Zalgo text

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Zalgo text, also known as cursed text or glitch text, is digital text that has been modified with excessive Unicode combining characters—symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters—to appear glitchy, chaotic, and frightening. Zalgo text has become a significant component of many Internet memes after its origin in a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence of an eldritch deity, particularly in its overlap with surreal humor. The formatting of Zalgo text has allowed it to be used to halt or impair visual components of text as well as certain computer functions, whether intentionally or not.

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