About

Lowered 3 Octaves is a video remix series in which audio clips are reduced several octaves and sarcastically compared to the sounds dinosaurs might have sounded like.

Origin

On August 19th, 2010, YouTuber Ben Gerstein uploaded a video of a sparrow in which the bird's chirps are lowered several octaves (shown below). On November 27th, 2017, Redditor Skyzii submitted the clip to /r/videos,^[1] along with the title "Bird calls lowered 3 octaves might be what dinosaurs actually sounded like. Haunting yet beautiful!" Within 48 hours, the post gathered upwards of 4,600 points (88% upvoted) and 320 comments.

Spread

On November 28th, Redditor Hexteque submitted a video titled "Beaglesaurus" with the description "Dog calls lowered 3 octaves might be what dinosaurs actually sounded like. Haunting yet beautiful!" to /r/videos.^[2] Within 24 hours, the post gained over 23,400 points (71% upvoted) and 1,200 comments. Meanwhile, YouTuber chumacprachu uploaded a slowed clip from the music video "Big Enough" titled "Human calls lowered 3 octaves might be what dinosaurs actually sounded like. Haunting yet beautiful!" (shown below). The video subsequently reached the front page of /r/youtubehaiku.^[3]

That day, Redditor DietSeth posted a slowed video clip of singer Yoko Ono screaming during a performance at an art show with the title "Yoko Ono calls lowered 3 octaves might be what Yoko Ono dinosaurs actually sounded like. Haunting yet beautiful!" on /r/videos^[4] (shown below, left). That evening, Redditor Johnnyman2001 submitted a post to /r/OutOfTheLoop^[7] asking about the trending videos. On November 29th, Redditor jordijojo posted a slowed anime video titled "Loli calls lowered 3 octaves might be what jail time for dinosaurs actually sounded like. Haunting yet beautiful!"^[5]

That same day, The Daily Dot^[6] published an article titled "Reddit's '3 octave' meme is here to tell you what dinosaurs sounded like."

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