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A Good Book Can Change Your Life, also known as Men Going Through a Book, is an exploitable illustration of a line of men walking through an oversized book which transforms them into business men that is typically paired with the caption "A Good Book Can Change Your Life." Although the image was meant to being inspirational when it was first shared on Facebook in 2016, many Redditors began editing the cover of the book in 2017.

Origin

On March 22nd, 2016, The Christian Facebook^[1] group Joy fellow ship posted the earliest known "A Good Book Can Change Your Life" image with the word "Bible" written on the cover (shown below).

Spread

On May 25th, 2017, Redditor Omnivecent posted the image changing the book to "The Communist Manifesto" to r/FULLCOMMUNISM^[2] (shown below, left). The image gained 30 points (87% upvoted) in two years. On September 15th, 2017, Twitter user @RealTouchingPic^[3] garnered over 1,300 likes and 860 retweets for posting the original image with the caption "'RT' if u agree…" (shown below, right).

Other internet users have reposted the original image since then. For example on June 15th, 2019 Instagram^[4] user successpictures accumulated 81,000 likes for posting the unedited image and on September 12th, after someone posted the image to Twitter, Twitter user @LordWinnersh^[5] responded by saying, "A diverse range of people enter a book to be homogenised [sic] ? Stay away from books then" (shown below, left). October 7th, Redditor Foodxfoodph posted the image with a book cover that reads "How to Draw Hentai" to r/animemes^[7] and received over 28,700 points (99% upvoted) (shown below, right). On October 21st, Redditor amazonissunofficial posted the original image to r/memeeconomy.^[6]

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