LISTEN: Do you hear 'Yanny' or 'Laurel' in this maddening clip?; UPDATED

May 16, 2018 7:40 AM
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LISTEN: Do you hear 'Yanny' or 'Laurel' in this maddening clip?; UPDATED

Everyone else is doing this so we might as well, too. Do you hear “Yanny” or “Laurel” in this now viral clip flying around the internets?

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Twitter is divided, to say the least:

Vox’s unscientific poll of close to 300,000 respondents is leaning toward Laurel 57%-43% at the time of this post:

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So far, we haven’t seen any real explanation for why people are hearing totally different things, and as this clip from Mother Jones shows, changing the pitch can change what you hear:

Over to you readers: Team Yanny or Team Laurel?

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Update:

And now, we know:

Thanks for playing, everybody.

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