giraffe

concept · in 23 videos (2008–2013)

Mentions by year: 2008: 5 · 2009: 4 · 2010: 7 · 2011: 6 · 2013: 1

Threads

• John's giraffe-love bit ('people love giraffes who love giraffes') — bit, callback, 2008–2013
• John asks the men of YouTube to explain their fascination with giraffe sex (2008) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2008–2008

What the videos say

2008

• 2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — Asked why the most-viewed Vlogbrothers videos are Hank's, John guesses Hank is funnier, but says one owes its views to a screenshot of two giraffes having sex. (00:01:42)
• 2008-02-27 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes (The Song) — Hank says his one spectacularly successful video did well because people thought it would show giraffe sex, so he wrote a song about it. (00:00:00)
• 2008-02-27 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes (The Song) — The refrain asks where the Vlogbrothers, and America, would be without people who love giraffes who love giraffes. (00:01:00)
• 2008-05-21 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — John reports that 294 of the brothers' 296 videos have been watched by more women than men; the two exceptions have giraffe sex as the thumbnail. (00:01:10)
• 2008-06-08 · Monkeys!!! (with pants) — Hank says he likes zoos for giraffes who love giraffes, but the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has no giraffes, which disappointed him. (00:01:29)

2009

• 2009-01-03 · Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED — A viewer says John's videos that discuss giraffe mating get on average ten times more views than those that don't. (00:00:21)
• 2009-01-03 · Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED — John agrees and, as previously noted, says people love giraffes who love giraffes, maybe because giraffe mating habits are fascinating. (00:00:27)
• 2009-01-03 · Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED — John says male giraffes nudge females with their heads to make them urinate, then drink the urine to taste whether the females are ovulating. (00:00:36)
• 2009-02-24 · How to Make Guys Like You — John says all their videos except those with giraffe sex as the thumbnail are watched by nearly three times more women than men. (00:00:34)
• 2009-02-24 · How to Make Guys Like You — John says there are about six ways to get 15-year-old boys to like you: become a giraffe, become World of Warcraft, be 'hot', be yourself, act like an idiot, consider different boys. (00:00:52)

2010

• 2010-03-25 · Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES — John says a giraffe kick has been known to decapitate a lion. (00:00:17)
• 2010-07-20 · I Like Balls — John concedes the brothers lack the moral high ground, since their three most-viewed videos are, in order, giraffe sex, giraffe sex and giraffe sex. (00:01:14)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says the three most viewed Vlogbrothers videos all feature giraffe sex, yet the brothers have never actually made a video about giraffe sex, which he will now fix. (00:00:01)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says Hank's illustration of giraffe love may be adorable, but it belies the truth: giraffe mating is profoundly non-romantic. (00:00:38)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says giraffes are extremely promiscuous and rarely mate with the same partner twice. (00:00:47)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says almost all male giraffes are bisexual: researchers believe 90% of giraffe sex is male-male and 1% female-female, so only about 9% is heterosexual. (00:01:23)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says giraffe mating involves flehmen: males smack females' bottoms with their faces to make them urinate, then drink the urine to tell whether they are ovulating. (00:01:53)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says courtship is mostly the male trying to mount and the female running away; coitus lasts up to several seconds and pregnancy lasts 400 days. (00:02:24)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John concludes that the animal kingdom is rarely as romantic as we would like it to be. (00:02:54)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says giraffes neck a lot; biologists long thought it was fighting, but while it sometimes is, it is also kind of a way of hugging. (00:02:58)

2011

• 2011-02-17 · This Video Brought to you by Nyquil — Hank feels the brothers have been unfair to the giraffes and thinks they can make it up to them. (00:02:28)

2013

• 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — John says advertisers value the number of views over their quality: Thoughts From Places videos are the channel's least viewed, yet Nerdfighters say they are among their favourites. (00:00:32)