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by permo-w 271 days ago
am I unusual in not really seeing the "creepiness" of zalgo text?
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faeyanpiraat 271 days ago
Maybe you missed this piece of the internet history: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
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lambdaone 271 days ago
Think of it as representing something like the letters actively 'creeping' and giving off tendrils of darkness. Does this help?
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permo-w 271 days ago
I understand the idea, it just doesn't impact me
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Retr0id 271 days ago
It's not inherently creepy but often symbolic of corruption or someone talking in a raspy/synthetic "evil overlord" kind of voice.
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