

The corrupted nature of the text has interesting origins. The name "glitch text" isn't to far from the truth - it's not that there's an actual glitch with the way text is rendered, but it is a sort of "hack" that wasn't really the intention of the people who programmed the text rendering. It's also called "glitch text" or "glitchy text" fairly often, and indeed this zalgo-type text may have existed well before the zalgo meme. Indeed, it has come to symbolise the grotesque decay of normality into a dark and twisted reality through the power of some mysterious evil.īecause of these twisted, evil themes surrounding zalgo, it's often used in any scary or horror-themed context, and is sometimes called "scary text" online when users don't know its origins.

It has been claimed that the concept of zalgo represents the corruption of innocence, normality and the entire world. The term "He comes." and "Nezperdian hive-mind" have come to be associated with the zalgo meme through the comics and an Urban Dictionary entry submitted in 2009.
The term "zalgo" began to be associated with an ominous entity that took over peoples minds, causing insanity and eventually a horrific death. Following this original comic strip in 2004, the meme began to take hold with others posting zalgo comics too.

The term "zalgo" comes from an internet meme/phenomenon which begin with the conversion of a Nancy and Archie comic into a sort of demonic scourge beginning to take over the characters (Thus, zalgo text is sometimes called demonic text too). This zalgo generator, and all others which produce glitchy looking text that you can copy and paste use these diacritic marks to create the weird looking text. Some English words like "cliché" have diacritics (above the "e") because they're inherited from other languages. It's made up of many unicode diacritic marks the marks on top of words in languages like French and Spanish. Simply drag the "craziness level" slider to change how corrupted the text becomes. The zalgo converter engine running behind this translator was made by combatwombat and it allows you to control the height of the zalgo distortions. It allows you to convert normal text into zalgo text which you can then copy and paste.
