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What color is the dress?

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Metope:
They don't know the answer to it though. I commented on one of the statuses asking him to explain it, and he couldn't. He said "it depends on what the lighting is in the room you're viewing it", so I said "well, I showed it to my mom on my phone while we were in the same room, and asked her what colour it was. She said blue, and I see white. We're in the same room, under the same lighting, seeing the photo on the same screen. Why does this happen?" and he didn't reply.

I think it's just yet another thing people love being contrarian over. Happens every time something suddenly gains a lot of interest or popularity, some people feel the need to loudly declare how not into it they are. They're unique, don't follow the sheep herd, make up their own mind, have their own thoughts. Unlike everyone else on the planet and "oh god where is humanity headed, thank goodness for me!" It's getting tiring.

looktall:
That's even worse.
They don't know the answer but they know an answer exists and it involves something that they either didn't read or they did read but didn't understand.

So the answer is "something, something, science you losers".

Akima:
I meant that I couldn't see the dress as anything but blue. The dress that is supposed to look white in the XKCD "explanation" cartoon looks blue to me. Sure, it looks less intensely blue with the dark blue background, but it doesn't look white to me. I even went to the length of filling in the burned-out highlight areas in the photo with the dark blue Randall Munroe uses, and the dress still looks blue! This debate makes me think I'm going potty.

Half Empty Coffee Cup:
The thing I was annoyed about was how everpresent it seemed to get. Every forum. Every news site. XKCD. Even my morning class. It felt like every time I turned a corner, there was that dress. It's not even a pretty dress...

I'm fine with people getting excited about something, but it being everywhere just burns me out. (Also, I'd tried to see it as white and gold, and couldn't manage it at all. It's blue as the sky and black as my heart.)

Metope:
Yeah, even the dress illustration in the xkcd explanation looks white to me in both instances. Everyone seems to "explain" it by saying "it looks different depending on the light conditions you see it in", but fail to explain why it looks different to different people in the same light conditions.

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