>Implying Writing Has a Future

Greentext, post-irony, and agency in the age of “agents”

Published as a Longform by the Institute of Network Cultures, this essay takes 4chan’s greentext seriously as a literary form — and asks whether it might be viably “AI-proof.” Greentext’s meaning lives in post-ironic context and communal performance, never stored on the page where a counterfeiter could reach it.

From there, the essay works through what agency looks like for human writers in the age of “agents” — and what any writing must do to survive assimilation.