The Great Dress Debate: Black and Blue or White and Gold? TikTok What I never understood was if some folk saw the original dress as white gold & some saw it as black blue then how do side by side images like this exist showing them as two Black and blue or white and gold? The dress color debate rages online Eleven years ago, a single photo posted on Tumblr sparked one of the biggest internet debates of all time. The dress instantly divided the world, some swore it was white and gold, Here's why people saw the dress differently. 10 years ago, a simple photograph of a dress sparked a global debate unlike anything seen online before. Posted in 2015, the image caused people to argue intensely over whether the dress