I can never see black and blue. I assume all those who claim to see black and blue are bots. fite me
Because no one has posted the other photos:
And this is a photo of the same dress taken under proper lighting:
The second photo is supposed to be the same dress? Looks like an homage, aka knock-off attempt to me. What happened to the shoulders?
Doesn’t look like the shoulder material is physically part of the dress… it’s probably a jacket or shaul.
I’ll double-check the source of the second photo, but it looks like the original picture is taken from the back and the second is taken from the front.
Add: Yeah, it’s not the EXACT SAME dress worn to the wedding where the original picture came from, but it is the same design by the same maker.
…Also, THIS is the source the second photo came from and today I learned that the dress actually did drive people insane! Holy fuck! 😭
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/man-whose-mother-law-wore-225725928.html
Some people said the dress was black and blue while others argued it was white and gold. The court heard the couple had a “volatile” relationship and Johnston became enraged with his wife at their home during an argument. He then tackled her to the ground and throttled her using both hands. […] He threatend to “finish her off”, struggled with his wife again, brandished a knife, uttered a further threat that “somebody was going to die” and then attempted to self-harm, the court heard. He pleaded guilty at the same court last month to assaulting his wife to her injury and endangering her life. […] They went on to appear on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in the USA, where they were handed $10,000 and a luxury trip to Grenada.
Man behind viral #TheDress photo jailed for attacking wife
Damn. Sentenced to 4½ years.
Not even the brighter version looks white and gold to me. It’s so obviously blue and black, y’all are insane.
Let’s do this again!
Seriously WTF??? It’s freakin white.and.gold.
It’s almost like color is arbitrary and dependent on the environment. I know it’s such a complex concept for millions of adults./s
I’m the opposite, the OG photo reads white and gold no matter what edits I see. Even after seeing the dress in proper light the OG is still white and gold.
Same, I see light blue and still black
What on earth are you talking about.
Only the ‘darker’ picture looks remotely blue and black
Just curious. If you look at the dress at the bottom, and let your peripherals see the dresses up top slowly, then look up to the dresses on top, do you see them in blue/black then? Happened for me, then even when I scrolled up to the other pictures they stayed blue/black for a while.
Does not help me to see it the other way.
When i first opened the image, it was undeniably white/gold to me, and I could not trick myself into seeing black/blue. After looking at the HQ image above, now I can not see white/gold anymore.
Edit: After writing this comment, it is back to white/gold.
Had the same happen to me
I’m with you. This viral moment never made sense to me cuz I can never see anything else even with my wildest imagination.
That’s…why it went viral. So many people couldn’t see it the other way, and both sides found it hard to believe that the other side was actually being sincere.
Right? To be white and gold the dress would need to be in shadow, but it’s clearly in light.
Zoom in or sample the colours. They’re not blue and black.
I understand doubting the white but seeing black in that gold was what I could never buy. To me it seemed like light blue-grey with matte gold.
No way, really ? I really thought it was always white and gold. This cannot be the same dress, I do not trust my eyes anymore
I have always only seen black and blue, even in the light version my brain doesn’t make it gold and white. It’s strange to me why people perceive this as gold.
Edit this video was the only one to make me see it https://youtu.be/YB36n00NHBw
We’ll I watched the other video and I finally saw the blue and black. I’ve always seen white gold but now I don’t. Fucking trippy.
All three of these look blue and black just with different levels of saturation?? I can understand how people can maybe see the gold, but interpreting the blue as white is baffling to me. Bluer than the day sky.
Even with my phone cranked all the way up it still looks blue to me. I’ve never been able to see the white and gold version people claim exists.
Left: blue and black.
Middle: light blue and black.
Right: dark blue and black.The dress is blue and black. It will never be white or gold. The lighting or saturation doesn’t matter.
Well the pixels themselves are white and gold so…
On my phone the background of Lemmy (not the photo) is black. And what is clearly gold in the photos doesn’t look anything like black.
I know the dress is blue and black and that’s what pisses me off. I can’t even see blue and black if I try.
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I stuck my foot in my mouth about this dress. It was about a year later, and I didn’t realize it had been proven to be black and blue, and I said something snarky when someone I liked said it was black and blue. I was so sure it was gold and white, I made an ass of myself.
Were people just stupid or something and not capable of knowing when the ambient light and camera is affecting the colour of the image?
WTF is this about people getting exact pixel colours?! The question is what colour is the dress, not the colour of the picture in which the dress is depicted!
Using pixel colour to determine the colour of a dress is like saying Martin Luther King had grey skin because the photo he’s depicted in is in black and white!
Thants so cool i finally got to see both color version and how my brain blends between them. For anyone wondering how, I am in a dark room with the phone (darkmode lemmy) and it was looking white gold to me. But when I squish my eyes to darken the incoming screen light and blocking of the right light background with my thumb I could make it fade into blue with black stripes.
Here’s a pretty good Slate article on this dress, and how important this image became:
https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/heres-why-people-saw-the-dress-differently.html
When I look at the image attached to this post, I can’t see anything but white and gold, as I always have. This, in spite of now knowing it’s black and blue.
This is flicking between white and gold and black and blue each time I scroll past it.
Always saw it as white/gold first but after a few seconds I perceive it as blue/black and then it stays that way.
I currently see blue/light blue and black+gold, but no white. If I remember correctly I never saw white.
I see it as dark brownish yellow and blue
I only see white gold
I remember.
I still see both colors alternatingly.
