Alien-posting, also known as Alienposting,Green Alien-postingor Green Alien Animals, refers to edited and Photoshoppedimages ofanimalsand memecharactersmade to look like green aliens with antennas who speak an incoherent language. The trend started in late 2022 when the aliendog Geeblewas created, being an edited version of the Handheld Pupperphoto. Then,Gnarp Gnarpsurfaced: a green aliencat. Both images led to more animal photos being crudely-edited, trending on Tik Tok,Twitter,Instagramandi Funnyin early 2023. Many of the green alien animals were paired with captions and text that read like an alien language, including many "eep" and "orp" sounds like "zeep" and "glorp," made to be nonsensical, using chaotic characters and foreign letters. The trend also led to the rise in Pirate-postingand pirate memes.
