Oh noes! This thread is turning into a discussion of the dress’ properties too! Stop it!
Y’know, Anaamika, if you didn’t want #thedress discussed then maybe you shouldn’t have started a thread about it. 
I sympathize with all the people who are suffering from overexposure on #thedress. But the problem is with the incredibly repetitive and overexposing nature of social and news media, not with #thedress itself, which as I said is actually a quite nifty sort of crowdsourced citizen-science project.
Is it really over exposed though?
The ice bucket thing went on for months. The makeup selfie thing went on for weeks. At least in my social media circle the dress thing popped up and then left in a day or two, this thread is the only place I seen it mentioned any more.
I put it into Photoshop and determined the colors of the photo. The wife declared I was being too literal, when I showed her what the actual colors of the photo were.
A brown and a very light blue.
I’m sick of this aurous morphing!
Just gonna leave this here…
Bun appetit!
For me, it reinforces this niggling worry I’ve had that, when you get right down to it, reality is only what we agree on, and it’s entirely possible that reality is nothing like we think it is and that it exists in wildly different forms within our own minds.
We all say the sky is blue. But are we all really seeing the same color?
This is like saying, “Telling someone to stop whispering in class, is generating noise of its own.”
How is someone wrong for wanting to accelerate the end of something by asking that it no longer be talked about, as opposed to waiting the longer time for it to die down naturally?
We’re all seeing the same wavelength of light, and whether or not we perceive that wavelength in similar ways, we can all (generally) identify that same wavelength as “sky blue” in different contexts, and successfully distinguish it (again, generally) from other colors that are similarly bright or reflective.
So in a way you’re correct that reality is what we can all agree on. But I’d say that because almost everything in reality is relatable to something else in reality, an appreciably high percentage of phenomena lend themselves really well to scientific consensus.
It’s not that I even minded talking about it, it’s just that it infested everywhere!
Tumblr started it.
Go to cheezburger, it’s there.
go to Slate, they have an article.
Salon has its own article
MSN has an article on it
Apparently TV news is covering it
And finally Straight Dope has an thread on it! Too! Much!
The only places I’ve encountered it are a skit on SNL and this thread.
Dr. Frasier Crane: “What color is the sky in your world, Cliff?”
now it all makes sense
The dress is white and gold. Anything is wrong and those wrong people should be ashamed of themselves.
So, we all agree the american flag has red stripes, blue stripes and gold stars in a white field?
Everything you know is wrong!
-Firesign Theatre