The color doesn't matter the dress is ugly CNN The dress: Celebrities join the white and gold or blue and black debate Daily Mail Online So I searched up the black and blue dress : r opticalillusions artema CMV: Change my view from seeing this dress as blue and black to seeing it as white and gold. : r changemyview The actual dress was black and blue. The confusion came from how lighting and color perception tricked people's brains, making some see it as white and gold. It became a viral example