What in the hell, this is the first time I’ve been able to actually see it as blue and black

If you look at the orginal on wikipedia the image is much brighter:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

Wait… It was actually white and gold the whole time? I never saw it as white and gold

the photo yes but not the dress itself, take the og photo from the wiki into any photoshop with a color picker, and look at the points it marks it on the color range (it shows it between yellow and red nowhere near any blue) its gold stripes in the photo. the “white dress” parts do show up with light blue tint, it all just because of the terrible back light overexposed effect. the real dress yes is blue and black, but the photo is gold stripes with light-blueish white dress.

I wouldn’t call this “nowhere near blue":