Since it is the end of awards season, you would think it is the end of dresses being the top hit on Twitter.
But last night, Twitter was overtaken with a new dress that caused a huge controversy.
Dubbed #TheDress, this color optical illusion basically divided the internet into two camps, #TeamBlackAndBlue and #TeamWhiteAndGold.
To explain a bit, depending on your brain's perception of color, viewers can see an image of the same dress as either black and blue striped, or gold and white striped. The concept is fascinating, but since this isn't a brain function blog, I'll let you read about the science elsewhere. If interested, I think WIRED's recap of it is the best.
Another fascinating aspect, though, is just how quickly this sensation swamped our newsfeeds! #TheDress was first posted to Tumblr on Wednesday. Apparently, as Washington Post reported, the dress was intended to be worn in a wedding. And when the mother of the bride snapped a picture of it to send to members of the wedding party, they all saw the dress as different colors! To settle the debate, they posed the question to social media and BAM.
Tens of millions of tweets siding on either end of the debate led to trending hashtags #TheDress, #whiteandgold, #blackandblue. Even celebrities from Taylor Swift to Mindy Kaling to Julianne Moore chimed in about #TheDress.
When I first saw it, I thought people were pranking me! It was clearly white and gold. But now, a few images that I've seen actually do look blue and black! We are clearly going mad!
What colors do you see?
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