• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’ve always been skeptical of greentext (and most internet) stories, it’s just more fun to suspend one’s disbelief.

    I’m just still confused about the concept of “implication arrows,” heh.

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      1 month ago

      it’s referencing a quite old meme of “>implying implications”, being that the storytelling style of greentext is wildly unconventional in that it is structured around quoting / citing some external imagery or context, and thereby inviting the reader to infer what the poster is thinking instead of directly stating it