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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoGreentext definitely did exist on 4Chan before becoming a meme format, and even then, it only became a meme format because screenshots were an easy way to transfer the gold out of the sludge mines of 4Chan.
The idea of greentext is good, but photoshopping fake 4Chan screens is like digging up your dead grandma and puppeteering her corpse to prove that you definitely didn’t write a birthday card to yourself.
It’s time to start posting new greentext as text so people will screenshot Lemmy. Let the old bones of 4Chan rest until they may or may not be reincarnated by the admins.
I am in agreement but also doubt.
With the name and look, new users will still be looking for the old name.
It also asks the question if we can post new format content under the old new? That probably depends on the community.
Basically it calls for sitting around the table to discuss what a green text is and what it is not. Are we really organized enough for this?
Greentext is green, puts the reader in the shoes of the subject, and usually ends in a short line of non-green commentary. It isn’t a terribly hard concept to transfer somewhere else.
Rather than Frankenstein the past like a save icon, we could be finding ways to make quoted text green in this community on Lemmy, thus fulfilling the requirements.
Pictures get way more engagement than text posts though. Platforms and app feeds are heavily biased to show thumbnails.
Just a bit of css also wont retain its meme if people want to copy it.
But the original greentext isn’t a picture—only normies on other platforms than 4Chan end up with that format unless it is a fabricated one like this.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Pretty easy to redtext here.
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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
This is the future we should be trying to build. A tiny tweak could make that text green, and then the prophecy would be fulfilled.