The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?

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I think everyone who is posting their thoughts from now on should stipulate the following with their answer:

Is it the actual pixel value of the colors in the dress or are you interpreting what the colors of the dress are in real life, had you been in the store yourself?

I've been taking into account the horrible quality of the picture (it's way overexposed) and the intense lighting right above the dress, and I've seen it as being a blue and black dress this whole time. I can see the brownish tinge on the black parts and can attribute that to both the lighting and the white balance of the camera. I'm kind of baffled at people seeing the blue parts as white. Maybe they think it's outdoors or something.
 
Blue and black all day checking in. I'm at working showing people the same picture on my phone and everyone else so far sees white and gold and thinks I'm color blind now
 
Years from now, we will all ask each other "where were you and what were you doing the day a blue and black/white and gold dress got viral?"
 
I've reached the point where if I just see the top of the dress, it's white/gold, but if I scroll to the skirt, it becomes blue/black.

D-did I just disconnect from the Matrix?
 
I saw it as white and gold at first but when you shrink or zoom up in the original over-exposed photo it instantly goes to black and blue to me. Fucking creepy.
 
The photo of the dress shows the colours white (or a pale blue) and gold. It's a scientific fact.

However if I squint at it or if I look at it in my periphery it becomes black/royal blue.

Guess it has something to do with rods and cones, and the amount of light getting in everyone's eyes.
 
I looked at this thread earlier and it was White/Gold to me. Saw it on Reddit a few minutes ago and it was Blue/Black and I was wondering WTF happened so I checked this thread and now it's Blue/Black....

O_o
 
Tbh I only see gold and my eyes are super sensitive to light, I jam the brightness down on every screen and even use apps to get below min brightness.
 
Blue and black my ass. I don't care what color the real dress is "supposed" to be. The colors in the picture are not blue and black.

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Even xkcd is getting in on it.

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Alt-text: "This white-balance illusion hit so hard because it felt like someone had been playing through the Monty Hall scenario and opened their chosen door, only to find there was unexpectedly disagreement over whether the thing they'd revealed was a goat or a car."
 
I see the blue, definitely, but not the black. That is clearly gold. Dark gold, but not remotely black.

Obviously it appears the original dress is indeed black and blue and this is the result of a bad photo but the photo has no black in it, dammit.
 
I'm convinced the Blue & Black people have shitty monitors, since many of them report it turning blue when scrolling down, or when looking at it from a different angle.
 
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