What's Up with All These Viral Illusions?

Re:What's Up with All These Viral Illusions? by yerry on Saturday May 19, 2018 @01:54PM (#17108913)

The twitter version of the yanny/laurel audio clip is severely distorted, and the original audio from vocabulary.com is not. [0,1]

Given this fact, the whole thing is twitter click bait, over almost nothing at all. One may as well argue over the correct spelling of “yanny” and whether it should have two N’s or not.

[0] https://twitter.com/CloeCouture/status/996218489831473152

[1] https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel

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Re:What's Up with All These Viral Illusions? by gowld on Saturday May 19, 2018 @02:54PM (#17109171)

I hear only slight distortion (higher frequency) in the Twitter. I assumed distortion/mishearing came from people using crappy speakers.

Anyway, I'm far more interested in how this Cloe person ran their ad-buying/"influencing" campaign to draw attention to this nothingburger that she/they are now trying to sell merchandise from.

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Re:What's Up with All These Viral Illusions? by Izkata on Saturday May 19, 2018 @04:43PM (#17109635)

Whatever the distortion is, I at least year "yanny" on Twitter and "laurel" on vocabulary.com (and haven't been able to make either one switch however I focus)

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Re:What's Up with All These Viral Illusions? by zaroth on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:04PM (#17110597)

Hear it both ways: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-...

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