50 shades of blue and black…or white and gold

MANILA, Philippines – What colors do you see on this dress?

Today, it seems the Internet can only ask this one question. Whether on Tumblr, Facebook, or Twitter, #TheDress is all anyone can talk about.

Tumblr user swiked uploaded this post seeking help from the science side of the blogging website to explain why she and her friends couldn’t agree on what colors the dress actually was.

So began the great Internet divide with some people seeing a blue dress with black lace while others seeing a white dress with gold lace.

And today a dress color debate goes viral.

— four two three (@isaiahrashad) February 27, 2015

I like how my whole family is a group message trying to figure out what color the dress is

— Shelbsss (@Shelbie1616) February 27, 2015

The torment of not knowing drove one man to go around the train to ask different people what colors they saw:

EXCUSE ME SUBWAY PASSENGERS WHAT COLOR IS THIS DRESS?? feel like my brain is breaking pic.twitter.com/lPshlNBjbj

— Adam J. Kurtz (@adamjk) February 27, 2015

Even more confusion comes from those who claim that when they first looked at the dress, they saw white and gold, but it suddenly transformed into blue and black:

I wasn’t going to tweet anything about the dress but then I looked again and the color changed and I almost started crying

— Keenan Casanova (@KeenanCasanova) February 27, 2015

the dress changed color idk what to think anymore

— uh liss uh (@baellysa2) February 27, 2015

THE FREAKING COLOR OF THE DRESS CHANGED ON ME

— Annika Clark (@AnniLexi) February 27, 2015

Arguments have been made to explain the true nature of the Internet’s most talked about dress:

Here’s your dress color explanation pic.twitter.com/SysfcQKE8y

— ⠀ (@omfgshawty) February 27, 2015

Scientific explanation for the "what color is the dress?" In other words you see it’s contrasting pigmentation. pic.twitter.com/HgrqWmzTSW

— Meagan (@meaganseaturtle) February 27, 2015

What about you? Are you team #blueandblack or team #whiteandgold?

Tell us what colors you see and your own explanation for the divide in the comments section below! – Rappler.com