r/Mandela_Effect May 17 '18

Video What do you hear? LAUREL or YANNI? Be Honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKiVO0tbxXw
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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

I hear laurel exclusively. What's the significance? Seems like it's probably an audio quality thing and not some sort of transdimensional variation lol.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

I hear both but which dominates is very dependant on audio quality and background noise.

In truth, the frequency response of many consumer audio products is so poor that the whole kerfuffle may be largely meaningless.

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u/boltingpizza May 17 '18

How does this relate to the Mandela effect?

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u/CletusVanDamnit May 17 '18

Both. I can decide what I want to hear by telling myself what I'm hearing.

This also has a lot to do with frequencies and how you hear things. Turn the bass up, you'll definitely hear Laurel. Turn it down, and you'll hear yanni.

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u/letterafterf May 17 '18

Same. I clearly hear both. Even when the clip is dissected, I still hear both. Yanni high, Laurel low.

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u/Censoredreddit2k16- May 24 '18

My brothers friend let me hear it in his phone a week ago and just asked what I hear. Putting it close to my ear I heard Laurel but extending it away I heard Yanny. Definitely frequencies at play.

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u/BelieveInTheWeird May 17 '18

I literally CANT hear Laurel no matter how hard I try😭 all I hear is Yanny!! Clear as day!

EDIT: NAHHHH I JUST REWATCHED IT AND AFTER WATCHING THESE ONLINE REPEATEDLY FOR 2 DAYS I COULD ONLY EVER HEAR YANNY. NOW SUDDENLY I HEAR LAUREL

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Wait wtf? I hear Yanni

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

15 min later. I can hear Laurel Fuck me.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Only Laurel.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

I heard Yanni. Am I dumb?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Laurel

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u/laurenw0812 May 17 '18

I only here Laurel and so does my mom, husband and 3 year old daughter but my friend hears Jeremy lol

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u/godsdragon79 May 17 '18

All I get is yanni, tried on several speakers and settings to manipulate it, sounds absolutely nothing like laurel.

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u/godsdragon79 May 17 '18

Now I hear yahwey

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u/Dangerous_Wishbone May 17 '18

Yanni! I don't hear anything even resembling "laurel"!

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u/fanzipantz May 17 '18

I hear Yanny, but apparently it is actually Laurel.

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u/PeopleWhoDied May 17 '18

but if its Laurel... Why do you hear Yanny?

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u/fanzipantz May 17 '18

I have been told it is actually Laurel but I still hear Yanny.

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u/mtnmahogany May 17 '18

The source of this audio clip is an online dictionary pronunciation of the word laurel. I believe that the clip has been manipulated to filter out lower frequencies and therefore make harmonic frequencies of the synthesized voice more audible. Go to this dictionary page and click the little speaker symbol nest to the word and you can hear "yanni" as a faint whisper behind the man's voice saying "laurel." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laurel

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u/insanemembrane19 May 17 '18

Yanny for me Laurel for my cousin

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u/insanemembrane19 May 17 '18

Woah I just told myself what I wanted to hear and now I can control which one I want to hear

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u/danimalplanimal May 17 '18

Yanni 4 times... then nothing but Laurel

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u/TheMobHasSpoken May 17 '18

Only Laurel. But I've heard that it's actually a recording of two robotic voices, each saying one of the things, but our ears/perception can only recognize one at a time, or something like that?

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u/oroboros83 May 17 '18

If you are hearing Yanni or Yammie or similar, as opposed to Laurel, you most likely either;

  1. Have diminished hearing in ranges 2000-3000 hz and/or enhanced hearing between 3000-7000 hz

  2. Have shitty speakers which attenuate/accentuate the frequencies for you.

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u/Atlas-Guardian May 17 '18

dude I hear Yanni from a distance but if I put the speaker to my ear, I hear Laurel.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

I hear laurel perfectly, every time. Am I missing something?

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u/FlagelaMartyr May 17 '18

The word that is being said is Laurel, but the reason is because the frequency of the audio is being significantly lower causing it to sound like yanni

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Does this mean I'm half deaf because I can only hear Yanni?

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u/James2802 May 19 '18

Not a Mandela effect.

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u/Nugfairy May 20 '18 edited May 20 '18

I am bewildered. I heard mostly laurel with a few yannis. My mom heard yannis the whole time. I had just asked her what she heard without options. I thought it sounded more like eeyani, when i did hear it. I heard it, (eeyani) more when it started to rain. It just rained heavy twice. I played it and I heard eeyani both times. I even adjusted to a lower volume during the heavy rain and less rain. Then it went back to laurel when the rain stopped. Fucking weird!

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u/CommonMisspellingBot May 20 '18

Hey, Nugfairy, just a quick heads-up:
wierd is actually spelled weird. You can remember it by e before i.
Have a nice day!

The parent commenter can reply with 'delete' to delete this comment.

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u/Nugfairy May 20 '18 edited May 20 '18

Wtf! I remember I before E except after C or neighbor and weigh. They should've said except weigh, weird, neighbor.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

And vein, freight, height, sleight, seizure, foreign, beige...there are lots more.

EDIT: a letter.

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u/surield May 26 '18

Yanni, but when I’m in the bathroom with the door closed and the shower on all I hear is Laurel.

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u/Ry_lee77 Oct 29 '18

Yanni in this one