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⌈ Secret Post #2977 ⌋

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[Paul Darrow]

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[Dragon Age: Inquisition]

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(Bee and Puppycat)

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[Joan Watson, Elementary]

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(Marvel's Agents of Shield)

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[One Piece]

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[Noah Emmerich, The Americans]

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[Teen Wolf]

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Blue and black.

I can see how people could interpret the black as gold, since the poor quality of the photo turns parts of it brownish, but I cannot get my head around how anyone sees that vast swathe of blue as white.

I mean, it's a blueish white, but it's definitely white.

To me, I mean. I acknowledge that it's "actually" blue and blackish brown, or whatever, but it has never looked like anything other than a (very nice) gold and white to me.

AYRT

My best friend says the same thing. They can sort of see it as a very pale blue, but when I show them RL things that are the same color blue as I see in the picture they look baffled. Which was exactly the way I looked at them when they said it was white, I'm guessing. I see NO white whatsoever, and they only see very minor hints of blue.

It's such a mindfuck.

Because it looks like "white with a shadow because of backlighting" I.e., blue pixels, which parse in my brain as "white." I cannot see blue no matter how hard I squint or blur my eyes or tilt my head. I see the blue pixels, but not the blue dress. Just. Cannot.

AYRT

I think that's one of the explanations that's been touted for it? That some people percieve a white dress in shadow, and some people see a blue dress in regular light?

I guess I'm on the side where I can't see the blue pixels as anything other than a blue dress. Even for shadow, it just looks too blue for me. To me, it's about the same shade of blue as in the upper-middle-and-slightly-to-the-right of your icon and I cannot unsee that.

I swear I thought it was a hoax until I had someone IRL look at it on the same screen as me and he went "White and gold."

See, I didn't see the blue AT ALL until I tried looking really closely zoomed in.

AYRT

It's the weirdest thing.

I also thought at first that because I do a lot of photo editing I'm used to the way colors can get washed out or altered and need correcting when the photo is taken under poor lighting conditions (hence why my brain immediately 'corrected' the brownish tones into black -- to me that's just what black looks like in a bad quality photo), but I can't explain the white/blue dichotomy at all. Plus I've read about actual industry professionals who have been convinced it's white and gold.

I've looked at this thing on four different devices now, in every light condition imaginable, with and without my glasses, because damn it I WANT to see the white/gold version but no, nothing. Every time I think I get close, my brain just says "but it's TOO blue!" There's that faintly lighter section right down the centre that almost gets me there, but still nothing.

It may be your monitor.

I mean, the damn photo is a very light shade of blue, not a deep blue like the dress is irl, so it probably looks whiter to some people because of the screen they see it in.

I've tried it on three different devices and looked at different links and adjusted my screen brightness and everything. No change. My brain is too stubborn. It won't unsee the backlighting.

I've noticed it looks vastly different on different screens. It looked white and gold on my e-reader and blue and back on my laptop and the monitor I have at work. If I hadn't followed the exact same links each time, I'd swear I was looking at edited photos.

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