Comment on Anon can't sleep

• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The anon got it wrong. These are “>” or “greater than” symbols, not arrows, although they look like arrowheads. They are used to signal a quote, which makes the text green on 4chan or inside a quote block on other platforms. On 4chan, the resulting greentext is not a quote, it has a meaning of its own.

  The actual implication arrow, used in mathematical logic for statements like “if A, then B”, is “⇒” or “rightwards double arrow” in Unicode. Using ASCII characters, it can be written as “=>”.

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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What do they imply?

  I know that these stories are often accused of being fake, but I guess I don’t understand the context of the response. It seems like the responder is saying “go to the doctor regardless of whether you actually have a problem requiring a doctor.” Which I guess could be good advice in some circumstances, but … Maybe I’m just taking things too literally.

  Thanks for the answer!

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  • DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think it’s that people understand that 99% of green text stories are not real, so the reply is just saying yo if this is real, go to a doc.

    Maybe I’m wrong tho

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