Yanny or Laurel?!

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

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

Laurel. I listened to it several times and definetly could only heat Laurel

Oh
Come on!
It’s laurel when they say laurel and it’s Lanny when they say Lanny!!!
Really?!

It’s not fucking rocket science!

Sorry, yanny, whatever the fuck that means

How does your theory explain 2 people listening to the same thing and 1 hearing laurel and the other hearing yanny, Puffycat?

Yanny! Can't hear laurel at all!

Puffycat, we all listened to the same recording.....it was 50/50

The first time I heard this (I was late to the game), all I heard was 'Guinness' Lol
Have since listened to real thing and all I can hear is Yanny.

Four of us listened at the same time - DH, DS and DD all hear Yanny. They’re wrong as it’s clearly Laurel.

I posted about this upthread, but there are two things at work here.
On one hand, you have suggestibility - so if someone tells you you'll hear "X", then your brain will gear up for you to hear what you expected.
Secondly, there are two voices on the recording. One saying one name, the other saying the other. The voices are at different audio frequencies, but are simultaneous.
Cut high frequency output and you hear one thing, cut low frequency output and you hear the other.

On the link on this thread I hear Laurel, but previously when I've heard this it has been Yanny. However, I'm pretty sure the Yanny one has been in a different voice, so I strongly suspect that Marklah is right.

I don't know what kind of mind fuckery this is, but yesterday I heard 'yanny' Listened to it about ten times and it was 100% 'yanny'

Now I hear 'laurel' my DP is still adamant it's 'yanny' on my phone, both listening to it at the same time

Marklah we listened at same time with no expectation of what to hear as we both listened for the first time. On the same device

There must be an overlay of the two words though
It’s such an odd thing

I can only hear yanny even on the explained clip

Marsha, yes there are. There are two voices, speaking at the same time.
I know because DH recorded it from the clip then played it back at different frequencies.

Yanny for sure. I've listened on different devices, with/without headphones, and I just can't understand how anyone can hear Laurel. It's clear as day!!!

Yanny.

Is it just that we hear different frequencies? So not device dependent or even suggestibility

The best way to do it is say what do you hear? No suggestion etc

Laurel here

My husband showed me this last night, we can only hear laurel.
I just showed my 5 year old daughter and she said "eeery" so I said it can only be laurel or yanny (not saying what I can hear) and she listened to it again and said "laurel"

This is interesting as dh has lost some of his high frequency hearing( he gets tested at work regularly) and he says Yenny which is the high frequency one.
Apparently if you can play around with the frequency on your device or headphones you can here both.

I don't hear either... I hear yelly

Interesting bit at the bottom of this article re the frequencies
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/blogs-trending-44136799

Laurel

And I’m English

It’s to do with what pitch frequency you can hear best
Low= laurel
High=Tammy