Giraffe Riddle Resurrection

| January 3, 2019

From memecenter dot com, Medesem, Alexcavaliere62, and Memedroid 

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.

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Fyrfighter

Reason 1,073,896 why I’m not on farcebook

5th/77th FA

^this^ Not there either Fyrfighter. Have lurked a time or 2 thru sisters or daughters pages. Told me all I needed to know about people who really needed to get a real life.

Did get some info on a mofo POSer that we need to drop the hammer on.

Fyrfighter

My leftist sisters are all on there, and a cousin who isn’t a lefty has shown me a few of the stupid things they’ve posted. Based on that, I can only imagine the epic replies I’d have for them if I was on there… that’s reason 1,070,423 why I’m not on there.
Just in case there’s curiosity, reason number one is that zuckerberg is an asshole….

David

Llamas…. did anyone get sacked? Like the folks who wrote the credits?

Twist

Did someone say Llamas?

Combat Historian

I have never been on farcebook and never will; Zucky and his bunch of proggy eggheads can go fuck themselves…

OWB

No idea what you are talking about, or why you are talking about it.

Just did a quick perimeter search. No giraffes or llamas have overcome the security systems. Yet. Will let proper authorities know should that change.

OWB

No, no, no. Fushia.

What do aliens wear, berets?

Hondo

Aliens wearing berets? Only French aliens (whether they’re here legally or not).

MSG Eric

Isn’t Fushia purple?

OWB

You may be thinking about puce. But “coloring” is not my primary occupation, so I don’t really know…

Veritas Omnia Vincit

My Facebook page and newsfeed is where these kinds of things come to die, along with anything that’s supposed to be copied, pasted, forwarded…blah blah blah…

First off I’m a shitty facebook friend (surprise, surprise) because I take breaks for months at a time and I never post pictures of my breakfast or lunch or dinner, no one wants to see my selfies (which I don’t take anyway) and I don’t check in when I travel and sure as hell don’t update my status regularly or mark myself safe from the latest stupid facebook rage du jour….

I’ve never even seen this riddle, so I clearly travel in boring or boorish circles…I get some occasional updates from friends around the nation…nice to see those who are still alive and that they and their families are well…

I’m not surprised it keeps coming round though, after all those Nigerian princes didn’t get rich by fading away into the night.

HMC Ret

I have a friend who recently vacationed in Europe. He must have posted 20 pics of chow. I don’t get it. Why cares?

Ex-PH2

I have cats.

They scare llamas and giraffes out of the area.

There’s also a squirrel who does guard duty.

I find the internet useful as a tool to locate things and make real discoveries, but that’s about as far as my interest goes. I have yet to see any real value in the Frackbook beyond using it to advertise a business.

Fyrfighter

In reference to cats, the sitreps I’ve gotten from Firestorm Ranch in the last 12 hours indicate a large cat (likely 150lbs ish) breached the perimeter, but sentries were alerted, and stood to while the dogs made their nightly latrine call. Latest reports are that the intruder has retreated, and the deer are back in the pasture.

Wilted Willy

My 7 cats keep all unwanted vermin off the compound! They are all the security that I need, along with my AK that is. They will let you know in a heart beat if anyone has breached security, just watch their faces and it will tell you anything you want to know!!
Attack Cats rule!!!

Fyrfighter

Yeah, I’d be willing to bet that even my two Great Pyrenees would have done poorly against a mountain lion of that size.. of course, the wife with her lever gun watching over them could be a different story..

26Limabeans

I have faced the Tiger but I have never faced book. Just look at the mess it has become.

5th/77th FA

If I have my face in a book it generally has something to do with history or charles w’s girlfriends.

I know that the girls are charles w’s girlfriends ’cause they all have staples in their belly buttons. What articles/ There’s articles?

Commissioner Wretched

I work weekends as a tour bus driver at a local Wild Animal Safari, and we have giraffes and llamas. I have a great affinity for Rosie the Giraffe and Llorenzo Llama (yes, those are actually the animals’ names) … but I don’t play games on Facebook anyway.

Mason

Llorenzo Llama. 👏

Though I would assume Rosie would be a better name for a hippo.

2/17 Air Cav

The answer to nearly every practical legal question is, “It depends.” That answer applies to the riddle that lists items and asks, “What is the first thing you open?” If one sleeps with his eyes open, a condition called nocturnal lagophthalmos, he would open up the door first, not his eyes. Of course, which door depends upon whether there is a closed door between where the sleeper is sleeping and the front door. Of course, even that could change if there is a doorbell at the back door or a side door. I could go on but it’s time for me to get a rope and climb up on a chair…

OWB

And do they want to know what one would open next, after everything else that had already been opened in the scenario prior to the question being asked? How did the opener of anything know it was the parents at the door without opening something (like a window curtain, security program, or mouth to yell “Who’s there?”)?

Among other questions of absolutely no importance whatever.

The Other Whitey

I……….have no fucking clue what the hell I just read.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

This is why I love it here…. :rofl:

Mason

This is what Millennials do with their free time? 🤦‍♂️

2/17 Air Cav

You could have omitted “free.” I was going to end that sentence with your name but I think free Mason might have been misunderstood.

Mason

Touche. And don’t talk about Freemasonry. Secret societies need to remain secret.

David

The first rule of Freemasonry:

Thunderstixx

Horizons have been fully broadened for today…

OAE CPO USN Ret

My response to any of those dumbass riddles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPuqplYjWw

For some strange reason they stop bugging me with that stupid crap.

HMC Ret

I have not posted on FB in years but I go there to see what others have to say. It is also where I get some of my posts here re military history.

I have a friend who asked on FB recently how it is he has 538 friends? Well, the only way to have them is to accept their friend request. 538? Really?

I have another friend who has gone off the deep end. He posts daily that good luck and money will come to whomever forwards a certain posting. It’s images of ‘sacred’ animals or whatever. He also posts that bad things will happen to whomever fails to forward a posting. He developed this problem when he had a tragedy in his family two years ago.

Mason

Like a chain letter? Haven’t seen one of those in decades.

RGR 4-78

Face Book of the Dammed!
Did you recite the words exactly?
Well, yea. kinda.