Today, we're talking about some phenomenons that took over the Internet years ago.
[PENIEL] Yes~
[pH-1] If you look on the screen, you'll see a dress. Is it blue and black,
Or white and gold?
[ASHLEY] Did you see this when it first happened?
[RAIDEN] Yes, I did.
- [pH-1] This is...hmmm.. - [ASHLEY] What do you think?
[ASHLEY] I thought it was specifically periwinkle blue and gold?
[ASHLEY] OK, it looks weird on this computer.
But you know how every monitor's color display is slightly different?
So consider that and look at this photo.
It's like gold, right?
Gold!
- [RAIDEN] The ink is just.. - [pH-1] What's this, what do you think?
- [PENIEL] Black... - [RAIDEN] Blue, black!
- [ASHLEY] Blue, black??? - [pH-1] That's blue and gold.
[ASHLEY] Right?!
[pH-1] Blue and gold.
- [pH-1] This lacy thing. - [ASHLEY] The lace, gold.
[pH-1] But okay.
This part is blue. We can all agree to that, right?
- [ASHLEY] It is blue. - [pH-1] Then let's go with black and blue :)
- [ASHLEY] Black and blue? Isn't it grey? - [pH-1] If I have to choose one of the two,
[ASHLEY] Grey!
[pH-1] Oh, there's an answer.
Remember this from 2015?
What did you think the color was?
This dress is actually a blue-and-black dress.
- [pH-1] With the lighting, angle and the camera quality, the color may differ per person. - [ASHLEY] Right. x3
- [pH-1] But it's not black, no. - [ASHLEY] But this..
[PENIEL] Isn't it black?
- [RAIDEN] It's black? - [ASHLEY] This is gold.
- [pH-1] It's gold? - [ASHLEY] You see it with your phone, and it's gold.
[ASHLEY] I don't know what camera they used but the quality is bad.
[pH-1] But for me, this is the weirdest part.
Whatever the color is,
I'm shocked by people who say it's white.
- [PENIEL] White... - [pH-1] That's nonsense.
[ASHLEY] Even weirder than that to me is why is this a worldwide phenomenon?
- [ASHLEY] Why? - [pH-1] Yeah, so I thought about this.
[pH-1] The comments are saying 'this is white,' 'this is blue,'
And those who say it's white, I thought they were
just trying to annoy people.
[ASHLEY] That may be true.
[PENIEL] Those who say it's white
- [PENIEL] They may have a black-and-white screen? - [pH-1] I need an interview with them.
[pH-1] Let's move on to the next one.
So, you'll be listening to this audio file.
Listen to this and say whether it's saying 'Yanny' or 'Laurel'
Yanny or Laurel, which of the two?
- [ASHLEY] Totally Yanny. - [RAIDEN] Totally Yanny.
- [RAIDEN] However much I listen.. - [pH-1] This one, I mean what's..
- [RAIDEN] However many times I hear it, Yanny.. - [ASHLEY] Right.
[pH-1] I can't hear Laurel, even if I want to.
[ASHLEY] Same.
[pH-1] Let's try again with Laurel.
- [pH-1] Okay, this is.. - [ASHLEY] Well, we think it's Yanny.
[pH-1] This is from 2018, a 15-year-old
high schooler living in Georgia, Katie Hetzel
posted on Instagram this auditory hallucination, which then spread online.
Then a YouTuber posted it to Twitter and lots of people saw it.
The original audio was by the opera singer Jay Aubrey Jones in 2007
Saying "Laurel" for...
It's a recording?!
[PENIEL] Jay Aubrey Jones got bad pronunciation then.
[ASHLEY] Pronunciation's bad, no?
[RAIDEN] But it's Yanny...
- [pH-1] Then so if I go to 'Laurel' at Vocabulary.com I hear that? - [ASHLEY] I hear that?
[PENIEL] But in like 5 years, I'm sure there's gonna be a post,
"This was actually Yanny and everyone believed it."
[PENIEL] At Vocabulary.com, click on it like 'what's the pronunciation?'
- [PENIEL] Yanny, Yanny. - [pH-1] Yanny~
[PENIEL] Okay, let's hear it thinking that it's Yanny then.
[RAIDEN] I hate this voice now.
[pH-1] It's just annoying.
- [ASHLEY] How is this Laurel? - [PENIEL] Now the voice's just annoying.
[pH-1] Let's move on.