The internet has been taken a storm by this $77 dress design today which went viral in a color debate. Peter Christodoulou the designer of what has become a masterpiece was doing yoga at his house in the United Kingdom when his phone rang at around 6 a.m. Friday. It was the director of his company’s warehouse operations. “Have you heard what happened!?” the voice on the other end exclaimed. Christodoulou’s mind immediately jumped to worst-case scenarios.
What happened was that the hashtag #TheDress led trends on Twitter worldwide, boosted by a stream of tweets from celebrities voicing support for either of the opposing camps.
“From this day on, the world will be divided into two people. Blue & black, or white & gold,” U.S. comedian Ellen DeGeneres tweeted.
The picture of the dress was uploaded on image-sharing website Tumblr by a user named “swiked” on Wednesday. But it wasn’t until Internet news company Buzzfeed asked for reader opinions on Thursday that the dialectic got going.
As per Reuters, Buzzfeed’s post had been viewed nearly 22 million times on the website as of early Friday. A poll alongside found 72 percent of respondents believed the dress to be white and gold.
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