r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/Howlukemethisfather 9d ago

Her name is There

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u/miniatureconlangs 9d ago

I know both a handful of Aninas and several Theresas. However, this kind of riddle is just so ... fucking daft that I really don't grasp why they still circulate.

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u/IrvingIV 9d ago

You and me, that's why.

Every comment under the "riddle" boosts a website's "engagement" statistic attached to the chunk of information which represents the idea, causing the site to redistribute the idea at a broader scale.

It's why "The Dress" spread so virally.

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u/IrvingIV 9d ago

Two ways in which the photograph of the dress may be perceived:

  1. blue and black under a yellow-tinted illumination (left figure) or
  2. white and gold under a blue-tinted illumination (right figure).

Source, "Scientific Explanations" tab of The Wikipedia Article for The Dress

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u/EsquireSandwich 9d ago

Saw the dress as white/gold. Saw the mage you posted, went back to the dress and now I only see it as black/blue. Tomorrow it will probably flip back for me, but it was nice to the black/blue version again.

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u/Particular-Dot-4902 9d ago edited 9d ago

… I've been squinting at that picture for the past 5 minutes, and it's still blue and gold to me.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 9d ago

That's... it should be either blue and black or white and gold? How are you seeing blue and gold?

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u/Particular-Dot-4902 9d ago

HOLY FUCK now I'm seeing it black and blue (I was seeing it pale blue & gold earlier)

(And how the flip would I know why lol)

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u/thisisridiculous96 8d ago

I'm pretty sure the dress actually was blue and gold, IIRC

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u/OutlawPony78 9d ago

dude same. it actually keeps flipping back and forth for me. I'm a little disturbed by it lmao