diff --git a/src/components/settings/settings.vue b/src/components/settings/settings.vue
index a83489d2cc..c4021137e7 100644
--- a/src/components/settings/settings.vue
+++ b/src/components/settings/settings.vue
@@ -270,6 +270,17 @@
                 </li>
               </ul>
             </div>
+
+            <div class="setting-item">
+              <h2>{{ $t('settings.fun') }}</h2>
+              <ul class="setting-list">
+                <li>
+                  <Checkbox v-model="greentext">
+                    {{ $t('settings.greentext') }} {{ $t('settings.instance_default', { value: greentextLocalizedValue }) }}
+                  </Checkbox>
+                </li>
+              </ul>
+            </div>
           </div>
 
           <div :label="$t('settings.theme')">
diff --git a/src/components/status/status.js b/src/components/status/status.js
index 416aa36ada..dd0ce3abd2 100644
--- a/src/components/status/status.js
+++ b/src/components/status/status.js
@@ -259,26 +259,30 @@ const Status = {
     postBodyHtml () {
       const html = this.status.statusnet_html
 
-      try {
-        if (html.includes('&gt;')) {
-          // This checks if post has '>' at the beginning, excluding mentions so that @mention >impying works
-          return processHtml(html, (string) => {
-            if (string.includes('&gt;') &&
-                string
-                .replace(/<[^>]+?>/gi, '') // remove all tags
-                .replace(/@\w+/gi, '') // remove mentions (even failed ones)
-                .trim()
-                .startsWith('&gt;')) {
-              return `<span class='greentext'>${string}</span>`
-            } else {
-              return string
-            }
-          })
-        } else {
+      if (this.mergedConfig.greentext) {
+        try {
+          if (html.includes('&gt;')) {
+            // This checks if post has '>' at the beginning, excluding mentions so that @mention >impying works
+            return processHtml(html, (string) => {
+              if (string.includes('&gt;') &&
+                  string
+                  .replace(/<[^>]+?>/gi, '') // remove all tags
+                  .replace(/@\w+/gi, '') // remove mentions (even failed ones)
+                  .trim()
+                  .startsWith('&gt;')) {
+                return `<span class='greentext'>${string}</span>`
+              } else {
+                return string
+              }
+            })
+          } else {
+            return html
+          }
+        } catch (e) {
+          console.err('Failed to process status html', e)
           return html
         }
-      } catch (e) {
-        console.err('Failed to process status html', e)
+      } else {
         return html
       }
     },
diff --git a/src/components/status/status.vue b/src/components/status/status.vue
index 65778b2e5d..d291e762b2 100644
--- a/src/components/status/status.vue
+++ b/src/components/status/status.vue
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ $status-margin: 0.75em;
       height: 100%;
       mask: linear-gradient(to top, white, transparent) bottom/100% 70px no-repeat,
             linear-gradient(to top, white, white);
-      // Autoprefixed seem to ignore this one, and also syntax is different
+      /* Autoprefixed seem to ignore this one, and also syntax is different */
       -webkit-mask-composite: xor;
       mask-composite: exclude;
     }
@@ -752,7 +752,8 @@ $status-margin: 0.75em;
 }
 
 .greentext {
-  color: green;
+  color: $fallback--cGreen;
+  color: var(--cGreen, $fallback--cGreen);
 }
 
 .status-conversation {
diff --git a/src/i18n/en.json b/src/i18n/en.json
index ead333c136..7b0b3b947b 100644
--- a/src/i18n/en.json
+++ b/src/i18n/en.json
@@ -370,6 +370,8 @@
       "false": "no",
       "true": "yes"
     },
+    "fun": "Fun",
+    "greentext": "Meme arrows",
     "notifications": "Notifications",
     "notification_setting": "Receive notifications from:",
     "notification_setting_follows": "Users you follow",
diff --git a/src/modules/config.js b/src/modules/config.js
index d4819ee8ba..329b4091cb 100644
--- a/src/modules/config.js
+++ b/src/modules/config.js
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ export const defaultState = {
   playVideosInModal: false,
   useOneClickNsfw: false,
   useContainFit: false,
+  greentext: undefined, // instance default
   hidePostStats: undefined, // instance default
   hideUserStats: undefined // instance default
 }
diff --git a/src/modules/instance.js b/src/modules/instance.js
index 7b0e0da4da..96f14ed5da 100644
--- a/src/modules/instance.js
+++ b/src/modules/instance.js
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ const defaultState = {
   noAttachmentLinks: false,
   showFeaturesPanel: true,
   minimalScopesMode: false,
+  greentext: false,
 
   // Nasty stuff
   pleromaBackend: true,