What is Zalgo Text?

Zalgo text (also known as glitch text, void text, or creepy text) is a form of digital text modification that stacks thousands of Unicode combining diacritical marks on top of regular latin letters. Combining marks are designed to be rendered as small accents (like accents, tildes, or circles) over a single base letter.

When hundreds of these combining characters are stacked continuously, browsers attempt to draw them all, resulting in a distorted, messy, and corrupted design that flows over paragraph boundaries. Zalgo is widely used in gaming tags, creepypasta channels, and Discord bios.