whoever get this confused has never fix the white balance of a picture's color temperature
Relevant recent news article...
Fun Fact: The same day, February 26, 2015, the Interwebz blew the fuck up about this goddamn dress, some Llamas escaped from captivity and we were all equally captivated by their chase for hours, it was an amazing 24 hours online
The colour picker continues to tell me that it is a light shade of blue, near white, and a medium shade of brown, similar to gold.
Not this shit again!
https://imagecolorpicker.com/en for those seeing white and gold. Also the screen you're looking at it on matters so much.
Edit: I did find a neat bug with DarkReader on though. It reads the white pixels as black with the magnifier on the right. Even turning off it's still pretty blue and white... Apparently it actually pulls the color judging by what your screen shows though... which is pretty neat all considering. The crosshair is on the large white empty space to the right of the large black stripe in the middle.
DarkReader off: https://i.imgur.com/0ofjl8W.png
DarkReader on: https://i.imgur.com/OpcDGCH.png
This dress is now connected to a murder attempt. Don't believe me? Here you go.
White and gold
Logically I realize the "white" is bluish-gray, especially if I stretch it out to the edges of my phone so I'm not influenced by the backlighting in the photo. But I held it up next to my black cat and the "black" isn't even close. At most it's brown, which is what gold looks like in shadow. Compare it to your background if you're on night mode, or your text if not. No black there.
I always see lavender and gold, dunno if I should worry or not.
Only thing that allowed me to see the incorrect colours
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fblq7g958qt061.gif
So about an hour ago I was showing this to my wife, we both saw white and gold and thought this is silly. But now somehow I am seeing blue and black and she is still seeing white and gold. Fuck me.
No. Blue and Gold.
Somehow this feels older than rage comics.
I see the defendant guilty of attempted murder and considering the severity of the crime I hereby sentence the defendant to 15 years in prison.
It's a black and blue dress that looks white and gold in washed out sunlight.
It turns out that some materials play with light in ways that seem unexpected, and our rigid definitions of color don't always fit well around them.
I’ve seen this both ways in the past but something cool is happening right now.
First I saw white and gold when this scrolled up into my feed.
Now that I’m in the thread (in a client that has Dark Mode), if I spend a few seconds reading comments and then scroll UP to the picture, it looks blue & black for a second and then that FADES into white and gold.
How blue and black can fade into white and gold I can’t explain but it’s happening right in front of my eyes.
Just depends on what lighting your brain perceives it. I see it as black and blue so clearly in the thumbnail.
When opening up the full image, it's white-and-gole. Light properties and additive/subtractive colors be wilding.
Still white and gold even after all these years, though I did see blue and black once, but that was with the corner of my eye then.
I've never seen black, only gold and white or gold and blue
It always depends on the saturation of the image. When it's fucked up and darkened, it appears blue and black. When lightened, it shows the true white and gold.
White and gold today.
Oh, not again...
I see brownish gold and bluish white. I can never make the gold entirely black nor the white entirely blue.
It's black and blue.
You know what? Blue and gold.
It's still amazing to me how much this screws with people. That not everyone experiences things the same way shouldn't be a hard concept.
Not again. This dress messed up my whole world view.
White and gold obviously.
Scrolls down....reads some comments....scroll back up.
WTF, how did that happen. Now it's black and blue.
Always been black and blue for me. Never been able to see it as white and gold.
I've seen both. Blue and black more though
I see tremendous sadness everywhere I look, overtaking the entirety of humankind and sending us into a spiral towards the vast, infinite void of the unknown; the final, peaceful reprieve we struggle to prevent.
Jk white and gold.
Edit: now blue and gold. I hate this picture sometimes.
So I can only see white and gold, but if I angle my phone away from me and look at the side, it turns black and blue. When I straighten it out again, back to white and gold.
It's always been white and gold.
I generally see the black and blue, but I find it pretty easy to see the white and gold too if I focus on the top part of the image.
Me and my gf are looking at the same picture on the same screen. I see gold and white and she sees black and blue. What the actual fuck?
I've seen both, but right now, I'm seeing black and blue.
Ahh, the black and white dress, good times.
2015 called, it wants its trends back
I'm looking at the image on a very high quality OLED screen. On an OLED, it's very obviously NOT black. You can see the top of the dress in the light and it's not at all black. The black on my screen makes that incredibly obvious. Who cares what it is in real life, I'm not judging that, I'm judging the image and black is not a part of the dress, in this image.
The Guardian's image is black and blue. The image in this thread IS NOT. My eyes may look red in a photo, that doesn't mean they're really red. An image is not a perfect reflection of reality.
