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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 87 points 3 days ago (48 children)

Goddam! Thank you!
That kind of explains the gold or black dress!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

I can for the life of me only see it as white and gold, and I have really struggled trying to understand how others can see it as blue and black? I bet the picture you show here is a result of the research the picture of the dress initiated. It can't be a coincidence that the illusion you posted also is made with dresses.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (13 children)

I don't understand why people are arguing about a terrible picture. The colours are blown out. So you could misinterpret them as badly lit white and gold.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

The original dress really was ~~white~~ black and blue. For some reason, I thought it was confirmed otherwise.

[–] Azzu@leminal.space 3 points 3 days ago

Wikipedia says the original dress was blue/black.

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