What color is this dress?

[Maple Leafs]

https://40.media.tumblr.com/a391a1b4b46dd6b498d379e50f96ecbc/tumblr_nkcjuq8Tdr1tnacy1o1_500.jpg

Is it:
- white and gold; or
- black and blue

There is clearly only one correct answer here and I just want to make sure everyone can agree on it.

[cuervo72]

Whoa, holy mind trick.

I totally thought it was white and gold, until I looked at the Deadspin version of the article, scrolled down to the comments, then scrolled back up. If I process the image from the bottom up, I see it as black and blue.

[Sublime 2]

Exactly zero times have I seen white/gold, but my wife says it changes back and forth for her.

[timmae]

I see no black whatsoever.

[EagleFan]

Exactly zero times have I seen white/gold, but my wife says it changes back and forth for her.

+1

[cartman]

I don't see the white and gold, only blue and black

[Maple Leafs]

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE IT IS CLEARLY BLUE AND BLACK

[Lathum]

I only see white and gold.

WTF is wrong with you people?

[Maple Leafs]

Wait it just switched to white and gold.

[SackAttack]

If it were blue and black it might actually be worth looking at.

[Sublime 2]

You people are making me angry.

[timmae]

most of you have your screen tilted too far back methinks..

[nol]

When I tilt my laptop screen back to nearly 180 degrees, it's blue and black. Otherwise white and gold.

[tarcone]

I see Blue and Gold. Is that bad?

[RainMaker]

White and gold

[Barkeep49]

How do I get it to seem White and Gold? I only see Blue and Black.

[Peregrine]

white and gold for me

[JonInMiddleGA]

This is actually making the rounds on my FB as of a few minutes ago as well.

I can see the blue & black -- a little -- after someone told me it was there.
But that dress is plainly & obviously white & gold.

[Easy Mac]

At no point has this ever been blue and black

[thesloppy]

I see blue and black, every time, because my mind is strong, like bear.

[dawgfan]

Where in the fuck are people seeing black on that dress? People seeing blue I get because the lighting is making the white part of the dress have a bluish cast to it, but the other part of the dress is clearly a gold color.

[Radii]

Exactly zero times have I seen white/gold

.

[cartman]

There is a link to the site that is selling the dress, and there is no combo of white/gold for sale. I think it is mainly due to the pic being overexposed and washing things out for some people.

[nol]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>It's blue. RT <a href="https://twitter.com/Valeriaaahhh">@Valeriaaahhh</a>: Waaaaaaait! What's up with the twitcon?! LOL <a href="https://twitter.com/Dodgers">@Dodgers</a></p>&mdash; Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/571133763532386305">February 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[Maple Leafs]

Let's pick a place and time where we can all meet and fight.

[EagleFan]

No laptop angle makes this white and gold... it is blue and black.

[MrBug708]

My wife just said "That's a dress?"

[Warhammer]

I see white and gold, my wife sees the same. Even put the cursor up to it, and I could still see the black in the cursor against the dress. That said, when I put the cursor up to it, the white is not white either/

[Maple Leafs]

Why Are People Seeing the Dress in Different Colors? This Person Googled It For You. | Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com/contributor/2015/02/why-are-people-seeing-dress-different-colors-person-googled-it-you)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-0Des3UAAE7nTZ.png

[Maple Leafs]

So basically all you white + gold people are wrong. Feel free to use the rest of this thread to apologize.

[ColtCrazy]

wife says blue and black. I say white and gold. I can kind of see a bluish tint depending on the screen angle, but there's no way I'm seeing black.

[Lathum]

White and gold on my laptop. Black and blue on my phone.

[Arles]

blue and black 100%

[timmae]

well, to be fair none of us see a dress of any color... just a bunch of pixels on a screen.

[digamma]

First saw white and gold. Now solidly blu and black.

[stevew]

This is actually making the rounds on my FB as of a few minutes ago as well.

I can see the blue & black -- a little -- after someone told me it was there.
But that dress is plainly & obviously white & gold.

+1

[digamma]

Whoa, holy mind trick.

I totally thought it was white and gold, until I looked at the Deadspin version of the article, scrolled down to the comments, then scrolled back up. If I process the image from the bottom up, I see it as black and blue.

My wife was seeing white and gold and tried scrolling from the bottom up for her and it flipped for her.

[cartman]

well, to be fair none of us see a dress of any color... just a bunch of pixels on a screen.

http://i.imgur.com/rfFWukr.gif

[SackAttack]

Okay, that's creepy and weird. Every version I've seen up until now has been white and gold. I saw Lathum's comment about it being different on his phone, so I called it up there.

Didn't log in on the phone, so the background was red/yellow instead of the black/green I usually view. It showed up black/blue on my phone. I glanced back up at the TV and it had gone from white/gold to black/blue.

[Maple Leafs]

My wife said blue and black.Then she showed me her iPad, where it was clearly white and gold. So I held her iPad next to my laptop and now it's white and gold everywhere.

[corbes]

They call them fingers but I never see them fing.

[SackAttack]

And now it's blue with gold trim.

This is a total LOLWTF

[Honolulu_Blue]

Blue and black. Definitely.

[FrogMan]

dang, when I came to the thread at first, then saw the picture on FB and it was clearly white and gold. I left my browser on this thread, took care of a couple things with my son, I come back and now it's black and blue, WTF?

FM

[EagleFan]

The real answer...

[Izulde]

One of my students just asked me about this. I said white, though perhaps more of an ivory than true white, and a brownish-gold. Probably bronze would be a better descriptor. And they're like not blue and black? And I'm like ....nope.

[ISiddiqui]

Yeah, I just see white + gold. Maybe blue + gold at times. But at no times do I see black.

[ColtCrazy]

The llamas were a better story though.

[Izulde]

If I let my eyes relax it does turn blue/black.

[cuervo72]

Yeah, I just see white + gold. Maybe blue + gold at times. But at no times do I see black.

Scroll so you can see just the bottom third (or less) of the dress.

[Galaxy]

This may be the first and only time men are paying attention to the details of a dress. I'm more interested to what's underneath when the lady wears it. ;)

[stevew]

If I'm at a 170° angle it looks blue/black

[larrymcg421]

I see Blue and Gold. Is that bad?

This is the first thing I saw, too.

[sabotai]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02_04/black-and-blue-dress.gif

[kingfc22]

Blue and black for me. However my wife sees it as white and gold.

[kingfc22]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02_04/black-and-blue-dress.gif

I only see blue and black throughout the over exposure.

[korme]

Why is this not a poll, ML???

[korme]

By the way I don't know where you psychos are seeing any possible way it could be blue and black

[thesloppy]

This thread is giving me extreme confidence in my mighty blue cones. Do you even differentiate colors?

[korme]

This is making me go insane, I think. I want to see the blue/black, and I just cannot.

It's also kind of creeping me out a little bit.

[RainMaker]

When I look on my laptop it's white and gold, when I look on my tablet it's black and blue. What the hell??!?!?!?

[Neuqua]

It's white and gold.

Stop trolling.

[Comey]

green

[Comey]

dola--

I miss the days when the nation fought over Order of Operations.

[albionmoonlight]

I see white/gold so clearly that it wouldn't have ever occurred to me that others might see differently.

[jeff061]

By the way I don't know where you psychos are seeing any possible way it could be blue and black

I was thinking exactly this, scrolled back up and it was very clearly blue/black and I couldn't see how it could ever have been white gold. That was on my phone. Now I'm on my desktop and it's white/gold again.


Quite a mind fuck.

[Easy Mac]

my five year old say blue and black. i'm not going to say I love her less...

[BillJasper]

No matter what angle I tip my screen, I see white and gold.

Am I dying?

[Suicane75]

I always start out seeing it as white, but as the saying goes, once it goes black, it doesn't come back.

[Grover]

The first time I saw it, it was white and gold. Then I scrolled back up the page and it was blue and black.

[Alan T]

No matter what tricks I try, I can't seem to see any colors but Blue + Gold. I can't see white no matter how I try at all. The Gold at times when I change the contrast on my monitor kind of looks black, but I think its just because everything looks really dark then.

So I guess I'm in the Blue+gold camp

[Lathum]

It was white and gold, went to grab a coworker to look at it and when I came back it was blue and black. Never refreshed the page.

WTF?

[Kodos]

I don't see the white and gold, only blue and black

Ditto.

[Desnudo]

my five year old say blue and black. i'm not going to say I love her less...

http://www.fofc-bbcf.com/gabi.jpg

[Kodos]

The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress | WIRED (http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/)

[Edward64]

White and gold for me.

[Grover]

Case solved: This is the true color of that goddamn white and gold dress (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-the-real-color-of-that-goddamn-white-and-gold-d-1688381523)

[Buccaneer]

In no instances do I see white (could be my monitor?). I consistently see lightish blue. As far as the other color, I see gold/dark gold

[Fidatelo]

It was white and gold for me this morning at home. Came to work to show my co-workers and was stunned to see it as blue and black. This kind of thing scares me, it shakes my idea of a constant reality and a firm belief in my own sanity.

[jeff061]

For the first time I was able to switch it from White/Gold to Blue/Black without looking away from it. I consider this my achievement of the week.

[Easy Mac]

My boss is flipping out that I see white and gold. He can't believe I'm not messing with him.

[molson]

By the way I don't know where you psychos are seeing any possible way it could be blue and black

This is one of those threads where you lose respect for certain posters and never see them the same way again.

[Butter]

I hope none of you white/gold people have a job where pushing colored buttons factors into it in any way, because if so you've probably accidentally killed hundreds of people by now.

[molson]

I hope none of you white/gold people have a job where pushing colored buttons factors into it in any way, because if so you've probably accidentally killed hundreds of people by now.

At first, naturally, I thought that I, as a white/gold person, was correct and that all you blue/black people were dangerous psychopaths, but now I'm starting to question myself. Maybe you're right, maybe I do pose a serious danger to the community at-large. I hope somebody stops me before its too late. You might even say that I want to get caught.

[QuikSand]

So far, the only way I can manage to kinda see the blue/black is to squint nearly completely, and inch my view up from the bottom.

Love this, though.

[Kodos]

Some of you apparently wouldn't recognize blue balls even if Kate Upton had just left you high and dry.

[MIJB#19]

It's neither black or white.
It's blue and brown I see.

[CU Tiger]

This is an odd one for me. Actually first heard this on Mike & Mike this morning, looked at the TV and it was clearly Black and Blue. I couldnt find white or gold if I tried.

Then this thread on now 3 laptops it is white and gold and I cant find blue or black.

Then the local news just ran a segment on it and sure enough blue and black again (or really brown and grey)...I think the right answer is lets see it on the floor...

[Easy Mac]

This is an odd one for me. Actually first heard this on Mike & Mike this morning, looked at the TV and it was clearly Black and Blue. I couldnt find white or gold if I tried.

Then this thread on now 3 laptops it is white and gold and I cant find blue or black.

Then the local news just ran a segment on it and sure enough blue and black again (or really brown and grey)...I think the right answer is lets see it on the floor...

You must not have seen the other picture of the girl who eventually wears it...

[MIJB#19]

Okay, I'm a believer. I'm still seeing blue and brown, but in much darker shades than I did when I posted the first time, just two hours ago.

[Buccaneer]

I firmly believe it's all about your monitor/screen setting. My monitor at work is very bright, while my home PC and iPhone are not. Don't understand why it's more complicated than that unless teh internets are bored.

[jeff061]

Well, speaking for myself I've seen it both ways on my phone and desktop.

[Suicane75]

I'm constantly seeing it as different colors on the same monitor and other people are seeing completely different from me when we're all looking at it at the same time.

[Buccaneer]

Same angle of viewing?

[EagleFan]

I can't believe this thing blew up like it did. Especially since it has been proven that it is a blue dress, there is no white.

[Suicane75]

Same angle of viewing?

yup

[korme]

I firmly believe it's all about your monitor/screen setting. My monitor at work is very bright, while my home PC and iPhone are not. Don't understand why it's more complicated than that unless teh internets are bored.

Hang around people. I was walking around work last night asking people to tell me what color this dress on my phone was, and it was definitely a house divided

[Buccaneer]

So some have a blue/white color blindness like photocopiers did?

[jeff061]

I can't believe this thing blew up like it did. Especially since it has been proven that it is a blue dress, there is no white.

Kind of missing the point, no?

[Buccaneer]

Just remembered something. There was an optical illusion that showed a yellow circle surrounded by a dark color and another yellow circle surrounded by a light color. People have sworn that they were two different colors of yellow when in fact, they were identical. Is that what is going on here?

[QuikSand]

Just remembered something. There was an optical illusion that showed a yellow circle surrounded by a dark color and another yellow circle surrounded by a light color. People have sworn that they were two different colors of yellow when in fact, they were identical. Is that what is going on here?

absolutely, it's the same effect

[rjolley]

For the record, I see a blue and black dress. I can only see white and maybe gold or brown if I view the laptop screen at a 165 degree angle.

Also, I must thank all of you for a good laugh this afternoon. Bravo!

[gstelmack]

Watch Brain Games Online | Netflix (http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/80029103?trkid=13752289)

First episode.

[timmae]

I can't believe this thing blew up like it did. Especially since it has been proven that it is a blue dress, there is no white.

Saw the dress in person did ya EF! :p

[sabotai]

Watch Brain Games Online | Netflix (http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/80029103?trkid=13752289)

First episode.

Great show. Anyone who has ever said "I know what I saw" should watch it.

[NobodyHere]

The sub-humans who see the dress as black and blue probably don't agree with my religion and will subsequently burn in hell.

[cthomer5000]

I still can only see white/gold unless I am very intentionally trying to see blue/black by changing viewing angle or squiting my eyes a whole lot. At the point of the transition though, it's like flipping a light switch, not gradual.

It feels like a particularly shitty photo (or some filter applied to the photo) has put us in this 'optical illusion' though.

[cthomer5000]

This is the #1 lighting/color optical illusion to me. I remember breaking out a paint program and cutting and pasting probably 10 years ago. Still sort of blows my mind to this day, though now I know it's true from past experience.

A and B are the exact same color:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Grey_square_optical_illusion.PNG

[Buccaneer]

Corey, that was a superb one, truly one of my very favorite.

I've been wondering if anyone does not see three different color dresses in this photo?
http://imgick.al.com/home/bama-media/width620/img/sports_impact/photo/17127922-mmmain.jpg

[Desnudo]

Maybe pre-1950s was black and white.

"Until relatively recently in human history, "blue" didn't exist."

Read more: What is blue and how do we see color? - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2#ixzz3T3dkNnx2)

[Easy Mac]

Corey, that was a superb one, truly one of my very favorite.

I've been wondering if anyone does not see three different color dresses in this photo?
http://imgick.al.com/home/bama-media/width620/img/sports_impact/photo/17127922-mmmain.jpg
I see white and brownish gold, whitish blue and yellowish brown, and blueish purple and dark brown

[Silver Owl]

Photoshop says gold

http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/uu252/tfmcmanus/Dress.gif

[Buccaneer]

I see white and brownish gold, whitish blue and yellowish brown, and blueish purple and dark brown

Isn't the "whitish blue and yellowish brown" what some are saying black and blue? If so, what the heck are they seeing in the right one?

[Easy Mac]

No, they're saying like royal blue and black.

[rjolley]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_B5B18UsAAsXxx.jpg

[Brian Swartz]

Well played rjolley! I have not laughed that hard in a long time.

[rjolley]

Can't take credit for that as it was in my twitter feed. Thought I'd share after I laughed at this thread all morning Friday.

[Buccaneer]

I guess in the end, the only version of the picture I saw was the first one in this thread which was the same as the middle one in the photo I posted. Perhaps I never did get in on the joke.

[cartman]

This guy is pretty confident of the color combo:

http://www.fofc-bbcf.com/howland.jpg

http://austin.blog.statesman.com/2015/03/02/now-the-blue-and-black-dress-has-an-austin-connection/

[Butter]

That should go well with his Grumpy Cat tattoo.

[QuikSand]

To all these dumbasses who are babbling about finding pandas...

THIS is a real internet-worthy puzzle meme. Not your thing.

[Logan]

To all these dumbasses who are babbling about finding pandas...

THIS is a real internet-worthy puzzle meme. Not your thing.

When I first saw it, I figured it was like a Magic Eye type thing. Not just a monotone Where's Waldo.

[FrogMan]

To all these dumbasses who are babbling about finding pandas...

THIS is a real internet-worthy puzzle meme. Not your thing.

you mean, it's not how dogs should be wearing pants??? :confused:

FM

[Maple Leafs]

Laurel or Yanni? Again, there's clearly a right answer.

Yanny or Laurel? The internet is going mad over this auditory illusion (https://www.sciencealert.com/yanny-or-laurel-the-internet-is-going-mad-over-this-auditory-illusion)

[EagleFan]

Laurel.

[MrBug708]

Laurel

[AnalBumCover]

Laurel

[kingfc22]

Laurel

Of course my 4 year old said what is yah yah...

[NobodyHere]

Yanny

[Fidatelo]

Yanny. Can't manager to hear Laurel no matter how hard I try.

[NobodyHere]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUawekViYpk" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[JonInMiddleGA]

Laurel ... though I appreciate the pitch tricks used to make it sound otherwise.

[MrBug708]

Laurel

Now I hear yanny, but there is more background noise

[digamma]

Yanny but then later I could year something approximating Yaurel.

[digamma]

My kids can't hear the Laurel at all. Just Yanny.

[cuervo72]

Heard Yanny at first, but can hear Laurel after watching that explanation (and turning the headphones up).

[Maple Leafs]

Now I hear yanny, but there is more.backgeoubd boiae
Hearing the incorrect Yanny instead of the obviously correct Laurel gave the poor guy a stroke.

[MizzouRah]

Yanny

[Dantooine98]

Yanny

[Dantooine98]

after watching the youtube video above, I now heard both Yanny and Laurel

[Edward64]

Laurel

[QuikSand]

Yanny, and I am every bit as perplexed as I was by the dress.

[AnalBumCover]

On my phone, when I have the volume set low, I hear Yanny. But when I turn it up, I clearly hear the "L" sounds of Laurel.

[korme]

I hear something more resembling Yarry or Yerry, and more concerned than ever.

[Maple Leafs]

A neat tool from the NY Times. And as a bonus, if you read to the end, you get the actual correct answer as to what the voice is meant to be saying.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

[SackAttack]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUawekViYpk" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I already knew I had high-frequency hearing loss, but this woulda confirmed it if I hadn't.

When he breaks the two apart, I hear "Laurel" and "boop."

When they run overlapping, I hear something kinda like Yaurel.

[Maple Leafs]

This one is really messed up.

Vinny Skywalker on Twitter: "if you think of the word “brainstorm� you hear the word brainstorm. if you think of the words “green needle� you hear green needle.… https://t.co/IeUKcEuqBt" (https://twitter.com/sirvinnyd/status/996962183257968641)

[Scarecrow]

Do you see Yanny or Laurel???

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdavTRvVMAEnNJP.jpg

[Butter]

A neat tool from the NY Times. And as a bonus, if you read to the end, you get the actual correct answer as to what the voice is meant to be saying.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I never ever thought I would be able to hear Yanny until this.

Not that it was a big deal, but it WAS.

[stevew]

A neat tool from the NY Times. And as a bonus, if you read to the end, you get the actual correct answer as to what the voice is meant to be saying.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

If I turn yanny all the way up I hear "Gary"

[Ghost Econ]

Life was so much easier a decade ago.

[QuikSand]

boy howdy

[HerRealName]

The guy that posted that picture was arrested for attempted murder of the dress wearer and ended up with 54 months in prison. It was a rough decade.

[Maple Leafs]

The guy that posted that picture was arrested for attempted murder of the dress wearer and ended up with 54 months in prison.
I hope you don't mean the OP for this thread.

[Atocep]

I hope you don't mean the OP for this thread.

Returning to the scene of the crime.

[HerRealName]

I hope you don't mean the OP for this thread.

Hide your trout, he's on the loose!

[Passacaglia]

Speaking of simpler times, it looks like searching "HerRealName" doesn't find the old threads...was that HornsManiac?