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laurel or yanny

The two words that the universe gave us to fuck up our lives, hearing, and everything that we fucking know of
Person 1: is it laurel or yanny
person 2:fuck off(walks away and mumbles) ¨this is the blue and black dress all over again.¨

laurel or yanny

It's the dress of 2018. This sound phenomenon tore up the (internet) originally off a soung clip on (twitter). With some people hearing Laurel and others hearing Yanny, (Scientists) have put the explanation down to different frequencies, but not before some (celebrities) had their say on one side of the argument.
"Do you hear Laurel or Yanny?"

"I hear Laurel, how could someone hear Yanny?"

Yanny or Laurel 

a stupid trick made for you to think there is an illusion, only depending on the sound quality of what your listening to it on and what you want to hear from the words. The answer is actually Laurel, why internet? Why?
"is it Yanny or Laurel?"
"shut up, you idiot, its Laurel"
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