A White and Gold Dress Overloads the Internet (Viral Photo)

So this Black and blue dress or White and Gold dress went viral on the internet days back. To me i can see a black and blue dress,what can you see + read the story surrounding the dress below

The mother of the bride wore white and gold. Or was it blue and black?

Not even the guests at the wedding last weekend on the Scottish island of Colonsay could agree. Including the four members of the band, who were evenly divided.

A few days after the wedding, the singer and guitarist, 21-year-old Caitlin McNeill, was so frustrated by the lack of consensus that she posted a photograph of the dress on Tumblr, and asked her followers for feedback.

“I was just looking for an answer because it was messing with my head,” Ms. McNeill said in an interview early Friday morning from Scotland.


Within a half-hour, her post had attracted some 500 likes and shares. Within an hour, that number had grown to tens of thousands. The photo had soon migrated to BuzzFeed and Facebook and Twitter, setting off a social-media conflagration that few were able to resist.

As the debate started to catch fire across the Internet, media companies rushed to get coverage online. Less than a half-hour after Ms. McNeill’s original Tumblr post, BuzzFeed had posted a poll: “What Colors Are This Dress?” As of Friday morning, it had been viewed more than 25 million times. (White and gold was winning handily.) With its blanket coverage of the debate on Thursday night, BuzzFeed easily smashed its prior records for traffic.

Everyone, it seems, had an opinion – and was convinced of being right.

“I don’t understand this odd dress debate and I feel like it’s a trick somehow,” Taylor Swift wrote on Twitter. “PS it’s OBVIOUSLY BLUE AND BLACK.”