I'm still baffled that people cannot hear Laurel, when it sounds completely clear and like a normal voice saying that name. Meanwhile Yanny just sounds like some kind of faint whispering that could easily be just noise or random sound artifacts that vaguely resemble speech.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
Yeah, like a weird noise your brain makes up when you're falling asleep.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
i know it's cool not to care about this, but i do get worried that i cannot make it into "yanny" or conceive of making it into a "yanny." i sorta just wanna loop it and listen til if finally yann-ify it.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
I predict that Yanny will be the hot new baby name of 2018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, May 16, 2018 9:16 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok lol
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
The experience of Tarfumes is close to mine.
To do a serious analysis one would also need to cross-reference every respondent with age and listening environment.
Like, there are those frequency things only audible to certain age ranges like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito
― it's a leaf that the nomads chew (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
Put on some bass-y music and then listen to it again?
― chant down basildon (NickB), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
xp to hunt3r
https://ring.cdandlp.com/themusiccollector/photo_grande/114965794.jpg
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
I see Laurel Live at the Acropolis
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
have listened on phone speakers and with headphones and through an amp while twiddling the bass and treble and have yet to hear anything that sounds remotely like laurel.
― lana del boy (ledge), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
When I heard it as "yanny", it didn't sound very much like a normal human voice tbc. I don't think anyone has said otherwise.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
yanny
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
I can't turn my laurel into a yanny
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
*sighs**double-checks search rankings**sighs again*📈 We have a new top lookup! https://t.co/aYHnerbrUS— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) May 16, 2018
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
lol
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
ok i clicked on a link it's a straight yanny for me and i'm convinced it's a different recording, the voice is higher and different. lol non bass-y music needed. ~success~ i guess.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
I tried playing neil young while listening to it, now I just have him singing about yanny canyon stuck in my head
― chant down basildon (NickB), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
hey y'all know what my life is like now, i mishear like 20% of words for some reason. at least in english i can kinda fill in the context clues but in languages i'm not fluent i am worthless. everyone i know is like "i can understand frnech but i can't speak it" and i'm like HOW. I CAN ONLY SPEAK IT
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
It was solidly Laurel for me all afternoon. Now the office is 80% empty and quiet, Yanny is back in town. (I've been checking the same MP3 every 20min or so all day).
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
Yanny is back in town
Would love to hear the Thin Lizzy version of this.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
oh man rufus just totally heard yanny! i don't get it at all....
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
like, it was totally immediate for him too. no question.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
I was very surprised my son couldn't hear Laurel.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
And now Laurel. What a day.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
kill me
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
when people do the demonstrations and cut the lows i still hear laurel
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Ok fine, so in this one I hear yanny first, and then when it's slowed down at :11 I start to hear laurel. But other people apparently hear the opposite, so idk.
Okay once I sped it up I was able to hear Yanny but all I could hear was Laurel before. pic.twitter.com/4LQR2tnBun— milinda (@FrcknZazzed) May 16, 2018
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
Wait I mean the reverse, the sped-up version is the first time I've been able to hear it as laurel, but then back to yanny upon slowing down
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html
― DJI, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
If I start at the Yanny end, it takes until a few segments over to hear Laurel.
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― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
that nyt thing is good, the switch point for me, at which i can mentally control which i hear, is at 1.65 bars to the left of center.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
I voted for yanni but since then I have been able to switch back and forth between them
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
friend hears Yarry
― salt sugar fat, that's where it's at (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
^ thats what i heard first
― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
the crazy thing about the nyt slider is that the Y/L crossover point varies all over the place for me, depending on the direction I'm sliding from and/or which word has just been repeating
― Josefa, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
^^
― DJI, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
I'm Laurel all the way; even far left on the NYT slider sounds more like "yrrlrrl" than "yanny"
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
sounds like "FREMME NEPPA VENETTE" to me
― akm, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
callback is pretty PRO imo
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
I'm hearing "Yearly" on the NYT slider.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
Big fan of these audio illusions. If you want more, hunt down the first of these two Diana Deutsch CDs and hopefully she's having a field day today
http://philomel.com/index.php
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 May 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
I'm not convinced it has anything to do with the frequency as my brain keeps swapping between both words.
It reminds me of when you're listening to a familiar song and your brain latches onto the beat a couple of microseconds too late, so they whole song sounds out of synch and unfamiliar. It seems like this word is the same. What you hear depends on where your brain tells you the word begins.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 May 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
Andrew W.K. jumps in to the debate...
Party in the comments... pic.twitter.com/ikktBcIEh1— ANDREW W.K. (@AndrewWK) May 17, 2018
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 17 May 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
Darkest fucking timeline pic.twitter.com/VhPv7rl9Wo— Gabriella Paiella (@GMPaiella) May 17, 2018
― 龜, Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
fucking hell
― chant down basildon (NickB), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
was thinking that i could see the military using this sort of word-morphing technique as part of an interrogation
― chant down basildon (NickB), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
Is it sex or is it weight lifting?
― Here Come the Warm Jets: A Beginner's Guide to Watersports (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
ok that air force tweet is the worst thing ever and disgusting but also it made me think of thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfxNEe0jUns
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
http://reductress.com/post/man-calls-girlfriend-yanny-during-sex-swears-he-said-laurel/
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 May 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link