The Internet Reacts to 'The Dress'
by Andy Neuenschwander
If you've been on the Internet in the last 24 hours, chances are you know all about #TheDress.
God help you if you weren't online yesterday at all and you're just joining in now because you must be so confused, but here's the quick rundown: someone posted a photo of a dress that in reality is black and blue but in the photo appears to be white and gold. Different people see the colors in different ways, because science. We won't go into that.
What we will go into is how insane the Internet has gone over this thing. It's tough for a social media platform to be completely taken over by a single topic, but Facebook and Twitter were almost exclusive #TheDress-related last night and this morning.
Some people have already had enough of it:
#TheDress got everybody like pic.twitter.com/5fszr4sD9u
— ☾ Dory ☽ (@iKissStyles) February 27, 2015
Others, like the LEGO company, have adopted it:
Many have noticed some foreshadowing from all the way back in 1994:
While others have adopted recent memes into the equation:
Including this one, which happened THE SAME DAY which must be some kind of Internet record:
Others have gone completely off the deep end:
At this point, we would recommend leaving the whole thing well enough alone:
