Today the internet lost its collective mind, and so everyone finds themselves arguing about what colour a dress is.
This dress, in case you haven’t seen it:
Some people see it as white and gold. Others, black and blue. As a result of this optical madness, the internet is tearing itself apart…and also making jokes, as it tends to do. The dress has become a meme! God isn’t real after all.
Here are some of the nerdier jokes about the dress floating around the web:
Is this cape white and gold or blue and black? Either way it looks longer than your average cloak or cape. pic.twitter.com/KejJxM0zQo
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) February 27, 2015
Took a picture of my special edition white and gold PlayStation 4 controller! pic.twitter.com/TBueiEYfwC
— Nick Chester (@nickchester) February 27, 2015
you know the only place im fre from the this fucking bull shit dress business?? anime
— paipo no shūringa (@isshikisenpai) February 27, 2015
— Sean McElwee (@SeanMcElwee) February 27, 2015
Professor Layton and the Dress of Controversy. Coming soon to Nintendo 3DS
— Dovi [Sephiroth1204] (@Sephiroth1204) February 27, 2015
Ive been staring at the fucking dress waiting for it to change like its a fucking pokemon tryin to evolve
— Gotenks (@GarrettMcElwain) February 27, 2015
We started the What Colors Are This Dress trending topic to confuse the masses. You can thank us later.
— THE ILLUMINATI (@ThelIluminati) February 27, 2015
The color of the dress is GIF.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) February 27, 2015
Do I care about the color of the dress? N O O o o o o 。 。 . . . .
— WSHH (@WORIDSTARHIPH0P) February 27, 2015
TOAD SHUT UP ABOUT THE PRINCESS FOR A MINUTE AND JUST TELL ME… WHAT COLORS ARE HER DRESS?! pic.twitter.com/NWrS0DGiAh
— Eric Bailey (@Nintendo_Legend) February 27, 2015
Is the dress black and blue? Will Goku save the day? HOW MANY SUPER SAIYAN LEVELS WILL HE NEED TO FIGURE OUT THE ANSWER? FIND OUT NEXT WEEK
— Joe T (@BoyInABarrel) February 27, 2015
me because of the dress pic.twitter.com/hAmZ8lrZw6
— Funny Quotes (@FunnyQuotees) February 27, 2015
https://twitter.com/Warcraft
the dress is only 5 hours long
— Ryan Letourneau (@NorthernlionLP) February 27, 2015
Whatever you do, don’t look up the results for What Colors Are This Dress on WebMD. Because either way, it’ll say you have cancer
— Eliza Bayne (@ElizaBayne) February 27, 2015
IS THIS STAR WHITE AND GOLD OR BLACK AND BLUE?? WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE pic.twitter.com/W37JsiH7RP
— Rock Band (@RockBand) February 27, 2015
Net neutrality passed, which is huge, but what colour is this dress? We might deserve to lose our rights.
— Devon Bostick (@devbostick) February 27, 2015
The XSEED office is being torn to pieces over a dress…
— XSEED Games (@XSEEDGames) February 27, 2015
Blue and black
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) February 27, 2015
It’s not about what color the dress is. It’s about ethics in gaming journa
— JAD (@duffellduffell) February 27, 2015
Okay that’s enough stupid dress for today. Going to play some games and watch Porn or something idk.
— FurFur (@Furdust) February 27, 2015
I’d rather participate in The Hunger Games than listen to people argue about the colors of a dress
— Spencer Eastwood (@spenceast) February 27, 2015
i come on and the entire internet is fighting about the color of a dress. goodbye.
— proud idjit ali (@jackrabbit323) February 27, 2015
My room mate: “goddamit this dress is on 4chan with SEVENTEEN THREADS”
— Jxremy (@JtThomas59) February 27, 2015
My mom interrupted my anime watching to talk to me about that dress fucking hell smh this meme has gone too far
— Nnnnnnnnsatsuki (@natsatstar) February 27, 2015
This dress shit is more confusing than the time I found my xbox controller in the freezer
— humberto (@OfficialHumby) February 27, 2015
The dress is the color of flaming hot cheetos &cheeto puffcorn bitch i swear 2 god ill murk everyone shut up im trying to play call of duty
— yung cheeto (@cheetosRsoGood) February 27, 2015
People have even found the dress on Amazon, and are leaving silly reviews for it:
This is how the world ends.
[Top photo source: iCarbons]
Comments
37 responses to “The Internet Reacts To The Colour Of That Dress”
Can’t believe how huge this is gotten.
And it’s white and gold for me. All the time.
Yep, white and gold. I can’t see how you can see it as black and blue unless you are colourblind.
It’s crazy though, because people in my office are seeing both on the same monitor. Was reading that the gold (black) and white (blue) fall on the the edge of the spectrum of colour change so it’s just how your brain reacts to it.
White and gold on my phone. Blue and gold on my work PC.
I don’t know where the ‘white’ is coming from, but I see blue and gold. For the record, Adobe just tweeted that it’s conclusively blue and brown-ish gold via Lightroom.
I also see blue and gold pretty confused by all this :\
I clearly saw white and gold earlier today and now i see blue and black on the same monitor.
I don’t know whats real any more.
I’m gonna have to reevaluate my life…
I don’t get it. I can see both sets of colours depending on if I focus on the dark or light stripes. =/
For me I can see both depending on the angle I’m viewing it on the monitor. Accurate digital colour reproduction depends on a lot of factors. If I view it on my phone I can tilt the phone and view all the various colours!
All I could see was white and gold, but after reading your comment I did ye olde magic eye trick and then I could see blue and black. After I refocused my eyes, it went back to white and gold.
That was a fun minute or so.
*shrug*
Articles like this make me wish I follow better people on Twitter, so many good reactions.
It is just a bad picture nothing more.
for the record i see blue and black and blue and gold not at all do i see white.
The white part just comes from seeing the blue much lighter. This comment here was the best explanation I’ve seen about it
http://gawker.com/youre-not-correcting-for-light-levels-this-is-the-dres-1688353366
Thanks for that link.
On another note after completely calling out my wifes comments about this on facebook i may soon be a single man.
et tu, kotaku?
It’s definitely blue and black, everyone else has the wrong colour profile set for their monitor.
The problem with claims like this is people are seeing it completely different upon seperate inspections despite viewing on the same monitor. I think that’s why it blew up in part. It’s easy enought for MOST to dismiss individual differences, but when your own perception is altered in an uncontrollable way. It’s pretty trippy to experience first hand, I could only see white and gold a few hours ago no matter how hard to stared, now it’s the opposite.
Either way there’s a post floating around that explains it in relation to rods and cones, and if my undergrad days aren’t too rusty , this seems like the most sensible answer when you factor in altered perceptions under identical viewing conditions.
Um, you do realise that in reality it is a white and gold dress?
Its not its a blue and Black dress. The blogger that posted the dress showed it is a blue and black. Heck the news just covered it half an hour ago….
It’s blue and black. The original is blue and black. This image is edited so the contrast looks different to some people so the colours look different.
The person who took the photo said the dress is actually white and gold.
Source? This says it is blue and black: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/origin-of-white-gold-or-black-blue-dress-2015-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-Womens-Detail-Bodycon-Dress/dp/B00SJEUCWU
I see blue and gold and, for some strange reason, I now hate everyone who disagrees with me!
It’s gold and pale blue, I don’t see what the big deal is.
If people are seeing black they must have their brightness turned waaaay down.
The pale blue could also easily be white depending on the lighting.
But the gold bits are gold. Like the top of it is mustard coloured not vegemite coloured.
It’s a white dress.
I see black and blue all the time, on a wide variety of screens. According to a Wired.com article I’m pretty sure it is technically black and blue.
Im gunna be that guy and go ahead and say, who gives a shit. its a dress, whoopdefuckingdoo and it doesnt belong on this site or is kotaku US now also fulling the role of popsugar and the vine?
Who gives a shit? Obviously a whole lot of people!
The above pic – white & gold.
Other pics I’ve seen, Blue and Black.
I think in-person it is white & gold.
Seriously, look at the dress, go outside, come back and look at it again. People are messing with their brightness and contrast settings? That’s the best theory you geniuses come up with? What about every other colour that doesn’t get constantly misconstrued on a grand scale? Like, why isn’t that your first thought? Entirely eliminates the dumb theory.
It’s your eyes.
This is the best one though:
http://xkcd.com/1492/
Best explanation. And no words even necessary.
I still can’t see the black…
Unless maybe it’s one of those “black” colours that are actually gray…
Option three: Infrared absorbing, ultraviolet reflecting.
The actual dress in real life is black and blue. This photo has screwed up lighting that makes it look white and gold.
No, cretin, the actual dress is white and gold. Get your brain checked man, coz u must be trippin.
I seen both, same pictures different colors
wait, people seriously see this as black and blue?
i honestly thought it was a huge joke…
is it? fuck i’m confused.
It’s an accidental optical illusion, I took it for junk until I was scrolling through my FB feed and saw the post for the second time and it had changed, I originally saw it as white and gold and now suddenly it was black and blue, then when I came back later white and gold again. On this page I was able to control it by staring at the WoW cape and back at the dress and its black and blue again. It’s all about additive and subtractive colour perception that our eyes go through when light levels change, pretty amazing stuff.
Still a better love story than Twilight.
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/126/314/3cd8a33a.png
… I really don’t …
I was always terrible at these ‘magic eye’ things…. is it a pony, or a dolphin? I don’t know….
White and gold. Only one item had black. Y’all stupid. Cep’t me. F U Internet.
It is amazing! – some people actually say they can see a dress in all these colours! https://www.facebook.com/270183869659453/photos/a.891410737536760.1073741829.270183869659453/938150119529488/?type=1
Its blue and black. I see light blue and a very dark copper/gold, which is obviously due to lighting.
How anyone can see the blue as white is beyond me. The only way is to turn the brightness way way up, and even then its still light blue unless you’re squinting and really entertaining the idea that its white. The original picture is still clearly blue.
Apparently its about the rods in your eyes and how they adjust for lighting, but its confirmed to be blue and black. White and gold people just have inferior vision. I was next to someone in my office who still claimed white, amazing.