greentext

From green +‎ text. So named for the fact that on 4chan, a line of text is rendered green when preceded with the > character.

• enPR: grēnʹtĕkst, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːn.tɛkst/

greentext (plural greentexts)

1. (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
   >
   >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.