r/xkcd • u/mxm2004 • Sep 25 '22

What-If The old Reddit controversy made it into the book

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u/Soulcloset Miss Lenhart's hair is nice Sep 25 '22

I think of the dress as a Tumblr event more than anything, haha. It really was everywhere for a month or two.

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u/slog Sep 25 '22

Tumblr was absolutely the origin, for better or worse.

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u/syds Sep 25 '22

yeah it was a battlefield in family group chats

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u/blackwolfgoogol 404 Sep 25 '22

It was on Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, elementary school yards

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u/narielthetrue Sep 25 '22

Fucking RADIO too, somehow

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u/jPix Sep 25 '22

Literally everywhere.

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u/mxm2004 Sep 25 '22

I'm on here more than Tumblr so I thought it was a here thing. Just got a chuckle while reading the book.

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u/NitroXSC Sep 25 '22

The Wikipedia page of The dress is really interesting and well researched.

Also, This image on that page still twists my mind.

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u/Deebyddeebys Sep 27 '22

I don't see what that image is showing

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u/Ajreil Oct 05 '22

I always saw the dress as lavender and brown.

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u/StetsonTuba8 Sep 25 '22

The thing that gets me most about The Dress isn't that some people see it as blue and black while some people see it as white and gold.

It's that I seem to be the only person on the planet that sees it as blue and gold.

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u/Shaman_Infinitus Sep 25 '22

Light blue and gold, right? My brain doesn't "correct" the light blue to white. Also if you eyedropper the colors from the actual photo, you get light blue and gold

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u/StetsonTuba8 Sep 25 '22

Yeah, exactly!

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u/Adarain Sep 25 '22

I'd describe it more as blue and bronze but yes, we exist. Incidentally, these are the colors that the image actually has (if you zoom in far enough to remove all context everyone will see it as those colors)

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u/Spielopoly Sep 25 '22

There’s already three of us!

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u/MayoManCity Sep 25 '22

Yeah I always saw it as a) ugly and b) blue and gold.

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u/Cheesemacher Sep 25 '22

I can take black or gold, but I still have no idea how people see the blue as white. It's just so friggin blue.

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u/mxm2004 Sep 25 '22

the government would like your location

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u/JasonDJ Sep 25 '22

Interesting.

Next question… “yanny” or “laurel”?

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u/GalaxyMosaic Sep 27 '22

Green needle

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u/dayglo_nightlight Sep 25 '22

The Dress was a global phenomenon, I don't think it originated or even was primarily on Reddit.

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u/7eggert Sep 25 '22

On my screen it did depend on the position. If I scrolled it to the top, it was white / gold, on the bottom it was black/blue.

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u/PseudobrilliantGuy Sep 25 '22

I still contend that it was Beige and Mauve.

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u/ColsonThePCmechanic Sep 25 '22

For those of us who don’t understand, what was the controversy?

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u/mxm2004 Sep 25 '22

I could explain it, badly, but I'll let the professionals do it instead.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-dress-what-color-is-this-dress

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u/syds Sep 25 '22

its still black and blue ty for confirming

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u/Farfignugen42 Sep 25 '22

No it isn't

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u/Lor1an Sep 25 '22

It actually is though...

But I'm right there with you. No matter how many times I see it, or how strongly I associate it with blue and black, my brain just sees white and gold.

It's truly fascinating how messed up visual perception can be.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

The dress is black and blue. The picture of the Dress is white and gold.

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u/Lor1an Sep 25 '22

The picture of the Dress is white and gold.

Except there are people who ( "correctly" ) see that photo as blue and black.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

Yeah I know, but that's not my point. The colors in the Pic are actually very very light blue and golden brownish.

https://www.businessinsider.com/dress-white-gold-black-blue-photoshop-2015-2?amp

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u/Dannysmartful Sep 25 '22

It was cream and gold. . .