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Zalgo text (also called "corrupted text," "glitch text," or "creepy pasta text") is text that appears distorted, jagged, or "possessed" by adding numerous diacritical marks (accents, dots, squiggles, and other glyphs) above, below, and inside standard characters. It looks like this: Ḧ̸̢̼́̆ė̸̠͍l̸̻͑l̵̮̦̒ŏ̷̡͇ ̶̡̟̄̉W̷̟̃̿ỏ̴̬̆r̵̛͔l̶̠͝d̵̤̫͠!̴̢̿̊ The result is unsettling, chaotic, and often illegible — as if the text is breaking apart under the strain of some supernatural or digital corruption. Origin and Etymology Zalgo text gets its name from the internet meme and fictional demon Zalgo , popularized on sites like Something Awful and 4chan in the mid-2000s. Zalgo is described as an ancient, chaotic entity that corrupts anything it touches. Users began writing in this corrupted style to represent Zalgo’s influence "breaking through" into reality.

def zalgo(text, intensity=5): result = [] for char in text: result.append(char) for _ in range(intensity): result.append(random.choice(diacritics)) return ''.join(result) zalgo text