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  • I hear that like only hot people

  • and cool people hear Yanny so.

  • Shut up.

  • If you think it's Yanny,

  • I wish to disconnect with you on a personal level.

  • [dramatic music]

  • (robot saying Yanny or Laurel)

  • So people have been freaking out

  • about this Yanny versus Laurel debate.

  • There is no way that this could be Yanny.

  • This is not saying laurel, this is only saying yanny.

  • It just says Laurel a bunch of times.

  • It's just... it's bananas, but I only hear Yanny.

  • And we're seeing this story everywhere.

  • The New York Times wrote this thing up.

  • Even musician Yanni commented on this.

  • Some people have really been enjoying this debate

  • while others are completely over it, including myself so

  • I wanna figure it out once and for all,

  • is it Yanny, is it Laurel

  • and how is this phenomenon even happening?

  • So to get more of a back story on this,

  • I decided that I'm just gonna reach out to the source

  • and contact the original Redditoror

  • that posted the audio clip.

  • So I reached out to this guy named Roland

  • and he actually was pretty quick to respond.

  • He said that he came across the words on a website

  • when he working on a project a long time ago.

  • "I remember my sister saying,

  • 'Why do you keep playing yanny?'

  • And then my sister's friend

  • who was doing homework with my sister said,

  • 'That definitely says laurel.'

  • I was very confused after that.

  • I don't remember the name of the website unfortunately."

  • After doing a little bit of digging,

  • I was able to find the website,

  • he actually found this audio clip on vocabulary.com,

  • (robot saying yanny or laurel)

  • which is incredible because it solves the problem

  • of what word is being said.

  • We can definitely say the word is laurel,

  • but we can't argue that it sounds like yanny.

  • Sound is how we perceive things

  • and I wanna figure out why that is

  • so to get to the bottom of this

  • I think I need the help of an expert.

  • There are a few theories that I had heard

  • that I'd love to hear your thoughts on.

  • Like one said the age of your ears

  • will change how you hear it,

  • is there any truth to that?

  • Another theory that I had heard was

  • this says more about the speakers

  • you're listening to the audio from

  • than your ears or your perception.

  • If you were to play with the frequency

  • and move it up or down, you would--

  • like the differences would become more transparent to the audience,

  • is that true?

  • And then if we moved it up

  • we would then see or hear the laurel

  • (Mario) It's likely to be laurel, would be my guess, yes.

  • So I decided to put this theory to the test.

  • I put the audio through one of my editing programs

  • and started playing with the pitch.

  • (robot saying yanny or laurel)

  • Now I was already hearing Laurel,

  • but as I started going lower and lower in pitch,

  • (Robot) Yanny.

  • I started to hear Yanny clearer and clearer.

  • (Robot) Yanny.

  • But maybe you were already hearing yanny

  • so when you go in the opposite direction,

  • I'm sure you'll agree...

  • (Robot) Laurel.

  • You start hearing...

  • (Robot) Laurel.

  • Laurel.

  • (Robot) Laurel.

  • So now what does this mean?

  • Well it means we can stop talking about it.

  • [dramatic orchestral music]

I hear that like only hot people

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