I can't do this again...
I know I'm wrong, but it's just staring at me gold & white. It's right there, clearly, and I don't know how to explain it to those who see it the other way.
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No brother. You are correct. The blasphemers are wrong
I'm the same, looking straight at it all I can see is white and gold. Like a bright gold even, it's not even brown.
If I look at it in my peripheral vision it's very clearly blue and black though 🤷.
I was able to see it blue and black one time, I'm not wasting my time trying to see it again, lol
I can't really See einher white and gold nor black and blue. It's more a baby blue and brownish to golden color for me. Can't really say it's black or white at all
If I remember from the first time this came around it had a lot to do with how your eyes interpreted the lighting in the image. Try putting it away then looking at it in different light settings and often it allows you to see the other one.
I've definitely seen it on numerous devices in various lighting since it became a thing, and it just looks the same to me.
It's always been white and gold for me
Me too. Everyone else is fucked.
The colour picker continues to tell me that it is a light shade of blue, near white, and a medium shade of brown, similar to gold.
Yanny
I see Laurel
BRAINSTORM!
Fun Fact: The same day, February 26, 2015, the Interwebz blew the fuck up about this goddamn dress, some Llamas escaped from captivity and we were all equally captivated by their chase for hours, it was an amazing 24 hours online
I see blue and gold.
Only ever been blue and gold for me.
https://imagecolorpicker.com/en for those seeing white and gold. Also the screen you're looking at it on matters so much.
Edit: I did find a neat bug with DarkReader on though. It reads the white pixels as black with the magnifier on the right. Even turning off it's still pretty blue and white... Apparently it actually pulls the color judging by what your screen shows though... which is pretty neat all considering.
DarkReader off: https://i.imgur.com/0ofjl8W.png
DarkReader on: https://i.imgur.com/OpcDGCH.png
So I tried this and even https://colors.artyclick.com/color-name-finder/ but it will find only brown/gold and light blue/blue/white depends where you focus it on. This image itself contains no black pixels simple as it is.
See I get nothing but blue and gold... Which is the entire crux of the illusion lol. Your brain just makes up for the color shift due to previous images it's seen with washed out saturation due to ISO.
No. Blue and Gold.
White and gold
I am no longer able to see the white and gold glory :(
Not this shit again!
I see dead people.
I see dead memes
I see black and blue with a yellow over wash because of lighting.
To see white and gold in shadow, I have to remove all context prompts, like strip out the background and all lighting artifacts.
I just can't see the white and gold in context. Too many years of colour correcting photos.
I can't see white and gold no matter what, I am ever-so-slightly color blind (supposedly) so maybe that's part of it?
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.
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Only think that allowed me to see the incorrect colours
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fblq7g958qt061.gif
It's a black and blue dress that looks white and gold in washed out sunlight.
It turns out that some materials play with light in ways that seem unexpected, and our rigid definitions of color don't always fit well around them.
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Somehow this feels older than rage comics.
I see shaded gold and bluish white. I can never make the gold entirely black nor the white entirely blue.
Just depends on what lighting your brain perceives it. I see it as black and blue so clearly in the thumbnail.
When opening up the full image, it's white-and-gole. Light properties and additive/subtractive colors be wilding.
I'm looking at the image on a very high quality OLED screen. On an OLED, it's very obviously NOT black. You can see the top of the dress in the light and it's not at all black. The black on my screen makes that incredibly obvious. Who cares what it is in real life, I'm not judging that, I'm judging the image and black is not a part of the dress, in this image.
The Guardian's image is black and blue. The image in this thread IS NOT. My eyes may look red in a photo, that doesn't mean they're really red. An image is not a perfect reflection of reality.
You know what? Blue and gold.
I've seen both. Blue and black more though
Blue and gold.
Anarchist
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 🤷
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.
Me and my gf are looking at the same picture on the same screen. I see gold and white and she sees black and blue. What the actual fuck?
Oh, not again...
So I can only see white and gold, but if I angle my phone away from me and look at the side, it turns black and blue. When I straighten it out again, back to white and gold.
So about an hour ago I was showing this to my wife, we both saw white and gold and thought this is silly. But now somehow I am seeing blue and black and she is still seeing white and gold. Fuck me.
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