>try to explain meme arrows aka greentext in Lemmy
>tfw you’ve made yourself look like an idiot
Jokes and stories are often written that way there. Greentext. Actual quote and that greentext form of writing just use the same > arrow thingy. You see it here too sometimes.
I think there’s something fun about writing it like that. Reminds me of IRC.
I was using 4chan in 2008. You don’t need to explain greentext to me. But that’s not a greentext story, it’s a reply that quotes someone else’s post, which is why it has a comment ID number.
I originally read it as just saying ‘different instances’ and not stating a number of different instances. But that’s not the format 4chan uses for a quote reply (I don’t remember, isn’t there a number sign or something?) and that number would be way too large for a comment ID. So, yeah. I didn’t consider that someone could actually go there and find the post since I think of 4chan as /b where it all disappears after 2 hours.
Thank god it isn’t people quoting posts and adding their amazing commentary such as…. “lol”
This
They’re not quoting. It’s just how stuff is written there
Hmm, no, it’s quoting a post just like
>be me
>try to explain meme arrows aka greentext in Lemmy
>tfw you’ve made yourself look like an idiot
Jokes and stories are often written that way there. Greentext. Actual quote and that greentext form of writing just use the same > arrow thingy. You see it here too sometimes.
I think there’s something fun about writing it like that. Reminds me of IRC.
I was using 4chan in 2008. You don’t need to explain greentext to me. But that’s not a greentext story, it’s a reply that quotes someone else’s post, which is why it has a comment ID number.
I went and found the thread for us, it’s just greentext, no quoting, it’s the second message and just clowning on Lemmy
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/98011228
That’s some dedication! Okay. I’ll accept I am incompetent.
I was starting to doubt myself so I had to check, haha.
I originally read it as just saying ‘different instances’ and not stating a number of different instances. But that’s not the format 4chan uses for a quote reply (I don’t remember, isn’t there a number sign or something?) and that number would be way too large for a comment ID. So, yeah. I didn’t consider that someone could actually go there and find the post since I think of 4chan as /b where it all disappears after 2 hours.
It’s not a comment ID number, it’s saying there’s basically “a gazillion instances”. It’s making a joke about Lemmy but just in greentext.
Oh. I can’t read.
>Thank god it isn’t people quoting posts and adding their amazing commentary such as…. “lol”
lol
lol
lollol!
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