diff --git a/app/soapbox/components/status_content.js b/app/soapbox/components/status_content.js
index d539a31f7..5ea78b02e 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/components/status_content.js
+++ b/app/soapbox/components/status_content.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { FormattedMessage } from 'react-intl';
 import Permalink from './permalink';
 import classnames from 'classnames';
 import Icon from 'soapbox/components/icon';
+import { processHtml } from 'soapbox/utils/tiny_post_html_processor';
 
 const MAX_HEIGHT = 642; // 20px * 32 (+ 2px padding at the top)
 
@@ -157,25 +158,27 @@ export default class StatusContent extends React.PureComponent {
     return this.greentext(properContent);
   }
 
-  greentext = string => {
-    if (!this.props.greentext) return string;
+  greentext = html => {
+    if (!this.props.greentext) return html;
 
     // Copied from Pleroma FE
     // https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma-fe/-/blob/19475ba356c3fd6c54ca0306d3ae392358c212d1/src/components/status_content/status_content.js#L132
-    try {
-      if (string.includes('>') &&
-          string
-            .replace(/<[^>]+?>/gi, '') // remove all tags
-            .replace(/@\w+/gi, '') // remove mentions (even failed ones)
-            .trim()
-            .startsWith('&gt;')) {
-        return `<span class='greentext'>${string}</span>`;
-      } else {
+    return processHtml(html, (string) => {
+      try {
+        if (string.includes('&gt;') &&
+            string
+              .replace(/<[^>]+?>/gi, '') // remove all tags
+              .replace(/@\w+/gi, '') // remove mentions (even failed ones)
+              .trim()
+              .startsWith('&gt;')) {
+          return `<span class='greentext'>${string}</span>`;
+        } else {
+          return string;
+        }
+      } catch(e) {
         return string;
       }
-    } catch(e) {
-      return string;
-    }
+    });
   }
 
   render() {
diff --git a/app/soapbox/utils/tiny_post_html_processor.js b/app/soapbox/utils/tiny_post_html_processor.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..288d53c07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/soapbox/utils/tiny_post_html_processor.js
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+// Copied from Pleroma FE
+// https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma-fe/-/blob/develop/src/services/tiny_post_html_processor/tiny_post_html_processor.service.js
+
+/**
+ * This is a tiny purpose-built HTML parser/processor. This basically detects any type of visual newline and
+ * allows it to be processed, useful for greentexting, mostly
+ *
+ * known issue: doesn't handle CDATA so nested CDATA might not work well
+ *
+ * @param {Object} input - input data
+ * @param {(string) => string} processor - function that will be called on every line
+ * @return {string} processed html
+ */
+export const processHtml = (html, processor) => {
+  const handledTags = new Set(['p', 'br', 'div']);
+  const openCloseTags = new Set(['p', 'div']);
+
+  let buffer = ''; // Current output buffer
+  const level = []; // How deep we are in tags and which tags were there
+  let textBuffer = ''; // Current line content
+  let tagBuffer = null; // Current tag buffer, if null = we are not currently reading a tag
+
+  // Extracts tag name from tag, i.e. <span a="b"> => span
+  const getTagName = (tag) => {
+    const result = /(?:<\/(\w+)>|<(\w+)\s?[^/]*?\/?>)/gi.exec(tag);
+    return result && (result[1] || result[2]);
+  };
+
+  const flush = () => { // Processes current line buffer, adds it to output buffer and clears line buffer
+    if (textBuffer.trim().length > 0) {
+      buffer += processor(textBuffer);
+    } else {
+      buffer += textBuffer;
+    }
+    textBuffer = '';
+  };
+
+  const handleBr = (tag) => { // handles single newlines/linebreaks/selfclosing
+    flush();
+    buffer += tag;
+  };
+
+  const handleOpen = (tag) => { // handles opening tags
+    flush();
+    buffer += tag;
+    level.push(tag);
+  };
+
+  const handleClose = (tag) => { // handles closing tags
+    flush();
+    buffer += tag;
+    if (level[level.length - 1] === tag) {
+      level.pop();
+    }
+  };
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < html.length; i++) {
+    const char = html[i];
+    if (char === '<' && tagBuffer === null) {
+      tagBuffer = char;
+    } else if (char !== '>' && tagBuffer !== null) {
+      tagBuffer += char;
+    } else if (char === '>' && tagBuffer !== null) {
+      tagBuffer += char;
+      const tagFull = tagBuffer;
+      tagBuffer = null;
+      const tagName = getTagName(tagFull);
+      if (handledTags.has(tagName)) {
+        if (tagName === 'br') {
+          handleBr(tagFull);
+        } else if (openCloseTags.has(tagName)) {
+          if (tagFull[1] === '/') {
+            handleClose(tagFull);
+          } else if (tagFull[tagFull.length - 2] === '/') {
+            // self-closing
+            handleBr(tagFull);
+          } else {
+            handleOpen(tagFull);
+          }
+        }
+      } else {
+        textBuffer += tagFull;
+      }
+    } else if (char === '\n') {
+      handleBr(char);
+    } else {
+      textBuffer += char;
+    }
+  }
+  if (tagBuffer) {
+    textBuffer += tagBuffer;
+  }
+
+  flush();
+
+  return buffer;
+};