greentext
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From green + text. So named for the fact that on 4chan, a line of text is rendered green when preceded with the > character.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
greentext (plural greentexts)
- (Internet slang, 4chan) A short anecdotal story written on the website 4chan, each line starting with >.
- >be me
>19
>Writing the usage example for greentext on Wiktionary
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>Slowly going insane
- 2019 August 12, William Aspray, James W. Cortada, From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking: Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015, Springer, →ISBN, page 78:
- Thus, we have not covered patterns that were just emerging as we finished our manuscript, such as the discussion of urban legends and misinformation in the Ask Reddit section of reddit[sic], the greentext stories on 4chan, or the numerous references to urban legends on Bustle.
- 2021 January 14, Lawrence May, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories: Narrative Emergence and Videogames, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 208:
- These are anecdotes written in short, concise sentences that use the 4chan platform's 'greentext' formatting code, which is a function built into the site's forum software that renders any text preceded by an angled, right-facing bracket green in colour.
- 2022 September 23, Donna M. Goldstein, Kristen Drybread, Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
- Voicing contempt for the human lives that may have been lost, six responses on the thread react to this tweet in a similar fashion: with images of laughing, or with 4chan greentext that uses the > character to express sarcasm and contempt in the form of mock sympathy for those lost or displaced in the shipwreck.