{"id":5240,"date":"2018-12-08T04:39:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T04:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/yanny-v-laurel-in-top-10-trending-youtube-videos-of-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T04:39:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T04:39:31","slug":"yanny-v-laurel-in-top-10-trending-youtube-videos-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/yanny-v-laurel-in-top-10-trending-youtube-videos-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanny v Laurel in top 10 trending YouTube videos of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Media caption<\/span>Yanny or laurel – what do you hear? And why?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Think back to May and there was just one question which dominated the UK – can you hear Yanny or Laurel?<\/p>\n

An audio clip went viral which divided the internet into two camps.<\/p>\n

Now YouTube has revealed a video of the sound has made it into the top 10 most trending videos of 2018 in the UK.<\/p>\n

Other videos on the list include Paul McCartney taking part in Carpool Karaoke – which came in at number one – and a live stream of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding.<\/p>\n

Of course, we all love an animal video so it’s not surprising a dog clip also made it into the top 10.<\/p>\n

Ariana Grande, YouTuber David Dobrik and videos from Britain’s Got Talent and America’s Got Talent featured on the list as well.<\/p>\n

The top 10 trending YouTube videos of 2018<\/h2>\n

1. Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this video, James Corden visits Paul McCartney’s home city of Liverpool.<\/p>\n

The pair drive around visiting his childhood home and the Beatles singer performs sings in a local pub.<\/p>\n

As this is Carpool Karaoke, of course, Paul and James also drive around belting out some of his biggest hits.<\/p>\n

The video has had more than 35 million hits since June.<\/p>\n

2. The Royal Wedding 2018: Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It was one of the biggest events of the year and millions watched the Duke and Duchess of Sussex say “I do” in May.<\/p>\n

The Royal Family live streamed the ceremony and carriage procession<\/a> – all two-and-a-half hours of it.<\/p>\n

The video has had more than 33 million hits since May. <\/p>\n

Who doesn’t appreciate a good love story?<\/p>\n

3. Royal wedding – A Bad Lip Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know Prince Harry confessed he’d killed 1,693 giraffes during his wedding?<\/p>\n

It’s one of the lines in a video from the team behind the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

They showed clips of made-up conversations from the royal wedding re-imagining what the famous faces might have been saying to each other.<\/p>\n

Classic lines seemingly include Prince Harry asking Meghan whether she needed a pen and the Archbishop of Canterbury asking the couple who their favourite Harry Potter character was.<\/p>\n

4. Courtney Hadwin America’s Got Talent 2018 golden buzzer performance<\/strong><\/p>\n

British teen Courtney Hadwin walked onto the stage to audition for America’s Got Talent looking nervous.<\/p>\n

The judges – which included Mel B and Simon Cowell – were supposedly not prepared for what happened next.<\/p>\n

Courtney, now 14, launched into an energetic performance of Hard To Handle by Otis Reading.<\/p>\n

The crowd and the judges were wowed.<\/p>\n

Simon said: “You were this shy little thing when you first came out. Then you sing and you’re like a lion. Genuinely incredible.”<\/p>\n

Her performance earned her a place in the live finals after judge Howie Mandel pressed the golden buzzer.<\/p>\n

She ended up coming sixth place in the grand final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. Yanny v Laurel video: Which name do you hear? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chrissy Teigen said it was Laurel but Stephen King insisted it was Yanny.<\/p>\n

And the difference in opinion was echoed across student halls, work offices and across social media back in May.<\/p>\n

The secret, it turns out, is frequency. <\/p>\n

The part of the sound that makes some people hear Yanny is higher frequency than that which makes some people hear Laurel.<\/p>\n

Lars Riecke, assistant professor of audition and cognitive neuroscience at Maastricht University, said at the time: “If you remove all the low frequencies, you hear yanny. If you remove the high frequencies, you hear laurel.<\/p>\n

“If your… ears emphasise both the higher and lower frequencies, you can toggle between the two sounds.”<\/p>\n

Turns out the recording is from vocabulary.com and guess what… it’s saying Laurel.<\/p>\n

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The other videos which complete the list are:<\/p>\n

6. We broke up by David Dobrick – in which he and Liza Koshy announced they had split up<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Ariana Grande does Carpool Karaoke<\/p>\n

8. Dogs tested to see whether they’d defend their owner during home invasion<\/p>\n

9. Marc Spelmann gets the first golden buzzer of 2018 in Britain’s Got Talent<\/p>\n

10. Musical genre challenge with Ariana Grande<\/p>\n

Susan Cadrecha, YouTube’s communications manager, says this year’s list shows that “being entertained” appears to be the UK’s top priority and the country “isn’t bored of debate”.<\/p>\n

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