- (voice-over) Laurel. - "Laurel."
- Oh, wow!
- There, I heard "yearie" the whole time.
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we're gonna be showing you
something that everyone on YouTube seems to have been covering recently.
- Okay.
- I'm guessing it's "Yanny and Laurel"?
- Oh, is this the "Yanny or Laurel" thing?
- "Laurel or Yanny"? (gasping) Yes?
(laughing) - Okay.
- (voice-over) Laurel. - Oh!
- (voice-over) Laurel. - Yanny!
- (voice-over) Laurel.
- Laurel. It's always "laurel" for me.
- (voice-over) Laurel. - It says "yanny" every time.
Yanny.
- (voice-over) Laurel. - So unabashedly "laurel."
- (voice-over) Laurel. - "Laurel."
- Wait, time out. - Did you hear something else?
- I never hear "laurel."
- I can hear both.
Now I more fully hear "laurel."
- Absolutely, "laurel."
And I think it means that I have superior hearing.
- I think it's a pitch thing.
They talked about the fact that the older you get,
you can't hear a certain pitch, which means you
can't hear the "yanny" part of it and you hear "laurel."
- Everyone is talking about it.
I just posted this on Twitter. I hear "yanny."
And I am very surprised that other people
hear something else.
This blows my mind.
- (FBE) Several videos tried to debunk what the voice is truly saying,
with some users changing up the pitch and tone of the audio to see
if it has any different results.
So here's audio of the exact same phrase,
only this time, the pitch is being messed around with.
- Give me "yanny." Give it to me.
I've been dying to hear this!
- (lower pitch) Yanny.
Yanny.
Yanny. - "Yammy."
- (lower pitch) Yanny. - Okay, "yanny."
All right, I'm on board.
- Yeah, I could not hear "laurel" anymore.
- Interesting.
It almost sounds like a different word.
- It's bonkers.
Brains are stupid.
- (higher pitch) Laurel. - Now "laurel," for sure.
- (higher pitch) Laurel. - "Laurel."
- (higher pitch) Laurel. - Yep, that's "laurel."
- (higher pitch) Laurel. - (imitating) "Laurel. Laurel."
It's like a Pokemon!
- That is actually really trippy.
- This is so fascinating.
I wonder if this is how animals hear things.
You know how they can hear higher frequencies,
where dogs have super sonic hearing.
- It's all about perception and how the individual
understands things, and sometimes some [bleep] just isn't worth
arguing about because there's no real answer.
- It's kind of crazy that we always think that
whatever we hear is the way that it is,
or whatever we see is the way it is,
because what I learned-- especially even doing magic--
is that memory is super subjective.
So it's kind of crazy how we think that the way we see the world
is very objective, but it's really so much the opposite.
- (FBE) So then, of course, the internet took this
and meme-ified it. - As you do.
- (FBE) So we have a few examples of that to show you now.
- Okay.
- Oh, yes, yes!
- "People who think it's laurel are correct."
- "People who think it's yanny eat pizza with a fork and knife."
(laughing)
- I eat pizza with a fork and knife!
- "Don't use turn signals, ask for Snapchat streaks."
- "Film fights vertically on their phone,
don't understand Infinity War's ending."
- (chuckling) That's really good.
- That's funny. Yeah, and I agree.
- Okay, so at least I'm with the good team,
with the correct team.
- I don't do those things, but I hear "yanny."
- I have to politely disagree.
- Luckily, I've heard both, so technically I'm gonna take
whichever side they're agreeing with.
- "Who wore it better? Yanny or Laurel?"
- Yep, it is the dress in audio form. - 2018.
- I think "yanny" is wearing the gold. - "Yanny" is the white and gold.
Yeah, for sure.
- I assume "laurel" has to be the black and blue
because that's what it really is.
- The dress has always been black and blue,
just like I'm sure that thing says "laurel,"
but the pitch is all messed up, so it sounds like "yanny."
- "My new SoundCloud rapper name will be Lil' Yanny."
- "When I say 'yanny,' you say 'yanny.'
'Yanny.' 'Laurel.'
'Yanny.' 'Laurel.'"
- "'Yanny.' 'Laurel.'"
- (laughing) That is so funny.
- (laughing) That's funny.
- People would not even understand.
That would be hilarious.
You'd be at a concert, trying to hype them up like "laurel!"
And they're like, "Yanny!" And you're like, "What?!"
- "Yanny or Laurel? Don't ask me. I can't hear [bleep]."
Ah, she's Deaf!
- Oh, no. (laughing)
- (laughing) That's a good sense of humor.
- I saw that tweet and I assumed that she was Deaf
and I think that is really funny. Good on her for that.
- "Does it say yanny or laurel?"
Ya-- oh, wow!
- Whoa! I see them both.
- This one's great.
- Wow. - Whoa!
- Wow. - Some people are so talented.
- That takes talent! How even?
- I see "yanny" for sure.
Or maybe "laur--" oh, man.
It's switching on me.
- Dang, it's hard to see.
Oh, if I want to see "yanny," I only see "yanny,"
but when I see "laurel," I only see "laurel."
- ♪ Yanny ♪
♪ Yanny ♪ - (giggling)
- ♪ Yanny, yanny ♪
- Are we supposed to hear "yanny" at all in this
because I only hear "laurel." - Yeah.
- ♪ Yanny ♪ - It says "yanny" right now.
- ♪ Yanny, y-yanny ♪
- Do you hear "yearie"? - I hear "laurel."
- ♪ Yanny ♪
♪ Y-Yanny ♪ - (chuckling) Ah, I love that guy.
- For most of that, I was really just hearing "laurel."
- There, I heard "yearie" the whole time.
- Are you serious? I thought you were just being silly.
- No, no, I heard it the whole time. I could not hear "laurel" in that one.
There's something wrong with my brain.
(groaning) Stressing me out.
- (voice-over) Yanny. - (groaning)
- The White House did it?
- (Ivanka) So clearly "laurel."
- (voice-over) Yanny. - (Conway) It's "laurel."
- (voice-over) Yanny.
- (Conway) But I could deflect and divert to "yanny"
if you need me to.
- (cameraman) Sarah, it's been reported that you hear "laurel."
How do you respond?
- (Sanders) Clearly, you're getting your information from CNN
because that's fake news. - Oh my goodness.
- (voice-over) Yanny. - (Pence) Who's "yanny"?
- (Trump) I hear "covfefe." - (chuckling)
- (gasping) They're so relatable now!
- I had no idea the White House did it.
- Are you kidding me?
- That was actually funny.
- That was painful.
- This is what the White House is doing with their time.
- It's people that don't have comedic training
trying to be funny and it's cringy. - So cringy.
- (FBE) So the day after this audio went viral,
when you search for "laurel and yanny" on YouTube,
over 6,000 results would come up. - Whoa.
- Yeah, no, it was like The Ellen show,
everyone did a video on it.
- (FBE) Here are just a few examples of some of the people who weighed in.
- Whoa! I didn't know Colleen did.
I'm gonna have to go watch that video.
- We have Miranda Sings action. Is that Jacksfilms?
Is that you up top? - (FBE) Uh, it is our video, yeah.
- Looked like your thumbnail. I could tell.
- Wow. - Everyone did it.
- How were they so fast? I edit so slow!
- Oh, yeah, everyone is like "VIEWS"!
- I feel like we haven't really seen anything blow up like this
in a long time, not to this magnitude.
I think it's really cool.
It's like this is what the internet is for, kind of,
spreading information and starting conversation.
- (FBE) Finally, the last video we're gonna show you
is another audio clip that has been making the rounds
and has started to pick up from what seems to be a toy.
Some are claiming that they hear the word "brainstorm,"
while others hear the word "green needle."
- Oh, yes!
This one trips me out even more.
- I was hearing that it was whatever you choose.
You can think one and then it becomes that.
(toy whirring)
- (toy) Green needle. - "Brainstorm."
- (toy) Green needle. - "Green needle."
- (toy) Green needle. - I got "green needle" on that one.
- (toy) Green needle. - I heard it!
"Green needle."
- (toy) Green needle. - AH!
Yeah, it worked! I heard "green needle" that time.
"Green needle." That is just magic.
That's unreal.
- This is so fascinating. Oh my gosh.
I wonder if there are secret messages in everything,
every song I've been listening to, every movie I've been watching.
- You know, it's weird because you've been hearing stuff
your whole life, right, and then, all of a sudden,
stuff like this happens and you start to realize that
maybe just hearing [bleep] is more complex than we ever knew.
- (FBE) So we did a video on this with the teens just last week.
We wanted to get the YouTubers' perspective on it as well.
As you've seen, the internet took this trend by storm,
creating several memes, YouTube videos,
and even the White House get in on the fun.
What do you think it is about this that made everyone want
to make these videos?
- Well, I feel like everyone felt the need to listen to it
a million times themselves, then see what their friends thought.
- Someone hears something different from you, that's it.
It's different, you know what I'm saying?
But you want to argue just because.
I feel like it's just in our nature to argue.
- It just sparks a lot of talk, a lot of debate,
a lot of conversation because they're honestly hearing
two different words.
- It's a debate and you want to show people
other people's perspective on it.
- Yeah, I think people would just have fun with that kind of thing, too,
like with the dress.
Everyone wanted to know-- - Yeah, I was just going to say that.
- Yeah, what people saw and what people heard.
- It's fun kind of giving your perspective,
especially when people strongly disagree with it.
And it's harmless, too, because people are like,
I either hear this or I hear this.
So it's kind of fun to jump in the middle of that.
- It's something that takes you out of YouTube or Twitter
and you do it with someone because you go
what do you hear here? It's more of a conversation
and it's less of just watching something.
- And it's personalized. People are hearing different things.
- Yeah. - It's incredible.
- (FBE) So from your perspective, too, as an online creator,
do you think that it's good or bad for you
when everyone starts hopping on a trend like this?
- Neither.
If it make sense for your kind of content, sure.
It doesn't make sense for me at all because I make content
based on cartoons and sci-fi and fantasy stuff.
- A lot of my content just stands on its own
and isn't referencing anything, but every time something like this
happens, I feel like I'm missing out by not jumping on the bandwagon.
- It makes it less fun.
I mean, for example, if I'm going to talk about that
and I'm going to bring the same point or do the same joke that everyone did,
I'm gonna be like, "Eh," you know?
But it's fun to see it happening, but if you didn't get it at first,
then it's kind of pointless.
- We like to kind of join in on the fun
and if we're on a live stream, like, "Oh, yeah, well,
this is what we hear," but we're not the type
to just go, "Oh, well, this is what everybody's doing today,
so we're gonna do it."
But I really appreciate the science breakdowns.
- I rarely hop on trends unless I just make something
on Twitter or an Instagram Story because I feel like
my content's not based around current events
or things that are happening.
I don't like when people make videos for the sake of making a video
without adding to the conversation.
- People have been doing that since the dawn of YouTube.
If there's a trend, if there's something popular,
and you want people to tune in and watch you
and click on you, you're gonna talk about what's popular, you know?
It's the smart thing to do.
- I think it's cool when something happens
that is trendy or newsworthy, people creating content
around those things, I think is really good.
It gives it different perspectives and voices
as to what's going on current day.
- (FBE) So finally, what would you want to say to people
who are hearing the opposite of what you hear?
- If you hear "laurel," please turn down the music
that you're listening to in your headphones.
It's [bleep] up your ears.
- Try again. (laughing)
Listen to all the split up versions, all the pitched down versions,
listen on different devices because you're technically wrong,
but I understand you because there is that sound in there.
- You're wrong!
You're wrong! - I'm on both sides
because I can hear both, so I'm just gonna be
that little happy in-the-middle.
- I hope that we, as a society, live in a world
where we can disagree without arguing and getting crazy with each other.
It's all about perception and how you see things
and live your life.
- If you hear "yanny" instead of "laurel,"
I may not understand your view, but I can listen to you
and I can emphasize with the fact that maybe you may be having
a different experience than me.
I will not judge you for your beliefs and your views.
(tape stretching)
- Thank you so much for watching this episode
of YouTubers React.
- Be sure to check out everyone who was in this episode.
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- Bye-bye!
- Hey, what's up, guys? Ethan here from FBE.
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