.. very confusing

[@JilTheReal]

I looked at it and it was white and gold even tough I saw it as black and blue first. And then I looked at it for a few seconds and it changed back to black and blue. wtf? lol

[@superdrummergaming]

The second I saw that dress all over twitter and facebook I knew it was blue and black. My graphic design/photography brain immediately knew the white balance was awful and I color corrected it in my head.

[@GhostsGraphics]

superdrummergaming Exactly, as a graphic designer it kinda boggles me how some of my idiot friends still try to argue with me even after ADOBE went in and said it was blue and black.

[@havtor007]

Ghost's Graphics i wonder how they are your friends when you call them idiots for seeing the coulor instead of auto correcting it in there brain becouse they do not work with coulors all day like you do.

[@GhostsGraphics]

havtor007 Its because they're my friends that i get to call them idiots. But its ok, most of them know it. BTW i called them idiots for not trusting me and not because they see something else.

[@alexmangorove]

I work with graphics and rendering too so I'm very attentive with color and lightning, and that's what I thought as well, it's obviously blue and black. That is until I saw it as white and gold on accident (since it was all over the web) and couldn't believe it was the same picture. Believe me if you'll get to experience that you'll understand it's not about experience and knowledge of color but some deeper part of the brain.

[@brianjosephmedia1086]

Alexander M. This has nothing to do with graphic design, sorry.

[@Finstahy]

When he pulled the colours out of the picture around 1:28 those colours are exactly the colours that I saw in the dress. I get all the stuff about our brains correcting colour, but nothing in the picture hints to me that there's anything wrong with the colour, so my brain goes with the obvious conclusion that the colours in the actual image are the colours of the dress: a light and slightly faded blue and a muddy dark grey.

[@tattycakes2k2]

Really? That massively over exposed glare on the right doesn’t give you the slightest hint that the dress is not only under very reflective sunlight but also the photo colours themselves are also probably not accurate?

[@NotASummoner]

​@@tattycakes2k2 I don't think it's the colour I see it as but I see it as the colours that were pulled out. I know it's brighter than in reality so I wouldn't say the dress is light blue but it's light blue in the picture.

[@aaausername]

Same

[@will_stevens]

2112 pfp. Respect, fellow Rush fan

[@retardosaurusrex360]

For me, light blue and gold. Am I weird?

[@NebulusVoid]

Nope there are many people who are the same (including me).

[@SwedePlaysGames]

Washed out blue and washed out black (which gets blended with yellow light from the store lights, making it gray-gold-ish, but it's still black.)

[@kfdr2002]

That's what I saw at first! then it changed to a hard white and gold, just everyone saw white so I assumed white

[@bamdad19996]

No I'm seeing that too..! Our brains are just better..

[@AshleyJWoods]

I see perwinkle and gold, too. :)

[@TheEuropeanFox]

Looks light blue and shit brown to me >_>

[@Moltak111]

Looks just like that to me too.

[@Braigwen]

Same here. It's an ugly dress, no matter what color it is.

[@eddy1397]

look at it as if the light was hitting the back of the dress and the part you're seeing is shaded. Like when its nighttime on earth, then it will seem like a white color under the shade and a dark gold as well, then after this imagine as if light is hitting the front of the dress and you will see it blue and black as well.

[@xX123Dorian123Xx]

i freaking see white and gold what the hell!!??

[@gwyn.]

saw shit brown and light blue too, first thought it was a picture with too less contrast

[@Ndo01]

"No-one sees the dress as the color it actually is portrayed as in the picture." I don't know what you mean by that. I see the color just as those blown up color samples represent. Both before and after seeing the color samples.

[@kayosjv9611]

Yes Thank you! Me too

[@kolikooo1]

I wonder if he even asked anyone that or he assumed.

[@quixiiify]

Yeah, that line seemed off to me too. I see it as an odd blue-ish and a muddy brown, which through lots of experience of photo-editing, I know should be true blue and black. I doubt any of us "team blue and black" actually see it as black, but just know that's what it should be.

[@prixat]

Are you seeing a pale blue dress with brownish fringes? 'White and Gold' viewers are interpreting the pale blues into White with a blue sheen like a silk material. Either way, no one (or maybe a very, very small number) are seeing the actual image.

[@rokkolpo]

What he means by that is that no-one sees the dress as it actually is because of the picture limiting and changing it's colours. Your eyes just simply cannot filter out all that is bad with the lighting of the picture. Since that is the entire point of all this. And those samples? Also not the actual colour of the dress because colour is incredibly nuanced.

[@zoomies2]

it looks pale blue and gold/brown, that gold/brown doesn't look black at all

[@lexi2523]

YES

[@krysti1na]

frontal labotomy We see the true color of the pixels.

[@krysti1na]

frontal labotomy But i guess the question is not "what colors do you see" but "what color do you think the dress is in reality?"' Well i guess? Cuz i see the same as you do. But i know it's not the dress's real color

[@playerguy2]

a1b2c3e4 'true'?not...really.... you do know the that we don't see in absolutes but relative and proportional.. so a certain contrast between 2 darker shades of say grey seem to be more different than 2 shades of lighter grey with the same contrast between them. I won't write a 100 word explanation on why I think that is (you could say) 'wrong'. in short: -we only see a small spectrum -it's relative between what I see and what you see -and relative depending on what's around the screen . . . no offence, just that what you were trying to say came out wrong.. if it seemed offensive, sorry, not my intent.

[@krysti1na]

playerguy2 It's not offensive, but it's still wrong to me. What I see, is the color you get if you take the color of the pixel in photoshop. (1:31) My brain doesn't interprete that by guessing it's this or this color, but i see the 2 color or the pictures, which are not the real colors of the dress. Weither i hide the background of the picture or not, i see the same colors

[@TheApple10]

Oh shoot, not this again, listen people, it's blue and gold.

[@gamergirls4704]

OMG FINALLY IM NOT THE ONLY ONE OMG GOD

[@MagicjavaGames]

Gamer Girls BUT ITS NOT! Have you seen any of the articles.

[@TNTxCREEPER]

I see it as blue and gold.

[@AceandDuce]

Or watch the video

[@TXHB1FH89]

I thought I was the only one

[@Speyde]

I am the only around here who see all the time a light blue and brown ??

[@carolimarperez4178]

Yea your the only one lol

[@ianmoone8640]

No I see it as that to.

[@CarlHead]

Well, you're seeing the actual colours of the image; so your brain isn't compensating weirdly and "showing" you a perceived colour pallet.

[@Speyde]

Carl Head Is this good or bad ?^^

[@CarlHead]

Speyde​ probably good because you're seeing it 'accurately'. However it may be bad because your brain doesn't compensate well for lighting conditions... You simply can't make such a judgement from a single image.

[@hunteramory4909]

Oh my god why is it even a question? It's CLEARLY green and red. Everyone else is automatically wrong because of my always being right because I'm the center of the universe. Also, everyone who tries to argue with me on this I will rage at like a bratty 12 year old and summarily block.

[@GEhotpants101]

As is the proper custom of the internet.

[@daniels.1390]

OMG guys it's obviously hot pink and purple, you all need to go to Specsavers.

[@Harrysgpigsvids]

Yo brain must be messed up or your color blind

[@Jayyemi]

Harrysgpigsvids The joke Your head

[@ThomasHemme]

you sound like my brother...

[@TheAsem1992]

its blue and gold im so lonly 😂

[@JonathanAdami]

Oh thanks for saying this! I'm with ya hehe

[@TheAsem1992]

lol

[@burningSHADOW42]

For me it looks blue and gold aswell.

[@rkay_bxzq]

OMG LOL ME SAME

[@denleykofoed725]

asem al balawe same

[@PickleoPickleton]

What i honestly see is a dark brown and shadowed white. The blueness of the white is caused by the shadow... But the real question is... What light causes black to appear gold and blue to appear white?

[@KatnissLis]

Lol that is the real question. Everyone's like "Black and blue" or "white and gold" and I'm like What the fuck kind of lighting did this? People are hRdcore fighting over this.

[@itxofficial8281]

That was also my question the whole time. What sort of lighting makes a DARK BLUE AND BLACK dress appear white (or light-blue-ish) and gold????? This must be like the strongest spotlight ever produced. OR what's more likely: The whole #dressgate thing is just fake and made up. The dress was gold and white the whole time, but the fact that so many people suggested it's blue and black made some other people subconsciously change the way they interpret the colors and thus starting to see it blue and black from now on.

[@dwightfry99]

Darker lighting in a corner of a room, combined with a super high exposure. In order for the white to appear blue, the source of the light has to be different. In this case it would be shadowed sunlight and incandescent lighting with the high exposure.

[@GoDieInASearchEngine]

Manuel Jindrak The exact same argument could be applied by an equally ignorant person in reverse, saying that the dress was blue and black the whole time and everyone else is subconsciously changing it. Obvious problems: 1. Many people saw the dress first and the argument second. 2. The idea that it's the wrong colour had to start somewhere. 3. The dress is actually black and blue. Even if you think someone somehow made that up, the dress doesn't even exist in white and gold. 4. People who know that the dress is black and blue still see it as white and gold. But never mind that. Surely it's more likely that someone telepathically told a bunch of people that the dress was black and blue, made them see it as black and blue permanently, wiped the memories of people who have actually seen it, and then replaced the white and gold version on the website where it is sold with a black and blue one, just to make something that might catch on on the internet, than it is that your perception, controlled by a massively complex (for most people, anyway) computer developed from trial and error millions of years ago, isn't perfect.

[@itxofficial8281]

How on EARTH could any of us be 100% sure that the dress seen on the picture is the same that the lovely lady on tumblr showed us on every other photo she posted?? And only because the company says that they don't produce the dress in white and gold doesn't conclude that it is non-existent. Sorry, but I know that my eyes work 100% fine, and I know for a fact that the goddamn dress is white and gold. Dafuq is wrong with the world???

[@nickstoli]

I can't fathom how people see this as white and gold.

[@enigmaticbleu]

Me neither!

[@LazyOtaku]

BnP forever lol

[@rsboomboom333]

I can't fathom how people see this as blue and black, to the point that it actually frustrates me. I, without a doubt, 110% see white with a slight blue tinge and brownish/gold. It's even objectively closer to that than blue and black. .___.

[@nickstoli]

Amadran It's fascinating and bewildering.

[@EyesofTheKeeper]

Amadran The dress in reality is black and blue. The dress as captured by the crap camera + crap settings is gold and blue. There, settled.

[@schmauften]

I definitely see purpley-Blue and browny-gold. But Hank just said no one could see it like that...

[@johndevlin]

Me too. There should be a support group for people who see blue/gold.

[@iamGTMM]

Me too...

[@Xynth22]

I see it as blue and browny-gold as well.

[@mwalls2764]

Same, I'm colourblind tho so idk

[@victoneter]

Me too. I just see the exact colours as MS paint says they are. Mild purpley-blue and browny gold especially near the top but lower the dress is very slightly less browny gold and more black.

[@nataliajunkiert2443]

I see the dress as blue and muddy brown.

[@ashib1735]

Same

[@lupinka097]

Me too!

[@robs.201]

I see white and gold, my wife is yelling at me that it's not.

[@robs.201]

Muazen Not trollin. Swearzy's.

[@robs.201]

Muazen Lol. I was kinda thinkin maybe it was a male/female thing, I've asked several couples and it always seems one sees it differently and inevitably one starts in with "stop messing with me". My wife did the same thing, "you do not see white and gold, you're messing with me".

[@dashnog]

+Robert Simmons I've seen this picture many times on a plethora of monitors, and I say that it's objectively blue and gold.

[@davidndiulor8428]

Your wife is correct

[@pollacksify]

I know explaining it is useless, but look at the right side of the picture. Behind the dress is clearly white and you can see the shine of yellow light. Now realize this dress is made of fabric and understand how that fabric reflects light. Black silk will shine yellow light as gold, and the blue color is shining white tints. If you have ever painted or taken a class in photography you will clearly see ALL colors people are talking about, but, you know that the dress is truly blue and black.

[@aperson4075]

2:40 True Hank "Green" :D

[@JorgeGonzalez-zs4pi]

No

[@bummer6]

Question is, if the shot was wider with more stuff in it, would our brains have an easier time figuring out the true color of the dress? With more reference material to work with, I bet our brains would AT LEAST be able to figure out that the colors were off somehow.

[@vuchao6040]

Me in 2020 staring at the dress to see blue and black: ○👄○ Me when I still see gold and white: ●👄●

[@daoofpotato7238]

Me in 2021 and all I see a black and purple dress because I'm color blind and confuse my blues and purples sometimes and hate everyone who somehow sees white and or gold or a brown

[@mischievousamoeba]

The screens we are looking at have also come a very long way.

[@conlon4332]

@@daoofpotato7238 I see purple and I'm not colourblind. This is such a weird thing so don't judge yourself on what you see it as. I'm assuming you already know you're colourblind, but let's just say if everyone were tested by this image... all hell would probably break loose.

[@destinysworld6243]

Take a screen shot and take away background you won’t see gold anymore

[@ImaCrackBaby69]

But what colour is Hank's shirt?

[@kawaiikurwa]

J. Deiss k

[@edge60able]

So true

[@scarlettjia5864]

I can't tell if it's a grey or a purple/blue :/

[@Ayplus]

What color am I

[@RyukDecoy]

And here... we ...go.

[@TheApple10]

Honestly, that dress is ugly.

[@EUROFIGHTER14567]

i know right

[@athickie]

Thank you

[@PhantomQueenOne]

That was my first thought as well.

[@BennyOcean]

I'm not seeing the same thing as everyone else. When you pulled out the colors at 1:30, that's exactly what I see when looking at the dress. I think my brain is combining the two potential interpretations into the real one. Or maybe I'm just one of a strange few who can see it right.

[@bakirev]

I can see the differences as well. But we all know that the color is suppose to be uniform in real life so we say black and blue.

[@anhuman5348]

Jorgensen Penus I doubt anyone really sees it as pure blue and black, we just say that cause we know those colors in the pic would be a blue and black dress irl.

[@bakirev]

An Human That's exactly what I said. Unless you were reassuring my argument, in which case never mind.

[@Kanashto]

yeah, exactly ... its not really that blue but if anything its like a light blue .... with black or a dark brown .. but we know it is blue and black

[@anhuman5348]

Jorgensen Penus yes, yes, I was :)

[@RedalecAO]

When you broke down the colors one by one, it’s exactly how I see the dress, a royal blue and a muddy really dark gold almost black but not completely black. Amazing how people don’t see the same

[@daoofpotato7238]

I've come to the conclusion it comes down to what type of thinker are you. For example I am a very visual thinker I can see and hear my own thoughts and there are people who can't see or hear their own thoughts. My point being more visual inclined thinkers and those who have much deeper and richer thoughts than others will see always only see black and blue

[@pinkperfumefairy9205]

@@daoofpotato7238 I can hear my own thoughts and trust me we aren't special 💀

[@aaausername]

@@daoofpotato7238 Interesting, I think it's maybe because I can be quite a literal thinker so my brain's like "okay colour -computing- yep that's periwinkly light blue and bronzy brownish colour". That probably made no sense, but oh well.

[@helpIthinkmylegsaregone]

lol. "I am a really special person with deeper and richer thoughts that others, and those people see it that way". Yeah my man, you are Amelie Poulain, bringing colorful joy into a triste world of grey. You should hold a TED Talk.

[@kateapples1411]

I saw White and Gold at first before I knew what was going on and continued reading the article it was in.... Read it was supposed to be black and blue... Scrolled back up and suddenly it was black and blue and I checked and double checked to see if it was a .gif or to reset the page... But I couldn't get it to go back to white and gold.

[@pokio55]

Its basic red stone

[@ZekeFreek]

ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US.

[@28ikenna1]

Zeke Freek GOOBLE GOBBLE, GOOBLE GOBBLE

[@kuiyeondae]

I went through the EXACT same process!! I first saw it this morning and literally, i did not understand how the dress was blue and black whatsoever. then suddenly, like 10 minutes ago....it just turned into black and blue out of nowhere, and now i cant unsee it

[@InfinityD4]

me too!

[@kiva2244]

That first night, my roommate came in and asked what color I saw. I said Lavender and bronze. She gave me a look of horror when she said she saw blue black and this guy saw white gold. This was before we realized how big it had gotten yet. I have seen it rotate between white gold, to lavender bronze, to blue black several times, sometimes even before my eyes. I don't get how some people have only seen it as one color only. It seems whenever i see the image somewhere I see a different color. Even in one of the 'related videos' I saw it was white gold and by the time I finished this video, it was lavender bronze.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

When I looked at this issue years ago, I flipped between seeing the dress as white and gold ...then switching to blue and black. And switching. And switching. Today. I just see it as white and gold. The take away is our perception of the world is an internal process based on inputs. That is one step away from the objects. So the process can change the image. We are used to the old time-y thinking of what we see is it. That we simply see what’s there, instead of processing it. It’s the same basis why we don’t see the guy in the gorilla suit wander through the set of the psych experiment in that video. What we are perceiving is our own movie based on inputs. This same process is how stage magicians can perform magic tricks. Because we are processing what we are perceiving and missing information all the time. Irehman has a great KZbin channel explaining magic tricks. It’s astounding how he or she can perceive what’s actually happening.

[@aaausername]

I mainly see it as the colours actually is in the picture but if I try hard enough I can see why some people think that its gold.

[@aaausername]

*it's

[@edi9892]

The weird thing is that I saw both. Once on my pc it appeared to my white-gold and on the mobile phone blue-black. The image was on two different news-magazines, but ehn I revisited the other picture its colors have changed.

[@edi9892]

Thinking of it, it might be that the monitor of my mobile has a bit deeper colors, with the result that I saw a picture that made more sense to me from a style point of view, thus convincing my brain that this was allway blue and black.

[@Tankerbuzz]

I saved the photo on my pc and the colour still changed for me too so i dont think its your different screens

[@rlxts]

Tankerbuzz the phone is mote likely to have a retina display

[@kool_beans_188]

When I see the dress quickly (like when it is on a news banner scrolling across a screen), I see white and gold. When I have time to look at it for more than a second, it appears blue and black. The context in which you see the dress can change your perception of the dress. On the larger screen of your PC you perceived one thing, on the smaller screen you perceived another. Maybe it means we are less susceptible to perception bias. Even though I first saw the dress as blue and black, my mind was still able to see white and gold when the context changed. Even now, when I know the dress is blue and black, the color I see is still dependent upon the context in which I see it.

[@tatum635]

Ryan Antonio me and my brother looked at the same picture on my phone and i saw blue/black and he saw white/gold. :/

[@PanthereaLeonis]

We actually took a picture with the same problem at school some time ago. A friend of mine had sewn a frilly black trim with beads onto a dark blue skirt. To take a picture for documentation, she whipped out her iPhone to take a picture. At some distances, when the camera had another reference to take a good image, the colors were correct, black and blue, however when she got too close and the reflex in the shiny satin fabric messed up the camera's white balance, everyone agreed that the skirt looked white and gold in the picture. When even your eyes don't have a point of reference to decide the color, the camera is the boss. Even if it's wrong.

[@daoofpotato7238]

Not true at all based on what you just said then that justified everyone who says they see any other color other than black and blue, even with that shitty camera quality and shitty lighting and white balance no matter how you frame the picture it will always be black and blue and that's all I see no brown no white no gold just straight black and blue but then again I'm a very visual thinker so my brain procsses things faster and better because I spend most of my time in my thoughts

[@garylshelton2463]

I think TCOP is confused in his mind.

[@MouseAndShiraz]

Here is the thing. During that little segment where you separate the dress colours from the image? Not seeing a difference. For me, the dress is very much that kinda dingy blue and muddy brown that I recognize as what happens to black fabric when you put too much light on it. As a student of psychology who is mildly obsessed with perception, I am extremely disappointed that I don't see something other than what the picture actually presents on its face. It is exactly the kind of thing that I would gleefully embrace as a consequence of imperfection perception. However, I am apparently not destined to see anything special here, and that bums me out.

[@aaronn]

Go check if you're colorblind.

[@MouseAndShiraz]

I've checked, not colorblind, no.

[@grce342]

If u mean this video then i agree with u I am proven not to be color blind and i see blue and and dark brown before the show the colors off the dress if that is what u are trying to say.

[@HedmadArmy]

I'm not colorblind either, but i too see dingy blue-purplish and weird brown. I have to really focus to see any blue or white or black or gold!

[@toothless7849]

MrHedmad EZIC I see?

[@JogInTheFog]

Honestly, I see it as medium-brown and medium-blue. Anybody else?

[@jangwoo24]

Yah like a sort of faded blue and a faded dark brown (if that's possible)

[@Wafflical]

Yeah.

[@Killercomma]

I see it as a faded picture.

[@deactivated-78936]

Bottom line: The dress is black and blue. That's the color of the original dress and you cannot argue with that fact. If you use the "eyedropper" tool in paint to "prove" that part of the dress is gold, you are seeing the reflection of the yellow light in which the photo was taken. That's all. It's a blue and black dress held up in a room with harsh, yellow light. Done. Discussion over. No arguing. Those are facts.

[@synthetic115]

Who cares what the actual colour is, it's theorising reasons people perceive it whichever way which is interesting

[@unvergebeneid]

Why do I get the impression that this _happens_ to coincide with your perception? ;)

[@rstriker21]

There's a white and black dress.

[@JGrffn]

Nobody here is arguing what the dress's color really is, they're arguing what the dress's color IN THIS PARTICULAR PICTURE really is. The fact that you sound so upset about it leads me to believe that you've been fighting all day over this with other people and that you basically ruined your day all by yourself.

[@Alzorath]

Penny Lane ... I first saw it on a friend's phone, I saw white-gold, did my fact checking - the original dress is indeed blue and black, and depending on the screen I look at it on, it differs on the spectrum. It's the yellow lighting that is messing with everyone.

[@emexdizzy]

The funniest thing about all of this is that people forget they're aren't looking at an actual dress but at a screen which is projecting colored light at their eyes. Screens which aren't calibrated identically. We're actually not all looking at the same image, because each of our screen projects color in a slightly different way. Change the brightness on your device's screen and you'll be surprised how much the dress can change color in your perception.

[@nickpaniccia4196]

Nerd

[@slovenlyelk898]

@@nickpaniccia4196 shut up bro you have a Naruto pfp

[@oldschoolgamer6941]

oh my god, thank you so much, finally i saw blue and black

[@JochSejoMusic]

Just paint it instead because then it should still be exactly viewed as white and gold and blue and black even if it is painted in real colored paint. Some people can see up to hundreds of more hues of color than others so they just say black instead of dark gold because they can't see that many shades as others.. "I saw white and gold." If someone does a touch up paint jpb on my car "and they saw black and blue" I can see if they actually color corrected my new paint with the exact same hue and in this case they can't tell the difference in some colors that I can. In my case they now colored my door the wrong hue of silver with a silver colored door "with too much blue in it" for me to tell the difference, and they can't see it.

[@aaronsun346]

i see black and blue.. am i the only one???everyone is saying I'm seeing it wrong

[@SciShow]

Most of the SciShow team sees black and blue too. You are not alone!

[@JettaMasta]

SciShow Late last night I saw white and gold now I'm just seeing blue and black.

[@aaronsun346]

SciShow ok good i thought i was colour blind :D

[@15243james]

I see blue and gold

[@jamparker969]

SciShow my 3 yr old daughter says it's black an purple, my husband sees black and blue, i see white and gold

[@billydarris955]

The colors keep switching on me every 5 seconds

[@NagatoPR]

It's ok, that only means that you're becoming gay.

[@rcgamer7780]

***** LOL

[@ZeldagigafanMatthew]

***** Then that explains why thinking of dicks makes me hard. That or I'm just a woman trapped in a mans body, too poor to afford reassignment surgery, and not severe enough to warrant an actual surgery and not cosmetic shit.

[@awsomeJane]

that happens to me too!!!!!

[@JoeMata31]

Same here except I can switch them when I want to. At first I was team white gold, but then after over saturating the image I saw it as blue and black. Then after looking at that for a while, I reset it and kept seeing it as blue and black but could remember how the white and gold looked. So now I can switch depending on how I want to see it! 😎

[@DocsDota]

I don't know anymore...I originally saw it as black and blue, but now that I look at it closer, I see blue and gold. I can see how the blue can be interpreted as white, and the gold interpreted as black...

[@Silverizael]

The issue is the top part of the dress that people are seeing as gold is transparent. This allows the yellow lighting to brighten it even further. It is indeed black, but ith extreme transparency, making the yellow seem like the actual color. i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--YnzKfMvY--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/hzr4ubgjrnksvaz4mdym.jpg

[@BeinDraug]

Ah i was the reverse to start with but now im with you in the blue/gold catagory

[@1999colebug]

The top of the dress is lighter, hence white and gold, as you get to the bottom, it is blue and black.

[@michaelwolfe7970]

When I first saw the picture, I was asked "What color is this dress" Everyone pretty much hated on me after I said "blue and gold" Now I'm just happy I'm unique

[@jackpassananti3300]

I can see that if I view it from an angle, but its like a really faded blue

[@Arwenrei]

i see light blue nd gold

[@pinkrose076]

I still see white and gold. I'm very happy with the color I see. 💖

[@jumjumjummju]

In the video and on polls it was said that very few, if any, people actually saw the dress in the picture for what the colors actually were in the picture (being a funky light blue and a crap-colored brown). I wonder what would the cause be if someone saw that, however? I, myself, originally saw light blue and brown from the start, without having been told anything, and I'm curious if this means either my brain never bothered adjusting for light levels, my eyes are hypersensitive, or something entirely different.

[@Rafulefou]

Same here, who cares what the dress actually is right? The colors in this pictures are brown and light blue

[@awesomeness7543]

There is actually three and not two perceptions of this dress: black & blue, white & gold, and blue & gold. The third one is not talked about anywhere and i don’t know why, maybe because a very small percentage of people see it in those colors and are ignored. It may also be that the colors in the third perception are not so absolute, which makes people label them as different colors although they all actually see the same thing. For example, I would personally say I see lavender and brown, but someone else (who sees the same colors as me) might say light blue and dark gold.

[@MaximilianBerkmann]

After watching the Eye Support By WIRED video, I definitely see turquoise and gold instead of white and dark gold.

[@mikep3226]

I also see lavender and brown.

[@andrewpinedo1883]

I am in the third category. Also, shoutout to the 4 people who see black and white.

[@pianofluteflute]

THE COLOR I SEE KEEPS CHANGING EVEN THOUGH I'M LOOKING AT THE EXACT SAME PICTURE HELP

[@XONXRaptor]

k

[@jaydenhenderson6674]

***** hahahahaha too funny, but it is black and blue

[@TheSlimyDog]

You are the chosen one.

[@amelievandecasteele4998]

Join the club

[@VanillaChebenteen]

I think it's because your brain doesn't know where to be more comfortable at.

[@MikaelIsaksson]

I see it as light blue and gold.

[@JackHernandezGentlemanJack]

But I see the colours EXACTLY as they are in the picture.. like for real. So, what does that mean? like a purply colour with a sort of brownish gold colour

[@LoonyBoB]

Glad I'm not the only one. And at 1:30 Hank was like "NO ONE sees the colours as they actually are!" and I'm all "I'm just a nobody to you, aren't I!? ;_;"

[@Manoahmanolo]

Me2 lol :P I described it as goldish and light blue :P

[@norcofreerider604]

To me, the photo looks White and Gold. Other pictures clearly show that the dress is Black and Blue. If you're seeing both photos differently than this, you may have a form of color blindness.

[@WRAETHERR]

#TEAMBrownishGoldAndBlueishWhite

[@witchcraft2264]

LoonyBoB I agree with you guys. I wonder how it would look if I saw it as white and gold or blue and black

[@CrazyPhilMachine]

SciShow I used to see Black and Blue, then a couple of hours later I saw Gold and White, THEN Black and Blue, now Gold and white. WHY AM I CHANGING? IS IT PUBERTY?

[@ddotcomm]

lolol

[@stoicfloor]

It's due to your menopause

[@MrKmanrambo]

It's called special snowflake syndrome, you should get that checked out because its really bad for your mental health.

[@CelestineTheConfused]

It used to be blue and black. Now it's blue and gold to me 😑

[@Jzprice1]

Same happened to me

[@MicroBlogganism]

Apparently I'm no one.. I see the muddy colours that are actually in the image.

[@halsoy]

Yeah, I only saw the dress as a stand alone image. To me it's just washed out colors that are neither white, gold, blue or black. It's just a terrible photo.

[@MicroBlogganism]

halsoy Exactly

[@SolidSt]

same

[@sweetlyluv8603]

I saw that, too, but the colors are close to blue and black so I just went with it. Like I knew it was a bad picture, but I understood how the dress was suppose to look like.

[@alexmetamorphosis4200]

i see it as brown and blue actually xD xXx

[@Killy4Mac]

Yep, it totally is.

[@demonbirdsirene]

Same

[@siphon3649]

Same

[@MisterrTheEditor]

holy fuck you're emo rawr xd

[@alexmetamorphosis4200]

i'm not an emo? xD

[@shadowgirl00]

The really creepy thing about a perception shift is when you view the same picture differently sometimes once you know what is going on. Day before yesterday, because I thought the headline was silly (it was simply asking what colour was this dress), I saw white and gold, but when I actually bothered to read the headline, and saw the picture again I saw a faded blue and black dress. I thought the image was an animated gif, but no matter how many times I refreshed or checked the location of the image, it was the same image. Even creepier for a long while I would shift between those two images, at one point I saw it the white and gold shift into blue and black. After all that I decided it was best to stop looking at the picture for my sanity.

[@partytor11]

What I wish to know is why humans form "sides" and have an Us vs Them mentality when they are split into two or more groups. Even when it is something as trivial as a photo of a shirt.

[@PrimeSonic]

It's an old, lingering survival instinct. Our primitive ancestors had to band into tribes to survive. And often the competition for scarce resources would mean that an "other" tribe would pose a serious threat to the survival of yours. People create "tribes" all the time. Just look at school cliques, politics, professional sports, religions, and just about anything that gives people both a sense of belonging as well as a clear line showing who are those that don't belong with them.

[@Satsaru]

PrimeSonicYT Yep, the nail on the head. Tribalism and otherism at work. The tribe forms by people who agree on this one thing, and otherism goes to work by making anyone not part of that group the "other"; the opposite tribe to compete with.

[@yoshidude01]

I cannot see the White. Seriously. I see Blue and Black.

[@XONXRaptor]

you are problay coler blene ceck out my channle

[@yoshidude01]

I'm not Color Blind. And learn how to spell properly.

[@XONXRaptor]

sory ie wil lern howe too spel k

[@ArvMC]

very light blue -> white

[@zone07]

I see white/yellow but my kid sees blue/black. You're okay.

[@theskargul]

Happy anniversary everyone! #BlackAndBlue

[@TheInfiniteLunacy]

I'm seeing powder blue and caramel. is that normal?

[@joeclone345]

You have a bad case of attention hunger

[@sststr]

That's what I saw the first time I saw the picture, and those are the true colors per the RGB values. Both the blue/black and white/gold people are, in fact, wrong :P Which makes the entire argument all the more hilarious.

[@mickeymoose636]

The actual dress is blue and black, but the colors of the photo are what you are seeing.

[@skates3540]

Don't worry, me too

[@jwapptastic]

So most people easily see the powder blue and caramel but say different colors because they assume it based off of light conditions, or are they actually seeing these different color sets? I'm seeing light blue and caramel too.

[@ryPish]

For the love of the Holy Dollar Sign, can we stop talking about this dress already? There are tons of similar and more interesting color illusions to discuss. Also, it's blue and black, get over it.

[@woodfur00]

Some of us care about understanding a unique phenomenon with no readily obvious explanation, which is, I'll point out, the point of science. I'm sorry you can't deal with the entirety of Tumblr _also_ being interested in understanding the phenomenon and have apparently decided that, after all of a day, this image is too mainstream to be interesting in any way.

[@Kahadi]

woodfur00 I think his point is more that there's many older examples of this kind of illusion/situation, the dress isn't unique at all. as a result, he's tired of so many people insisting that the dress image is unique when it truly isn't. he isn't saying the illusion/situation isn't interesting, just that there's nothing unique about this particular one

[@woodfur00]

tubefan90000 I believe that, but I'd be interested to see the examples you're talking about.

[@ryPish]

woodfur00 I replied earlier but I think links get filtered out. Do you mean things like this? watch?v=z9Sen1HTu5o By the way, I can't be held responsible of any mind getting blown. 

[@jml21000]

and now the 'get over it' brigade begins. Just as predictable as the taking sides carry on that Hank speaks of.

[@Neha71580]

#TEAMWhiteAndGold YES HANK!

[@sirtophamhatt552]

and then immediately says it's black and blue.

[@Neha71580]

Steven Barhorst But he sees it white and gold bro. That's all the proof I need :D

[@sirtophamhatt552]

That's fair I guess

[@howllevi251]

Neha Kapoor well you are still wrong mate , hank said it himself the color isnt gold and white ... whats the reason to be happy in the first place?

[@Neha71580]

poids lf Because even though I know it's not actually white and gold, there's this community in the world that does see white and gold, and Hank is one of us :D

[@cherrellbovain9138]

Am I the only one who can see both??? ...not at the same time, but I can see both color combos...

[@marinadoholici5303]

+Cherrell Bovain you're not alone, i can also see both versions

[@cherrellbovain9138]

Marina Doholici good to know, thanx

[@SuperCookie-ws6df]

+Elcie 2015 me to

[@stxnw]

+Marina Doholici It means you are stupid.

[@noahbowers719]

One time I saw white and gold but never again...

[@malignor9035]

When my wife showed me the picture and I said "uhhh blue and black... (wtf is this about?)" and she said white and gold, I was *convinced* she was trying to set me up for a joke. I still lack whatever it is that lets someone see white and gold. I mean, the background brightness creates a context which (to my brain) *always* makes the dress blue and black by comparison. It's instinctive and obvious.

[@icecoldmeat4046]

The same thing happen to me before school started today, my friend showed me the picture, and we all agree that it was blue and black. But when my other friend came by and saw the picture, he saw white and good.

[@icecoldmeat4046]

Gold*

[@TheHarleyEvans]

my brain is perfect, i percieved the colours perfectly, i saw all the pulled colours of the image in the actual image and also pecieved the dress to be black and blue whilst also recognising that the image wasn't completely true to blue and black

[@TheJetnerd]

Have a cookie for that first sentence... That's why people hate this whole thing because people tend to do this as soon as it is revealed.

[@TheHarleyEvans]

it was sarcasm xD i've known the true colour for ages, but il take that cookie anyways tyvm!

[@RobloxHacksForMac]

Have all of MY COOKIES! 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

[@TheJetnerd]

TheHarleyEvans i got the plot twist of destiny: in the morning it was TOTALLY white and blue. i've shown it to my parents some minutes ago and now its TOTALLY black and blue. They dont believe me im seeing it, I can believe everything. My brain is just........ dunno. First i thought it was because of the screen (first seeing it on an ipod, 2nd time on a s4) If you were truly sarkastic about it sorry, but i've seen to mayn dipshits about this dress, you were just the one i' blamed :3

[@NobbsAndVagene]

That means I actually DO see it the way it really looks! SO YOU'RE WRONG, HANK! Some people actually do see it for how it really looks like, and I can't be the only one - even if I'm in quite the minority. (I see it as the pixels were when blown up; some kind of dingy lavender and dirty/brownish gold)

[@LoonyBoB]

You're not the only one. +1 for me, and some guy elsewhere in the comments I replied to as well.

[@legodude6912]

Brownies unite!

[@robint9968]

Same, i see it just the way he says NO ONE sees it. (1:25) How is this seen to others? do the colors he "upscale" go from being white on the dress to blue in the square? that seems incredibly odd to me.

[@bunny12391]

Same. Do you also happen to be color blind. I am

[@earth2jio]

They really don't. The actual dress itself looks nothing like what people perceived it to be.

[@StraightChillin90]

What does it mean if I've seen it both ways and it sometimes changes from minute to minute? Am I broken? SEND HELP!

[@Trillin09]

StraightChillin90 Your eyes could Chang their focus every few milaseconds

[@vasuraju7302]

lack of concentrtion. see only dress cover words woth hand

[@1h5-i8h]

He has the Sharangan! Be careful!

[@deancuban894]

blue and black master race

[@d0tz_]

so... the original is blue and black and the picture taken makes it look white and gold, can we all just blame it on the image then?

[@xinic5]

NO! the original dress is black and blue not blue and black!!!!

[@PickleoPickleton]

xinic5 You just need to stop.

[@xinic5]

Pickleo Pickleton Stop? No, I'll never stop! I will simply no longer continue to do what I was just doing.

[@PickleoPickleton]

xinic5 Please just... Let me hang myself, at least.

[@SMEbeats]

Lol

[@sendnoodles239]

Let's do this team blue and black

[@ashib1735]

#BlueandBlackteam go

[@MariosPOS]

was I the only one that saw the colors that were actually in the pic ?

[@TDrudley]

I was just about to say something about this. It's clearly not gold or black. It's beige/brown and blue, but a lot lighter blue than the black blue one.

[@sunlightswift]

I do too but maybe its my color blindness? I have red protonopia

[@epicman13ful]

Seriously, people are saying it changes for them but for me it's always been light blue and brown.

[@JGrffn]

I see it white and gold, but a few hours ago it changed to black and blue before my eyes before changing back to white and gold after around a minute or two. The wonders of perception!

[@Vakito227]

Person: How will our universe end? Society: Who the hell cares? Person: What colour is this dress? Society: OH MY GOD DROP EVERYTHING, WE NEED TO FIND THIS OUT NOW!

[@CheeseTaterson]

I knew it was black and blue from the beginning, from looking not at the dress itself, but the parts of the picture around it to see how incredibly bright the lighting is everywhere else, and knowing how various colors look when washed out (yay art background!). Was weird to me hearing how passionately folks would argue the other side, even after I explained it to them or showed them directly putting black office chairs toward a window and having them see the different hues that would show in the lit side vice the parts still behind the wall. But on the flipside, there were also a lot of photoshopped versions of the pic floating around with the values messed with in order to push it definitively to one side or the other.

[@saytwoo]

You

[@Zaphod313]

But that's the problem: the lighting is not uniformly bright everywhere in the photo. Coming back to this after many years, the only way I managed to see the dress as properly black and blue (the upper half of the image still throws me off) is by imagining an artificial scenario of overlaying a yellowish rectangle set to the screen blend mode in Photoshop on top of the properly calibrated image. It's still very counterintuitive and very unnatural thinking of it this way, but it's the only thing that helps, and it leads me to the conclusion that the photo was possibly deceptively altered. What I see is as follows: the top right of the image shows an overexposed source of light. The middle part of the right-hand side is still overexposed, but as the floor gets closer to the camera, it starts regaining color. This makes my eyes believe that the back of the dress must be in more of a shade than everything in front of it, because the light is gradually getting dimmer (even if it could be just a shadow cast from the left or right in that particular spot). More importantly, the left-hand side shows a sliver of a leopard-pattern dress whose very top part is in very striking black and yellow, even when accounting for possible low contrast: there's no yellow "screen" blowing its blacks up there, and it seems to be fully and well lit, at least as well as its slightly more faded bottom half. If the black and blue dress were lit similarly, there's no reason that it would appear that washed out comparatively. None of these context clues point me to the impression that the back of the dress must be drastically washed out/overexposed. Does it make sense to think of this scene as having a uniform yellow filter all over it, when there's clues about a clear gradation in contrast between the different blacks? Does it make sense that a completely black material would reflect such a (relatively) bright gold shine in a shadow? Ultimately, I think it's a matter of pattern recognition based on experience. I still very much see the pixels for what they are, which is light lavender and golden brown. Looking at the photo side by side with the corrected version helps see it for what it is. I don't think that there's an obvious right answer here, and I believe it's more of a shot in the dark and chance that lead some to the correct interpretation from inconclusive and incomplete context clues. Edit: If the right side shows a mirror, which is most likely, then it would make more sense that that the back would be washed out with a light pointed directly at it. The shadow on the floor then must be interpreted as very limited in size and/or as being cast by one of the dresses. Still a very strange photo when accounting for the leopard dress... A very strong light from the back is overblowing the blacks on the black&blue dress, but not on the top left of the leopard dress, meaning it's in more of a shade?

[@Petymeg8105]

First I saw white and gold, till I saw a gif, where the dress was slowly changing color from white and gold to black and blue. Since then I see the dress black and blue. Interesting.

[@DrMatthewGonzales]

My English teacher used this to teach us about perspectives in writing.

[@juliannamarton6193]

yas she did

[@DrMatthewGonzales]

Julianna Marton yass

[@geniusboss3529]

Ah just like my life, when my wife tells me to pick up the garbage I hear it as have some beer and take a nap

[@collinpotter5476]

I DONT NEED ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT THIS

[@lukeusername]

Collin Potter Well I do!

[@erkhesb2579]

I'm glad I'm in the minorty, makes me feel special.

[@yournamehere9928]

+Erkhes Batjargal What's also strange is that no matter how much lighting there is on that picture of the dress, I always see it as black and blue.

[@menacedemort2878]

+Erkhes Batjargal you must be white

[@erkhesb2579]

Chris Mentalist hell nah.

[@menacedemort2878]

+Erkhes Batjargal you part of a minority? I know it makes you feel special, but in the real world, being part of a minority doesn't make you feel that special. on behalf of the minority I am part of

[@erkhesb2579]

Chris Mentalist Jesus fucking christ fam. Of course I'm racially a monority infact my people combined make only 0.0004% of the earth's population. I'm clearly talking about a fucking COLOR, not fucking race and ethnicity you bigot.

[@Slashstar314]

Oh, I get it, it's like those ambiguous drawings you see where you could either see it two ways depending on how the eyes are comfortable with seeing it, but instead of shapes, this is color perception. I'm team black and blue, by the way. :) My eyes are more comfortable naturally interpreting it that way, just like others will see the white and gold, the opposite threshold. Fascinating stuff.

[@briandunfrey9692]

You could be on to something.

[@PlanetPuar]

I see it both ways

[@paxpacis2]

I just don't get how lighting can make black appear gold. I've never seen that happen ever. However white is never true white and even though it's light blue in the picture it looks like white to me

[@MrSuamps]

It is the yellow lighting, check this pic of BLACK controllers: rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzEyLzA3L2ZhL3BzNHhib3hvbmVjLjg3MTU1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4NjI3IwplCWpwZw/0948d071/292/ps4-xbox-one-controller.jpg

[@skates3540]

Yeah, but those controllers don't really look gold, not at all like the dress.

[@IceMetalPunk]

It's because of white balance more than lighting. The black is reflective enough to have gray highlights, and the white balance is skewed enough to suck blue channels way down. The result is a color with less blue than red and green---a yellow/gold color.

[@akimbo5u]

check the ASAP science channel video it explains it

[@angeldude101]

It's because in reality, the colour is closer to orange or brown than black or gold, making either step shorter.

[@FalkFlak]

Black/blue Team convinced me. Now I'm always wearing black and blue cloth when I go for jogging in the evening. You know, to be better seen by drivers at night, like the bright colours in the picture.

[@jamdoodles]

>_< I see a dark blue with brownish-gold/orange.

[@mikelanier3905]

Knowing you as someone who has played with Photoshop for years I'm sadly dissapointed in you.

[@jamdoodles]

I did color-correct it in Photoshop during the big hurrah a few days ago and still see a really dark gold-brown/burnt orange in the bits what're said to be black! It's got to be some velvety fabric what diffuses light through a fuzzy surface or something. Of course, true black is actually pretty rare in physical objects so far as I know, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that you can find color there. Even matte black paint rarely looks like absence of color to me.

[@mikelanier3905]

It simply looks like the exposure is blown out, as if you turn the contrast down and the brightness up. Everyone keeps trying to go into complex explanations of white balance, it's like no one has asked a photographer. Chim, can keep get an assist? Andrew Beckwith​

[@jamdoodles]

I did that, like I already said. It's still not straight black to my eye. Could be reflecting other objects, could be the fabric, could be my poor eyesight, could be people don't look at things closely enough. Could be anything. The interesting thing that you and vast numbers of other people are missing is how, even without knowing how photography works, people's brains are filling in for what's poorly-depicted in the photo. At no point does it look even remotely white to me, even without faffing around in photoshop, yet the majority of people's brains are making it white. That's interesting, no matter how boring you insist on being.

[@mikelanier3905]

It is simply what all cameras do to blacks with an over exposed picture. The grain is even blown out. I understand that a lot of people do not get the nuances of colors, especially when over exposed photos. A good example is my work shirts. They are a tinge of blue. My company and all of my coworkers insist they are grey. It's simply not a neutral grey. None of them work with photos, Photoshop, or anything to do with art and color as a whole. I can easily see why people are calling it white. It's stupid, not boring. It's straight ignorance at best.

[@thegirlwhoisme]

Its been 8 years since the world went into a frenzy over what seemed to be an innocent picture of a dress. EIGHT YEARS. I wouldve bet my life and my first born child that this dress is white and GOLD!!! But………a little bit of weed and some mindless scrolling on tiktok later…here i am suddenly faced with this dreaded argument inducing dress and i, without skipping a beat, immediately said “thats black and blue”. I wish you all could’ve seen my face when i realized that the words that had just slipped out of my mouth had contradicted everything i ever believed about this dress!! 😭😭😭 all in all i will say the dress is Cursed!!!!!

[@thatfactguy4042]

2:55 Even the version edited to look black and blue looks white and gold

[@JTT126]

That's why its important to keep an open mind. Just bc we can't see things one way doesn't mean it's not true or possible

[@wiselord5]

I was able to see both at different times

[@kiitttenzuzu7600]

I see it as purple and brown tbh. And I took multiple colourblindness tests and am not in any way colourblind. o___o

[@Egonkiller]

RingoIta You are both correct about the brown, but the pruple is blue sorry.

[@attcat]

The dress is fluorescent pink and lime green

[@wiktormarcinkowski9904]

True

[@mariauva6409]

Pastlife17 no

[@Dangermad]

Pastlife17 WTF did your eyes just do go to a eye doctor

[@gabbyomahoney1593]

The Running Chaser. *AN eye doctor

[@urdad9506]

IKR

[@darkfightlight1939]

All i'am getting is that team black and blue have better perception than team white and gold.

[@Yal_Rathol]

all i'm getting is that team black and blue have trouble with white light.

[@estaleelocke9729]

+Yal Rathol they dont believe in purity?...

[@estaleelocke9729]

+Estalee Locke or at least have trouble with it

[@Yal_Rathol]

Estalee Locke ......no. literal white light.

[@nocap9382]

yaaaaay, i guess, if you know how to define perception, you cant really say we have better perception, as he said, when you define something and see it that way, it is hard to unsee it, hope you know what i am going for here

[@RokuRG]

Umm... I did see the dress as purple and dark green/brown from the beginning.

[@PolyphonicPress]

You might be colourblind.

[@RokuRG]

Polyphonic Press Haha, why? It was purple and dark green/brown when he "pulled out" those colours.

[@PolyphonicPress]

Kanimir Well, you're either colourblind or you're in the .00000000000000001% of people who see the actual colours of the picture. Maybe it's brain tumour!

[@RokuRG]

Polyphonic Press I still don't see how seeing those colours makes me colourblind :D Or how is it connected to brain tumour D:

[@quiroz923]

MAYBE YOU'RE AN X-MAN!!

[@johnmatthews2227]

I personally at one point saw the colors change before my eyes...pretty creepy (wasn't a gif) And nice shirt ;)

[@hydzz09]

Did the same with me, really freaked me out.

[@johnmatthews2227]

hydzz09 I was like rolling on the floor almost screaming 😀

[@hydzz09]

I spent the entire day questioning the world and trying to explain to my sister how lucky she was to have only seen it in black and blue lol

[@ChenMakesVids]

I looked again and it was black and blue suddenly and I was like WHAT is this the same image??! This cant be the same image! I seriously thought everyone is trolling that it's a blue dress

[@jasminmalek8966]

Same!!!! It was so weird!

[@oepcjshe8eiofuh42h85]

MY FATHER SAW IT GREEN AND YELLOW WHAT THE FUCK IM HIGHLY CONCERNED RIGHT NOW

[@NickRoman]

Wait, but which was green and which was yellow?

[@informalnarwhals]

I saw it as white + gold when scrolling past it on my tumblr dash, so when next to all the white, as he mentioned, my brain probably interpreted it as white + gold in motion. But remember that spinning sillouhette girl gif? That was straight up perception and no one even fought over it, lol.

[@kimberlyw2591]

I saw it as lavender and beige the first time I saw it and I still see it that way. Glad to know that's actually what the photograph portrays :)

[@brendanheaney7372]

I see it as a cheap dress with goldish brown and light whitish blue. Am I the only one?

[@franziska1007]

yes, for me it also depends on the background of the webpage it is on. with the whithe background (or neutral, just something else than blue) it is also light blue and brownish to me

[@uhohhotdog]

No that's what everyone sees they just don't say blue because it's so light.

[@minigunuser25]

orayole Its not what everyone sees

[@uhohhotdog]

tEHFRECKLEZ Normal people that is

[@1BlueYoshi]

Thanks, science.

[@genericuser1454]

I first saw blue and black. Every time after I saw white and gold.

[@ketchup901]

Wait. People _actually_ saw it as gold and white?

[@uhohhotdog]

Yes because that's what it is

[@ketchup901]

orayole Did you watch the video?

[@GraveyardRomance]

Yes. I saw bothm

[@UnknownXV]

Yes Ketchup, in fact the majority see it that way. It's quite curious.

[@Natchler]

***** no, regardless of the real dress being blue, the actual colours of the photo are blueish and brownish, as shown in the video, so it could be argued that your eyes are the ones not functioning properly. and what about negatives, where the pictures are literally exactly the opposite colour of what is being pictured, you wouldn't argue that your eyes don't work right because they are seeing what the picture is, not what was originally pictured.

[@thepurplepumpkin953]

I say green and pink... PLOT TWIST

[@joshuawaters5746]

TOP TEN ANIME PLOT TWISTS

[@escestonia]

Wtf green and pink

[@kabehancelik6319]

ThePurplePumpkin 😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🌹🌹🌹

[@ockertoustesizem1234]

fax

[@joepublic3933]

freak

[@kraakenhex8459]

I hate to completely disagree with you, but there isn't any argument about the original picture, it's definitely Gold. Like not in an arbitrary, "seems gold to me" kind of way, I put the picture into photoshop, and did the color dropper from the gold part of the dress, and EVERY gold part of the dress. It is always in the gold spectrum. I mean if the white balance was off to the degree that it made the black part seem brown/gold, then a better question would be what color is this PICTURE of the dress. I mean perception be damned, I'm not asking you to take my word for it, put it into photoshop, color dropper the part that seems gold, look at the spectrum, it's gold. It's not a matter of opinion what the color of the picture is. You think I'm lying? Do this yourself, then come talk to me. The white part will have a blueish hue, I admit that much, but look how high up it will be on the color picker, it's closer to pure white in most parts than it is to true "blue". So fine. It's Gold and "very light blue". I could take a picture of a stop sign and tint it orange with photoshop, sure the ACTUAL sign is red, the picture is still orange.

[@JC19021]

It's more of a dirty brown, also the "white" people see is definitely blue when sampled. No one is really correct.

[@PAPP0NE]

if you look at other pictures of the dress you see it is black and blue, and the same model doesn't exist in any other color

[@redfern6281]

Mate it's black and blue. I see it as white and Gold but there were some more pictures of it and it's definitely black and blue

[@PAPP0NE]

king Arachnidia i saw it in both colors, first white and gold and the second time blue and black, so i can understand people being wierded out if you tell them that they see something different than reality

[@Silverizael]

Except the actual dress IS blue and black. i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--YnzKfMvY--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/hzr4ubgjrnksvaz4mdym.jpg So, those of us that see it that way in the picture are seeing the true colors of the dress and visually filtering out the horrible white balance.

[@CalvinHikes]

Love the black background.

[@no_one161]

I have seen both the colors haha I feel so lucky because I believe in everyone no matter what they see... I see it black n blue mostly but for few seconds I have seen it golden n white

[@viziq9701]

I just love your voice. My ADHD brain can continue listening to you and focus. So weird lol

[@marrowstone3140]

Back in high school everyone complained about his voice being too fast etc when we watched his lessons in class. But I was able to actually understand him and keep focus! (Our Psychology teacher liked his videos) I also have ADHD. Huh. Glad to know I'm not crazy!

[@vScribo]

to all these hipsters saying its about your emotions !

[@XONXRaptor]

like if the dress is gold and white or you will hurt my emotions

[@kawaiikurwa]

its pink and purple pls stop oppressing me

[@Sebby_Nineteen]

I've seen both. I saw the dress gold and white, go to church, come back, and the whole thing has changed. I was very perplexed.