Social media users couldn't help but comment on Elizabeth Holmes voice after watching the Theranos CEO in HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley Monday.
Viewers were shocked to hear the 35-year-old Washington DC woman spoke in a lower tone than expected, something that a former employee at her company, has claimed is fake.
Twitter users joked that her vocal tones were the only thing they could focus on as they watched the program that revisited tragic details of how an employee took his own life rather than expose the fact that the $9billion company was built around a machine that did not work.
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Social media users commented on Elizabeth Holmes voice after watching HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley on Monday
Tweeters said the deep and breathy sound synonymous with California Valley girls simply reminded them of trying to sound more mature
HBO even got in on the jokes about Holmes after viewers caught on to her vocal fry
'Honestly would've watched a whole doc just about Elizabeth Holmes f**king voice lol,' one tweeter wrote.
Another posted: 'I'm worried I might start talking in an Elizabeth Holmes voice and never stop,' to which HBO Documentaries replied: '*clears throat* Us, too,' and HBO's account commented: 'I've already stopped blinking.'
In second comment, the network's social media manager referred to a moment in their documentary where someone connected to Holmes said the first thing they noticed about her was that she 'didn't blink'.
But footage of Holmes in The Inventor had viewers more intent on listening than looking for her eyelids to close.
One Twitter user compared her vocal fry to Mira Sorvino's character in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion.
Speaking about the vocal cord vibration, caused by letting air pass between them to create a creaky sound, a tweeted joked: 'have spent the better part of the evening trying to drop my voice and speak in a basso profundo a la Elizabeth Holmes and it's possible I've damaged my vocal cords irreparably.'
Viewers were shocked to hear the 35-year-old Washington DC woman spoke in a lower tone than expected
Twitter users joked that her vocal tones were the only thing they could focus on as they watched the program
Users on the micro-blogging site declared Holmes's voice was so powerful that they'd use it to deliver instructions or requests with more conviction
One Twitter user compared her vocal fry to Mira Sorvino's character in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
In the trailer someone said the first thing they noticed about Holmes was she 'never blinked'
Footage of Holmes in The Inventor had viewers more intent on listening than looking for her eyelids to close
Users on the micro-blogging site declared Holmes's voice was so powerful that they'd use it to deliver instructions or requests with more conviction.
Others said the deep and breathy sound synonymous with California Valley girls simply reminded them of trying to sound more mature.
It's something Stanford professor Dr. Phyllis Gardner may agree with. She told ABC Radio's podcast The Dropout that Holmes' voice was higher pitched when they first met.
When she came to me she didn't have a low voice,' Gardner said. 'When I next saw her again was at the Harvard Medical School board meeting where she was being introduced. She says with this low voice and I'm like, 'Oh my god.' It was quite off.'
