A year later, another pseudo-scientific viral video hit the Internet. This time, someone posted a video of someone saying either “Yanny” or “Laurel,” both of which seemed to sound different depending on who heard it. When the meme had run its course, 53% of 500,000 people had heard...
And one product a vendor wanted to market was a Halloween costume, an idea that makes sense: We’ve long loved dressing up as Internet pieces of pop culture, and this was one of the earliest memes to become a viral sensation. It had catapulted to insane infamy, and everything was posit...