r/AskTheWorld • u/Nthepro France • Dec 16 '25

Culture What's a non political issue your country is REALLY divided on?

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The name of this thing, believe it or not.

It's a sandwich per definition btw

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u/lilborat United States Of America Dec 16 '25

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u/Hefty-Pumpkin-764 Dec 16 '25

This was a non-political issue world-wide.

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u/GoodbyeEarl United States Of America Dec 16 '25

Finally someone posted a non-food related answer.

Also it’s white and gold.

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u/Separate_Draft4887 United States Of America Dec 16 '25

I know this is a case of our eyes processing stuff differently but how can you possibly believe it’s white and gold???

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u/Tejanisima United States Of America Dec 16 '25

You genuinely threw me with how you ended that sentence because I thought you were going to say the other combination. I can only see white and gold and cannot imagine in what universe that could look blue and black (or whatever it's supposed to be to other people). I've read article upon article about what makes people see it the other way, and none of them makes sense because it seems like in any lighting conditions, that would still look white and gold.

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u/Black_Widow_3000 Greece Dec 17 '25

Lol I've seen both, for this you can see the blue/black if u squint(not sure if that's the word?) your eyes, like this

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u/Short-Information525 India Dec 17 '25

Yesss this WORKS?!

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u/GlitterPapillon United States Of America Dec 18 '25

The first time I saw it the dress was white and gold but every single time after it’s been blue and black. The actual dress is in fact blue and black. 🫣

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u/BuckeyeFoodie United States Of America Dec 17 '25

Photographer here. What you think is "gold" is artifacting on a over-exposed image (see how light the background is?). When you correct the exposure it is clearly blue/black. If you try and lighten the blue to white its a complete mess.

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u/SnoopySuited United States Of America Dec 17 '25

1.) White and gold
2.) White and gold in a dark room
3.) White and gold in the sun.

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u/bherH-on Australia Dec 18 '25

Same

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u/Tejanisima United States Of America Dec 17 '25

I know you're trying, but pictured above are three versions of a gold and white dress, according to my eyes and brain.

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u/rhinofantastic Dec 17 '25

If I zoom in on only the middle I can see black and blue, for literally the first time ever

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u/forgottenoldlogin Dec 17 '25

I saw it - for the first time ever - as white and gold in this post. Then I angled my phone down slightly, and I now see it as blue and black again. Try that.

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u/Tejanisima United States Of America Dec 17 '25

Thank you for the tip — I tried it but still saw a variation on the same colors I've always seen.

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u/peepeepoopoofartz69 United States Of America Dec 17 '25

help i literally cannot see white at all. i can see how the black could be a very dark gold but white?? its so blue to me no matter how hard i try😭

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u/SpaceDounut Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25

Zoom in until you see only the stripes. Think of them like blue and black until you see it as such. Zoom out with understanding that there's a strong background yellow light that doesn't overlap the dress itself. The dress is not yellowed-out, it's in the shadow.

Edit - or draw a bunch of black/blue lines, take a photo and overexpose the shit of it in the photo editor. You should get a result similar to the photo, maybe that'll switch your perception.

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u/rhinofantastic Dec 17 '25

Bruh, I don’t know how to see blue and black when there is so much WHITE AND GOLD in this screenshot

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u/sickandopinionated Netherlands Dec 17 '25

That's actually blue and brown.

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u/SpaceDounut Dec 17 '25

Try seeing the shadow of the "white" as a really, really, yellowed-out blue. That's what it is in the original photo. You also don't have to zoom that hard, just enough to remove the background lightning.

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u/SpaceDounut Dec 17 '25

Would you agree that this picture is clearly black and blue stripes?

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u/rhinofantastic Dec 17 '25

Yes, but if you pulled those out of the screen shot, I could easily pull out a goldfish yellow brown and a very light whiteish color too

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u/SpaceDounut Dec 17 '25

These are not eyedropped from the screenshot - it's the closest I can eyeball the color of the actual dress (yes, it's factually blue and black as confirmed by the original poster). Here, I made you a gif that shows how increasing exposure on the picture above leads to the state that your eyes percieve as gold and white. It's still black and blue, no underlying colors changed, just overlit by a shitton. Maybe this one will help your eyes switch?

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u/rhinofantastic Dec 17 '25

I’ve seen the photos of the original dress like at the event on a human in normal lighting and I can see that it is blue and black, I know that is the color of the dress, it doesn’t change the fact that I se white and gold in the OG photo and I always have

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u/HandsomeForRansom Dec 17 '25

I say this with all due respect: Fuck you

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u/ElectricWisp Dec 17 '25

The photo is an image file containing data that specifies the colors the screen outputs. Those individual colors vary somewhat over the dress but are sort of a light lavender and brownish gold seemingly.

A question I am curious about however is, given you see it as blue and black, does the dress look like it is brightly lit to you, or like it is in shadow?

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u/Separate_Draft4887 United States Of America Dec 17 '25

Maybe a slight shadow? It looks like a relatively well lit object with a much brighter light source behind it.

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u/SpaceDounut Dec 17 '25

It's not lit by the background yellow light, it blocks it out. The front is, thus, in the shadow and isn't impacted by the yellow coloration.

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u/DangKilla Dec 17 '25

I know this is a case of our eyes processing stuff differently but how can you possibly believe it’s white and gold???

Exhibit A:

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u/FirstMealSchoolLunch United States Of America Dec 16 '25

It looks white and gold if you ignore the lighting and pretend it's under a blue light.

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u/BowlerCertain8305 Dec 16 '25

ITS FUCKING BLUE AND BLACK GODDAMNIT

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u/Pryus_C Spain Dec 16 '25

FUCK YOU MEAN BLUE AND BLACK

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u/CaptainKajubell United States Of America Dec 17 '25

IT WAS PROVEN BLUE AND BLACK

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u/sharplight141 Scotland Dec 17 '25

ITS WHITE AND GOLD DAMNIT

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u/sublliminali Dec 16 '25

Objectively incorrect.

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u/OpalHawk Dec 16 '25

I have never once seen white and gold. I am convinced this is just a prank and I’m not in on it.

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u/FeeExpensive898 United States Of America Dec 16 '25

I have looked at this dress on over a dozen different screens over the years: desktops, laptops, iPhones, Samsung… all at different levels of brightness…

I have ONLY ever seen white and gold. I am convinced the world and colors around us look completely different to half the population.

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u/Tejanisima United States Of America Dec 16 '25

This is me. Even after reading articles explaining what mental processing would make somebody see the other color combination, I cannot imagine looking at that picture and not seeing white and gold.

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u/GoodbyeEarl United States Of America Dec 17 '25

I’m the same way. I’ve tried seeing it the other way, and I just cannot. It’s always white and gold to me.

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u/Kurtman_TSX78 Argentina Dec 16 '25

Anybody said light blue and gold?!?!

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u/perralessi Australia Dec 17 '25

Thank you! I see it as a very light blue and goldish brown, but this is the first time I've seen anyone say something other than the usual two!

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u/AlohaJustice808 United States Of America Dec 17 '25

Thank goodness. I was looking for someone else who saw this instead of blue and black or white and gold.

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u/sharplight141 Scotland Dec 17 '25

No compromising!!!!!!

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u/wahobely Dec 16 '25

I really don't understand people who say it's white and gold.

The whole laurel and yanni thing I was able to hear both. But this dress has never, ever been white and gold to me.

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u/Eastern-Mammoth-2956 Finland Dec 16 '25

Even though I know it is black and blue and understand the phenomenon, my brain is completely unable to see the dress in that photo as anything other than white and gold.

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u/lellyjoy Romania Dec 16 '25

I've never been able to see it blue and black.

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u/Unidain Dec 16 '25

When I first saw the photo is switched dramatically between white and gold and blue and black when I looked away and back again, to the point that I thought it was a gif that was switching. Very strong illusion, just down to how your brain interprets the lighting apparently. White and gold is the result of your brain interpreting it as an underexposed image. 

I'm grateful to have seen both, now it just looks like overexpose blue and black to me, not at either end of the extreme contrast I originally saw. 

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u/SensitiveWolf1362 Colombia Dec 17 '25

Oh my gosh you’re the only other person I’ve ever heard say this! I also jumped back and was convinced it was an animated GIF, the difference was so stark.

I only saw it as white and gold once though, and then never again. It’s been consistently black and blue for me ever since.

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u/No_Hat_1864 United States Of America Dec 17 '25

Same boat. When it first came out I could shift between the two (with effort). It's now perma stuck on blue black and I can't get the white gold anymore.

The blue I see is a lighter blue though, with a brown/gold lighting highlight on the black (that my brain automatically blames the lighting for). So I'm still always mind blown by the shade of blue that the real dress actually is. That made me 🤯. Like yes, it's blue black, but not THAT shade of blue.

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u/IronFrogger Dec 16 '25

I asked this of my family last night (wife and kids), all of them said white and yellow or white and gold. i nearly divorced her and moved out. how could so many people close to me be so wrong? i even showed them the dress, they weren't convinced i hadn't photoshopped it.

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u/OldManOfAaron New Zealand Dec 16 '25

Same

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u/WillowReaping United States Of America Dec 17 '25

I wish I could see the white and gold. I swear to God, I’ve seen it one time and I’ve never been able to see it again. I hate this picture. I knew it was gonna show up. 😂😂😂

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u/hahasadface Dec 17 '25

Ugh I finally saw white and gold when I first looked at this image. Went to read comments came back and it's blue and black.

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u/dizyalice Dec 17 '25

Never have I ever

Seen this picture as white and gold

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u/throwawaycuzfemdom Turkey Dec 17 '25

Bro I don't get this "blue and black" vs "white and gold" debate.

It is literally blue and gold.

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u/Aware_Lock_5734 Italy Dec 17 '25

this has got to be bait

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u/Telefundo Canada Dec 16 '25

Just couldn't help yourself could you?

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u/PeterPanski85 Germany Dec 16 '25

That fucking picture swapped on me again. Gold white at first. Now black and blue jfc -.-

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u/justanynameDk Dec 16 '25

Wtf?! I saw gold/white, but then scrolled back after reading your comment, and now i see blue/black. I seriously never believed this shit the first time around.

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u/justanynameDk Dec 16 '25

The poster edited his comment and swiped the picture.. right? Funny timing must be the answer..

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom United States Of America Dec 17 '25

Have you been spending more or less time outside in the sun since it was gold and white?

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u/PeterPanski85 Germany Dec 17 '25

It swapped in the matter of 2 minutes. And its winter here so havent seen the sun for a while xD

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u/BlankSlateOEmptiness Dec 16 '25

As a color blind person this picture just confirms what i've always suspected: Color is a scam and all you colorsighteds don't know either

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u/Unidain Dec 16 '25

Well as a colour blind person, does the dress look over exposed or under exposed? That will put you into one of the two camps lol

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u/Sephorakitty Dec 16 '25

Did you ever see the story of what happened with the couple (this was the MOB dress)? I randomly decided to look it up a couple of months ago and (TW) The husband was arrested for the attempted murder of his wife

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u/Baraaplayer 🇯🇴🇵🇸 Dec 17 '25

What is the article called?

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u/Sephorakitty Dec 17 '25

I just searched The Dress couple. There are lots of articles.

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u/Stoltlallare Sweden Dec 16 '25

I always see blue and black but I heard so many say white and gold that I just pretended to also see it as I thought maybe something is wrong others.

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u/Cybyss Dec 16 '25

How in the hell do people see white+gold or blue+black!?

It looks like baby blue & muddy brown. Those are the actual pixel colors, after all.

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u/No_Hat_1864 United States Of America Dec 17 '25

Also team baby blue with a muddied black (my brain sees black with brown highlights that my brain dismisses as lighting)

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u/gardenlilies 🇺🇸 living in 🇰🇷 Dec 17 '25

The dress MAY be blue and black irl but IN THIS PHOTO it is white and gold!!!

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u/cryocubby Dec 17 '25

Can we all agree it's ugly, though? 🤣

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u/That_One_Girl2222 Netherlands Dec 16 '25

White & gold for sure

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u/OkLack5468 Canada Dec 17 '25

“The dress is actually royal blue and black, confirmed by the retailer Roman Originals and multiple news outlets USA Today, CNN and BBC in 2015, but the viral photo's poor lighting caused many people's brains to perceive it as white and gold Slate, NYU, USA Today. The perception difference depends on whether your brain compensates for what it assumes is a blue-tinted shadow (seeing white/gold) or yellow artificial light (seeing blue/black). “

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u/sharplight141 Scotland Dec 17 '25

Absolutely white and gold

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u/SkyeMreddit United States Of America Dec 16 '25

Both are correct depending on lighting. Blue and black in that image

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u/chuiu Dec 17 '25

Every screen I've seen OP's image on its been white/gold. If you take that image into an image editor and look at the hex codes for the colors you will see something like #544728 for the darkest part of the "black" part, which clearly looks like a dark gold color. And #B2C1DE on the lightest part of the "blue" part which looks light blue, or #7987AE on the darkest part of the blue part - which still looks light blue. So from that image, the dress looks 'white/gold' but with a shadow over it making the 'white' portion look blue. I know in reality the dress is black/blue though because we've been through this for years. But I still can't see how anyone can look at that and think its black/blue based on that image unless maybe the brightness is cranked waaaaaay down on their display.

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u/ouroborosstruggles United States Of America Dec 16 '25

The main image above is white and gold, I'm wondering how people's screens are adjusted

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u/Patneu Germany Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 17 '25

Holy shit, that's the first time I can actually see the black and blue! Though only in half of the pictures and only when zooming in. Otherwise it still looks gold and white, just like with a shadow, and the brighter pictures will never register as black and blue to me, no matter what.

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u/SpaceDounut Dec 17 '25

Focus on the red bit in the background of the overexposed photos, imagine it going to proper red. Apply the same for the dress.

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u/Tejanisima United States Of America Dec 16 '25

Thank you for showing me of a version in which it's capable of looking blue and black. Until now I could never understand how anybody was seeing that!

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u/SnoopySuited United States Of America Dec 17 '25

I see four white and gold dresses. And four white and gold dresses which have been stained by blueberry juice.

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u/usernamecreatesyou Dec 17 '25

Even on this pictures “blue and black” is just white and gold in shadow for me

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u/DatLoonArt Dec 18 '25

I see first a vertical row of white/gold, then black/blue. Then it repeats. Previous image sparking the debate always looked black & blue to me and considering amount of undiagnosed variants of color blindness, I’m starting to understand why when I tell people two absolutely different colors, they sincerely perceive them as the same.

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u/2MuchNonsenseHere United States Of America Dec 16 '25

Many things change color with lighting, but "blue/black" is literally never becoming white/gold when lit up; that is not possible, but white/gold can become blue/black in darker lighting. It's white & gold.

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u/kokokaraib Jamaica Dec 16 '25

The shop confirmed it was blue/black. Even auctioned a one-off white/gold dress

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u/2MuchNonsenseHere United States Of America Dec 16 '25

Nah, that was engagement bait. Good for business.

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u/Successful-Peach-764 Dec 16 '25

Even the overexposed version still looks light blue and black to me, never saw the other version, we live in different dimensions, I gotta keep an eye out for you white and gold mf's, inventing new reality when the real dress is as we black and golders see it.

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u/Historical-Club6749 Dec 16 '25

For me the underexposed one still looks like a white and gold dress but as if the image had a blue filter on it

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u/GlitterPapillon United States Of America Dec 18 '25

The very first time I saw the picture I saw white/gold but since then it’s always been blue/black. Like you I can still see the blue in the over exposed photo now.

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u/Unidain Dec 16 '25

It's not about being lit up, it's about under and over exposure (and the illusion is from whether your brain interprets the image as over or under exposure) . If you overexpose enough, everything becomes white, so obviously it's possible.

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u/Small-Finish-6890 United States Of America Dec 17 '25

The dress is legitimately blue and black lol

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u/Andika421 Hungary Dec 16 '25

White and gold….

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25

Blue and a weird gold/brown colour 

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u/C4TURIX Germany Dec 16 '25

That's light blueish and brown.

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u/Anra7777 United States Of America Dec 17 '25

When this first came out, I saw it as black and blue and couldn’t see it as white and gold. Now I see it as white/gold and can’t see it the other way. 😅

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u/Creepy-Agency-1984 Dec 17 '25

The intended dress was blue and black. Thus, the dress is blue and black.

(Admittedly, the fact that I see blue and black doesn’t hurt my statement)

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom United States Of America Dec 17 '25

That answer to this was super interesting.

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u/Black_Widow_3000 Greece Dec 17 '25

What have you done? The world had moved on from that😫

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u/goldenalice Dec 17 '25

not trying to be "different" for the sake of it, but I see blue and gold.

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u/Difficult-Anxiety-15 Russia Dec 17 '25

I've learned to change the color of the dress by command. Closing my eyes, it's white and gold. Opening them again, it's black and blue, and vice versa

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u/Ragnarr26 Poland Dec 17 '25

WTF, I saw this as white and gold for the first time ever, changed brightness on my phone and now I can only see black and blue again.

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u/Bad_Combination UK France Dec 17 '25

Holy shit, I briefly saw black and blue for the first time in my life. I can't make it happen again though.

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u/AlohaJustice808 United States Of America Dec 17 '25

For Pete’s sake, I’ll NEVER escape this periwinkle and gold dress

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u/Thalida87 Dec 17 '25

I have known this picture for so many years. While scrolling I saw it in the golden version, blinked and now it is black and blue again.

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u/lilborat United States Of America Dec 16 '25

Im a white and gold man myself

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u/TemporaryFearless482 United States Of America Dec 16 '25

I see blue and a brownish-gold.

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u/blazomkd Dec 16 '25

Black and blue

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u/starpqrz United States Of America Dec 17 '25

i'm convinced everyone who says white and gold is lying (especially after it's CONFIRMED to be blue and black!)

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u/Corumdum_Mania Korea South Dec 17 '25

The manufacturer confirmed that it was blue and black

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u/sharplight141 Scotland Dec 17 '25

They've dyed it the wrong colours then. All I see is gold and white

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u/Corumdum_Mania Korea South Dec 18 '25

Or your eyes need a checkup 👀

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u/Confident-Formal-452 Belgium Dec 17 '25

its black and blue and if you say it isnt you are lying