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Beach Or Door refers to the debate surrounding an image of a blue and tan object. Some people claim image is of a beach and others the an image of a door. The debate about the image spread in a similar fashion to #TheDress and Yanny or Laurel.

Origin

On August 24th, 2018, Twitter [1] user @rebeccareilly__ posted an photograph of a white and blue image with the caption, "Is this a door or a beach??? Hahahaha😖🙄." The post (shown below) received more than 20,000 retweets and 35,000 likes in 10 days.


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The following day, after receiving more than 247,000 votes, @rebeccareilly_ tweeted[2] that 54% of voters believed the image to be a door.

Two days later, the user tweeted[3] that the image shown horizontally. The post confirmed that the picture is of a beach. The post (shown below, right) received more than 330 retweets and 3,000 likes in one week.

Several media outlets covered the debate, including Fox,[4] Newsweek,[5] People[6] and more.


The following day, Twitter[7] user @trngnhnlu photoshopped the image on to a door. The post (shown below) received more than 260 retweets and 3,600 likes in less than one week.

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