The Dress Debate: Science Explains Why Some See Blue And Black And Others White And Gold So Really, What Color is This Dress? Memebase Funny Memes This explains how the blue black white gold dress illusion was possible. But it doesn't explain why some people saw it one way and some saw it the other, and no one seemed to see The colour constancy explanation for #thedress. The image formed on the Download Scientific Diagram Eleven years ago, a single photo posted on Tumblr sparked one of the biggest internet debates of all time. The dress instantly divided the world, some swore it was white and gold,