These people still share cumbersome strings on WhatsApp

WhatsApp is currently working on a chained letter in the form of an enigma and she says, "You are entering a room." There are 2 dogs and 3 cats on the bed, Santa Claus, a donkey and 5 reindeer, 3 pigeons and a little duck flying around … so how many feet are in the room? "

We are now spoiling it shamelessly: the only supposedly correct answer is: eight. Two of you, two of Santa Claus and four of the bed. Reindeer and donkeys have hooves, logical.

If you do not solve the puzzle correctly, you must use the image of a dying Santa for a three day photo as a profile picture. And while you're still having fun "Haha, yeah, like that's stupid, it's not what everyone thinks," you realize that in your WhatsApp family group, many fathers are already typing . Ashamed, you must accept the fact that you are more naïve digitally than Digital Native: The WhatsApp chain letter is the hydra of net humor. For each letter destroyed, two new ones grow.

But who are the ones who still send chain letters, riddles and "funny videos" around the world? We identified five types.

Parents (detainees)

The clbadic, just because of age. As we know, many of our parents are in the midst of digital puberty. Although we already know all the memes, once the emojis are back to the old magic, we never update the WhatsApp status because we have stories on Instagram, our parents are still using their smartphone and the internet like children. Every home visit therefore looks like a morning in the media literacy center: "No dad, do not share this in the group", "No one writes anymore" hdgdl "", "Believe me mom, the cruise in the Caribbean costs 300 euros in banner advertising fraud guaranteed. "But that does not help: on the internet, many parents love children at the fair, everything must be taken. The chains of letters on WhatsApp are like a digital candy for her. As if by magic, they are attracted by this and it does not bother them if they stay in the conversation.

The forgetful

One word: giraffes. Well, it sounds? Santa's jigsaw puzzle was almost identical three years ago. At this time, you should set up a giraffe as a profile picture instead of a Santa Claus. The fact that many people have simply forgotten this and join the same crap can again be explained by the frantic online forgetfulness. Who should still know today what he / she has posted in one of dozens of short-lived WhatsApp groups three years ago, which they all pulled out without commenting? Too many memes, too many jokes, too many fun videos to deal with our ever shorter attention, so it's no wonder that … oh, a dabbender santa!

Influencers

From Julienco_'s Instagram Story | Image: Instagram | Julienco_

Influencers and influencers face all the nonsense. Really everyone. It is also difficult to track daily attendance at content in the application. When all the products of the day have been placed, they have to watch what's left to be entertained. For example, strings of letters. That is why, Sunday evening, Julian Claßen, better known as Julienco, is even better known as the husband of the super influential German Bianca Bibi. Heinicke, the mystery of Santa Claus – and all this through an Instagram narrative addressed to his 4.6 million followers. common. "A real bading game," sums Julienco. And always film his bedstead to show that he has no feet and that, therefore, the supposedly correct answer can not vote. Of course, he still spread the "bading game" in his story. And in the worst case, it affects 4.6 million additional people. Thank you for nothing, Julian.

The forced group

The pressure of the peers is annoying, everyone knows at the latest after the fifth round Pfeffi at the party of the working group. But if you can always get out of the situation with a fictitious peppermint incompatibility, your younger siblings or children of acquaintances have become more difficult. As teens, they fight daily for recognition and equality. As a result, chain letters and "funny memes" are so treacherous to younger WhatsApp users: as soon as new friends make new ones. FortniteDance, they can not admit, yet Minecraft And once Santa's first puzzles have been distributed, they can not tell you how stupid they are. But I have to participate. Cheers!

L & # 39; irony

Members of this group would never share a chain of letters on WhatsApp. Except ironic. You know how annoying such content is. You know that an image of a dying Santa Claus can be protected by copyright and therefore should not be used as a profile picture. If they share the same puzzle, it is only the criticism of the tumor degradation on the Internet that was so much better at the time when the memes were still shared on the IRC channels. They deconstruct Santa's riddle about his idiocy and then write in an ironic tweet how embarrbading it all is. And then, maybe write an article for an online magazine.

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