Shoshana 🏳️⚧️Back in my day, we spent our time on social media debating whether a dress was blue and black or white and gold!
💀 𝓕airchild 💀
Stefen Auris@LilahTovMoon such a strange time it was too! I mean, its obviously blue and black after all
Piko Starsider 
@stefen @LilahTovMoon I was clearly in the white and gold camp, I couldn't see it any other way... but back then my monitor was not well calibrated and also I used light mode.
Jeff ⚕️☢️ 🥖✔️@LilahTovMoon and there was never any doubt that it was white and gold, just saying.
Kevin Karhan 
@LilahTovMoon it's white & gold with blue light shining at it.
Hyrax 
@LilahTovMoon It's green
SnoopJ@LilahTovMoon never in a million years will I understand the crowd who think any part of this dress is white. gold I can sorta see, MAYBE, but white?!
James@SnoopJ @LilahTovMoon it's a brilliant white and shiny gold to me 😂😂
David J. Atkinson@LilahTovMoon Ah, the golden age.
Independent of the psycho-physiology of human vision, the colors we see depend on the absorption spectra of the materials, the spectrum of the source of illumination, atmospheric distortion, and the degree to which the image we see has captured this information without any human monkeying of the data.
In other words, we’ll never know. That’s what makes it ripe material for internet pundits.
StoneBear 
@LilahTovMoon oh, no, not THAT dress.
_I_ was there at the dawn of the Third Age, before the Great Renaming. Back when sending a _picture_ over the 'net was just a _dream_, when a "browser" wasn't even a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee's eye. We had *300 baud* and LIKED IT.
And, no, seriously, it really was uphill both ways. There was a _creek_ between the east residence halls and the rest of campus. Uphill either side by definition.
I did at least miss punch cards.
ValanhaThis reminds me of the Babylon 5 intro "It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind...."👍 🤣
Funny you should say that, that's exactly what I'm riffing off of... :) YAY, another Babyloniac!
Chinga la migra! 🍉🌈@LilahTovMoon and today someone would call me the f-slur for even choosing a side
Chris Simpson@LilahTovMoon I'm still fascinated by the fact that it's the concept of colours that makes a rainbow appear to have distinct colour bands and this means that not everyone necessarily sees the same number of bands
https://how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Categorical_perception
https://how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Categorical_perception
Dee in London@LilahTovMoon I remember this and just searched, find the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress and read up on the extraordinary debates around it. Simpler times
Enara 
❔@LilahTovMoon I was annoyed by this when it came out, but dear lord, I would love to go back to that state of the internet in hindsight
@EnaWasHere yea, simpler times when we had the bandwidth to get annoyed over these kinds of things
What I wouldn’t give for a week where the biggest scandal was a tan suit
@EnaWasHere yea, simpler times when we had the bandwidth to get annoyed over these kinds of things
What I wouldn’t give for a week where the biggest scandal was a tan suit
kaiserkiwi 
@LilahTovMoon I'm still unable to understand how people can see white/gold here.
@LilahTovMoon good old days. It absolutely is white and gold 🤣🤣
Aitor Zaindari@DrJLecter @LilahTovMoon Blue and black!!
Jessica Cheeri@LilahTovMoon 10 years ago but feels like longer. I miss when social could just be silly sometimes
sophteis 🌈🦋@LilahTovMoon better days
unattributed 𓂃✍︎@LilahTovMoon Wait, are you saying that whole debate didn't just happen???
(Yes, I'm the older than dirt person in your comments...)
Blake C. Stacey@LilahTovMoon I still wonder how much the choice of adjectives strengthened the disagreements about it. "Blue and black" sounds so absolute, just as "white and gold". But I don't see the "black" as "black"; it's more of a deeply tarnished bronze. Likewise, the "blue" is a pastel, almost periwinkle.
Bloomnolia 
@LilahTovMoon It always looked blue and gold to me for some reason
Nick@LilahTovMoon There is no debate. It's blue and black.
Efertone 
@LilahTovMoon I see what you did there with the alt text :P
@LilahTovMoon juuuust sayin' 
Clearly Gold and Blue*
*which can be white depending on camera while balance settings
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