The dark story behind the viral 2015 blue/black vs white/gold dress

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The dark story behind the viral 2015 blue/black vs white/gold dress

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@kristien2010 3 ай бұрын

I don't know if anyone remembers this but during the height of this debate, there was an anti abuse organization (please do not ask the name this was near a decade ago) that used models wearing both color versions of the dress people saw with bruise makeup on their faces with the slogan, "Using white and gold to cover black and blue." Knowing what was going on behind the scenes now just makes my heart ache for that woman, especially if she saw that particular campaign. Just, damn.

@jamiegallier2106 3 ай бұрын

How ironic! Also very sad.

@TheOriginalScorpioBelle 3 ай бұрын

It was the Salvation Army.

@kristien2010 3 ай бұрын

@@TheOriginalScorpioBelle That makes all the sense when I remember who shared it. Thank you

@enderkai618 3 ай бұрын

gotta say, this was most certainly not on my 2024 bingo card

@discoduckgandolf 3 ай бұрын

Wow. I never thought in a million years that this whole dress debacle would be THAT serious after all.

@Vampress09 3 ай бұрын

Ironically, there is a DV awareness campagain where a woman is wearing the white/gold version n the caption says "why is it so hard to see black and blue?" This info puts that campaign even more in perspective.

@lotionorhose 3 ай бұрын

this hair/makeup combo is unreal on you! girl you look amazing ✨

@GetElevatedWithMe 3 ай бұрын

Whoa yeassssss she looks amazing! ❤❤just hit play and she smacked with her beauty!

@robinfilbey 3 ай бұрын

She looks like herself again! The way she’s moving even. I feel like she’s herself more than she has been, awesome to see💜

@lilz 3 ай бұрын

I love it! Definitely would love a make up tutorial of this look

@sophritoh 3 ай бұрын

Girl the brows though ??? Idk what is even going on there, but the rest of the look is nice! The brows look like she lightened them, glued them in a messy position, and hasn’t groomed or shaped them at all! Just no shape, but also can’t give that “messy big brow” vibe because they’re too light ..

@DylanRomanov 3 ай бұрын

Love everything but the brows

@lynxelmore5364 3 ай бұрын

Fuck, that poor woman, I can't imagine what it's like being under that kind of abusive control and watching the world go wild over her abuser's meme. And doing the Ellen show? Having to mask through the whole thing... I hope she's got a good therapist. And I hope he rots.

@WobblesandBean 3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately I do. My ex would gaslight me all the time like this, he'd go to his friends about something I said and they'd back him up no matter what, so he'd use that as "proof" against me. He never did anything publicly like this, but it was one of the worst points in my life and I'm lucky I escaped. When I did, he found me and started pounding on my door. I didn't leave for months after that. I was a total shut in. My heart breaks for this woman, and I'm glad she's finally seeing justice, but I am extremely upset that no one knew about this until so many years later.

@Zectifin 2 ай бұрын

to be fair its kind of spot on for Ellen.

@mysticthemanakete 3 ай бұрын

I remember one horrifying day when I was looking at the dress, saw it as one colour set, focused elsewhere on the screen to read a comment or something, and then IT CHANGED JUST OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE. It was like refocusing my vision elsewhere changed everything in my colour perception for a few moments.

@Miashiro1559 3 ай бұрын

I was in art school at the time and had one professor explain to us it the difference was in the part of our eyes that see color, something in the receptors of light in which people have different sensitivities and depending on the lighting, makes us see different colors, specially on screen. I always saw it white/gold until one day it happened just what you said and in that split second I saw it black/blue in the corner of my eye. I was indeed shocked ahaha

@kirbybie 3 ай бұрын

reading the title making me go ‘can’t have shit in detroit’

@SillyLittlePookie 3 ай бұрын

@s.m.mannix8582 3 ай бұрын

So, the entire "debate" was just an abusive man gaslighting his wife. Of course.

@annab4931 3 ай бұрын

This is so weird because my abusive ex and I once had a MASSIVE fight over the colour of a blanket. I saw it as a very muted muddy lilac (purple) but he was insistent it was beige/ brown. Problem was, he didn't like my explanation that people can perceive colours differently and would not drop it for HOURS. He tried to get his whole friendship group and multiple discord servers involved, just like the husband posting the dress to social media lol. My ex had NPD and ASPD and strangled one of his exes (she survived). So this story is really freaky!

@KreeZafi 3 ай бұрын

Is gaslighting the correct term here? I mean, she really was wrong about the colors. Not that that'd justify arguing over something so trivial, but gaslighting means making someone question their perception of reality and that doesn't seem applicable when she was in fact incorrect

@WhiteCresentKnight 3 ай бұрын

@@KreeZafithat’s not the point

@quester09 3 ай бұрын

here I thought it was lightweight nonsense 😐

@stephandesme123 3 ай бұрын

@@WhiteCresentKnightlet’s not throw that term around and downplay what gaslighting is, it’s a valid point to bring up. It’s an abusive husband who wanted to discredit her opinion so he could be right, and make an argument out of something really trivial so he put it online to try and embarrass her.

@714_ad 3 ай бұрын

To me, he looks entirely harmless which is even worse cuz you never know what could be going on in his mind just by looking at him.

@brittanytidwell1754 3 ай бұрын

Agree. He doesn’t look scary or dead inside to me haha looks completely harmless like he’d be a nice guy actually. Which like you said is def more scary.

@WobblesandBean 3 ай бұрын

Abusers do that deliberately. They maintain a very manicured persona to front in public, while they show their true colors to their victim behind closed doors.

@RayneSaltair 3 ай бұрын

That is scary. I have Complex PTSD so I can't really imagine someone posting a meme and I'm seeing it years later, taking me back to that time period.

@vzxlid 3 ай бұрын

Never thought I’d hear Giulia say the word “poot” but that made me giggle lmfao, let poot out the basement or whatever 😂

@interceptthis4141 3 ай бұрын

He probably put it up there just to argue with her about what color it was and then just beat her after disgusting

@DizzyAndHigh 3 ай бұрын

Shouldn't have chosen black and blue

@SheilaDeBonis 3 ай бұрын

Fortunately he wasn't the one who uploaded the photo to Tumblr where it got popular. That was their friend Caitlin. I'd like to give her more credit and turn it into something funny.

@WobblesandBean 3 ай бұрын

@@DizzyAndHigh What is wrong with you.

@bigmaneren 3 ай бұрын

Honestly I have to give props. I've never clicked a video so fast in my life. Great catch!

@EmiliFaust 3 ай бұрын

The explanation of what he did to her when he attacked her was pretty triggering as I've also been pinned down and strangled. It's a harrowing thing to experience, it happened to me a very long time ago but I still live with the C-PTSD from that chapter of my life. I hope she's doing okay and, as daunting as it can be to seek therapy, finds a form of therapy that helps her.

@alb91878 3 ай бұрын

I hope YOU'RE doing ok! Poor thing! I'm so sorry you week through that!

@EmiliFaust 3 ай бұрын

@alb91878 I'm doing my best to live with the trauma. It's challenging, but I think I'm doing okay, and I feel for others who can relate to this experience too because it truly is an awful one. Thank you for your kind words!

@WobblesandBean 3 ай бұрын

@@EmiliFaust I too have been there, and I think you're doing great. You survived, which means you won. He can't hurt you anymore. Mine can't hurt me anymore, either. He's gone, thank god.

@EmiliFaust 3 ай бұрын

@WobblesandBean Thank you, I appreciate that. My abuser was a she, I am a he. I struggled to be believed by many people which made getting support from friends very difficult, some even laughed at me when I tried to open up about it to them. Surviving is difficult particularly when the damage they caused has given mental and physical health issues, but I am determined to continue pushing forward even when it's hard. Thank you again, and wishing you all the best as well. If you ever experience vertigo attacks, my ent specialist theorises I have menieres disease caused by the strangulation.

@alb91878 3 ай бұрын

@@EmiliFaust you are very welcome! I just think it's amazing that not only you managed to get through that, but that you still are able to be compassionate towards others! You sound like a very wonderful person and I wish you all the best!

@Badbirdie 3 ай бұрын

Why can't people just be good people? How many more things have to be ruined because of abuse?

@WobblesandBean 3 ай бұрын

You're asking an impossible question. Abusers are not good people. I wouldn't even consider them human. The overwhelming majority of physical abusers are men, with female victims. I couldn't tell you why they do what they do. I'm just glad I survived mine.

@prench 3 ай бұрын

for the record, i saw it as a light blue and gold/bronze.

@bulletangel 2 ай бұрын

Same

@JasFromMars 3 ай бұрын

This one threw me for a loop man...and how he said he was going to finish her off is so specific...

@comedyloverism 3 ай бұрын

People are scary, these days especially.

@NemFX 3 ай бұрын

I liked to mess with people and yell THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS when they'd show me it. .. then I had to explain what Star Trek was.

@cocobutter3175 3 ай бұрын

Lol. I can't tell you how many times I've yelled "IT'S ILLOGICAL, IT'S ILLOGICAL, IT'S ILLOGICAL!!!" or "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" at someone and they have no clue what I'm talking about. It's the Trekkie curse--always having the perfect trek quote for the moment, but no other Trekkies are around. Years ago, I finally had to make my boyfriend watch every season of every Star Trek so someone would get it. Don't judge me, but I even made him watch Enterprise.

@WobblesandBean 3 ай бұрын

I love Star Trek, I wish I had trekkie friends.

@WobblesandBean 3 ай бұрын

@@cocobutter3175 You made him watch Enterprise?? That poor man. At least you didn't make him watch Discovery.

@meh_lady 3 ай бұрын

Good grief, can't anything just be what they seem? I'm blaming Laurel and Yanny.

@maryntalysenazjwa6096 3 ай бұрын

😂

@READYTOGLARE 3 ай бұрын

NOT LAUREL AND YANNY !!! Too many flashbacks !!!

@LiamHughes-sy7zl 3 ай бұрын

@@READYTOGLAREur the best by the way that much that I could just kiss u right now 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@chinemapictures Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 noo

@accioanna 3 ай бұрын

Look into this Mica Miller story out of South/North Carolina. It’s a wild one and a lot of people don’t believe she unalived herself.

@aghasearmyshawolblinkonce8039 3 ай бұрын

her husband did it I watched kyeluh's video on the mica story, that man is 100% guilty.

@alb91878 3 ай бұрын

That's so damn sad! Even if he didn't pull the trigger, I strongly believe he drove her to do it! I heard the 911 call and saw the clip where they showed her purchasing the gun and I can't help but feel for her. She looked so broken inside and so lost!

@DanielaBodoh 3 ай бұрын

My friend and I were literally just discussing that dress picture a few weeks ago. It's crazy how this just now comes to light.

@erynsmerch3 3 ай бұрын

In the UK, it's a common phrase for someone to be "finished off". It means they were killed (not necessarily by a person, you could be "finished off" by an illness)

@maryisazombie 3 ай бұрын

I instant clicked cause I was so curious 👀

@kittygoesWOOF 3 ай бұрын

Focusing on the eyes, Grace is absolutely stunning. I don't see the creepy look from Kier, which is almost scarier given the circumstances. When the meme went around, I remember thinking the dress was black and blue but saw the white and gold for a second, though idk if that image was edited. Kier Johnston will be remembered for DV and attempted M-word, at least in my mind. The dress and meme, I'll be remembering Grace, her eyes, and her strength. The meme is hers (in my mind), and I hope she's able to continue to heal. It makes me think about everyone that's been hurt by famous people, or people linked to specific memes or pop culture icons or even logos.

@lh9761 3 ай бұрын

As a person from a small town, I see the internet making people small town. It can become suffocating

@babyruthless9670 3 ай бұрын

Everytime I hear these types of news I think of my friend who is in a abusive relationship, she told me she has been strangled by her husband twice already and still won't leave his ass... Sadly there will come the day that her name will be in the dead victim side.

@HudaAbdulahi 3 ай бұрын

have you tried abuse shelter divorce papers help her leave

@winniefindstheway 3 ай бұрын

@HudaAbdulahi p It's not that easy... leaving an abusive relationship is like kicking a very powerful drug addiction... one where the wrong move on the part of the person helping will drive the victim back to the abuser because of how our brains work... usually an abuse victim will suffer abuse amnesia and forget how bad things have really been too making things even worse

@HudaAbdulahi 3 ай бұрын

@@winniefindstheway When a partner strangles you it means they will kill you in the future. Its amazing how people can still have love for their abusers humans are complicated. I hope the mans wife escapes from him because that's terrifying.

@dannibruh6366 3 ай бұрын

OMG i forgot about this dress

@kassirebec596 8 күн бұрын

I’ve been away from KZfaq for about a year. It is so amazing to hear your soothing voice again 🥰

@citruslimonia 3 ай бұрын

I'm still unable to see it as blue and black 😵‍💫

@shortybeck1948 3 ай бұрын

Same!

@Laz3rCat95 3 ай бұрын

I've never been able to see it as white and gold

@tenebraequeene 3 ай бұрын

Oh whoa this is shocking! Also, funny enough i can see both white/gold and black/blue but it depends on how intensely I'm looking at it. But yeah, this is horrifying!😮😢

@bsgenius22 3 ай бұрын

I love the content you cover and all of your looks you put together. Keep up the good work ❤

@larouxlove 3 ай бұрын

Sick story … But for those that don’t know ‘finish her/him off’ is a term used in Britain when referring to killing someone, sick but it’s a turn of phrase people use here. (Sick I know, but that’s us Brits for you lol)

@haz.fellie 3 ай бұрын

It's commonly used this way in the US too.

@Bunnidove 3 ай бұрын

We use it here in the US as well

@SlyVerzzei 3 ай бұрын

As always the flair is stunning💓

@jahanarahgraham8003 3 ай бұрын

Omg I found out about this about a month ago and I was so SHOCKED

@oonooooooooo 3 ай бұрын

i don’t like that the news are associating the meme with the criminal, because knowing people someone’s gonna try to leech off the fame by intervening like starting a bail kickstarter or something just because he’s the guy behind the meme 💀

@alwayssavage9592 3 ай бұрын

I can’t believe how much Poot Lovato upset Demi 😅

@HFDZ119 3 ай бұрын

The top suits you!! Thanks for the new upload. Greetings from the Netherlands

@arielhavik6693 2 ай бұрын

So, for anyone wondering how his sentencing went.. 4.5yrs in prison.. for 11 years of abuse, with it’s height ending at the attempted murder. 4.5 years. (And 10 years where he’ll be prohibited from contacting her.. which is still bad bc why the fuck should he ever be given the opportunity to be near her/try reaching out to her ever again??)

@MySpaghetti 3 ай бұрын

Okay but how have I never heard of Poot Lovato before now

@juliana.x0x0 3 ай бұрын

I was told once, "if I ever see you again...even out of the corner of my eye, if I see you walking down an alley late at night...if you're lucky, you'll find yourself waking up in a burn unit, months down the line, completely unrecognizable." That stuck with me more than the actual assault did.

@TheNewMailLady 3 ай бұрын

0:05 I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!

@nothingworksworks3511 3 ай бұрын

That meme had a weird energy. Like that mouse with soap :(

@Plutonium.2 2 ай бұрын

That whole thing was bonkers and this is a weird upsetting backstory! And the dress changes colours due to… rods and cones? It has to do with which cells are looking at it apparently?

@DaniellesMicoMarley 3 ай бұрын

love the shirt!

@trala8911 2 ай бұрын

I dunno, he looks super normal to me. Which is creepier, in my opinion. It just reminds me that anyone can be a monster, and you can’t predict who will be.

@djrydell 3 ай бұрын

'finish off' means to kill. so that was very clear messaging on his part.

@SunflowerMama1627 3 ай бұрын

I never thought I would hear about this blue/black, gold/white dress meme from 2015. I only say meme because back then it WAS a meme, but now it is an abusers way to torment someone he "loved". I do also know that abusers are not truly capable of love.

@popcornastoria 3 ай бұрын

It was 2012, not 2015 actually LOL what a wild time.

@pinkbunny6272 3 ай бұрын

It was 2015

@EmiliFaust 3 ай бұрын

@@pinkbunny6272 I was at university at the time (2014-2018), so I'd be so confused if @popcornastoria somehow turned out to be right about this lmao

@shannond1511 3 ай бұрын

Am I crazy? I literally can’t see it as black and blue.

@nobody-xh6ii 3 ай бұрын

Lighting and depends on devices. Someone said for their friends iPhone it was white and gold. For android it's black and blue.

@Margo_ladydeath 3 ай бұрын

This whole look is fucking sick🩷

@alyssa9871 3 ай бұрын

whered you get that shirt?

@ricequin 3 ай бұрын

You got the pronunciation of Colonsay spay on.

@MrMonochromatic 3 ай бұрын

Saying you're going to finish someone off comes up when you play video games enough with combat and such. Never heard it used in real life. I could guess an aggressive sport, maybe, but I dunno...

@clifforddean232 3 ай бұрын

Not to laugh but I am picturing a strong Scottish accent like Willy from the Simpsons yelling lol "oh ye don like thee we dress las, well someone is going to dye"

@kaydwessie296 3 ай бұрын

The color of this dress was the first actual huge argument me and my ex ever had lmfao. So anyway...

@spooky-spaghetti 3 ай бұрын

every day i am reminded that there is nothing good in the world

@LD-2401 3 ай бұрын

No I refuse to believe this godforsaken dress has a dark backstory or backstory of any kind.

@kavi212 3 ай бұрын

There’s a dark story? Oh boy, I feel like there’s always some other story to most everything but I’m a pessimist so…

@reneefasano403 3 ай бұрын

Hey this is crazy & messed up but at least I know Guilia is also incapable of seeing the blue + black

@sophia111188 3 ай бұрын

Basically a milkshake duck

@BritneyAnne 3 ай бұрын

It drove him insane

@mkaylor121 3 ай бұрын

It's white and gold

@OingoDeLaBoingo 3 ай бұрын

I think theres two dresses now btw, like i think they made both real after the meme

@LunaDarklore 3 ай бұрын

Whelp my 2024 bingo card didn't see this one coming. I hope justice is served for this one. (fingers crossed)

@roseyjai9789 3 ай бұрын

I’m sorry don’t hate me but ik y’all lying about seeing White/gold 😭

@marzonimarisa 3 ай бұрын

demi poot lovato......... i totally forgot abt this queen XD Thank you for video, what's wrong with that dude omg jail

@danbrit9848 3 ай бұрын

oh so its true color was red

@girlbrat13 3 ай бұрын

Poot lovato yesss

@kittyroxs 3 ай бұрын

Love the hair. It slays. Or whatever the kids are saying now a days. 😁

@AB-by8xu 3 ай бұрын

Soooo what colour was the dress ? 😂

@kingofallmediums2123 3 ай бұрын

Glare, what is the difference between a crow and a raven? 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😊😊😊😊😊

@kittygoesWOOF 3 ай бұрын

Oooh, what is it?

@kingofallmediums2123 3 ай бұрын

@@kittygoesWOOF I don’t know 🤷‍♂️ that’s why I asking Glare! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮

@kittygoesWOOF 3 ай бұрын

@@kingofallmediums2123 oh I thought you were making one of those jokes like what's the difference between x and y? x is a and y is b (insert punchline) Ravens are huge in comparison to crows. All corvids are incredibly intelligent, they can be trained, they also recognize people by faces and typically never forget or forgive anyone that's attempted to harm it. Ravens have less shiny, less kempt feathers, they look slightly fluffier. They're a lot less common, but seriously they're far bigger than most people think. As far as historical, mythical, or scientific hard info, that's something I don't have a firm grasp on. Take everything I said with a grain of salt. This is from my lived experience and I am not an ornithologist. Check out the other birds in the Corvid family, you might be surprised! :)

@TrineDaely 3 ай бұрын

Species

@asmrtpop2676 3 ай бұрын

His “stare” (not even a stare, he’s posing for a freaking photo) looks fine. Stay away from ableist rhetoric and stick to the facts, please. There’s plenty of facts.

@that.neurodivergent 3 ай бұрын

Literally like what the fuck

@tx-sweet-pjg3547 3 ай бұрын

Apparently, that man ain’t no saint. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

@tx-sweet-pjg3547 3 ай бұрын

You should have Gypsy Rose Blanchard on your show, maybe do a live slumber party Gypsy’s never been to a slumber party before ,makeup and hair

@MadQuickScotsman 3 ай бұрын

This is the last goddamn thing I expected to see. I vividly remember arguing with my mates about the colour of that daft thing. Are multiple apocalyptic timelines converging into one messy shit heap or something? Also, it's still weird to hear KZfaqrs mention Glasgow. It gives my brain a comforting tingle, like a reminder of this corner of the world not just being seen as bagpipe kilt land. 🤣

@tiegz9770 3 ай бұрын

Im sorry but I will never see the white and gold

@DawnPhenomenon 3 ай бұрын

Holy shit my grams family originated in colonsay

@zathtanks 3 ай бұрын

Honestly the only memes that OUGHT to be credited are ones that are literally someone’s art.

@kingofallmediums2123 3 ай бұрын

Hi Glare! 😏😒😒

@leekenneth-walsh3545 3 ай бұрын

I remember the dress! I thought it was cute and was looking for where I could buy it! It's been ruined forever now

@elyssa.cranford 3 ай бұрын

It's still blue and black

@MsTinkerbelle87 3 ай бұрын

Thats not the point…he edited the photo to gaslight her 😬

@Sedna_B 3 ай бұрын

This is like an arg, completely made up. And then it's real. Btw looking great!

@Whatisthisgremlin 3 ай бұрын

First And of course something wholesome has to have a dark backstory…

@kellydonaldson1409 3 ай бұрын

💜

@JaimeLeighArt 3 ай бұрын

Um this look is 🔥🔥

@duck9874 3 ай бұрын

🦆

@TrineDaely 3 ай бұрын

I will never understand why she went ahead and married him.

@HudaAbdulahi 3 ай бұрын

stockholm syndrome

@aveganeverywhere 3 ай бұрын

I will never understand why you thought this was an appropriate comment to make.

@HudaAbdulahi 3 ай бұрын

@@aveganeverywhere some people still don't understand why abuse victims stay.

@Donteatmahfood 3 ай бұрын

Wasn’t the dress meme literally an argument he was trying to settle with his wife? 😂liiiiike this doesn’t surprise me

@eirelybird 3 ай бұрын

POOT MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🦞

@SweetTacos 3 ай бұрын

…???

@eirelybird 3 ай бұрын

@@SweetTacos uncultured

@tlex96 3 ай бұрын

Justice for Poot! 📢

@Queenofthatank 3 ай бұрын

At the end of the day he used the Internet to help gaslight her. I knew something was off with this dress. Because how can people literally argue and end relationships over a color scheme. I saw it on my android and on my friend's iPhone and we both got scared because on my phone it was blue/black and on hers it was white/gold we literally said "this seems *not okay* who would make something like this?!"