- Last week, a picture of a dress was posted on Tumblr.
Millions of people from all over the world saw it,
and now it's being called
"The Dress That Broke the Internet."
Take a look.
- It's the question that divided the Internet,
indeed, divided this great nation.
Now, time for the great debate:
What color is this dress?
- It's clearly gold and white.
- Black and blue. - It's totally white and gold.
- There's nothing white or gold about it.
- It's blue and black. - I'm going blue and black.
- This dress is white and gold!
It did start off as one woman's Tumblr post
asking that simple question.
- Scottish singer Caitlin McNeill posted:
"Guys, please help me--
is this dress white and gold or blue and black?”
And with that, the Twitter hashtag "\#TheDress" was born.
- It is breaking social media records.
- At its peak, the hashtag "\#TheDress"
was tweeted out more than 11,000 times per minute Thursday night.
It reached a total of 11 million tweets.
- Even celebrities are also taking to Twitter
to voice their optical opinions.
- And even now, it is still a top trending topic.
- From Colonsay, Scotland,
please welcome Grace, her husband Keir,
and their friend Caitlin.
So this is-- this is unbelievable.
I mean, you can't possibly have fathomed that this would happen.
Your mother sends you a dress to wear at your wedding, right?
- Yeah, so she sent me three photos
of three different dresses,
and I said, "So which one is it? Which one do you like the best?"
And she said, "The third one."
I said, "Oh, the white and gold one."
- Mm-hmm. - And she said,
"Um, no, the blue and black one."
And I was like, "No, Mum, that's white and gold,
"and if you think it's blue and black,
you need to go to the doctor's."
[laughter] - Right.
- And, yeah, so we had a bit of a row,
back and forward like that, and on it went.
- So you showed that picture to Keir, right? Is that--
- Yeah, and he saw-- - And you saw--
- Well, I'm a founding member of Team Blue and Black, I'm afraid.
- Really? - Yeah.
- So then that must've confused you even more.
- Yeah. - So then
who did you show it to?
- Well, being such a small island...
- Uh-huh. [laughter]
- My mum and dad live next door.
We have an adjoining door. - Uh-huh.
- So I knocked on the door, and through comes my dad,
and I said, "What color is this dress, Dad?"
And he says, "Well, son, that's white and gold."
And so I thought, "Hmm, these guys are playing a trick on me."
- Wow, okay, so then how do you come into this, Caitlin?
Then you posted it, right?
- Yeah, I posted it on Tumblr, and, um...
I mean, we had been arguing about this for weeks.
Like, it had been tearing the community apart.
[laughter]
We were losing our minds, and then I posted it on Tumblr.
I had a couple thousand followers.
I thought, like, maybe I'd get some answers, you know?
Sometimes Tumblr's good for that kind of science-y stuff.
And, eh... [laughter]
- Yeah, I always go to Tumblr when I have a science question.
- That's what I do too. I go for science.
[laughter]
- And then, yeah, I posted it on Tumblr, and then,
within not half an hour, it was on Twitter,
and then somebody just texted me and said,
"Can you just search 'TheDress' on Twitter?"
And I was like, "Eh, sure," and then,
hundreds and hundreds of pictures of this dress
on--in people's tweets.
- So let's see the dress and your mom--Cecile--Cecilia?
- Yeah, that's right. - Come on out, Cecilia.
[cheers and applause]
All right.
To me...
that's white and gold. [laughter]
Okay, so--hi, first of all. - Hi.
Nice to meet you.
And so, when you say "blue and black,"
and then your daughter's saying "No, it's white and gold--"
- And I'd even showed it to my partner
who actually bought the dress, and he took the photo--
I took the photograph, I showed him,
and he'd seen gold and white.
- But then when you look at the photograph, do you--
I mean, you obviously know it's blue and black,
but when you saw the photograph--
- No, blue and black. - Still?
- I've never seen gold and white.
I don't get the gold and white.
- I don't get the blue and black.
- Really? - No.
I mean, I see it now. I know that you're right,
but that to me is so white and gold.
All day long, that's white and gold.
- Totally. - No!
- No. - Yes!
- Yep. - I thought--
[talking over each other] - Yes!
- I mean, it's Grace's wedding and I wanted to get--
I wanted to do her proud, and I thought--
I'm quite busty, so I thought
"This'll pinch me in at the waist.
It'll give me a figure."
And so--and I just wanted to get it right, and then
I was worried that there was something wrong with my brain.
[laughter]
- Everybody else is gonna see-- - It's quite possible.
- I wanted you to have some souvenirs, so to go home--
You know, our Ellen underwear is the most popular--
Ellen underwear--we have--
So, just to--
- Aw! [cheers and applause]
- Thank you. - Thank you very much.
[all talking over each other]
- Thank you.
- Everybody's right.
[cheers and applause]
You left your honeymoon early,
and we appreciate that so very much,
'cause I know everybody in the world wanted to talk to you.
So we're going to send you to the all-inclusive
Spice Island Beach Resort in Granada for a week,
with a private tour of the island,
airfare from Expedia--
[cheers and applause]
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[cheers and applause]
- Thank you so much!