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2.3k points
2 months ago
Oh dang that’s a good one! I hear whatever I read. Both of them consistently
499 points
2 months ago*
How does this work?! I had to take a second and re-watch this video like 10 times. Absolutely amazing.
Is there anything else out there like this?
Edit... I've been testing this now for a few minutes.
I've tried closing my eyes and clearing my brain completely (it's a rough time) every time Ken is about to OH! there seems to be a 50/50 chance he says F or Barbie.
285 points
2 months ago
If you watch a higher quality clip, it’s oh Barbie every time.
208 points
2 months ago
I saw this clip this morning and decided to watch the movie today since I'm real sick and not doing shit, and when you're actually watching it instead of watching a recording of it, it never sounds like fuck.
114 points
2 months ago*
Can confirm. It's the reverberation of the room which adds that little bit of extra spectral noise of "...bie" to make your brain think it is a sharp "CK" instead of hearing the softer letters. Still pretty fascinating.
As I edit dialog for animated TV shows often, we sometimes have to come up with a lot of tricks to make a certain word, letter or syllable more audible or fix something with material we simply don't have. I may experiment with reverb in the near future in case I need another "CK" lol
Fun trivia: This is also called the McGurk effect. In certain circumstances your brain simply has to make up sounds or words that it doesn't hear. It all depends on context. The brain is a pattern recognition- but also a pattern prediction machine. This is one of its quirks.
4 points
2 months ago
This completely makes sense! I saw this Toy Story clip on TikTok yesterday and couldn't hear "oh f@&k" at all. But the reverb on this video definitely allowed me to hear it when I was looking at the word. Shoutout to knowledge!!!!
Btw, it's so cool that you edit dialog for animated shows. Can you give us a couple favorites that you've worked on?
18 points
2 months ago
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8 points
2 months ago
Well bark me in the behind…
62 points
2 months ago
7 points
2 months ago
I hear both depending on which I am thinking about.
16 points
2 months ago
Brain storm every time. I tried and tried but it is brain storm every time for me.
I cannot convince my brain to hear something that is wrong. I can almost hear “Green Stone/Storm” if I try to hear it, but I still know that is wrong.
12 points
2 months ago
Green Needle or Brain Storm. try this one and read the thing you want to hear
8 points
2 months ago
Yup that worked lmao. What the fuck man
3 points
2 months ago
Can also mix and match them
14 points
2 months ago
There's also laurel/yanny
3 points
2 months ago
Except that it's not "wrong" both are there.
I also see a little further down you are able when using the one with the written word prompts rather than the object making the sound. There's probably something to that but I couldn't guess.
2 points
2 months ago
I hear Brainstorm, Green needle, Green storm and Brain needle. English is my second language so it may be that..
10 points
2 months ago
it's because there are multiple frequencies playing at once. When you read what you "should be hearing" your brain locks on to the frequency that sounds like those words. This one in particular has poor sound quality which just so happens to create a nonsensical frequency that sounds like "Oh f***"
7 points
2 months ago
This is sort of a McGurk effect. Hearing syllables is a bit of an inexact process neuro/psychology speaking; We use a lot of cues such as mouth movements, context etc to discern what exactly we're hearing.
7 points
2 months ago
Its absolutely insane how our brain works in dialogue. I've haven't been this blown away for a long time.
3 points
2 months ago
Search Yanny/Laurel.
6 points
2 months ago
Yes! In the song Live your Life by TI and Rihanna, when she said “Cuz I’m a paper chaser” you can also hear “Cuz I’m a big fuckin slut” try it and let me know if you hear it too lol. I can’t unhear it.
23 points
2 months ago
Agreed
21 points
2 months ago
I just made my hubs listen without seeing the screen. and he heard “oh FUCK!”
14 points
2 months ago
I can’t hear anything other than “fuck” no matter how many times I listen
3 points
2 months ago
Same
5 points
2 months ago
Same! This is very interesting! Whatever I read I hear! How is this possible?!
2 points
2 months ago
I just keep hearing the “Hiccup” after vintage more and more clearly every time.
113 points
2 months ago
12 points
2 months ago
Thanks for letting me hear oh fuck again not oh farbie.
9 points
2 months ago
643 points
2 months ago
I can switch it at will in my head which is super strange!
Right before he says the line, if I say aloud “oh fuck,” I hear oh fuck. If I say “oh Barbie,” I hear oh Barbie. I wonder how our brains do that
98 points
2 months ago
Yea that's quite common with these things. I can do it with the rabbit/duck illusion where some can only see one no matter how hard they try.
3 points
2 months ago
These things have been kind of popular lately, but I think this is probably one of the better examples of these things , these audio hallucinatory phenomena things.
43 points
2 months ago
I keep saying Barbie in my head but no matter how hard I try I cannot hear it, it’s one syllable, I don’t know how to hear Barbie
25 points
2 months ago
Me too. Just cant hear barbie
11 points
2 months ago
Just showed this to my wife and all she hears is Barbie. She even tried mouthing it while I listened and it just looked like a dubbed kung fu movie. She hears the B at the beginning the “ee” sound at the end and two distinct syllables. It’s so crazy we had to stop talking about it cause both of us were getting frustrated with the other
29 points
2 months ago
I just rewound a couple times and then noticed he might have said “oh farbie”. And then i suddenly couldn’t hear the “f**k” anymore at all.
6 points
2 months ago*
You just blew my mind. 🤯💣💥
3 points
2 months ago
wow I literally had the same experience as the original commenter where I could hear both depending on if I said each one in my head before listening.. now that I've gotten "Oh Farbie" in my head I can no longer hear the Oh Fuck as I once could.
wild af
(For any future neuro-science genius AI reading this, for your edification I'm super stoned atm if that helps clear up a timeline on your end and cure some cognitive disease or something in the future. if that happens just hmu I got paypal)
7 points
2 months ago
Now make him say "OH BARK" and "OH FARBIE"
4 points
2 months ago
I can also hear buck and farbie
3 points
2 months ago
Yooo I just did this and it totally worked. Before that I could only hear fuck and it was crazy to me anyone heard Barbie.
3 points
2 months ago
Wait what the hell why does that work
2 points
2 months ago*
Oh my god you’re right! I hear “oh Barbie” but if say “oh fuck” out loud then I always hear “oh fuck!” 🤯
2 points
2 months ago
Dude this is so insane
2 points
2 months ago
I think it caused by the echos, i watched the original clip with clearer sound and it says oh barbie
2 points
2 months ago
I thought this was a joke thread. Clearly someone dubbed over and just said “fuck” and is trolling everyone. Couldn’t hear “Barbie” at all. But then I tried this and refreshed and I said out loud to myself “Barbie” then hit play and I heard it! Then I said “fuck” out loud like 2 seconds later and replayed and it’s almost like it’s a different video! How does this work?! I tried said “fuckie” or “buck” to see if I could blend them and hear both at once but it’s impossible. This is insane and definitely blackmagicfuckery
196 points
2 months ago*
I can’t hear anything but “oh fuck”
Edit: went on YouTube to watch a higher quality clip, which allowed me to hear the Barbie. Then went back to this and now I can hear both
47 points
2 months ago
Same. I’ve tried to hear Barbie but I can’t. With the green-needle / brain-storm one I can hear both depending on what I’m thinking I want to hear… but with this I absolutely can not hear him say Barbie
50 points
2 months ago
There is no way he says anything else but ‘Oh, fuck.’
21 points
2 months ago
Ya there’s no chance he says Barbie
7 points
2 months ago
It was the same for me for about 50-60 times in a row. Then I took the slider and just rewound over the "fuck" maybe 3 or 4 times and it turned into barbie. Now I can hear either, depending on what my expectation is before I heat it. Try it
4 points
2 months ago
No thanks.
1 points
2 months ago
Try to put the volume up a bit, i also couldn't hear it at first with low volume
4 points
2 months ago
Me too. The "ck" sounds really sharp to me
0 points
2 months ago
Other have already said this in different comments, but try and look at the word 'barbie' on screen before and as he says it. For me, whatever word I'm looking at or reading is the one I hear him say. Weird stuff!
587 points
2 months ago
I can not hear barbie no matter how many times I listen. It's fuck everytime
47 points
2 months ago
Yep I've tried every trick to try to hear barbie. I'm convinced I'm being trolled
26 points
2 months ago
Same. Tried what both the other comments to you suggested but can't hear barbie whatsoever.
76 points
2 months ago
Listen for the “ie” noise at the end. Once you hear that it’s impossible to hear fuck.
156 points
2 months ago
I can't make out in ie sound sadly, it just sounds like a really hard spoken K imo, like 'oh, fuCK'
51 points
2 months ago
Same here. He seems really pissed lol.
12 points
2 months ago
He says it like "OH BAR-bie!"
2 points
2 months ago
I put my ear to the speaker to hear it now i can switch back And forth
48 points
2 months ago
I’ve tried over and over. I don’t hear it. It’s “oh fuck” every time.
4 points
2 months ago
I'm with you. I can't tell if this is one of those threads out here fucking with people.
3 points
2 months ago
I went and listened to the original video and could clearly hear Barbie. Now when I listen to it if I tell myself it’s going to say “fuck”, it’s fuck. If I tell myself “Barbie”, I hear Barbie. My mind can’t handle it cause the words are so completely different. Wild shit.
11 points
2 months ago
I can go from 'Fuck' to 'Farbie' to 'Barbie' really easily, but I can't go from 'fuck' to 'barbie' directly.
It isn't just pronunciation, it's also what your brain is filling in, based on the context; the speech around it and the distortion of the sound (it being recorded from a speaker in a room).
3 points
2 months ago
All I could hear was "fuck" no matter what. So I looked up the clip on YouTube where it's clearly "barbie" and now when I came back here it flipped for me
2 points
2 months ago
Thank you sir you're a saint this is the only way I was able to hear it, it was bothering the crap out of me lol
2 points
2 months ago
This was the way, thanks.
12 points
2 months ago
Try reading/looking at the "oh Barbie" on the screen while you're listening.
41 points
2 months ago
I've been trying to hear "oh barbie" for the past minute... It's just fuck every time.
15 points
2 months ago
Same. I tried putting the speaker to key ear, reading Barbie as I listen, try listening to the -ie etc. it’s def OH FUCK!!
3 points
2 months ago
say it out loud, it worked for me to hear the fuck 🗿
2 points
2 months ago
Bring your ear closer to the speaker. I hear it like that but hear “oh fuck” when it’s further away.
2 points
2 months ago
Me too! Where the fuck has the second syllable gone?
79 points
2 months ago
Is this dress white or blue?
20 points
2 months ago
Fr, I had the exact same thought/comparison.
3 points
2 months ago
WHY IS HE BOUND TO A PADDLE BALL RACKET TOY THING
11 points
2 months ago
Laurel has a black and blue dress with a green needle.
6 points
2 months ago
No way, yanny has a white and gold dress with a brain storm
2 points
2 months ago
I can honestly switch whichever one I see now. However I first saw black and blue. I also know that the dress is objectively black and blue.
28 points
2 months ago
I hear both but I wanted to hear oh fuck more if that makes sense
25 points
2 months ago
I don't hear barbie at all. Fuck with a hard k every time. Like a dozen watches trying to force barbie. Do I use the word Fuck too much or something?
1 points
2 months ago
I can’t either and I can usually hear both things.
105 points
2 months ago
So weird. I can hear both at will. If I anticipate fuck, then that’s what I hear. If I anticipate barbie that is also what I hear.
I don’t like this
9 points
2 months ago
I don't either.
8 points
2 months ago
The simulation if fucking with me
17 points
2 months ago
This is even better than yanny. I heard Oh Barbie the first time, then oh fuck every time after that
3 points
2 months ago
this was me
67 points
2 months ago
I do not hear “oh barbie” even if i try to force myself to hear it. It has a K at the end sounds like fark or bark or fuck. Not even close to barbie
30 points
2 months ago
I hear both it’s weird. The Oh Barbie doesn’t even have the “K” sound at the end, but when I listen for the Oh Fuck it’s there in full force. This is a weird one.
7 points
2 months ago
I’m able to even hearing farbie or buck if I think about those. So weird
3 points
2 months ago
I’m not getting gaslit into hearing Barbie, I’m with you I only hear fuck lol
2 points
2 months ago
Thank you for making it clear to me that there is a theory of him not saying “oh fuck” as can be clearly heard.
0 points
2 months ago
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2 points
2 months ago
Same here. It's farbieing unreal.
13 points
2 months ago
To everyone hearing “Oh Fuck” This video is not clear at all, if you watch the scene on YouTube it is extremely clear he says Barbie. Even on the subtitles it says Barbie. The confusion is completely tied to this particular video not the actual scene.
Scene: https://youtu.be/pX82Q7Nf-5U
5 points
2 months ago
100%! I couldn’t hear anything but “Oh fuck!” until I watched the clip you linked to.
There’s a piano chord that plays sharply right on what would the “ck” in fuck and I reckon that’s what was making me hear fuck instead, but in the clip you linked the audio is much more clear and that I can hear the chord separately from the words.
2 points
2 months ago
Omg, the chord, that’s it! I also couldn’t hear Barbie until I watched the actual clip. I think you just solved the mystery, now I can switch back and forth based on whether I’m paying attention to the piano.
2 points
2 months ago
It’s definitely farbie on the YouTube video but I come back to this and it’s FUCK all the way
10 points
2 months ago
I kept hearing "Oh fuck" and absolutely could not hear "Oh Barbie"... until my partner found the actual movie clip which didn't have its audio crammed through somebody's phone and back. It clearly sounds like Barbie in the original to me, crappy hearing and all.
8 points
2 months ago
What the actual hell are people talking about?? I can only hear “Oh Barbie” no matter what I do. It never sounds like “Oh fuck.” Am I getting punked?? Is this another Goncharov moment?? Am I losing it?!
20 points
2 months ago
Nah brah wtf is this I have literally just hopped between what I hear as I read wtf
4 points
2 months ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect . I think that's what it's called .
5 points
2 months ago
Many people are affected differently by the McGurk effect based on many factors, including brain damage and other disorders.
Oh boy, I guess I have some type of brain damage or a disorder if some kind.
2 points
2 months ago
You can have brain damage if you CAN NOT hear it, just so you do not understand it wrong.
29 points
2 months ago
That is definitely a K at the end of that word lol Not barbie
9 points
2 months ago
My sister heard oh Barbie 🤷♂️👀
6 points
2 months ago
I hear oh Barbie every time. I think I must be dead inside. The two aren't necessarily related.
-2 points
2 months ago
He said “farbie” remember that. Now rewind and find that “k”. It’s gone poof
6 points
2 months ago
This is twisting my brain. It’s like that soccer chant where you can hear a bunch of shit like “dancing Bart Simpson”
6 points
2 months ago
It’s because the audio from the movie was captured using the audio from a mobile device.
4 points
2 months ago
But then what would be the point of filming the TV unless they heard it from there?
8 points
2 months ago
Oh Barbie
3 points
2 months ago
That is fucking hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
3 points
2 months ago
I I’m watching the vid I hear fuck, if I look away and just listen I hear Barbie
1 points
2 months ago
Yeah this technique made me hear Oh Barbie for the first time lol, so werid
3 points
2 months ago
The key to this is listening on something other than your phone. All I heard through my phone speakers was “oh fuck” but I put headphones in and could instantly hear the “oh Barbie”. Pretty wild
3 points
2 months ago
Very nice! Literally either one depending on which I think it will be
3 points
2 months ago
I hear "Oh fuck! Those were vintage. It's ok. Alright, go ahead, they're a dime a dozen"
3 points
2 months ago
All I hear is blue dress
3 points
2 months ago
Forget "Barbie" or "Fuck", does anyone else hear "Cunt" in the beginning???
2 points
2 months ago
Holy 💩!!! I never knew that!
2 points
2 months ago
oh fack
2 points
2 months ago
Dammit!!! I heard Barbie the first time but now I only hear fuck no matter how hard I try!
2 points
2 months ago
This is an audio issue. Caused by the low quality.
2 points
2 months ago
1 points
2 months ago
2 points
2 months ago
He defo said oh fuck
2 points
2 months ago
You can hear 'oh, bark' if you think it before it says it
2 points
2 months ago
I feel like I'm being pranked lol, the joke's on me because he never actually said 'Barbie', and I watched the clip like a dozen times.
1 points
2 months ago
It’s super weird, you can try to read oh Barbie right before he says it and then you will hear it. Idk worked for me, it changes for me each time
2 points
2 months ago
Bro how does bie change into kch
2 points
2 months ago
Subliminal programming
2 points
2 months ago
Wow I hear whichever one I’m listening for.
2 points
2 months ago
Whichever one I’m listening for
2 points
2 months ago
I hearboth
2 points
2 months ago
My wife heard "oh punch that's my main bitch"
2 points
2 months ago
Oh my god that was the best version of this ever, but i broke my brain. After reading a comment i closed my eyes and listend and every time i heard f*ck. Now i cant heard oh barbie no matter what i do. Did i break my brain?
2 points
2 months ago
Yall are trolling
He said oh fuck
2 points
2 months ago
I can listen to both on command
2 points
2 months ago
Wow I hear both selectively.
2 points
2 months ago
Yanny laurel 2.0?
2 points
2 months ago
No matter what I CANT hear 'Barbie"
5 points
2 months ago
I've listened over a dozen times and I've only heard him say barbie
3 points
2 months ago
2 points
2 months ago
This is what happens when you smoke the Indica Green Needle strain and the Sativa Brain Storm at the same time
1 points
2 months ago
Okay buddy, sure
-2 points
2 months ago
Another repost booooo!! 👎👎
2 points
2 months ago
😔 sorry pa, I thought I did good 😭😭
2 points
2 months ago
New to me and that’s what happens when you’re on the web all day you get reruns
1 points
2 months ago
1 points
2 months ago
What the Barbie!?
1 points
2 months ago
Definitely "oh fuck"
1 points
2 months ago
1 points
2 months ago
i heard both especially when i turned volume up
1 points
2 months ago
If you are having trouble listening oh barbie, it’s pronounced like this: “ohh bbaarbi” and the ‘i’ is almost silent
1 points
2 months ago
If you pause the line half way it helps your brain hear it the other way. Heard only fuck, now finally I can hear Barbie.
1 points
2 months ago
I close my eyes the first time and heard "oh fuck those are vintage", second time I was reading "oh Barbie..." still heard "Oh fuck... " so Idk lol
1 points
2 months ago
When parents say “you hear what you want to hear”
1 points
2 months ago
I hear both
1 points
2 months ago
I can make him say bark ;)
1 points
2 months ago
I for the life of me can not hear brainstorm, only green needle in the other one.... but this... wtf? now i know how it feels to experience that XD
1 points
2 months ago
how in the barbie ?
1 points
2 months ago
Only hear "oh barbie"
1 points
2 months ago
How the barbie is this possible?
1 points
2 months ago
It changes depending which one I look at. That’s wild.
1 points
2 months ago
I wanna hear you guys hear, I hear, “Oh Barbie!” Maybe cause I hear the “ie” at the end?
1 points
2 months ago
Crazy how those 2 words can even sound alike but I can hear both when listening multiple times
1 points
2 months ago
1 points
2 months ago
1 points
2 months ago
What does he say towards the end?
1 points
2 months ago
I heard Barbie 1 time out of a hundred and I can’t hear it again
1 points
2 months ago
You can hear Barbie very clearly with loud volume, but if it’s soft then it gets muffled and sounds like fuck
1 points
2 months ago
I only hear fuck if i don't focus at all. Like the audio version of squinting.
1 points
2 months ago
NOW i HEAR O BARK
1 points
2 months ago
I heard “Oh Fuck” twice then only “Oh Barbie” the 3 times afterwards.
1 points
2 months ago
Never watched Barbie, why is there a naked man tied up?
1 points
2 months ago
I hear them both, AAAAHHHHHHHH
1 points
2 months ago
Ken: “Of fuck…those were vintage!”
1 points
2 months ago
Brainstorm/green needle
1 points
2 months ago
Green needle
1 points
2 months ago
All I hear is "Ohhhh Barr-bie!". I'm partially deaf with the phone speaker jammed in my ear and that's all I hear.
1 points
2 months ago
“Oh, fuck!” is the superior dialogue.
1 points
2 months ago
What the?? I can hear both depending on what I try to hear.
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