Overnight, social media has gone mad and our eyes have started involuntarily crossing after a Tumblr user posted a picture of a dress. It's a dress that, to some, looks white and gold and, to others, looks blue and black.
Swiked posted the image of the dress yesterday, along with the caption '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 the fuck out'. And now, so are we. And the rest of the world. For the record, I see white and gold but, after doing some digging, the internet discovered that the dress (by Roman) doesn't come in white and gold - and is, in fact, blue and black.
This conclusion was reached not after celebrities piled in on the debate on Twitter:
After everyone started thinking we were going blind and nobody could trust their own eyesight anymore, a man went onto Twitter and explained it for us. A good, great, kind man called Andy Rexford who gave it a whirl and tried to explain that yes, it's the differences in our own eyes that are working this sorcery and making different people see different colours. Here is what the good, great, kind man said (and actually it still makes us go cross-eyed):
So that sort of means that those seeing it blue and black have better eyesight than those who don't. Shit, guys - Specsavers genuinely text me saying I'm due for an eye appointment and tbh I wasn't that arsed, but I'm not 100% going and taking the picture of the dress with me and I will not leave until it transforms into blue and black in front of my strained, sad eyes.
What colour do you see?!
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.