MANILA, Philippines – It’s not like this dress’ worth is like Lupita Nyong’o’s Oscars dress, but this dress has drawn massive attention on the Internet because of its confusing color.
Tumblr user swiked uploaded this image.
"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 out!" she captioned.
Roberto Flores also did on his Twitter account.
My house is divided over this dress. #whiteandgold pic.twitter.com/DcHay027Rg
— Robert Flores (@RoFloESPN) February 27, 2015
The random dress as you can see above has got Buzzfeed and Gawker talking about it. Why? As bizarre as it may sound, people are going insane trying to figure out the dress’ color. Some people claim it is white and gold while some say it is blue and gold.
The dress no longer looks gold and white to me, wtf it now looks blue and black
— Golden girl (@Made_in_eri) February 27, 2015 This is still trending? #TheDress Reminding myself to never purchase a blue and black dress bc people will tell me it's white and gold
— zayn (@alex112934) February 27, 2015 This dress is stressing me out, first I saw white and gold then looked again later and suddenly black and blue???? OK COOL #goinginsane
— Amber Kelly (@aamberkelly) February 27, 2015
Buzzfeed even made a poll just to settle the issue:
We don’t really know if it’s optical illusion that’s confusing our eyes or if it is color blindness. Whatever it is, science has got a lot of explaining to do. This mid morning, the Business Insider attempted to explain the mystery by using Photoshop, a program that should not be susceptible to variations in genetics or eye strength and claimed that it's blue and black and white and gold at the same time.