Those with vocal fry, speaking really quickly, going up and down in tone....

[MadameMassiveSalad]

Whyyyyy?
It drives me insane!
You sound so stupid.
Stop please just stop !!!

There. I've said it. 🧘🏻‍♀️

Funny how people only seem to get annoyed by vocal fry when women do it... I've never once heard anyone complain about the way Matthew Mcconaughey sounds

He wasn't ,and if you had watched to the end it would have been obvious to you.

i have a bit of a crush on Dr Geoff Lindsey, and much as i love him i watched that video when it came out and couldn't make it to the end.

I've never heard anyone speak like this and I don't understand why anyone would one to make themselves sound like a croaking frog when they speak 😂

I get annoyed when my husband does it. He's male.

They sound like they've been smoking too many woodbines then spent the night yelling at someone.

Rough as hell.

I am reading this in vocal fry ...

I hear ya bruh

Now I understand....yes thats annoying.

O yes the vocal fry is a particular pet hate of mine Zooey Deschael has a really bad one. It just sounds like they cba even speaking.

Oh the squeaky voice thing! I used to have a friend who talked normally to women, but as soon as she started speaking to a man her voice went up the register a couple of notches and she sounded like a little girl! I don't think she was aware that she was doing it, but someone pointed it out and then we couldn't unhear it...

We live in a rough town where many people have an ‘innit bruv’ accent. We went out for lunch in another town last week which is far more posh.
The number of people, mainly younger women, around us who were speaking with vocal fry was noticeable.
The towns are 5 miles apart.

Oh whyyyyy did I click on it 🤣

Hahah out children started talking like that so DH and I just started using those words too and now they have all stopped

Boring preachy post alert but while I get the point, and realise it is often an affectation, please realise some people can't help how their voices sound. I have a condition (myasthenia ) that causes bulbar muscle weakness and when I have been talking a lot, or when I am tired, my speech can go slurred or nasal or croaky or breathy or squeaky and there is nothing I can do about it.

What's the difference between vocal fry and a hoarse, throaty voice? Mikey Cyrus speaks similarly but I thinks it's her actual voice.

Not a Leonard Cohen fan then OP?

Gosh. Where have you been? I envy you.

I once had a date with a guy who bragged he could do an amazing Matthew Mc impression and said all women who heard it fell under his spell.

I didn't know who MM was, and told him to shut up as I wasn't interested in an impression of someone I didn't know. Or being lumped together with 'all women' for that matter. (My pet hate)

I did google later on though.

Matthew Mc is an irritating arse with a stupidly affected, annoying drawly voice.
The bloke I was on a date with was a bellend.
Some people have a weird view of what's sexy.

Is the male version that gruff mumbling that seems to be so common in films and tv shows? The one where you can’t actually hear what they are saying and have to put the subtitles on.

It’s not a hoarse or gravelly voice over the whole sentence though.

It’s normal, normal, normal, graaaavly fiiiinish.

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Vocal fry is just a slightly different way of holding your vocal chords. There’s no intrinsic meaning or universal aesthetic meaning in to it. I wouldn’t call using it an affectation either. People subconsciously and sometimes consciously imitate the speech of people around them. That’s how speech works. We all copy each other and end up speaking the same language. If OP is interpreting vocal fry at the end of a sentence as meaning the speaker is stupid (probably only if she’s a woman right OP?) then that probably says more about her prejudices against young women (or young American women perhaps?) than it does about vocal fry itself.

I blame the OG vocal fry Paris Hilton, Kim was her assistant and it must've rubbed off.

Oh I think it's easy to tell the difference between an (enraging) affectation and a vocal difference.

Kinda fascinating…