About

Frog and Cranberries It Must Be Fall refers to a viral Facebook post by Peterson Field Guides featuring a photograph of a small frog surrounded by cranberries. Online, people have used the photograph and phrase as a shitpost to joke about the syntax and the confused meaning of the post.

Origin

On November 26th, 2014, the Facebook^[1] account Peterson Field Guides shared a post by Extension Master Garnder of a frog in a bundle of cranberries. They captioned the photograph, "Frog and cranberries it must be fall." Within five years, the post received more than 275 reactions, 145 comments and 70 shares (shown below).

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That day, the Tumblr ^[2] account lake-erie shard a screenshot of the post. Many responded to the post and reblogged it, writing "frog and cranberries it must be fall." The post received more than 245,000 notes in five years (shown below, left).

On September 15th, 2019, Facebook^[3] user Corbin Jackson shared a "Frog and cranberry" post from another Facebook group in the Frogspotting Facebook group. The post received more than 650 reactions, 140 shares and 75 comments in less than one month (shown below, center).

About two weeks later, on October 1st, Facebook^[4] user Rebecca Watling shared a variation of the photograph in the WildGreenMemesForEcologicalFiends Facebook group. The post received more than 4,500 reactions, 375 shares and 170 comments in 24 hours (shown below, right).

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