greetz

In the [artscene], these are shout-outs, both positive and the other kind (which I like to characterise as "gruntz" and "groanz"), to actual and aspirational underground colleagues sometimes embedded in plain sight in visual artworks (and sometimes concealed in black-on-black hidden text). It's fun putting a private message or an in-joke somewhere that people can see it and just expecting that your cyberspace bud will somehow gravitate to it and find their way there without being explicitly summoned. Some elite group leaders would devote portions of their [infofile]s to greetz, and some would even have dedicated files solely for that purpose regularly issued with their artpacks.

Demoscene creations would often devote substantial portions of their productions to greets presented in plain view, often in [scrolly bars].