ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

The dress

Once upon a time, there was a picture of a dress that people saw on the internet. But everyone who saw the picture couldn’t agree on what color the dress was. Some people said it was blue and black, while others said it was white and gold.

Now, you might be wondering why people couldn’t agree on what color the dress was. That’s because the way our eyes see color is affected by different things, like the lighting in the room, the screen you’re looking at the picture on, and even your own eyes!

So even though some people saw the dress as blue and black, and others saw it as white and gold, both groups were actually right in their own way. It just depended on their own individual perception of color.

In the end, the whole dress debate became really popular and everyone was talking about it. People even started making jokes and memes about it. But at the end of the day, it was just a silly online debate about a dress.
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