On February 27th, Redditor AskScienceModerator submitted a post about the dress to the /r/AskScience subreddit, where experts from a variety of fields offered explanations of the color perception phenomenon. Later that evening, BuzzFeed published a second post revealing that the dress was actually blue after finding it available for purchase on United Kingdom-based online retailer Roman Originals, which listed it as a "Royal-Blue Lace Detail Bodycon Dress" (shown below). Within 10 hours the poll received more than 1.8 million votes, with 72% selecting "white and gold" (shown below). On February 26th, BuzzFeed posted a poll asking readers to decide what color the dress really was. Within 48 hours, the post gained over 400,000 notes. On February 25th, 2015, Tumblr user swiked posted a photograph of a dress asking the science side of Tumblr to help identify its colors, noting that her friends were torn between it being white and gold or black and blue. The question sparked an Internet-wide debate in late February 2015, launching the competing hashtags "#WhiteAndGold" and "#BlackAndBlue." Origin ![]() #TheDress, also known as What Color Is This Dress?, refers to a Tumblr post in which viewers were asked to identify the color of a dress, which appeared to be either white and gold or black and blue. ![]() ![]() Tumblr, internet war, internet debate, #thedress, #blackandblue, #whiteandgold, what color is this dress, dressgate, the dress, debate, optical illusion, fashion, swiked, asksciencemoderator, sooprman, randall munroe, davidthehumanzee
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