• Juliee@lemm.eeBannedEnglish
    13·
    28 days ago

    His life was set to ‚dim’ for six years
    Cause in the dark no one could see his tears

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      971·
      29 days ago

      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.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
        91·
        29 days ago

        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”?

        • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          16·
          29 days ago

          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.

          • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
            4·
            29 days ago

            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?

            • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              4·
              29 days ago

              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.

              • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
                6·
                29 days ago

                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.

                • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  3·
                  29 days ago

                  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.

            • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              9·
              29 days ago

              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.

      • Sergio@slrpnk.net
        6·
        29 days ago

        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?

      • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        48·
        28 days ago

        Be me

        see qt 3.14

        wanttosex.exe

        Show her my translated green text

        She rips off her clothes

        Give her the best three minutes of her my life

        See you later virgins

  • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    29 days ago

    Human Moment™. One of my former professors in Uni, the one I respected the most because she was one of the wisest and most perceptive people I’d met at that point, confided in us that it took her however many years since their introduction to realise that the small light on some wall-mounted light switches was meant as a guidance light if it’s pitch black.

  • bluewing@lemm.ee
    8·
    28 days ago

    You know, you only need to be around 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful with it. Humanity is right fuckered isn’t it?

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    6·
    29 days ago

    I have one of those fans. It only has a remote, no pull chains. I fucking hate that thing as much as I have ever hated anything in my life. It’s so shitty. You would think having buttons would make it easier to use than a pull chain but they somehow made it even worse. Both the light and fan use the same Up and Down arrows to change the setting but there’s a delay of a second or two between hitting the button and the fan actually changing (if it changes at all). There’s also no indicator of which setting you’re on currently (which is the only annoying part about pull chains). Also couldn’t get it to switch directions for winter even after spending probably an hour on their site and Youtube looking at documentation and trying shit.

    • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      29 days ago

      My remote controlled fan sounds like yours except it still has a physical switch on the side of the housing to change direction. I still hate the fan but thought I would share just in case you never checked.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        3·
        28 days ago

        Yea that was the first thing I looked for but this one doesn’t have it. I’m like 90% sure I have the correct instructions to do it but it just does not work. These things are shit and whoever designed this should be ashamed of themselves.