memes

you fools the dress is clearly grey :3

I still see both colors alternatingly.

Ha! I saw this and thought "It's clearly white and gold, let's check out the comments" then I read a comment saying it was objectively blue and black, so I scrolled up to take another look, and now I can no longer see the white and gold no matter how hard I try.

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

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.

Friggin hate that dress.

Not this shit again!

I can't remember the pairs of colors that are supposed to be. Were blue/black and golden/white?

I currently see blue/light blue and black+gold, but no white. If I remember correctly I never saw white.

Wait

Until now I always saw this dress as blue and black

Can this change ????

The "color" of a thing is pure perception and often just a genuine personal choice.

It is annoying to think about it like that, but consider:

A movie projected onto a white canvas. Before the movie starts, there is no light projecting onto it and it's just the white canvas.

The movie opening credit comes on. "ALIEN" it says in thin white letters on black background. The projector does not darken the canvas, just add some lines of light forming letters in the middle. Yet we see black.

Is the canvas black or white now? If do when did it change? Is it both? How would you describe that?

People give many answers to this. Most of them based on choice of definition more than objective observation, which I find super interesting.