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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Anon gets an ultimatum (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

its often used in circles relating to japan for awhile, mainly anime as shows like Welcome to the NHK(2006) cover it. still technically speaking, not a new term, and i wpuldnt be suprised if /A/ on 4chan used it for more than a decade now. definitely not recent.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well I'm sure it's been in use for a while, but not in mainstream internet lingo is my point.

Speaking for myself, I only learned about this term a year or so ago, because I remember looking it up, and I remember thinking: huh, so there's a word for that now. Since then, I've seen it come up several times, almost always in greentext posts like this one.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

We actually used to see this term more often back around the 2010s when 4chan had a bigger presence