4chan's signature storytelling format: lines prefixed with a > (rendered in green) that quote or narrate an anecdote in a clipped, deadpan style, almost always building to an absurd or self-deprecating punchline.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"He posted the whole story as a greentext and it somehow made it funnier."
LORE & ORIGIN
Originated from 4chan's native quoting convention, where typing > at the start of a line automatically colors it green when replying to a previous post. Users began repurposing that quoting mechanic to write entire short, first-person anecdotes line by line — "greentext stories" — which became one of the platform's most recognizable and widely imitated narrative formats, eventually spreading to Twitter, Reddit, and beyond as a whole storytelling genre in its own right.
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