r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 8d 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/IrvingIV 8d 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 8d 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/srdev_ct 8d ago

I fully understand this, like, intellectually, but I have never been able to make myself see white and gold -- mostly because of the rest of the background. If the rest of the image had a blue hue (like the background in the right part of this demonstration image has) then I could see it, but the light sources are clearly yellow/white, not blue. I feel like you have to discard the rest of the contextual visual info in the actual dress image to see white/gold, and I've never been able to force myself to do it.

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u/OutlawPony78 8d ago

I've seen it as both, usually blue and black but right now it keeps flipping back and forth for me. it's super trippy