The internet is losing its composure over this dress that might be white and gold or black and blue
There is a dress that might be black and blue or white and gold.
It started on this Tumblr page here, where a user posted this dress with the caption, "guys please help me - is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can't agree and we are freaking the f**k out"
Here's the dress.
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And people on Twitter are completely freaking out whether this dress is blue and black or white and gold. (Note: some of the embedded tweets contain NSFW language.)
folks i do colors for a living and that dress is blue and black. the yellowish lighting is making the black part look sorta gold.
- Bobby McKenna (@bobby) February 27, 2015
The dress is white and gold an I feel physically ill.
- Tom Ley (@ToLey88) February 27, 2015
CORRECT RT @notsalome: The dress is medium blue with black lace, get your eyes checked.
- Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) February 27, 2015
Is the dress prettier when you see it as white and gold? I don't understand what's happening
- Maureen O'Connor (@maureenoco) February 27, 2015
Anyone who disagrees, I'm at 37th and Madison, come fight me. #TheDress pic.twitter.com/8dwglnP672
- Krister Johnson (@KristerJohnson) February 27, 2015
Mindy Kaling has also chimed in.
IT'S A BLUE AND BLACK DRESS! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
- Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) February 27, 2015
My daughter thinks it's blue and green and we are headed to the ER
- Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) February 27, 2015
And New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac.
holy god the dress just changed colors on me
- ?_? (@MikeIsaac) February 27, 2015
*stops furiously scribbling amidst dozens of coffee cups*there is no dress. it is not the dress that changes colors, it is only yourself.
- Denny's (@DennysDiner) February 27, 2015
Naturally, the debate surrounding the dress includes the Illuminati.
what if the illuminati is trying to distract us from something they're doing rn with #TheDress pic.twitter.com/iw4w9Trkvy
- Twazanga Mugala (@ASvPDuke) February 27, 2015
THE ILLUMINATI CONDUCTED THIS WHOLE DRESS SITUATION TO REPLACE OBAMA WITH A LIZARD WITHOUT BEING NOTICED #whiteandgold
- STOP THE ILLUMINATI (@Illuminati_Stop) February 27, 2015
And the llamas that were loose in Arizona earlier today.
I wish I had the skillz to photoshop that dress onto a llama.
- Lindsey Turrentine (@lturrentine) February 27, 2015
An explanation why you see this dress as blue and black or white and gold. pic.twitter.com/ayXpqavC9B
- Andy Rexford (@andyrexford) February 27, 2015
Here's what the text in that embedded tweet says:
There's three cones: small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.
As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it's called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until its black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors the eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.
-White and Gold: our eyes don't work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold."
And this user says he turned his phone's brightness from low to high and saw the colors switching.
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