BY KIYAN HARRIS
The dress: is it gold? Is it blue? Is it both?
The dress has been popping up on practically any form of social media you can subject yourself to for days now. Tumblr, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, you'll probably even see it on MySpace ( if that even exists anymore), and we are all asking the same question:
#whatcoloristhedress?
Sophomore Tiffani Copeland says, "When I first saw the dress I was like, this is obviously white and gold, but then I saw people saying it was blue and black. Like, are these people crazy? Am I crazy?"
And the answer is no, you are not crazy. It has come out officially that the dress is in fact blue and black. (Although they are now manufacturing it in white and gold. Probably just to mess with us.)
Why are you seeing it differently then? I asked students and this is what they say.
Sophomore Alyssa Ortiz: "I think it has something to do with like the particles in our brains."
Sophomore Juan Arce: "It changes because of the brightness on your phone."
Freshman Marc Saldivar: "It's two different dresses."
Sophomore Drake Moss: "I don't even know why anyone cares about that dress anyway. The only question we should be asking is: who bought that ugly dress in the first place?"
All good theories, but according to CNN medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, "It has to do with the tiny cones in the back of our eyeballs that perceive colors in a slightly different way depending upon our genes, The cones in our retinas — the fine layer of nerve tissue that lines the back of our eyes — detect the blue, green, and red in an image. The cones and your brain mix those colors to make other colors."
So there you go, Internet. You can stop freaking out. There's your answer: the dress is black and blue.
Still don't believe? Turn down the highlight and shadow of the picture, and you'll see the true color of the dress. Turn up the highlight and shadow, and you'll see the opposite.
But while we were all shouting (or at least typing IN ALL CAPS), Instagram user Deborah Biah (@X_DEBBYCAKES) asked us a great question.
"Did anyone notice how all this stuff about dress just happened to show up on the anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death?" She wondered.
No, no we didn't. Who knows -- maybe that was the point. Or maybe it was just an (ugly) dress.
The dress: is it gold? Is it blue? Is it both?
The dress has been popping up on practically any form of social media you can subject yourself to for days now. Tumblr, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, you'll probably even see it on MySpace ( if that even exists anymore), and we are all asking the same question:
#whatcoloristhedress?
Sophomore Tiffani Copeland says, "When I first saw the dress I was like, this is obviously white and gold, but then I saw people saying it was blue and black. Like, are these people crazy? Am I crazy?"
And the answer is no, you are not crazy. It has come out officially that the dress is in fact blue and black. (Although they are now manufacturing it in white and gold. Probably just to mess with us.)
Why are you seeing it differently then? I asked students and this is what they say.
Sophomore Alyssa Ortiz: "I think it has something to do with like the particles in our brains."
Sophomore Juan Arce: "It changes because of the brightness on your phone."
Freshman Marc Saldivar: "It's two different dresses."
Sophomore Drake Moss: "I don't even know why anyone cares about that dress anyway. The only question we should be asking is: who bought that ugly dress in the first place?"
All good theories, but according to CNN medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, "It has to do with the tiny cones in the back of our eyeballs that perceive colors in a slightly different way depending upon our genes, The cones in our retinas — the fine layer of nerve tissue that lines the back of our eyes — detect the blue, green, and red in an image. The cones and your brain mix those colors to make other colors."
So there you go, Internet. You can stop freaking out. There's your answer: the dress is black and blue.
Still don't believe? Turn down the highlight and shadow of the picture, and you'll see the true color of the dress. Turn up the highlight and shadow, and you'll see the opposite.
But while we were all shouting (or at least typing IN ALL CAPS), Instagram user Deborah Biah (@X_DEBBYCAKES) asked us a great question.
"Did anyone notice how all this stuff about dress just happened to show up on the anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death?" She wondered.
No, no we didn't. Who knows -- maybe that was the point. Or maybe it was just an (ugly) dress.