That's probably where you first saw this weird text before you came looking for a translator. You can copy and paste seeminly malfunctioning text into most blog, and social media comment sections including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Tumblr.

(I did consider calling this the 'hacked text generator', but even though it probably sounds cooler, it's a little misleading). Anyone can convert their text into weird hacky text with all sorts of strange marks - no hacking skills required ) That's not to say that you can't use this converter to create glitchy text and wow all your n00b friends. When you first saw this strange text, you might have thought it was a hack or glitch which caused it, but, of course you now know that that is not the case. By adding a diacritic, we can specify that the letter is pronounced in a different way than usual. Though they are useful for generating crazy text which we can copy and paste into the comments of a funny cat video on YouTube, they're also very useful when we want to augment the way a letter is pronounced. In the study of written language, the marks that are added are called ' diacritics'.

The result: we can add weird glitchy marks to your text. Rather than being their own individual letters, these characters are added to other letters and symbols. Unicode contains certain special characters called ' combining character'. Unicode is an industry standard that manages all of the characters that you view on most of your electronic devices.

And now that you're able to genertate your own creepy ('zalgo') text using the above translator, you're probably wondering: How is text converted into weird glitch text like this? You may have found this page after seeing someone post glitchy text (ļ̵͝i̴͋ͅk̵̡̚e̵̝̎ ̷̡́ẗ̸̠h̵͚̊i̸͈̐s̴̬̚) in the comments of a blog post, youtube comment, or other social media page.

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