Tried converting a story from TIFU to greentext because I'm bored at work.
I saved a Gimp Template while working on it: https://files.catbox.moe/ipnjzk.xcf
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
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- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
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The idea that people are making fake greentext screen shots is both puzzling and embarrassing. If you have the idea, just post it as a normal comment somewhere else—forging 4Chan screens is the path of madness.
holy shit dude, save some for the rest of us
>be me
>know how to escape characters
>make smirk remark to failed greentext
>my own text is not even green
is this a win?
I tried twice, couldn't figure it out on mobile. Characters were just ignored
Be sure to add 2 spaces at the end for a linebreak.
> thanks
Now I know, I certainly would not have thought backslash would have done it
Magic
> be me
> want to escape characters
> fail (like at everything in life)
> Anon shows me the path
> still had le sex...
Damn, I'm too deep into programming so it took me a bit to realize that the second line was not about the framework.
It took me a while to realize it was short for cutie pie
qt3.14.tar.gz
I actually almost made one of those
https://files.catbox.moe/xqe00x.png
Now this is podracing!
Is a green text actually a 4chan screen?
Or is it a distinct meme template to tell stories in ab engaging way that just happened to originate on 4chan?
Especially when the content literally never existed on 4chan, it looks like it but isnt.
I ask this with some rhetoric. We did click the content. Would it have been equally enjoyable as a twitter post: “after 6 years of living in the dark i discovered my light is dimmable, fuck me”?
Greentext 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.
Pretty easy to whitetext here.
```
Funni content goes here
```
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.
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 name and communities, tags? 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.
To make it an easily sharable meme of which text color cannot be altered. It must be a picture of green quoted text.
I would also kinda argue the picture within often does add something, provides a sliver of information about the speakers personality. Sometimes “Picture unrelated” ads to humor.
The pattern of where that picture is in relation to the text helps the pattern recognition of “this is a greentext” again.
Basically just cut off the top line and we’re good.
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.
I cant be the only one that likes these despite not frequenting 4Chan.
Nonetheless the meme format works great for storytelling.
you're right.... it is fake, and yet it is true. so is it true or is it fake? and if it's fake, is it a less or more genuine greentext?
But here's the real question: did OP convert a TIFU to greentext themselves, or did they use AI?
I did it by hand in GIMP.
Why? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I do stupid things all the time
Like losing your right arm?
I never bothered to fix it on reddit, I'm not starting now
OK, then you got my upvote!
Can you make ur text darker? It was so light I couldn’t read it and will skip by without doing so in a sec.
Can you make ur text darker? It was so light I couldn’t read it and will skip by without doing so in a sec.