Zalgo Text Generator

Zalgo text is normal text overloaded with Unicode combining marks — the accents and diacritics designed to stack on letters. Piling dozens of them onto each character makes the text appear corrupted and dripping. The name comes from a 2004 internet meme about "Zalgo", an entity whose arrival corrupts everything, which is exactly what the text looks like.

Use the craziness slider. Mild adds one or two marks per letter for a lightly haunted look that stays readable. Cursed adds several marks above and below each letter. Unreadable stacks up to eight marks in each direction, producing text that spills far outside its line. Regenerate rerolls the random marks at the current level.

Many platforms sanitize input by limiting how many combining marks can follow a character, and some strip them entirely — especially in usernames, titles and search fields. Discord and most chat apps render zalgo fully; some social networks trim it. If your text appears plain after pasting, that site is filtering combining characters.

Yes — it is ordinary Unicode text, not code or malware. At most it renders oddly or gets filtered. Very long, very heavy zalgo strings once crashed certain old apps, and platforms have long since added limits, which is why extreme zalgo sometimes appears trimmed.

Poorly. Screen readers may announce every combining mark, producing long streams of noise, or skip the mangled words entirely. Avoid zalgo for any content people need to understand, and keep it out of headings, links and button labels.