Why did people mishear Ken's "Oh Barbie"?!

A phonetic explanation of how Ken seems to be dropping the F-bomb. Note: this is an update including the original low-quality audio from TikTok.
0:00 Intro
0:26 'B' and 'F' are pretty similar
2:18 'CK' or sound effect??

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

0:00 Intro 0:26 'B' and 'F' are pretty similar 2:18 'CK' or sound effect??

[@barbaramoignard6082]

Both yesterday and today it just sounds like Barbie to me.

[@ZwHwY]

Someone commented in the last video to turn your volume low, which I found helps you hear it the other way.

[@unitariansavage8513]

@@ZwHwY It doesn't really work.

[@PanicbyExample]

agreed, virality is a weird thing... i mean i do hear the expletive but i'd never think that's what's being said... it'd take slowing down the content and pointing out the moment before "bie" to hear it but i kind of doubt people are really getting hung up on the reality of the scene

[@Michael-sh1fb]

@@ZwHwY that worked for me. Couldn't hear it as anything other than Barbie until I did that.

[@Nn-3]

@@unitariansavage8513 Listening through a muffled speaker can also help.

[@azounx]

I can hear Farbie but not f*ck.

[@RealGrouchy]

Ditto, but hearing "f*ck" - f = "buck" blew my mind!

[@NerlenDept]

Me too.

[@bassbusterx]

I think the original viral video was manipulated

[@annasilvestre2984]

Quiet it down a bit and focus, the “bie” part will fade away. I heard it when I was tired and I hear the f-word, but I heard the “bie” now.

[@t-girl9643]

I heard "Oh, Fuck me!"

[@danielgbgibson]

It’s hard to have a video about how a word sounds when you have to censor that word.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

All that matters is that taking its F off makes it sound like buck!

[@mashed_sb]

@@DrGeoffLindsey take that youtube censorship!

[@BagOfGum]

Yeah but KZbin

[@K___R]

Nope, It's always preferable to avoid swearing

[@emilymonahan5232]

what a fucking cringe take

[@jergarmar]

I just assumed that the viral video had simply been heavily manipulated, that nobody actually heard it like that... but somehow you've Sherlocked a legitimate reason for the meme! And not just for laughs, this amusing video is still instructive to how words are put together, and how our brains puts sounds together into heard speech. Cool.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

Thanks. Even if it was manipulated, I think it's still interesting to see where the potential ambiguity comes from.

[@jergarmar]

@@DrGeoffLindsey Yes, exactly, even if that specific video was tweaked, I see how many people could have honestly heard it that way from the movie, especially if listening on low-quality audio. It's actually interesting just how small of a tweak it would take to "hear" one word rather than another.

[@QuantumJump451]

I can definitely say that even the original audio has the same property because I was watching the original upload of this video and my dad in the other room yelled out "EXCUSE ME???" because he'd misheard

[@Arkylie]

For a writing project, I researched Auditory Processing Disorder, and it's basically the brain being less intuitive about parsing these shifts -- hearing an ambiguous set of sounds and not being able to easily map them to existing words. It's fascinating because I've caught myself doing that a lot over the years -- hearing nonsense, and then, a few seconds later, figuring out the obvious words that had been said. In my fic "Turtles in a Bottle", I tried to convey that experience by carefully going through the sounds of each phrase and determining which ones could be misinterpreted. I think the phrase that got the most interesting twist was "oh cave-eye callyu Clint" ("okay if I call you Clint?"), though there were a lot of little shifts like "the many more" instead of "them anymore". Given the ways this channel has demonstrated that our words are weirder than we think, I'm sure I could've pushed the phrases a lot farther (and might consider it in future chapters), but I want the reader to still be able to decode it with a little effort -- getting that same mental speed bump, the little delay between hearing the phrase and making sense of it. It's been interesting to play with.

[@jergarmar]

@@Arkylie I mean, there's literally a party game where you have nonsense syllables that only make sense when you read them out loud, and typically the person who is reading has the hardest time figuring out the words.

[@mistym0rning]

I never knew about this ‘controversy’, and it sounds 100% like Barbie to me. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don’t even get how any could hear the f-word here since Ken pronounces his “r” in “Barbie” rather strongly.

[@sotetsotetsotetsotetsotet2379]

Lower your volume

[@jamaul1391]

It's not the f word lol, it's farbie. It's something that happened which shows that we hear what we think. So rewatch that scene but think of farbie and you'll hear it then try again but think Barbie and you'll see what I mean

[@grymns]

The clear 'bie' at the end should've been enough

[@josiahjray]

Who called it a controversy? 😂 It wasn’t a controversy, obviously he says Barbie but a lot of people misheard it and that went viral.

[@adamandsethdylantoo]

i guess if an r is strongly pronounced but also muffled, it can make a hard u soung

[@vsm1456]

The barbie/farbie effect is mindblowing. Makes me think once again that what we hear might not be what the actual sounds are, we're just used to interpret them in a certain way...

[@spaghetti5914]

As a non-native English speaker, English is a mess when it comes to pronunciation. I still struggle with watching adult shows or movies without subtitles because people tend to whisper, sometimes over music too and it's illegible

[@4kleidisc]

how does the 'e' dissapear in the low quality audio depending on which you choose to hear?

[@vsm1456]

@@4kleidisc This one I'm not sure and it wasn't addressed in the video, but my guess would be this: "e" is more on a high frequency side than other sounds in this word, so if someone focuses on lower frequencies they might miss the "e". Kinda like Yanny/Laurel trick.

[@fredneecher1746]

'Farbie' is not a rude word - or a word! No one heard the rude word.

[@Mienshao11]

Yes this is exactly how language works lol. Liminal pairs are an example

[@jeiku5041]

The slowed "Oh, Barbie!" Sent me into a brick wall

[@adkneze1854]

Very serious and educational speaking then out of no where "OOhhhhhhhh . . .. Barbie" i died

[@gracelessabomination9847]

I was losing my shit every time he showed the clip lmfao

[@101jir]

I mean, I keep hearing "farby," on both versions, so... also, would love to see a lot more videos analyzing mishearings!

[@muttlanguages3912]

Ditto

[@veroniquejeangille8248]

Me too !

[@plasmasnow2ndaccount87]

Hold your phone to where it's standing up and not sideways, then tilt whichever side the speaker is on towards you

[@101jir]

@@plasmasnow2ndaccount87 I'll give that a try when I can

[@101jir]

@@plasmasnow2ndaccount87 Tried it. Just hear "Farby" even more clearly.

[@Intoxicatious]

2:30 I think the sound effect is the paddle hitting the dressing screen

[@TigerFucker]

I searched for this comment

[@musicredsubaru]

Can we just appreciate how well placed Dr. Geoff Lindsey says "briefly" in this clip? 😆0:58

[@O2life]

That's incredible! Thanks for sharing.

[@ShirinRose]

@@De1n1ol It's at 1:00

[@musicredsubaru]

@@O2life You're welcome. 😊

[@emilyrln]

Lmao 😂

[@O2life]

@@De1n1ol give it a few seconds

[@hart-of-gold]

Given the way lips are animated to the sound track, and the skill of the people involved in making Toy Story 3. I wouldn't be surprised if this was inside joke.

[@MomeRathOX]

I think the “K” sound that you heard actually came from the paddle Ken’s strapped to knocking against the wall when he struggles.

[@VxV631]

I legit just found your channel and had no idea this whole controversy is a thing. I always knew English was weird, but you have opened my eyes to an amazing new awareness! You are a wonderful teacher and I greatly appreciate your linguistic wisdom!

[@harsimaja9517]

Tbf this particular sort of weirdness isn't specific to English, but the weirdness of spoken languages' phonetics in general

[@oldcowbb]

tiktok lives in their own weird universe

[@fredneecher1746]

It happens in every language - people rarely pronounce words in connected speech quite as they are understood to be in 'theory'. A lot of our understanding of real speech relies on our understanding what those words are from the context. There's nothing weird about English in this respect.

[@volnartheunforgiving3952]

"controversy" ???

[@TerezatheTeacher]

You know you're weird when you learn about a meme from a phonetics channel 😀 But then again, Geoff Lindsey is excellent at reacting to current topics, the Queen had hardly been dead for 5 seconds and he was already analysing the new King's accent!

[@leafyfantheanimator5545]

OwO 😊😏😩😫 UwU 😚😍

[@thedevil1667]

He scientifically analysed a word without saying it once. Wow

[@marmac83]

oh f(_)ck 😜

[@FlcwerxX]

Definitely wow

[@ghostlevelzero7446]

No matter how hard I try, I can't hear anything but Barbie. :/

[@haxkztasy]

nor can i, the "R" sound in Barbie is just too strong on my end lol

[@pixierabbit1128]

Same man

[@xchasingthefallx]

Turn your volume down a little bit and you'll hear it. I couldn't hear nothing but barbie until I did that lol

[@_Pixelated]

@@xchasingthefallx all I hear is "arbie"

[@xchasingthefallx]

@@_Pixelated Try to tilt your speaker upwards and towards you.

[@DuelScreen]

I think the low quality audio has been manipulated. That said, you provide a plausible explanation for the meme.

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

I wonder too. If so, the manipulator is pretty clever.

[@jankrnac3535]

I also think because must be lot of low quality pirated copies and is weird it get viral only now after so many years.

[@ASharkNamedWaffle]

I dont think so. I can hear both Barbie and f*ck clearly. I replayed the low quality part over and over. its 50/50 on what word i hear. Even if I try to focus on one of the words it is still random for me.

[@PumaArg]

I heard it in the good audio too

[@bonecag3]

I heard both in the beginning of the video. Pretty weird lol

[@tissuepaper9962]

The fact that the swim trunks make the sound of hitting the floor much too early almost leads me to believe that the final audio editor heard the "OH FUCK" during editing and intentionally left it in.

[@corneliastreet2491]

It’s actually the wood of the paddle hitting the wall lol

[@solosabbath8940]

I thought I was going crazy. I only hear the swear in the low quality version and this perfectly sums up the phenomena.

[@pyglik2296]

I recently got interested in phonetics and International Phonetic Alphabet, and I really love the waveform analysis of the sounds. Even knowing that /f/ and /b/ share roughly the same place of articulation, I wouldn't have thought that just by adding some noise before /b/ you can make it an /f/! It's really amazing how we perceive sounds and how easily we can be fooled by the context and not even know it!

[@andreasweilinghoff9075]

I am teaching different classes in English phonetics and phonology at the moment and one of my students just sent me an e-mail yesterday with this clip. He was wondering about this effect. I had a look in Praat and found the same influences (especially the dropping of the pants which can quickly be perceived as a /k/ and the influence of the background music). Totally agree with your analysis! I can't believe you made a video about this one, this is absolutely fantastic and perfect timing :D I'll definitely show this one to the class! Your ways of explaining phonetics/phonology are absolutely lovely!

[@wolf74499]

Thank you for this detailed explanation! I was actually shocked when seeing this Clip for the First time and how this worked and i couldnt imagine how this is even possible. Now my consciousness in terms of that got expanded

[@Junes.dreams.uk_]

I literally watched this movie again a couple of days ago and I literally thought “hmm… ok… must be watching the uncensored version” 😂😂

[@HDGamerofficial]

I’ve always heard “Oh Barbie” there was never a doubt in my mind that it was different. But apparently internet happened as per usual 😂

[@softy8088]

Getting flashbacks to Yanny and Laurel.

[@Ursichan]

Ever cover "good teenagers, take off your clothes"? Supposedly that is heard instead of "Down kitty, take off and go" in 1992's Disney's animated feature film, Aladdin. It is the scene where "Prince Ali" meets up with Princess Jasmine on her balcony.

[@ShummaAwilum]

Thanks for explaining the "b/k" part. It was driving me crazy since it was clearly a "b" when hearing "barbie" but clearly "k" when not.

[@ilmanti]

Everytime you do one of your audacity cut and pastes you blow my mind.

[@emilyrln]

I love how you have the Google Translate voice say the two words, but one is just a bleep 😂

[@aideanataa]

This is such a good explanation that easy to understand ^^ the vocabs are not too advanced, and you're so soft and structured in explaining, thank you for the knowledge

[@louisehenry760]

Glorious!!! I'd been hoping someone would come up with a phonetic explanation for this illusion. Your video is limpid, thank you so much.

[@carlamckirdy2103]

Fascinating. One piece missing from the equation in my humble opinion is the fact that english speakers will often pronounce the f-word without the final /k/ and only use a partial glottal stop. Hence the single stressed syllable "Faa" implies the f-word to most native speakers.

[@djgulston]

1:32 This section made me crack up! 🤣

[@juicyboxesxo]

you explain what goes thru my mind in half a second perfectly! i know why we hears one or another but i can't explain why 😭

[@childreneater1470]

This is such a good video, thank you. I like the effort put in

[@peabody1976]

I'm very very happy you are including acoustic analysis with your breaking down of English phonemic and phonetic peculiarities. It's something you don't always get when linguistics is being explained in lay terms. Thank you for that, Dr Lindsey!

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

I can only hear Barbie! I feel like I'm missing out!! 😭

[@RonyMajumder_VeNoM026]

Thanks a lot for the explaination as this ate my mind off since last night when I first heard this... Really appreciate your efforts...

[@dxllika]

Thank you so much for this,, I thought I was going crazy when I had to loop the same clip twice but heard two completely different things each time. I am at peace

[@JoeContext]

Ironically in the low quality clip it sounds more like "Barbie" and less like the F word. As someone who's toyed around with audio editing and learned some interesting stuff about how speech works purely through experience I had no idea that you could make a B and an F into each other so easily until now though, that's genuinely surprising

[@nicholaweall7541]

Thank you sooo much for this explaination, was driving me nuts lol. I can hear both words now. Couldn't hear Barbie until this video 🙂

[@GoodNewsEveryone2999]

Even after this video, I can only hear Barbie... clear enough that I thought hearing anything else was a hoax for attention. Even in his explanation, the sounds that he claims sound similar don't actually sound similar to me. I'm curious where the people who hear the f-word are from, since I think it may be due priming based on regional accents.

[@DezMarivette]

This reminds me of the Laurel/Yanny meme that swiffered the nation. Thank you Geoff your channel is amazing!

[@Relaxinghypnoasmr]

Yea! This was my question ❤ thanks for explanation! It’s def more evident in the low quality Instagram version

[@bobtheduck]

Huh. Disney at the center of yet another "secret message" conspiracy theory. Those are always fun to deal with. Mario gets it, too. "So long, gay bowser" (actually "So long-a Bowser" in Charles Martinet's faux Italian accent) and the far less scandalous (I think, anyhow) "Let's pickle" (actually "Let's-a go") My fellow Americans also thought Banjo Kazooie had a reference to erections in the soundtrack, when it's just a football chant about being tough since Rare is British... The real phallic reference in THAT game came from a level map.

[@Darxide23]

It's back!

[@thatLukeKneller]

I love this style of explanation. Amazing

[@Mightydoggo]

Thanks. You saved my life. I could not have slept the entire night before wrapping my head around this. lol

[@ZipplyZane]

I could hear the wrong word even in the higher quality version, likely in part due to priming. Once you told me what he actually said, I could always here the "bie" at the end. But I didn't notice it the first time. Yet, when I actually watched the movie a couple years ago for the first time, I don't remember thinking he used an expletive.

[@bartomiejpilarski2389]

Truly speaking, I'll never thaught that this line could sounds to anyone as a "f word". I'm not a native speaker so the line sounds for me more like "Oh Farbie", but on the other hand Ken's facial expression looks more like he wants to say "of f*ck" :D

[@eeriecraft1797]

Yeah. Same and I'm a native speaker. I can hear far or bar but the bee at the end is far too prominent and the are sound in bar is too strong to be the f bomb.

[@Nicola_Bailey]

I was today years old when I discovered that some people didn't hear that Ken was saying "oh Barbie!" 😳

[@Emikkuma]

Thank you I thoroughly enjoyed this video !!

[@rahjah6958]

“Oh phbark” If you talk like that you need help 😂

[@MaryAshleyB]

I'm still baffled how you can hear one syllable in a clearly two syllable word like that. It reminds me of the Brainstorm/Green Needle audio illusion, except reversed. It's supposed to be "Brainstorm" but I hear three syllables, so I hear Green Needle. I can't imagine hearing the shorter version of the illusion in these situations. It's interesting, but the way I hear it, other ways just seem made up to me. XD

[@Aritis]

Thanks for this Geoff

[@reberca-uy2zx]

I'm currently in a linguistic course in uni so i actually understood all of that. Subscribed!

[@JontyLevine]

Someone's probably done it by now, but I would love to see a phoneticist's explanation of Yanny and Laurel.

[@UPTHETOWN]

Can't hear anything except Barbie

[@onesandzeroes]

Could hear f*** in the previous video

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

all the clips in this video sound correctly. the clips in viral uploads were absolutely ambiguous

[@DrGeoffLindsey]

@@WeeWeeJumbo I include the sound from the viral uploads in this video

[@TechieSewing]

I'm still hearing Farbie in both of them :) Good to know that original version wasn't removed by KZbin!

[@MysterySteve]

I only started hearing "fuck" in any notable way in the lower quality one, where it was glaring, but the "bie" at the end completely wipes that out in the clearer one

[@Ralesk]

Ah, the "what colour is the dress" of phonetics :D

[@Arkylie]

I was thinking of that "yanni/something" clip, too.

[@notwithouttext]

@@Arkylie /jænɪj/ [jenəj] vs /lorəl/

[@vincentstartuplarbin2786]

Thank you very much 🙂 I think I finally have an explanation ! Not for Barbie & Ken, but for Dream On, Aerosmith. I was amazed to read obviously misleading lyrics on Spotify. After a few research, I guess it is due to the poor audio quality from the radio edit of the song, blended with orchestration. The official lyrics (and I think close to the long version) are the following: Every time that I look in the mirror All these lines on my face getting clearer The past is gone It went by like dusk to dawn Isn't that the way? Everybody's got their dues in life to pay kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmrHeHZumcpjeaM The "wrong" ones (even grammatically I think) as shown in Spotify (allegedly from Musixmatch, despite differing from the website) are: Give it time and look in the mirror All these lies in my face kept me clearer The past is gone In when back like dust to dawn Isn't that the way? Everybody's got do's and life depends kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3OVhZyOor1-Y7c Searching for this I saw that this song seems to be prone to a lot of "mishearing". Did you knew the refrain was not intended to be heard "Sing winner !" but "Sing with me" ?

[@HappyHawthorn]

✨Wow!✨

[@IdiotAmigo]

Moby once did a cover version of Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" but his lyrics are quite different from the original. E.g. "Cry and whispers sing in muted pain" becomes "He'd sign it with complete community." All in all, Moby's version makes little sense lyrically. I always wondered if he learned that song by ear, without ever having read the original lyrics - because some of Moby's lines sound suspiciously mondegreen-ish, and the vocal in the original version isn't crystal clear. The original Mission of Burma LP featuring this song, "Signals, Calls, and Marches," did come with a lyric sheet - but with all the words from all the songs in alphabetical order.

[@vincentstartuplarbin2786]

@@IdiotAmigo What a funny way to open your lyrics source !

[@cheryllwaldrop9732]

I'm genuinely surprised any of that could be misheard that way. Especially the sing with me, as the next lines are sing for the years, sing for the laughter, sing for the tears...

[@vincentstartuplarbin2786]

@@cheryllwaldrop9732 As a non-native English speaker, it's hard to say. But I must admit that I struggle to hear the correct lyrics when listening to the radio edit song. Maybe the "priming" with the wrong lyrics helps me to hear them. After all, understanding natural language is always deciphering, context and expectations have a major role. Same for "sing with me..." I'm not the best placed to judge.

[@mox3909]

I'm surprised at everybody saying they can't hear it. In the low quality version it sounds exactly like "f*ck" to me. Great explanation & video!

[@DotDotDotDashDashDashDotDotDot]

Fascinating, I can hear both depending on which one I wanna hear.

[@Scott_Forsell]

A couple of things I have noticed recently. Some British people pronounce assume and presume with an added h so it is ashume and preshume. My American ear picked that immediately. (Or immejetly.) The other was was the pronunciation of "...ing" words that end up sounding like "...ink" not exactly a full k, but halfway between a g and a k with a slight ejective. "I was walkingk..." An English male born and raised in the Midlands, went to Oxford, and now lives in a suburb of London. About 35 years old. Well educated and fairly upper class. Are these individual tics or are they common pronunciations? The only American instance I can think of with the "...ingk" is Tom Hanks in Forest Gump. Think "itty, bitty stinging rain", but have never heard it in the wild.

[@martavdz4972]

I'm Czech but I can answer your question. The "-ingk" thing is regional, I heard it in Nottinghamshire. The "ashume" thing is generally British but most often Southern England, I think. Where "u" is pronounced as "you", it sometimes palatalizes the sound before it. Stephen Fry does that a lot when he speaks as Hermione in the Harry Potter audiobooks.

[@dingo137]

It's not an added H, but a change in the S sound, presumably due to the influence of the historical Y sound in assume (see his video on the Youchube pronunciation). The -ing thing was the historical pronunciation, but most English accents dropped the G in such words. This didn't happen in the Midlands and the North West though, so "sing" is still /sɪŋg/ and not /sɪŋ/.

[@jeff__w]

My friend, originally from London but living in the US for close to 25 years, does that “…ing” → “…ink” thing. I’ve noticed it for as long as I’ve known him. (I thought it was his own idiosyncratic pronunciation.)

[@notwithouttext]

for the ashume, watch the youchube video

[@gugusalpha2411]

Maybe the fact that I'm not a native speaker plays a role, but I don't hear it at all. I've heard a few sound illusions that was quite convincing but this one doesn't work for me.

[@joshuabingwa1040]

Great content once again Dr Lindsey

[@MookaMG]

Finally a good explanation! Well done 👍

[@PlainsPup]

“Barbie” is a two-syllable word that ends with “bee.” The F-word is only one syllable, and ends with the “k” sound. Ken also has the rhotic American accent, and pronounces the “r,” which is totally absent from the F-word. And for context, the character interacting with Ken is Barbie. Even if the “Ba” and “fu” sounds seem somewhat similar, it’s pretty strange to confuse the two words altogether.

[@annamous5991]

No one heard fuck at all. It’s just mob mentality

[@cmtwei9605]

1:10 I'm not sure if the soundtrack waveform you show us is taken from the high or low quality version, I assume it's the former. It'd be even better to have the soundtrack waveforms from both on the same screen to compare the 'f' portion. What people hear not only depends on the audio clip quality, but also the volume, playback device and individual's hearing sensitivity.

[@madisparkles]

What are the odds of that I was just going to look this up and it was the first video recommended by KZbin, weeeeird

[@mamindmimi3871]

Glad that this show up in my recommendation. I always interest in language, voice and, sound. 1 more subscribers.

[@Stephen-Fox]

Could the seeming (from the clips you showed) lack of lip movement in the animation on the second syllable also contribute to this? I know that you can cause people to mishear things when playing audio over lip movement that match similar words.

[@sunnyquinn3888]

It's disturbing enough that now we all know what Ken sounds like when he, um, "peaks" during "playtime" with Barbie.

[@Jade_1872]

I’ve never heard this before, but I’m now obsessed with this.

[@AllenKey19]

In the low quality version I hear whichever word I'm thinking of at the time

[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

Could you someday do a contrastive analysis of the pronunciation of the F-word in English and the sound of the French word "phoque," which is the word for a seal, the kind that lives in or near water?

[@IdiotAmigo]

The vowel is the only difference. If the f-word rhymed with "lock" instead of "luck", it would be pronounced almost exactly like French "phoque."

[@ahmedmohamed-ik7jp]

Finally now I can sleep 🙂 thank you Dr Geoff Lindsey ❤❤

[@hiraidiamond5933]

I can only hear f*ck in the low quality version, but this is so interesting! I didn't even know this was a thing

[@0cer0]

The best pointlessly wasted 3 minutes of my life. 🤓

[@emilyjones9787]

This is why sound design and audio quality is super important!

[@TheDrunkMunk]

Absolutely epic channel

[@Johnnyboybravo]

The low quality is what really made it sound like the f bomb.

[@WooMaster777]

This blows my mind because I can hear both depending on what I want to hear. It's wild. 🤣😂

[@megalomaniacv3706]

While getting "Barbie" and "f*ck" mixed up sounds completely bogus, I can actually hear them both, unlike with the Yanny/Laurel debate that sprung up a while ago. Your explanation made it really clear why that's the case and I really appreciated it, thanks a lot man!

[@mihailos8701]

I wasn't able to know about this because I was watching dubbed non-english version as kid, thanks for video

[@JP-iz9cz]

I heard the audio before I saw any description in the viral video, but I heard the expletive loud and clear...

[@spooderman6312]

You sounds like the english teacher i never had, pretty good video

[@RonnocFroop]

It's interesting how big a difference the audio quality makes, because when I heard the original low-quality clip I couldn't even hear a second syllable, but here it's plain as day.

[@oliver_siegel]

This made the phenomenon really clear! 👏

[@tparadox88]

When I first saw the movie, it never occurred to me it could be anything other than "Barbie". When this video played the original clip, I almost heard the other thing on the second play, and then never again, especially not in the degraded version.

[@IsomerMashups]

I could only hear it in the low quality version, but it is absolutely hilarious.

[@christophermoore6110]

I didn’t hear it all until you played the low quality clip! Lmao

[@zorlord7507]

I've only heard Barbie, now I'm hearing Farbie

[@justacommenterno.7700]

wow now this is the type of person who never has to go through the experience of "I understand but I can't explain it"

[@batguy39]

Surprisingly educational well done

[@lanceanthony198]

This is trippy because once I hear it one way it sounds absolutely nothing like the other interpretation

[@rajbirsingh6247]

I heard this sound yesterday and i think i am 1 year late than rest of the world😅 thank you sir for explaining this concept to us. I was so surprised after listening to this sound.

[@pianomadness6278]

Very well explained 👏🏻👏🏻

[@alyxzeigler343]

I never heard him say the f-bomb until I watched this video and now I can't unhear it.