Friendships have been threatened. Bonds have been tested. And it all comes down to one question: Is the dress blue and black or white and gold?

The day began as it normally would for a trio of friends on campus- until they entered their dorm lounge and an RA shoved a photo of the dress in their faces and demanded that they answer the question.

“We didn’t think anything of it,” Zac Collins, undecided sophomore, said.

Collins’ and his friends did not know that this dress would cause so much trouble.

“Everyone was freaking out about it,” Hunter Mala, sophomore psychology major said.

The dress brought out an intense emotional reaction from most people who saw it.

According to Tyler Anderson, freshman business major, he and his friend Jake got into a fight over the dress. Jake had never even seen the photo of the dress.

“I personally think it is blue and black and everyone who says that it is white and gold is [messing] with you,” Mala said.

It was a normal night trolling through social media for sophmore business major Taylor Nott and junior ITAM major Ashley Herring, first saw the dress.

“I was in my living room and [sic] I scrolling through Tumblr and I saw the dress,” Herring said.

The two girls saw social media explode and fights break out. Nott remembered seeing people on Facebook say their families were getting into it too.

Nott and Herring think that the dress is white and gold. They both enjoy listening to people weigh in on the issue.

“I like reading what the celebrities have to say about it,” Herring said.

For junior biomedical major Angela Madrigales, the first time she saw the dress was on Tinder.

“Someone posted it as a moment, and the guy put ‘white and gold’ as the caption, and I was like ‘it is blue and black.’ So I didn’t like it, and then a couple of days later I saw it on Facebook,” Madrigales said.

Madrigales and her two friends view the dress completely differently.

“It is hard to accept that what you see is wrong. I think people are lying- I thought she was lying at first,” Jessica Heald, junior cell and molecular biology major said.

Madrigales’ and Healds’ other friend was actually in a verbal argument with her family regarding the dress.

“I just got into a fight with my mom,” Chloe Huys, freshman elementary education major said.

Huys mentioned that her mom and step-dad think that the dress is black and blue, but she firmly believes that it is white and gold.

“I asked my mom about it and my step-dad who is color blind and he said it was black and blue,” Huys said, “He knows what colors are supposed to be what because of the shades. He could see the black in there but no white, that’s why he thinks it is black and blue.”