I swear to god

The left one. It's the Giraffe's neck that's long. Not their torso.

Edit: See Derpleton from Centaurworld.

Counterargument: a centaur is a human torso on a horse's neck, so it's the right one
- But the human portion has normal human proportions (though potentially scaled up a little). Why would being on a giraffe's body change that?
- A giraffe is a horse with a long neck.
  A giraffe centaur is a centaur with a long neck.
  QED
How does he pick his nose or brush his teeth?
- Giraffes have extremely long tongues
Also huge tongue
- uwu

What in the fresh hell is this? 💀
- Centaur World is a story about a war horse that accidentally falls into Centaur World full of happy cartoon centaurs that happen to speak horse or whatever.
- That's Derpleton from Centaurworld. Is a weird, but good show. Would recommend.
- Centaur World is incredible. Best kids show I've seen as an adult. They need your viewership to make more crazy stuff.
Came here to post this

Centaurs don’t have horse necks so neither is right. It would be the body of a giraffe with a human torso starting where the neck would start

But is the human torso going to be hella long like the picture on the right? That's not a neck. That's a long abdomen.
- Nah, just like a normal centaur but with long spindly giraffe legs

Neither, a centaur has a human torso starting at the base of the neck, the left one has a long neck so clearly not a human torso. The left one has a long torso, so that doesn't fit either.

Solution: it'd be exactly like a regular centaur but with a different skin pattern

We’d have to start evolution again because all mammals have four limbs, and four only. That’s why we can’t have pegasus (pegasi?) either. Bummer, I know.
- Isn't a pegasus a bird? Would that mean that they lay eggs?
Much taller legs

Neither. The neck is the long part, and do horse-based centaurs have horse necks?

Giraffe centaurs would be underwhelming.

Fuck, this really opened my eyes. You ruined giraffe centaurs for me. D:
But in a centaur, the human torso is placed where the horse neck would be. If it was the torso that was replaced they would look more like satyrs.
- The torso is a tricky concept, there's no good anatomical definition that makes sense. Is the pelvis included? The whole axial skeleton? Everyone knows the general idea of where the torso is, but it's hard to define with precision.
- But in a centaur, the human torso is placed where the horse neck would be.
  Yes, with a perfectly normal human torso. Put a human torso in the same spot and...
  BOOOORRRING!! 🤣

Officially the first post I really laughed on lemmy! The future seems bright! 🤣

Why not scale up the size of the human so it fits with both solutions?

It’s funnier this way?
- I think a huge human torso on top of a giraffe could also look funny enough

I posit a different answer

bro how did I get sensory overload from a black and white image
- Bloody One Piece.
- That's why I read this shit with fan colorings. I think my brain would literally not be able to process what's going on without it
wat

I say the left but double the length of the arms.

Giraffes are Artiodactyla like cattle so they would be closer in minotaur style than the Perissodactyla centaur style. Two hoofed legs, human upper body, long neck and giraffe head.

Speaking of Perissodactyla, this guy essentially is a fantasy creature. He's the centaur she told you not to worry about.

The right one. A centaur is a horse with a human torso replacing the horse’s neck & head. So it’s one of those humans with the long torso, you know the type.

Like it or not, this is peak male performance

What if he wore pants?

Now do giraffe fauns. At least giraffe centaurs have those counterbalancing rear legs, giraffe fauns would need to be half as wide as they are tall to have abs strong enough to keep themselves upright. And with those tiny spindly legs they have, even if they do leg day religiously and bulk them up they'll still be teetering about on two little hooves.

Hands would be a lot less evolutionarily useful if they couldn't reach your mouth.

They still could, you would just need to bend your head down to reach em

bonus question: where's the nipples?

the left one would look sick with some shades

the correct answer is both.

the one on the right bullies the more feminine one on the left who's always sticking his nose in other people's business.

Left is more natural. Evolution wouldn't waste time lifting that much mass making the creature top heavy unless it had an absurdly good reason to.

Mmm. Yeah. Evolution. Human giraffe hybrid. Let's see the branches of this tree.
The reason is right here; us experiencing it.

A mix of both. Take the left one, make his torso just a bit taller and skinnier, and shorten the neck a fair bit. The arms need to be real lanky as well.