Article with original photo. Frankly, I see it as blue and gold this morning after I just woke up. I know that I've been able to see both of the other views (limited) when I viewed the photo when I was fully awake, but not right now.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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I see it obviously blue black, but I have some specific accessibility related colour filters on my screen that might influence this.
The photo looks different. I see the original as white and gold but this looks blue and black.
Edit: Fuck me, I'm looking at this again at night and it's back to white and gold... I guess my phone is on "night mode" now...
Never understood this one, or believed anyone who said they saw black/blue. You can zoom in and colour pick, the colours are measurable and objectively gold and blue-white.
This isn't the picture they used at the time either, why are we cropping it now?
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…shortly after, the internet broke people’s brains though addictive feed algorithms and everyone lost their minds. But then Lemmy was born to restore the internet to an early more fun time. Lemmy just hopes that one day it will have its own dress moment.
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I've only ever seen it as blue and black. I can't force it the other way like I could with Laurel and Yani. Y'all seeing white and gold astound me.
Crazy talk. White and gold only
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I never really understood the debate. In reality, if you were standing in front of the dress it is black and blue. Now, if you take a digital photo of the dress and post it on the internet as a terribly compressed jpg, with weird white balancing, and brightness/contrast turned up and down it is gold and white. The debate isn't really about the reality of the color of the dress but the reality of a badly edited photo.
if you take a digital photo of the [ ... thing ... ] and post it on the internet as a terribly compressed jpg
That sums up the entirety of the content on a number of popular subs on the R-word site.
Confusing perspective? No. More like confusing JPEG artifacts.
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It’s more about the colors around it. This image from Wikipedia does a really good job illustrating the effect.
Context is extremely important in identifying color. As Technology Connections tells us, for example, “brown is just orange with context.”
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And what everyone seemed to omit: the reality of peoples' wildly uncalibrated monitors/phone screens.
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Is it, though? Is this dress in the pic only white and gold to everyone who looks at the picture/the original?
I love the way everyone was saying it was white and gold.
Until the science came out.
And everyone claimed to have always seen blue and black.
Fun fact: I can see both.
Some times when I look at it it’s blue and black. Some times when I look at it it’s white and gold. I can make them flip back and forth.
Altering perception is cool.
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ARE YOU FR? WHO REMEMBERES THIS? IS THIS A SARCASTIC POST??? SAY SIKE OP
It kills me that no matter what, it is always white and gold for me, EVEN THOUGH REALITY SAYS OTHERWISE!
Yea i never see an ounce of black on there. That's fucking yellow.
I see blue stripes or white if standing in a shadow. But there is no black.
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10 years? No way