• Star
    1•2 years ago

    I saw white and gold. Then I squinted and blinked to try and change my perspective and I got blue! And gold… so now I see blue and gold 🤷

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•2 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      Same here. I was looking at this like an hour ago and it was blue/black, now I saw this post again and it’s white/gold…

      Same device, no matter if I change screen brightness or ambient lighting in the room

      I’m not religious, but I’m gonna call priest

  • @[email protected]
    10•2 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      Black garments aren’t ever perfectly black, vanta black is as close as it gets, but depending on the lighting “black” materials will absolutely reflect some light. The dress is actually blue and black and the reason people see it differently is to do with how our brains try to colour correct for lighting conditions.

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        So are you saying it’s being hit with a strong yellow light? Why then is the black and white thing on the far left still showing as black?

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 years ago

          It’s on a clothes rack, it’s more obscured from the light source than the dress which is being held up for the photo. See the top right of the picture? Real bright yellow.

          Bottom right of the picture? White or off-white surface, I can’t quite tell if its carpet or not.

          This picture was taken in the afternoon facing a window in the direction of the setting sun.

          If you’re seeing white and gold your brain is assuming a cold blue light like morning or fluorescent lighting and skewing the colours.

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 years ago

            No, my brain is assuming a bright yellow light coming from behind, leaving the front of the dress in shadow.

  • @[email protected]
    6•2 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      11•2 years ago

      Same here. When this was new I had 10 tabs open with articles about this dress, they were all white and gold. Then all of a sudden on the 11th tab I saw it as blue and black and thought it was a different picture. Went back through the other 10 tabs and they were all blue and black now.

      I was able to see white and gold once more a few days later, but it was short lived and I haven’t been able to see anything else but blue and black for years now.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
        5•2 years ago

        I was convinced that half the internet was just lying back then, like one big global troll fest, especially since everyone I knew saw the same white and gold as I did. But just now my wife suddenly saw it as blue and black and she thinks I’m crazy, even though we both saw it as white and gold back in the day. So now I finally know that people were telling the truth.

  • loafEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    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.