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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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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I still don't know what that means , but I always read it as "Shit in My Hands"

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i think it's 'shaking my head'

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's def shaking my head (in disappointment). I used to think people were misspelling stg (I swear to god) in reddit til I asked there one day.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

On your standard keyboard accidentally typing m when you meant t would be quite tricky.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

It means shake my hand, you're welcome

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I guess that's what it means now

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well that's a different thing, as it's not an abbreviation, but an acronym. Which is why that actually gave me pause after years of using "smth" online, because I always read "smh" as "something" instead of "shaking my head."

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It always bothered me because "shaking my head" isn't even a figure of speech people say, so how the fuck can you use an acronym form of the expression.

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

It was a figure of writing in old chatrooms and bulletin boards.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Much like how gifs work, I presume.

Like you just imagine someone shaking their head. Just kine you imagine someone smiling when I type :)

The thing is, shaking ones head isn't as universal of a symbol as smiling. Some cultures have nods and shakes the other way around. Which seems somewhat weird.