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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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Who remember this dress? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The Dress.

What is the color of this dress?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago

I love that it was so "everywhere' they even animated it into American Dad

[–] Andonyx 41 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Was anyone ever able to see it as both like one of those perspective illusions? I can only see it as white and gold.

[–] fishos 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It was white and gold when I opened the post. I use dark mode in Lemmy. Then I opened Wikipedia and read about it for a few minutes in light mode. When I came back, the dress was black and blue suddenly.

I can't usually switch it on command, but it does switch for me.

And as of posting this and looking at Lemmy in dark mode, it's white and gold again.....

....and now it's blue and brown.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

ive seen it as both. it depends on several factors (brightness of screen, environment, eyes). basically how your eye adapts with the picture.

the picture was taken with the perfect conditions in order for the problem to be a real problem (lit dress with an overly blown out background light) to cause eye adaption to trigger for some and not others.

[–] TootSweet 13 points 3 months ago

I've never seen it as anything but white and gold.

[–] too_high_for_this 7 points 3 months ago

Try squinting. I see white and gold normally but blue and black when I squint.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I cannot at all see the white. I can see it as blue and gold (from the top) but from the bottom, it definitely looks more like black and blue to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I constantly switch between seeing both.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Augh, not this again! It was clearly white and gold when I opened this thread. Scrolled through comments, and now I can only see it as blue and black. Damn it, messing with my mind man!!!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's just not possible for it to be white and gold.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

And it for real isn’t.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
[–] radicalautonomy 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

🎵 Whether you hear it as Laurel or Yanny,

Whether you prefer Oliver or Annie,

Brainstorm, Green Needle

Terrence Howard, Don Cheadle,

Still white and gold to me-e-e. 🎶

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is no consensus on why the dress elicits such discordant perceptions.[31] The neuroscientists Bevil Conway and Jay Neitz believe they are a result of how the human brain perceives colour and chromatic adaptation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#Scientific_explanations

The interesting thing, for me, is how people's reactions to the dress sparked that many studies of the phenomenon.

[–] Psychodelic 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The interesting thing for me is how badly I want one side to be wrong and one to be right. It's weird that that feeling is there and so strong... for something seemingly insignificant

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

I mean we do know what color the dress actually was: Blue and black

Edit: https://www.roman.co.uk/thedress

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[–] kaffiene 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can't see blue and black

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Did you know that the husband of this woman from the viral photo went to prison because he tried to kill her?

Edit: they were married

[–] Psychodelic 13 points 3 months ago

Did we need to? That's like the most "anyway" piece of info ever

Anyway, can you believe people see white n gold here? And we just let these freaks live among us??

Seriously though, I had never once considered the people that shared the image. And likely never will again so kudos lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That's interesting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The dress can make you feel crazy if you’re talking to someone who sees the other colors, but this diagram from the wiki page makes me feel like i’m having a goddamn stroke just by looking at it.

they’re clearly not the same co- HOW ARE THEY THE SAME COLOR

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

What i dont get is that there is clearly no dim blue light where the picture was taken. By the background you can see everything is lit up plain as day. White-gold people are absolutely zonked for thinking that.

[–] kaffiene 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's totally white and gold

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[–] PapaStevesy 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Blue and yanny.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm colorblind this pic doesn't have power here

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[–] ObsidianZed 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever seen it as anything but black and blue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

really? It's gold and white for me.. xD

[–] TropicalDingdong 11 points 3 months ago

Oh so we're going to have an argument for dinner?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Ban all of the trolls on team blue/black

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The famous red and green dress

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[–] Voyajer 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone bust out the hex code color picker...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hell yea, please do. I need the results

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It's been done; it's a grayish blue and a dark goldish brown. The lighting really messes with the coloring. Iirc the actually dress was discovered to be blue and black at some point.

[–] scrion 18 points 3 months ago

You are right, it was in fact blue and black:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

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[–] Logical 8 points 3 months ago

For me it was always light blue and brownish gold. Which is a shame, because that's a much less nice-looking color combination than either of the other two.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Still blue after all these years

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A global phenomenon from 2015 counts as nostalgia?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is nearly a decade ago

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Which is like real world centuries in internet years.

[–] mycodesucks 6 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can see it as both at the same time now and i don’t like it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

A true blue post. 💙

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