Green Screen Dress

About

Green Screen Dress refers to a video of Instagram user mya.curvz posing in a green dress. In May of 2019, internet users edited the video by treating the dress like a green screen, playing humorous footage in the outline of the dress.

Origin

On April 5th, 2019, Instagram^[1] user mya.curvz, also known as Myesha Boulton, posted a video of herself posing in a green dress, gaining over 222,000 views (shown below).

Spread

The video began seeing popular use in green screen edits following a May 14th tweet by @GarrySlay that superimposed concert footage of Nicki Minaj onto the dress, gaining over 21,000 retweets and 73,000 likes (shown below, top). This inspired the creation of a Twitter account, @greendresslady, dedicated to posting remixes of the video, including a meta "Green dress lady wearing the green dress lady" that gained over 670 retweets and 2,400 likes (shown below, bottom).

Other popular examples include a tweet by May 15th tweet by @affandre that used footage from the horror film Hereditary, gaining over 1,400 retweets and 4,700 likes (shown below, top) and a tweet by @ChuckDSays that used the opening to the Pokémon anime, gaining over 25 retweets and 55 likes (shown below, bottom).

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