One half of the Laurel - Yanny mystery, an annoying yet confusing video where the audience isn't sure as to whether the narrator is saying "Laurel" or "Yanny."
There are other videos like this, such as the "green bush" mystery
Guy 1: Boi.
Guy 2: What's up my dude?
Guy 1: Is it laurel, or yanny?
Guy 2: Dude I hear laurel.
Guy 1: Bruh you must be deaf, I'm like, 120% sure it's yanny ya' dweeb.
A yanny is a word or phrase that is capable of distracting the entire internet for at least 24 hours. When you "drop a yanny," you start a contentious debate on some type of public forum.
Yannies usually cause an extremely intense but brief disagreement between opposing groups. This dispute might include the sense that adversaries are living on a completely alien planet, one where colors appear different and words, even when spoken in the same language, sound utterly unfamiliar. Yanny is derived from the Latin word yanerious meaning both "frenzy" and "word with many sounds." It shares a Greek root, daphne, with words including laurel.
A word involved in a new trend involving two words including laurel which the human ear is easily tricked into believing it is one of the two words according to common pitch.
Brad: Shows video, "do you hear yanny, or laurel?"
Me: wtf
Bullshit word used by twitter bitch ass just to fuck with your mind so it could go viral