this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
545 points (96.4% liked)

Greentext

5961 readers
1275 users here now

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.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 12 minutes ago

Fake and gay - anon knew the way to the hut and knew it was a place for angry lemon party

Horror story QwQ

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 47 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I want this to work as a NoSleep creepypasta or whatever, but it just makes no sense. I have never, in my life, thought any window could possibly be a painting.

EDIT: I just thought of Mario 64. That's an exception!

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah could have just ended on "there were no paintings"

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 5 points 16 hours ago

it would work better as a fairytale, has more of that kinda vibe

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

God I skipped a beat.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 54 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Would be worse to wake up and see your own portrait added to the wall.

[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago

That's where I thought it was going.

[–] Decency8401@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 15 hours ago

This just gave me chills

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

this is based on something can't remember what but it is

There are a bunch of creepy pastas along that line, it's a pretty tired trope.

[–] HyperCube@fedia.io 104 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Seem to recall this story from r/nosleep a long time ago. That's one of the things I still haven't replaced from my reddit days, I liked reading through the top stories every once in a while. There really were some gems. I just got an AO3 account so maybe I can find something like that again, but I'm not too familiar with the site.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Seems like the story predates /r/nosleep by a fair bit. Relatedly, I wish lemmy were more open to creative writing. The greentext communities respond positively, but it’s a gamble anywhere else. Over the years, It’s become apparent to me that lemmy is full of philistines.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

lemmy is full of philistines.

Reddit, too. The fandoms I was engaged in there seem totally uninterested in (or even hostile to) fanfiction or even lore speculation now. No, just repeating and worshipping the same shallow memes.

At risk of sounding old... it wasn't always like that.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

At risk of doing the same, kids these days have shorter attention spans and more expendable entertainment within their grasp. I can’t say I’ve ever interacted with fanfiction communities, but, from what I’ve seen elsewhere, creativity is perceived as “yapping.” Which is heartbreaking to me.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

That's my observation, too. shakes "get off my lawn" fist.

But Ao3 has good apps now. That's kinda recent, so maybe there will be some fresh blood from smartphone-primaries, especially as Reddit fandom subs bleed users (like me).

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I'm pretty sure I read this story in a book of urban legends when I was a kid in the nineties and it wasn't new then.

[–] proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

a gamble anywhere else

Are there even any communities related to creative writing anywhere on lemmy? Never stumbled upon any

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago

!2sentence2horror@lemmy.blahaj.zone, a few !twosentencehorror communities, a poetry community I’ve lost track of, and a smattering of niche writing communities like this one. The tumblr communities as well, if you count surreptitious fiction, which I do. None that are dedicated to writing are very active

[–] MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Alternatively, expand another?

I mean zero offense, but I feel like Lemmy is too fragmented, and most communities need more population, not another more-specific shard of a similar thing.

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

I remember M59gar in particular wrote some bangers there. That whole portal in the first series was 👨‍🍳😚

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

oh it's ancient. i remember reading a Polish translation of that back in 2013 or something just as i was starting to get into creepypastas

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

One of my most embarrassing habits is that I sometimes go to the R-word site and read through the comment section there. Way too often, there are askr-word (or other sub r-word) posts where the comment section ends up being a bunch of bullshit supernatural responses. This one kind of reminds me of that. If you believe in ghosts or extraterrestrial aliens, I think less of you. You are dumb. Sorry, but it is what is is. I still drink alcohol sometimes, even knowing it causes cancer, so I'm not claiming I'm better than you. We can both/all be stupid. But if you believe in that supernatural crap, you're stupid, too.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

You don't need to signal to people that you dislike reddit by saying r-word. It's a given that anybody on lemmy dislikes reddit.

(Btw, I believe in aliens, most people with even passing familiarity with astronomy do.)

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 13 minutes ago

The first sentence I thought he was being kind not to say "retarded" but yea that's too much for me.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 hour ago

Point of clarification: I believe there's a good chance of "aliens" in the universe (i.e. life on Earth isn't the only life in the universe). When I used that term, I was referring to people who think aliens are visiting the earth.

Regardless of what I need to do, I'm going to do it. I do lots of things I don't need to do.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Thank you. I was trying to figure out which developmentally disabled site they were referring to.

[–] Hazelnutcookiez@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Stop it, Patrick! You're scaring him!

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 110 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An old but good one :3.. 4chan has some pretty good horror on it funnily enough.. as long as you can be bothered sifting through the toxic waste that the rest of the platform is

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

That's why I subscribe to greentext communities, cuz I did my time in the trenches dealing with the Nazis and gore well before the right well and truly lost (what little was left of) their goddamned minds.

[–] DefectiveFoundation@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

4vhan was pretty left leaning with some libertarian (and still rampant racism). It was also, by far, the easiest social media to manipulate.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 21 hours ago

When were you on there? Because I was on there for a good few years in the late 00s up until gamergate, and the Nazi posting was mainly on /b/, but it wasn't absent from other boards and only got worse as people stopped ironically Nazi posting and were more serious about it

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You fought in the trenches against the Nazis? You must be over 100 years old!

Edit:

Child: Grandpa, did you serve in the Great War?

Grandpa: No, I experienced much worse, I fought the Nazis on 4chan via chat from the comfort of a $3800 studio apartment in Seattle with my parents trust fund money.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago
[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can see the intention of the story, but how you wouldn't notice many windows on a small hut when you approached makes it not work for me.

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

Also the lighting. If it’s dark outside how do you light up a person looking into a window in a way they appear as a painting instead of weird shadows.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago

Maybe there's none on the side of the hut Anon approaches from?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Anon, what the fuck

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Very relatable

load more comments
view more: next ›