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AIBU?

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Yanny or Laurel?!

697 replies

CaliforniaDream · 16/05/2018 07:22

AIBU to think that anyone who hears Laurel is playing a practical joke? It's definitely yanny!

twitter.com/cloecouture/status/996218489831473152?s=12

OP posts:
NotAnotherNoughtiesTune · 16/05/2018 16:48

How old is everyone and what do they hear? Decade of don't want to be too specific.

Oysterbabe · 16/05/2018 16:49

37 Laurel.

Fuckoffcopypastebellendjournos · 16/05/2018 17:03

33 Yanny

All the OAPs I inflicted it on hear Yanny

DS(5) heard Laurel

DF 65 hears Laurel

CrabappleBiscuit · 16/05/2018 17:03

Yanny I'm 49.

Pebblespony · 16/05/2018 17:13

Yanny 35. I even listened on the clip that changes the frequency to demonstrate how it works and still can only hear Yanny.

iwishicouldbelikedavidwatts · 16/05/2018 17:14

I thought this was going to be a baby names thread

snap :D

Pebblespony · 16/05/2018 17:19

Agghh. Just listened to it on another website & it's definitely laurel now.

WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup · 16/05/2018 17:19

Laurel!

Zbag · 16/05/2018 17:22

I only hear Laurel

HarshingMyMellow · 16/05/2018 17:22

Ah the cause for our most recent family bust up.

I can only hear Yanny and have pretty much reduced my DP to tears of frustration because no matter how many times he shows me videos from different sources, it's still the same answer.

It's been a fun afternoon thoughGrin

NewMillsGirl · 16/05/2018 17:24

When I play it on my iPad it is Laurel every time and I had no idea how anyone could hear Yanny. However they've just played it on the radio and it was very clearly Yanny.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 16/05/2018 17:26

It's clearly laurel, to me anyway.

AWhistlingWoman · 16/05/2018 17:27

Started off hearing Yanny and then started to hear Laurel before the clip ended! Thought it was deliberate so went back to replay the clip and second time I could only hear Laurel. Strange.

Mousefunky · 16/05/2018 17:27

Tried it six times, can only hear Yanny

Anasnake · 16/05/2018 17:29

Laurel - don't get yanny or anything like it

Mousefunky · 16/05/2018 17:29

I made my DC (8, 6 and 5) listen as well and they all said yanny.

SluttyButty · 16/05/2018 17:30

Ofgs my dd just came to try this out on me. Apparently I'm stupid because I don't hear Laurel 😂

TheFuckfaceWhisperer · 16/05/2018 17:30

So I listened again with 18 year old DS, said to him “See. It’s Laurel”
He said “It’s Yanny..”

CheeseAndBeans · 16/05/2018 17:31

I hear Laurel, clear as anything, DD(5) hears yanny Confused

Bamaluz · 16/05/2018 17:33

Laurel, plain as day, not a hint of Yanny.

Totally bemused by this!

lurkingfromhome · 16/05/2018 17:38

I listened to it on two different websites and on one it was unmistakably Yanny and on the other unmistakably Laurel.

OrangeJam · 16/05/2018 17:43

😂😂😂 at Balonz

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 16/05/2018 17:52

This morning all I could hear was Yanny said in a high pitched voice.
This evening I heard Yanaurel at first then Laurel in a low drawl.
Both times I listened to the clip on my iPhone.
All the kids can hear is Yanny.
I'm going to listen again.

SluttyButty · 16/05/2018 17:56

This as probably already been posted but this is supposedly an explanation?

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/laurel-yanny-video-celebrity-decisions-steven-king-christine-teigen-ellen-degeneres-a8354121.html

EllenJanethickerknickers · 16/05/2018 17:58

Yanny, in an American accent. Cannot understand how it could possibly sound like Laurel? Confused

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