Blue and black or white and gold? If you know what I am referring to, you are most definitely rolling your eyes right now and if you don’t, well then I applaud you for not succumbing to this pointless nonsense that makes up generation Y.
The much older and much wiser always have something negative to say about our generation and in most cases, I can think up a pretty witty comeback in our defense. But when the blue/black/white/gold dress was released on Thursday, causing much debate, skepticism and a few arguments, I had no words to defend us.
If you are totally confused, allow me to explain. On Thursday, a picture of a rather ugly dress was released on the Twitter feeds, thanks to the popular Buzzfeed blog. What makes this dress different from any other is that people see it as different colors. Some see it as black and blue and some see it as white and gold. The arguments over what color the dress actually is were more heated than anyone could have predicted.
Tweets to the likeness of, “This dress is breaking my family apart #blackblue” and “This is why I don’t trust humanity” were ablaze all over the Internet. Others paid no mind to the actual color of the dress, but used their time to make “funny” memes about it, one of them being a picture of Stevie Wonder and captioning it “The dress looks black to me.” Since when did making a joke out of someone’s disability change from disrespectful to humor? I guess we can thank Gen Y for that as well.
The fact that this stupid dress caused such a dilemma among us speaks volumes about our generation and what we prioritize as important. We might not know about the U.S blogger who fought for freedom and was knifed down and killed in Bangladesh, or that the gunman who killed seven people in Missouri was finally identified, but damn, we sure do know about a multicolored dress.
What does that say about us? About our social media obsessed generation? That the color of a dress is more important than worldly issues? If you search through most of the young adults of your generations Internet history you will without a doubt see sites like Facebook, Twitter, Elite Daily and Buzzfeed, but on how many would you find CNN? Fox?
I’m all for defending our generation as intelligent, capable young people with the potential to change the world, but when we spend more time scrutinizing over the color of a dress than we do over real issues, I don’t have much to defend.
