Yanny or Laurel? This computer-generated audio recording has been a new divisive subject on the internet and social media since the gold blue dress as people hear laurel or hear yanny. Read on to discover the the background and analysis behind this current social media craze.<\/p>\n
Have you ever listened to the radio and heard a song\u2019s lyrics differently than they\u2019re written? Or, maybe you asked a friend or family member what they thought, only to find out they heard something opposite to you. In the case of the great \u201cYanny vs. Laurel<\/a>\u201d debate of 2018, internet users across the world picked sides over the sound of an audio clip posted by a high school student, with celebrities from Ellen DeGeneres to Christy Teigen and Mindy Kaling weighing in on the action.<\/p>\n Before May of 2018, the two words may not have meant much to the average internet user. The phenomenon first struck after 15-year-old Georgia freshman at Flowery Branch High School, Katie Hetzel, heard Vocabulary.com audio for the word \u201cLaurel” (which is a wreath worn on the head). She was completing a homework assignment for her world literature course when she first looked up the word “laurel” and, to her surprise, heard it pronounced like the word “yanny.”<\/p>\n Wanting feedback, she shared the original clip on her Instagram Story and friends and classmates weighed in with their opinion. Further exasperating the confusion, some heard \u201cYanny,\u201d while others heard \u201cLaurel,\u201d etc. A high school friend of Hetzel\u2019s shared the same clip and added a poll to decide which sound listeners heard. While no one speculated that the two words would incite an internet-wide laurel yanny debate, the phenomenon struck a chord with users of the web as opinions varied.<\/p>\n A Reddit user soon shared it and then tweeted about by well-known YouTuber, Cloe Feldman<\/a>. To Hetzel\u2019s amazement, a massive viral trend debating the audio clip emerged, and news outlets across the country began writing, tweeting, and talking about the baffling controversy.<\/p>\n Indeed, organizations from CNN to Fox and even The White House staff began to take notice of the great Yanny vs. Laurel debate. vocabulary.com released an interesting backstory of the original recording of the word Laurel.<\/p>\n The yanny laurel original audio can be heard on Vocabulary.com for “laurel”<\/a>. You can also play the yanny laurel video below:<\/p>\nHow the Yanny Laurel Audio Debate Happened<\/h2>\n