Cooking
A recipe without quantities
The instruction assumes you already know how much seasoning to use.
Read caption text
- The unhelpful answer
- Recipe: “season to taste”
All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets Meme Template
The format
What does All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets mean?
Also called Frodo Keep Your Secrets · Alright Then Keep Your Secrets · Frodo Secrets Meme
Frodo accepts that he is not getting an answer. Use his amused reaction when a person, instruction, or status message gives you far less information than you wanted.
The joke treats missing information as a deliberately guarded secret. A vague recipe or delivery update becomes something that refuses to confide in you.
Frodo looks amused rather than furious. That makes the format a good fit for mild confusion, curiosity, and giving up on a small mystery.
Origin
Frodo suspects Gandalf knows more than he is saying.
Elijah Wood says the line as Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, released in 2001. Frodo notices a change in Bilbo and suspects that Gandalf, played by Ian McKellen, knows the reason. Gandalf’s silence prompts the response. [1]
An isolated clip of the line was shared on YouTube in June 2017. Know Your Meme documents captioned reactions on Facebook and Twitter in June 2018, followed by widely shared Reddit versions that August. [1]
How the meme spread
The film reaches US theaters
Frodo’s exchange with Gandalf provides the reaction. [1]
The quote appears as a short clip
A YouTube upload isolates the line from the scene. [1]
Captions give Frodo new unanswered questions
Facebook and Twitter posts use the still as a reaction. [1]
Reddit versions draw wider attention
Both still-image and GIF variations spread. [1]
Caption guide
Give Frodo something that refuses to explain itself.
Write the vague reply or missing information in the landscape to the left of Frodo. The printed quote at the bottom is already the response.
Make the situation clear in a few words. You can quote an unhelpful message or name the person who will not answer, without covering Frodo’s expression.
- The unhelpful answer
- In the landscape to the left of Frodo.
- Use the open space on the left.
- Keep Frodo’s face visible.
- Preserve the printed line at the bottom.
- Choose a small mystery that does not need a long backstory.
All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets examples
Original captions to try with this template.
Shopping
A parcel with a secret location
The update says the parcel is moving, but gives no useful clue about where it is.
Read caption text
- The unhelpful answer
- Package: “in transit”
Technology
An error without an explanation
The message asks for another attempt without explaining what went wrong.
Read caption text
- The unhelpful answer
- Error: “try again”
Related formats
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Sources1 reference
References for this template. Example captions are original.
- All Right Then, Keep Your Secrets: Know Your Meme
Explains the Frodo and Gandalf exchange and documents the quote’s spread as a reaction meme.