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No see, with that, I can switch back and forth. It's trippy, but I can. Which is why the dress thing is so weird: I've tried many times (over the last....shudders decade).

That's why I find the dress kind of an outlier and actual doubt. It just doesn't add up to me because I can't seem to switch to white-gold.

But then, also, going off the different people here, I also find it hard to believe there would be what looks like 40-45% of people who still are the exact opposite, in only being able to see white-gold, rather than blue black.

Like I get how technically, "the pixels...", but that doesn't explain to me how there's like a near-50% of people (at least the English-speaking internet demographic) that are... To put it bluntly, seemingly deficient. It would be one thing if there was no definitive proof of what color the dress actually is, or if it was just "some people see it start out one way and other people see it the other way, but then both people could switch between", but it's evidently NOT that - it's that some people are just stuck unable to interpret the color in a shitty picture correctly, and that other people are unable to interpret it wrongly (and maybe a smaller chunk of people who are able to go back and forth, but then that presents even more discussions).

There's a lot going on here, both psycho-optically, psychologically, and socially, and I don't think internet forums/social media that can't isolate, drill down, and then research the different sections of the blue-black/white-gold dress phenomenon should be bringing it up (though good luck with that) and basically just flaming and trolling each other in such a.... Cognitively shallow way.

It's worth examining, absolutely. But absolutely not in this format.