to fucking hate, and I mean hate, vocal fry.

[merdde]

I'm watching a documentary and everyone in it speaks with vocal fry probably 85/90% of the time and it's so moronic. Why why is this a thing?

[PastTheGin]

I had to revive this thread as I just changed jobs and one of my new colleagues uses vocal fry to be important and/or cool. Makes me absolutely bloody homicidal and once noticed you just can’t unhear it!

[racewhorse]

My baby sensory leader puts on a really high pitched voice, but I forgive her slightly because she works with children all the time. I often wonder how she speaks to her husband!

[DianaPrincessOfThemyscira]

It’s fucking awful. I’ve noticed a lot of videos of the Buzzfeed type have young women clearly modifying their natural voices. One particular one, the woman was talking with a high pitched very childish tone, they showed some ‘backstage’ bits and she sounded normal.

[racewhorse]

@Skrowten You should!

[Skrowten]

My sister does it, gives me the rage. Keep wanting to correct her.

[badlydrawnperson]

YANBU OP vocal fry is, like, really grating.

[merdde]

Zombie! But I still hate hate hate it

[SomethingOnce]

I realised last week just how common this has become, especially the wannabe posh-girl variant.

Fuck me, it’s annoying. Thanks MN for allowing me to name the problem

[ChandelierLizzid]

I've been told I have this in the past, but was not aware of it until the person did an impression of me. I'm quite well spoken and definitely not trying to sound any particular way at all, it just seems to somehow have happened to my voice!

I definitely never thought of myself as sounding sexy or cool, maybe a bit posh and snotty (don't really like my voice) so it's definitely not all people trying to sound alluring.

[ThunderStorms]

@americandream

[ThumbWitchesAbroad]

- it's fab, isn't it?! And only marginally sillier than the actual show itself!

[TildaKauskumholm]

Yes, it's intensely irritating and I want to slap the speaker.

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Thumbwitches: that lip reading video!

[LegoCake]

Don't kill me but I LOVE vocal fry. It gives me ASMR if I listen with earphones

[ShadyLady53]

When I was younger all the Radio 1 Dj’s did it, Nick Grimshaw, Fearne Cotton, Sara Cox, Jo Wiley (worst of all!

At Drama School when we did Radio Drama and VOs we were told to use vocal fry for young “cool” or sexy characters and for “cool” product adverts. I doubt that advice has changed. Thing was it was never meant to be constant through the voice, just at the beginning or very end of the odd sentence.

I could. Not. Watch. Deliciously Ella videos on YouTube. Her voice drove me up the pole.

[brownjumper]

If you want to hear men and women speak like it constantly watch Alaskan Bush People. They all barely speak properly at all!!

[Sparklesocks]

The way people talk changes over time. I don’t really think it’s that big of a deal.

[Patroclus]

I saw something that said more men do it than women actually, I'll try and dig it out.

[ThumbWitchesAbroad]

I'm just adding this one in because it is SO bad. Male vocal fry - but the entire thing is a pisstake, none of it is the people's real voices, the voice- over guy is taking the piss out of their voices, so they do talk rather like that in RL too. Not much rising inflection going on, despite being Australian.

[Morgan12]

Omg! I never ever noticed this and watching KUWTK just now and cannot hear anything else.

[merdde]

I would never show my dislike of the voice in real life as you don't know if people can't help it.

I think you can tell, it goes hand in hand with other annoying affectations.

[DrFoxtrot]

There's also a ghost character in Teen Titans Go with a voice like this that I have to turn over.

I would never show my dislike of the voice in real life as you don't know if people can't help it.

[Ellenborough]

Once you've noticed you can never stop noticing it.

That is so true.

[DrFoxtrot]

I can't listen to the newsreader on Rock FM in the mornings for this reason

[jacquesjacques]

I popped on to see what it was because I'd never heard of it, can't say I have ever noticed it but I really can't bring myself to be annoyed by the way other people talk.