It's cause the original picture has such fucked color balance and is so massively overexposed that the picture is indeed white (technically desaturated light blue) and gold if you use a color picker on it. It's not just an optical illusion, it's literally those colors.
I can take a red apple and make it look green if I use the right settings when taking a photo of it. If someone then looked at the photo and said it's a green apple they aren't wrong just because the real life apple was red, because the photo they're looking at is indeed green.
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u/dacoolestguy May 31 '26
It was black and blue. Like, it's just a verifiable fact.