Yanny or Laurel?!

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

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Where is the L sound?! It's Yanny!!

The first time I heard it start with a Ya sound like it was going to say Yanny, but after the Ya it changed so said Ya'urel' then was Laurel after that.

I can hear Laurel- I can't hear a 'Y' sound at all.

Will listen on another device and report back.

Nope- still Laurel, (phone speaker)

I can only hear laurel, all the tech blokes at work are obsessing over this, they’ve used all kinds of sonic trickery on it and I can still only hear laurel, there are no ‘y’ sounds at all to my ears. 2 out of a dozen of us can hear both yanny/laurel, some that couldn’t hear yanny can hear it now they changed the pitch etc.

Can't hear either, I hear Laurie

I heard 'Yanny' clear as day and couldn't work out how anyone could possibly hear anything else. Then I listened to the slowed-down clip at the bottom of the page and that clearly said 'Laurel', but after listening to that I could only hear 'Laurel' in the original clip as well and I couldn't work out how I ever thought it was 'Yanny'. Went back to it half an hour later and can only hear 'Yanny' again.

I hear laurel, apparently if you have better hearing or are listening on a higher quality device laurel is more likely and the recording is actually saying laurel.

I heard it on the radio and the first few times I could only hear Yanny, then I heard Laurel once and now all I can hear is Laurel

Oh my GOD! I've been Yanny all morning (DH Yanny first but then Laurel) I've just tried your link and I'm just Laurel now rechecked my other link and also Laurel. Wahhhhh

44, 11, and 9 year olds all hearing Laurel here.

How the hell do you hear laurel? Yanny loud and clear!! but then I don't know how people see pink and grey on that trainer picture when I can only see turquoise and white!!

I’ve changed from yanny to laurel now 😳

I have gone back to it again and now I head laurel. I think it it two different clips and you just get one at random when you click on the link.

Laurel. How on earth do you get Yanny from that?

clicky link

I think it's a con! recon it randomly plays one or the other as now I've heard both and the voice is different!!

Cross posted bluesky!

How bizarre. When I heard the original I heard Yanni, and couldn't, for the life of me, hear Laurel. When listening tot he explanation bit I could only hear Yanni when they played it separately.

Yanny. Definitely Yanny.

Those of you hearing yanny, turn the volume up really loud and it ill change to laurel.

I can hear both. Laurel very loudly and yanni very faintly in the background.

Aha!! Sussed it. I’m on iPhone and if I move the volume up and down it changes from one to the other!

I thought this was a baby name thread 😂😂😂😂😂

I have gone back to it again and now I head laurel. I think it it two different clips and you just get one at random when you click on the link.

It's definitely the same clip - my partner and I listened to it together and I heard yanny and he head Laurel and then a group of colleagues and I all listened together and it is a real split!

Apparently the 'yanny' is pitched higher so older people or people who don't have such good hearing are less likely to hear yanny and more likely to hear laurel.