The Dress

[ksen]

As an aside I'm just happy enough people are old enough here to know what I meant by "gaslighting".

 

[arkirk]

By the way, I though this dress, whether it was gold and white or black and blue...was kind of hideous and lacking any flair whatever. Could that be what this is about?
The controversy is over what color an ugly dress is....enjoy!

 

[Derec]

By the way, I though this dress, whether it was gold and white or black and blue...was kind of hideous and lacking any flair whatever. Could that be what this is about?
The controversy is over what color an ugly dress is....enjoy!

I know. 15 pieces is the minimum, but do you want to do the bare minimum?

 

[bilby]

This is an abuse of the Internet; Everyone knows that the Internet is for pictures of women NOT wearing dresses.

And cats. As to the dress, it looks light to middle blue & off-black to me.

Meh, the cats generally don't wear dresses, but it's still OK if they do. But not the women. What is the Internet coming to?

 

[dystopian]

At the risk of answering snark with snark, your not being aware of this is a potential indicator you have no friends and the closest thing you have in your life to genuine human interaction is that smartass youtube video you linked to.

First off all, I never said I wasn't aware of it. I just stated that the people who see the *wrong colors* are obviously monsters of some sort who don't understand the concept of colors (btw; if you interpret this as being some sort of serious snark/position in life, then you are obviously a monster of some sort who doesn't understand the oh forget about it)

Secondly, Dutch people generally didn't know or care about this meme. Most of my coworkers hadn't heard about it; and those that did pretty much immediately jumped to the same "well the RGB value of this pixel says its not fucking black" line of thought. To be fair, I work in graphic design... so that's probably why we all immediately went there; the job drills color exactness into us pretty well. The notion of colors appearing different based on context too of course; although the effect here is still way out there and hard to grok compared to other optical illusions that have been put forth since those fool everyone pretty much universally and this is more along the lines of: "You see the sky as red? WHAT TEH FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU BRO!?"

As an aside I'm just happy enough people are old enough here to know what I meant by "gaslighting".

I doubt that age comes into play with that; as the term pops up frequently enough in modern media.

 

[Nexus]

what dismal said

I'm certain this quote will never happen again.

 

[ksen]

it could happen

 

[Derec]

But more importantly, where is Monica's blue dress?

It's very shadowy these days.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

First off all, I never said I wasn't aware of it. I just stated that the people who see the *wrong colors* are obviously monsters of some sort who don't understand the concept of colors

Obviously.

Secondly, Dutch people generally didn't know or care about this meme.

Which is why I hate the Dutch.

Most of my coworkers hadn't heard about it; and those that did pretty much immediately jumped to the same "well the RGB value of this pixel says its not fucking black" line of thought. To be fair, I work in graphic design... so that's probably why we all immediately went there

Now that's just confusing; if they hadn't heard about it, how did you all go there?

For that matter, how did you come to be aware that they "hadn't heard about it"? Did you ASK them if they had heard about it?
Because having someone else ask "Did you hear about this dress?" is how 99.9% of everyone else heard about it.

 

[dystopian]

Now that's just confusing; if they hadn't heard about it, how did you all go there?

Because I brought it up.

For that matter, how did you come to be aware that they "hadn't heard about it"? Did you ASK them if they had heard about it?

Yes. And they said no.

/shocktwist.

Because having someone else ask "Did you hear about this dress?" is how 99.9% of everyone else heard about it.

Sure, if by having someone else ask them you mean ask them about it on twitter or reddit or some such place instead of real life. Not everyone pays attention to those places; and even when they do they might not pay attention to the english-speaking portions thereof.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Because I brought it up.

Exactly. Which means they DID hear about it, much the same way everyone else did, and you are single-handedly responsible for propagating that meme you hate among the population of your co-workers.

Sure, if by having someone else ask them you mean ask them about it on twitter or reddit or some such place instead of real life

This is actually a rare case of a meme that spread to more people by word of mouth than it did through social media. Almost every person who saw it online showed it to at least two other people who HADN'T seen it before, usually looking at the same device in the same conditions, just to confirm that they weren't crazy. I actually saw someone do this with two complete strangers standing in line at Burger King.

Not everyone pays attention to those places

No, but everyone knows at least one person who DOES.