Giraffe Riddle Resurrection

If you were on Facebook in 2013, you would’ve noticed when profile pictures turned into giraffes. The first one or two seemed innocent. But, more avatars turned into giraffe pictures. This became a trend.

We’ll, I decided to do some “Google research”.

It turned out that people who didn’t provide the correct answer to a riddle were required to change their profile pictures to a picture of a giraffe.

From the Chicago Tribune:

“It’s 3 a.m., the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors! It’s your parents and they are here for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?”

The requirement was to reply via private message (or by other private venue), and not in public in front of everybody else.

Depending on which “spoiler” you came across, it was your eyes, the door, or one of the jars. For those on my friends list, it was the eyes.

I didn’t get involved. As soon as I found an article, with the riddle and a common answer, I posted it on my wall… I just gave that stuff away.

It wasn’t long after that when I noticed that the giraffe profiles disappeared. There were no replacements.

Then, in 2016, I noticed a llama profile picture. Then more. Then there was a trend. I suspected another riddle like the giraffe riddle. I did another Google search. It turned out that the llama riddle was the giraffe riddle.

Same riddle, same reply requirements. Once again, I posted this article to my wall. I gave the answer away again. One of my friends, after providing hints on her wall, shared my spoiler post. I didn’t get involved with this challenge either. Well, shortly after that the llama avatars disappeared. No new llama avatars showed up.

I sat back and thought, “Hmmmm, 2013, 2016… 2019?”

I kept 2019 in mind, expecting this riddle to resurrect. What animal could it be this time though?

Then, in the last part of 2018, I saw that same riddle. The riddle was the same as the giraffe/llama riddle, with instructions to provide the answer via private message/IM.

This Facebook user had an odd profile picture… One from one of the photos associated with his profile. It was the same riddle. Being aware of the giraffe and llama riddle, this user responded with the answer to the previous two.

He got it wrong. The other person looked at the “wrong answer persons” photo list, and chose which one had to be used as a temporary profile.

What did I do?

I made another post, announcing that the giraffe/llama riddle resurrected. I provided a link to the answer to the giraffe riddle. Folks jumped onto the thread and asked about it. One talked about how they were asked a different riddle before (it was the same).

The one that had to display another profile picture jumped in and tried to argue that the answer was indeed different. Well, knowing what you guys know about me, I argued against that.

I intended to get the answer.

In the course of the argument, I got the answer in public. Whoever resurrected this riddle decided that “messenger/PM/IM” was opened first. After all, you had to answer though that channel, and not in the open.

You opened your private message first.

So, if you get the above riddle, the apparent answer is to open whatever it was that you had to open to provide the answer.

There may be other answers as well. But, we’re due for this riddle to strike again… If it hadn’t already done so in your neck of social media.

Keep your eyes peeled for a 2022 giraffe riddle resurrection.

Category: Internet