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The Illusion of a Black Dress

This meme features a screenshot of a news broadcast paired with explanatory text at the top. The news broadcast displays four vertical panels of remote reporters, labeled left to right as being from São Paulo, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, and Londres (London). An accidental optical illusion is created by the alignment of the Brasília reporter's white coat with a large black front panel and the Belo Horizonte reporter's dark blue top, which combine to look like a single woman wearing a black dress at first glance, while the heads of the reporters to the left and right appear to be hands placed on the hips of this imaginary woman. A female news host in a red top and grey pants stands to the right of the reporter panels.
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I THOUGHT SHE WAS WEARING A BLACK DRESS AND HAD HER HANDS ON HER HIPS

Overview

This meme features a screenshot of a news broadcast paired with explanatory text at the top. The news broadcast displays four vertical panels of remote reporters, labeled left to right as being from São Paulo, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, and Londres (London). An accidental optical illusion is created by the alignment of the Brasília reporter's white coat with a large black front panel and the Belo Horizonte reporter's dark blue top, which combine to look like a single woman wearing a black dress at first glance, while the heads of the reporters to the left and right appear to be hands placed on the hips of this imaginary woman. A female news host in a red top and grey pants stands to the right of the reporter panels.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the RSS feed of Reddit's r/Meme subreddit. It originates from a Portuguese-language news broadcast where the layout of remote guest panels unintentionally created the viral optical illusion. A Reddit user added the top explanatory text to highlight the funny unintended visual trick and shared it as a meme on the platform.

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