There are four main ways to use greentext.
greentext stories with fragmented sentences, 2nd person present tense, and reduced pronouns. A way to compress a story into a size short enough that people will bother to read it, and in a format specifically designed to make it easily relatable and able to include one's motivations and thoughts.
>be 35-yr old german potato farmer>farm many potato, cart into town>armed raiding schul takes my blood>lose all potato to jew doctor>schiebequoting another post, another source, or one's own thoughts
>explain greentexting to me. What is the literary genre of a greentext story?an "aside" addressing the masses in the midst of a post replying to an individual
>why the fuck am i replying to dumb spudropostersand finally using the different color as format in a long post, seperating subjects, etc.
>>7298468greentext can exist outside of 4chan, but it is still tied to imageboards and similar anonymous communities. reddit thinks that they can use them and interesting greentexts are shared on social media, as well as people there using meme arrows to talk, but only communities such as 4chan can truly produce them as an art form