About

Wasn't This Leaf Green Before refers to a comic by False Knees in which two birds are talking. One says "Wasn't this leaf green before?" to which the other says "Yup. Summer's almost over. About time to head south for the winter," to which the other one pauses, and replies, "What?" The comic has been turned into an exploitable where the second bird's dialogue is altered to strange, non-sequitur phrases.

Origin

On September 20th, 2017, False Knees posted the comic on the False Knees website,^[1] Twitter,^[2] and Reddit's /r/comics^[3] (shown below).

Spread

The comic started becoming an exploitable in the spring of the following year. A Goth GF joke appeared on Imgur on May 19th, 2018 in a post from user ConformistWithaCause, gaining over 2,400 likes (shown below, left).^[4] A pun posted on July 15th, 2018 in /r/memes^[5] by user warm-ice gained over 2,500 points (shown below, right).

The exploitable edits continued through 2019. Some popular recent examples include a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure edit posted in /r/shitpostcrusaders on June 24th, 2019 by user allaboutaesthetic,^[6] gaining over 5,400 points (shown below, left) and another was posted to Imgur by user SharkPantsBabyShoes^[7] on April 14th, 2019 (shown below, right).

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