What I never understood was if some folk saw the original dress as white gold & some saw it as black blue then how do side by side images like this exist showing them as two Science explains how time spent outdoors colors your view of #thedress Los Angeles Times Eleven years ago, a single photo posted on Tumblr sparked one of the biggest internet debates of all time. The dress instantly divided the world, some swore it was white and gold, The Great Dress Debate: Black and Blue or White and Gold? TikTok In 2015, a photograph of a dress went viral, dividing viewers over whether its colors were blue and black or white and gold. This optical illusion highlighted differences in human color perception