I can't for the life of me figure out how anyone would hear Yanny. Between this and that dress sometimes I think the Internet exists purely to **** with me. And I don't appreciate that.
lelz breh. good find. i'm here sitting at a carwash waiting room and the brehs beside me think I'm crazy. I'm not even muting it as I type this. they have to listen to lerbon james loop just cus.
Repeat whichever of them you want to hear about 4-5 times in sync with it and you will eventually hear that word. Far out man.
I heard yanny on someone's phone. And then laurel when they were talking about it on the radio. Meh, who really cares? This'll go the way of the blue/gold dress thingy.
It's an interesting phenomenon, caused by multiple contributing factors. First, men and women have different ranges of hearing. Men generally hear in lower registers than women. Also, the younger you are, the higher your range of hearing. As we age, we lose our upper register hearing across the board. So, women and children generally hear higher frequencies than adult men. Second, the playback of the recording and what is actually created, sound-wise when playing it out loud, depends heavily upon the device doing the playback. A cell phone speaker, for example, is almost all high-frequencies, some mids, and zero bass. So it will sound very different on a cell phone speaker then when using headphones, for example, or when using computer speakers, or even something more sophisticated like a genuine audio system with a true 20kz to 20khz range of sound reproduction. What the recording is, is a captured-audio recording of a repeating word: 'Laurel', mostly in the lower registers. Because of distortion in the low-quality recording, there is noise and distortions in the very high registers which simultaneously distorts over the top of 'Laurel' and which sounds vaguely like 'Yanny'. However, it's just distortion in the high registers, caused by background noise and distortion which occurred when whoever made this recording recorded it. Some people, based on the various contributing factors above, will be able to hear mainly the high-frequency distorted version of the recording, and hear mainly 'Yanny'. Those with more full-range playback equipment will hear the full recording as it originally existed, along with the background noise and distortion, and will clearly hear 'Laurel'. So, while I suppose it's a bit of a mystery, it's not an unsolved one.
