What color is this dress: Gold and white or blue and black?

The world has suddenly been divided into two groups: the Blue and Blacks and the Gold and Whites.

The BBs and the GWs are screaming at each other in loungerooms, in offices, in different lighting across the globe. The cause of the great debate? The color of a dress.

On Thursday, a user going by the name of Swiked posted a photo of a striped dress to Tumblr, which was then picked up by Buzzfeed. "Guys please help me — is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can’t agree and we are freaking the fuck out."

We're not here to debate why some people see it one way and some people see it otherwise. No, we're just here to point this out: The Internet is going nuts over a photo that's just terribly, horribly overexposed.

"The dress is indeed black and blue. I fired up Photoshop and fixed the exposure. Here’s what the dress looks like in real life" gizmodo

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and here are some science facts 

“Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance,” says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington. “But I’ve studied individual differences in color vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences I’ve ever seen.” (Neitz sees white-and-gold.) .wired

If you are interested you can buy the blue-black, white-gold dress for 50£

Here is the Twitter what twitterati thinks about the dress

I don't understand this odd dress debate and I feel like it's a trick somehow. I'm confused and scared. PS it's OBVIOUSLY BLUE AND BLACK
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) February 27, 2015

Guys. I've stared at this dress for 5 minutes. Like an idiot. All I see is white and gold. And a satin bolero that shouldn't be paired w/ it
— Sarah Hyland (@Sarah_Hyland) February 27, 2015

IT'S A BLUE AND BLACK DRESS! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) February 27, 2015

The color or the dress changed before my eyes from white and gold to blue and black. No lie..I don't get it.
— human.♎️ (@truepyt) February 27, 2015

I am looking at a black & blue dress & some people are saying the SAME dress is white & gold? Am I reading that correctly?
— Pimpin ain't Easy (@DivaMonRoe2uHoE) February 27, 2015

I'm not going to give my opinion on the dumb dress that is clearly blue and black.
— Gavin Free (@GavinFree) February 27, 2015

The dress is 100% gold and white!
— Rich Davis (@MashUpRich) February 27, 2015

People who think the dress is white and gold is why I have trust issues.
— Zak DeCamp (@ZeekersTweeters) February 27, 2015

To me still its White and Gold :)