Tracy Lee Stark

By Tracy Lee Stark

Photographer and Multimedia Producer


Watch: Optical illusion of ‘Crocs and socks’ reignites years-long debate – what colour do you see

The controversial graphic involves a pair of Crocs and socks - and the colours that people can see are splitting the internet.


“Under normal lighting conditions, all people see the Crocs as pink,” creators Pascal Wallisch and Michael Karlovich explained.

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They noted that when put under green light, most people see the same Crocs as grey.

“However, some people – those that believe the socks are white, even though they appear green – are able to look past appearances and see the Crocs as pink, just like they did under regular light,” Wallisch and Karlovich wrote.

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