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http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/stats

I was somewhat amazed by those stats: I thought Americans would have contributed the most. Is there something I should know about Germans and Giraffes that I do not know?

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It looks like this started in Europe. A mainstream American website usually sees a 1:2 domestic to international ratio while a niche/startup website usually starts out with the opposite (actually more like 10:1 I would guess.) This follows that pattern except the U.S. is part of the international piece of the pie.

There is this one submitter of Giraffes[1], responsible for two percent of all German giraffes, or this one[2], responsible for nearly five percent. I didn’t even have to look all that hard to find them.

[1] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Sanne

[2] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Ediktonia

[1] "I found 4 085 giraffes created by people named Sanne!"

[2] "I found 9 988 giraffes created by people named Ediktonia!"

The actual statistic is that 2% of all Germans who submitted giraffes were named Sanne and 5% were named Ediktonia. It doesn't say they were all the same person.

Click through the giraffes. They are in fact all by the same person (or by different people who are all the same age and live in the same place).

Sanne has actually only submitted 15 pictures. This is one of them, http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/?id=54374 There are ~2000 giraffes on one page. Ediktonia has similar images.

Personally, I think these works are kind of taking the piss.

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