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Remember way back on… yesterday, when Yanny vs. Laurel was tearing the internet apart? Yeah… those really were the days, weren’t they?
Well, fast forward a few years in internet time to today and we have a new brain teaser that’s confounding the people who use the internet: Brainstorm vs. Green Needle.
Here’s how it works.
First, listen to the video below and find out what words you hear.
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Did you hear brainstorm?
Or was it green needle?
Maybe you heard brain needle?
Okay, if you heard brainstorm, think of green needle while you listen to it again. Do the opposite of that if you heard green needle the first time.
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Weird, right?
Think the Laurel or Yanny thing is weird?
You can hear the words ‘Brainstorm’ or ‘Green Needle’ based on which word you think about. Try it.https://t.co/7TrS9XNhNR
— George Aylett (@GeorgeAylett) May 17, 2018
On the plus side, as opposed to with Yanny vs. Laurel where what he was saying was obviously Yanny, there is no wrong answer here. You just hear whatever you want to hear, much like a teenager does with a parent.
That doesn’t mean it isn’t freaking people out though. Because it is.
This seems to be alternating 'green needle' and 'brainstorm.' I suspect trickery.
— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) May 17, 2018
Only if you make do that.
I don’t understand how people hear Laurel and brainstorm.
— Eid (@EChaosT) May 17, 2018
Oh God.
I hear "Brain Needle" no matter how I try to hear it.
— Leonie Thorne (@leonie_thorne) May 17, 2018
What?!
https://twitter.com/Zainab_29/status/997142633154777089
Thank you.
Try “green storm”!
— Seb Dance (@SebDance) May 17, 2018
Or “brain needle”. Why am I just discovering this?!!
— Seb Dance (@SebDance) May 17, 2018
Uh oh.
I don’t like this.
— dr stephen (@sputniksteve) May 17, 2018
I hear you, brother. I hear you. It’s like some kind of witchcraft if you ask me.
https://twitter.com/ACRAZYR/status/997185743259930626
Don’t blame you one bit, Andrew. Not one bit.