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It's that damn dress all over again - Yanny or Laurel?

May 17, 2018#1

GasBandit

Go to this website and click the little speaker icon next to the word "Laurel."

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel

Some people say it sounds like "yanny" to them, others insist it can't be anything but "laurel."

In my building, it seems like people under 25 are the ones hearing "yanny." Those of us over 30 hear "Laurel." The one guy between 25 and 30, it seems to depend on where I stand in the room when I play it for him on my phone... "Laurel" when I'm within reach, "Yanny" when I'm across the room.

So, what do you year? Laurel, or Yanny?

May 17, 2018#2

sixpackshaker

I hear what it is supposed to be Laurel.

I heard that the difference is when the volume is low and the bass drops away. And people that hear higher pitches not lower tones.

Maybe that is why kids could not understand my baritone voice when I taught.

May 17, 2018#3

Tinwhistler

That's so 5 minutes ago. The new thing is "brain storm or green needle"

Depending on what you're thinking of ("Brain storm", "green needle" "green storm", "Brain needle") at the moment, you can hear any combination of the words.

May 17, 2018#4

figmentPez

May 17, 2018#5

Terrik

Tinwhistler said:
That's so 5 minutes ago. The new thing is "brain storm or green needle"

Depending on what you're thinking of ("Brain storm", "green needle" "green storm", "Brain needle") at the moment, you can hear any combination of the words.

May 17, 2018#6

PatrThom

Dang it, I was going to just post “Laurel” by itself in the random thread yesterday and see if anyone knew what I was talking about.
I can still hear upper frequencies surprisingly well for my advanced age (I.e., over twenty), but no matter how I manipulate it to boost/cut highs/mids/lows/whatever, it never sounds like anything other than “Laurel” to me. I can’t even fake hearing “Yanny.” Hearing that edit above that @figmentPez posted is the first time I’ve been able to say I can make it out once the lows are completely removed, and I only hear it on headphones (or through mobile speakers) and even then only at about half the volume I hear “Laurel.”

Terrik said:

—Patrick

May 17, 2018#7

blotsfan

I've listened to it at least 100 times now and I randomly heard "yanny" once and I can not reproduce it. I even hear laurel in high frequency things. I don't know what happened that one time.

May 17, 2018#8

GasBandit

Tinwhistler said:
That's so 5 minutes ago. The new thing is "brain storm or green needle"

Depending on what you're thinking of ("Brain storm", "green needle" "green storm", "Brain needle") at the moment, you can hear any combination of the words.

That's because that's a shitty recording.

May 17, 2018#9

GasBandit

figmentPez said:

All of it sounds like Laurel to me. Every single one.

May 17, 2018#10

PatrThom

I’m a baritone/bass, so I’m always listening for the lower voices/fundamentals anyway, and I wonder if this has anything to do with why I absolutely can’t hear “Yanny” at all until those lower frequencies are deleted.

—Patrick

May 17, 2018#11

Ravenpoe

Please, this is so old there's already a Chuck Tingle book about it.

May 17, 2018#12

GasBandit

Ravenpoe said:
Please, this is so old there's already a Chuck Tingle book about it.

THAT TWEET IS DATED YESTERDAY

So "old." WHAT ARE YOU, A FETUS?

May 17, 2018#13

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
THAT TWEET IS DATED YESTERDAY

So "old." WHAT ARE YOU, A FETUS?

Mayfly.

—Patrick

May 17, 2018#14

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Mayfly.

—Patrick

Lumberfoot!

May 17, 2018#15

figmentPez

GasBandit said:
All of it sounds like Laurel to me. Every single one.

I was hearing yanny only on the isolated high frequency before, now all I hear is laurel. Man, psychoacoustics is weird.

May 17, 2018#16

Ravenpoe

figmentPez said:
I was hearing yanny only on the isolated high frequency before, now all I hear is laurel. Man, psychoacoustics is weird.

May 17, 2018#17

Far

Tinwhistler said:
That's so 5 minutes ago. The new thing is "brain storm or green needle"

Depending on what you're thinking of ("Brain storm", "green needle" "green storm", "Brain needle") at the moment, you can hear any combination of the words.

May 17, 2018#18

Ravenpoe

Tinwhistler said:
That's so 5 minutes ago. The new thing is "brain storm or green needle"

Depending on what you're thinking of ("Brain storm", "green needle" "green storm", "Brain needle") at the moment, you can hear any combination of the words.

All I can hear is *garbled* needle

May 17, 2018#19

bhamv3

Here's a nifty tool that allows you to adjust the frequencies in the clip so that you can either hear Laurel or Yanny.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

The cool thing, for me, is that I usually hear Laurel, but where it starts switching between Laurel and Yanny on the slider depends on which side I'm approaching from. If I start on the Laurel side and slide towards Yanny, I can continue hearing Laurel until I'm pretty much past the last notch before the end. If I start on the Yanny side, though, I can continue hearing Yanny until I'm nearly halfway.

May 17, 2018#20

jwhouk

Oh good GOD.

Laurel.

May 17, 2018#21

PatrThom

bhamv3 said:
If I start on the Laurel side and slide towards Yanny, I can continue hearing Laurel until I'm pretty much past the last notch before the end. If I start on the Yanny side, though, I can continue hearing Yanny until I'm nearly halfway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

--Patrick

May 17, 2018#22

WasabiPoptart

Yanny. It actually sounds like yammy to me.

May 18, 2018#23

General Specific

Tinwhistler said:
That's so 5 minutes ago. The new thing is "brain storm or green needle"

Depending on what you're thinking of ("Brain storm", "green needle" "green storm", "Brain needle") at the moment, you can hear any combination of the words.

I hear "Grain Store." Mostly because it is garbled audio that has been recorded poorly and then compressed when uploaded to youtube.

May 18, 2018#24

PatrThom

Ok now the Internet is just getting silly about this thing.

—Patrick

May 18, 2018#25

Tinwhistler

General Specific said:
I hear "Grain Store." Mostly because it is garbled audio that has been recorded poorly and then compressed when uploaded to youtube.

To be fair, it was probably poorly recorded and heavily compressed when uploaded to that toy

May 18, 2018#26

evilmike

I prefer the classical version of this puzzle.

May 18, 2018#27

GasBandit

That's just a mondegreen. Thirty thieves and the thunder chief, and all that.

May 18, 2018#28

Far

Sister thought Nirvana was singing "Where do black folks go when they die?" In Lake of Fire.

May 18, 2018#29

Gruebeard

I'm reminded of when I stepped in to cockblock some guy who tried to pick my bartender, introducing himself as Blah blah blah.

May 18, 2018#30

@Li3n

GasBandit said:
Go to this website and click the little speaker icon next to the word "Laurel."

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel

Some people say it sounds like "yanny" to them, others insist it can't be anything but "laurel."

In my building, it seems like people under 25 are the ones hearing "yanny." Those of us over 30 hear "Laurel." The one guy between 25 and 30, it seems to depend on where I stand in the room when I play it for him on my phone... "Laurel" when I'm within reach, "Yanny" when I'm across the room.

So, what do you year? Laurel, or Yanny?

At work all i could hear is Yanny, and at home, Laurel... so speakers also make a difference.

May 19, 2018#31

WasabiPoptart

GasBandit said:
Go to this website and click the little speaker icon next to the word "Laurel."

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel

Some people say it sounds like "yanny" to them, others insist it can't be anything but "laurel."

In my building, it seems like people under 25 are the ones hearing "yanny." Those of us over 30 hear "Laurel." The one guy between 25 and 30, it seems to depend on where I stand in the room when I play it for him on my phone... "Laurel" when I'm within reach, "Yanny" when I'm across the room.

So, what do you year? Laurel, or Yanny?

When I listen to this one it sounds like Laurel. When I listen to the one in the link a friend posted on FB, it sounds like Yammy.

May 21, 2018#32

sixpackshaker

I watched some news segment about it and I heard Yanny every time. Of course it was being played on a potato of a phone and recorded in a higher register than the original recording. It sounded like it was played in a tin can. On my computer at the dictionary website it sounds like Laurel every time.

May 23, 2018#33

drifter

May 23, 2018#34

bhamv3

drifter said:

What... the... fuck...

May 23, 2018#35

GasBandit

Again, shitty, low quality recording.

May 23, 2018#36

@Li3n

And now i hear Laurel at work too...

Stupid brain.

May 23, 2018#37

Ravenpoe

@Li3n said:
And now i hear Laurel at work too...

Stupid brain.

Once you hear Laurel it's hard not to, since your brain has figured out how to decipher the shitty quality

May 23, 2018#38

@Li3n

Damn puzzle solving brain....

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