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the thing is: knowing both "words" and timing I can choose what to listen. paying little to normal attention I easily hear "yanny", if I focus on laurel i can hear it. sometimes even a mix of both like "yan'rel". btw eng is not my 1st lang, dunno if it could influence me.
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Laurel; "yanny" is just an artifact of bad second-hand recording. The original sound was a guy intending to say laurel for a dictionary entry for the word laurel. It's laurel.
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Was hearing yanny, not understanding why people would even hear laurel, then I focused on the lower frequencies and freaked the fuck out when hearing laurel
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An experiment: I listened on phone then laptop. Phone yanny laptop laurel. Then phone in one laptop in other. Phone said yanny laptop laurel. As I took the laptop earbud out it changed from L to Y, stayed yanny when I put it back. Tried the same with phone no diff but
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