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Cursed (Zalgo) text

Tidy the line, then bury it in combining marks.

  1. 1.Remove extra spaces
  2. 2.Zalgo glitch text

Zalgo text is ordinary text with combining diacritics stacked on top of it. The marks are separate characters that render on the letter before them, so the glyphs bleed upwards and downwards and the line looks corrupted while still being readable.

This chain tidies the spacing first — combining marks land on whatever character precedes them, and a stray double space collects them in an odd place — then applies marks above and below at a middling intensity. Everything runs in your browser.

Questions

Is the output still real text?
Yes. Strip the combining marks and the original letters are still there, which is why it survives copy-paste and why a search box can sometimes still match it.
Can I make it more or less glitched?
Open the Zalgo step on its own tool page — it has an intensity control and lets you pick marks above, below or both. This recipe pins a middling both-directions setting.
Why does it look different every time?
The marks are picked at random, so two runs of the same input produce different decorations. The underlying letters do not change.

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