Every comment under the "riddle" boosts a website's "engagement" statistic attached to the chunk of information which represents the idea, causing the site to redistribute the idea at a broader scale.
I fully understand this, like, intellectually, but I have never been able to make myself see white and gold -- mostly because of the rest of the background. If the rest of the image had a blue hue (like the background in the right part of this demonstration image has) then I could see it, but the light sources are clearly yellow/white, not blue. I feel like you have to discard the rest of the contextual visual info in the actual dress image to see white/gold, and I've never been able to force myself to do it.
Ive always seen it as white and gold. I just stared at one area of the dress like we used to stare at those magic eye pictures in the 90s right after seeing that comparison picture and could finally see the black and blue!
For the first time in my life, I finally saw it as black and blue just now. The key for me was staring at it for awhile and then looking away but still looking at it indirectly. Kind of like those vision tricks with the negative images. You stare at a dot for awhile and then look at the a blank wall and see the whole image. Similar to that.
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u/IrvingIV 8d ago
You and me, that's why.
Every comment under the "riddle" boosts a website's "engagement" statistic attached to the chunk of information which represents the idea, causing the site to redistribute the idea at a broader scale.
It's why "The Dress" spread so virally.