There are trending topics and then there are trending topics.
Twitter all but exploded Thursday night as social media users engaged in a fierce debate over the colors of a two-toned cocktail dress, pictured below.
#TheDress debate is taking the internet by storm (and ruining friendships!): http://t.co/2cxvjUBkCj pic.twitter.com/XKQB0A9u10
— E! Online (@eonline) February 27, 2015Some said the dress was obviously blue and black:
IT'S A BLUE AND BLACK DRESS! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) February 27, 2015Others insisted it was gold and white:
. @questlove it's clearly #goldandwhite #TheDress
— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) February 27, 2015The whole thing got fiery when parties on both sides of the issue started throwing virtual shade:
Twitter's going to be so quiet after all the people who thought the dress was white delete their accounts.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) February 27, 2015Even black llama says the dress is #goldandwhite
— Chris Peña (@Penachristian) February 27, 2015And while many media outlets offered their theories about what might lie behind the dispute, perhaps MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow said it best of all:
Maybe the dress just doesn't like labels.
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) February 27, 2015
Rachel Kleinman