The Dress was seven years ago? Man…

@biojal  
I saw the dress as both ways, however I knew from the light exposure that the colors were being distorted and upon closer inspection I found that in the over exposed pictures the white lines ALWAYS kept their blue tint even if it were dimmed down to baby blue and that the gold lines always retained the black color to some degree.

Actually, she’s not changing the color of the dress.
 
She’s changing the ambient sunlight.

@Bedlam  
Yes. It is the will of the internet that this becomes a meme.

Oh, now I finally understand that xkcd.

@Bedlam  
Well, I don’t know bout the whole debate thing, but I find the case study it provides on perception fascinating. In the end, it doesn’t really matter what colour the dress really is, it’s about the illusion the image creates, yielding two distinct interpretations of pure observation.
 
Most of us take for granted just how often EVERYBODY perceives a colour that isn’t actually there. Your veins, for instance, aren’t actually blue, but the unique way in which light reflects off of them and to your eyes gives the perception of blue. The dress is another such illusion, but one in which the effect is not so universally perceived. It opens your eyes, so to speak, on just how fluid the truths we accept are, even the ones based on what we believe to be quantifiable.
 
But for the record, I always saw it as white and gold.

Well, its been proven time and time again that its black and blue. The creator said so himself. The reason people see it as white and gold is a result of the combination of a crappy quality picture, lighting, and how your brain tries to understand the light source, or something like that.
 
But does it really need to become ANOTHER meme?