Illustration of a brown ape clinging to a snarling white yeti in snow with 'Season's Greetings' text

Season's Greetings

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Published October 17, 2026

Season's Greetings, also known as Season's Greason's, is a holiday-card edit of a gory illustration from Dougal Dixon's 1990 speculative evolution book Man After Man, where a yeti-like Tundra-Dweller is mauled by a smaller ape-descendant of humans. An anonymous editor added festive text to the carnage around 2007, and in 2020 Redditors corrupted the caption to Season's Greason's and opened a subreddit of the same name for Man After Man shitposting.

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Overview

Posts in this format place Philip Hood's original illustration above the words 'Season's Greetings' in cheerful script, so the contrast between the mauling and the holiday salutation does the comedic work1. The joke sits entirely on tone collision, since Hood's scene is a grim predation moment from a hard science-fiction art book, not a Christmas card2.

Later variants mangle the caption into 'Season's Greason's' or substitute other illustrations from Man After Man, which catalogs engineered future humans including aquatic hominids and parasitic descendants2. The 2020 subreddit r/SeasonsGreasons collects these edits alongside wider Dixon shitposting, and the image recirculates each December as an in-group holiday card among fans of the book3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Ultimate Metal forum (earliest upload) / Reddit (viral spread)
Date
2007

Dougal Dixon's Man After Man / An Anthropology of the Future was published in England on June 14, 1990, with illustrations by Philip Hood2. Page 57 depicts a Tundra-Dweller, cataloged in the book as homo glacis fabricatus, being attacked by a smaller monkey-like descendant of humans2.

Who first added 'Season's Greetings' to the scene is unconfirmed. The earliest surviving upload is a December 22, 2007 post by user cookiecutter on the Ultimate Metal forum, carrying a Photobucket watermark that suggests even earlier offsite hosting1.

How It Spread

The captioned image moved onto Reddit in 2011, when a since-deleted account submitted it to r/wtf and collected 625 upvotes over the next decade4. It bounced around image boards and holiday repost threads for years, usually posted anonymously every December without credit to Dixon or Hood3.

In 2020, an unknown editor replaced the greeting with the deliberately misspelled 'Season's Greason's' and opened a subreddit under that name, which became the hub for Man After Man shitposting3. The subreddit treats the typo as canon and reposts Hood's other grotesque creatures with corrupted holiday salutations.

Timeline

1990-06-14

Dougal Dixon's Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future is published in England with Philip Hood illustrations, including the Tundra-Dweller scene on page 57.

2007-12-22

User cookiecutter posts the earliest known 'Season's Greetings' upload on the Ultimate Metal forum, with a Photobucket watermark.

2011-04-20

A since-deleted account submits the image to r/wtf, where it gathers 625 upvotes over the following decade.

2020

The caption is edited to the misspelled 'Season's Greason's' and the r/SeasonsGreasons subreddit launches as a hub for Man After Man shitposting.

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