I disagree with calling it "corrupted." We're not tricking the browser into trying to render garbage bytes that are actually the middle of a jpeg or something. It's actually valid Unicode. It's an edge-case which is not seen in regular usage, but it's technically following all of the rules.
It's been like three internets since I heard someone using "internet" as a measurement of time.
It's actually interesting to think about "generations" of internet, just like generations of people, and how the culture shifted between them.
There was a time in the early '00s when broadband was catching on, yet YouTube didn't exist. A time when Ebaumsworld and Newgrounds ruled the internet. When Homestar Runner was pop internet culture. Weebls Stuff. The frog blender.
In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents).
Specifically _Vietnamese_ combining characters. The Vietnamese writing system uses multiple combining characters at a time, and stacks them vertically. Throw in a few that wrap around the character like t҉his, some 𝑎lternatᵉ lꬲttꬲr fᵒrms, disturbing imagery, and perhaps a few other tricks, and you have zalgo. See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/823846
It corrupted text or "Zalgo" text, it relies on diacritics.
See this answer on stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
I disagree with calling it "corrupted." We're not tricking the browser into trying to render garbage bytes that are actually the middle of a jpeg or something. It's actually valid Unicode. It's an edge-case which is not seen in regular usage, but it's technically following all of the rules.
It's just the way it's called, not a statement of fact.
Zalgo text: https://zalgo.org/
It was a great joke for a couple weeks two internets ago.
> two internets ago
It's been like three internets since I heard someone using "internet" as a measurement of time.
It's actually interesting to think about "generations" of internet, just like generations of people, and how the culture shifted between them.
There was a time in the early '00s when broadband was catching on, yet YouTube didn't exist. A time when Ebaumsworld and Newgrounds ruled the internet. When Homestar Runner was pop internet culture. Weebls Stuff. The frog blender.
In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character
Specifically _Vietnamese_ combining characters. The Vietnamese writing system uses multiple combining characters at a time, and stacks them vertically. Throw in a few that wrap around the character like t҉his, some 𝑎lternatᵉ lꬲttꬲr fᵒrms, disturbing imagery, and perhaps a few other tricks, and you have zalgo. See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/823846
Combining diacritic marks.