Glitch · Zalgo · Creepy
Cursed text generator
Summon glitching, dripping, haunted text. Dial the haunt level, watch it corrupt live, then copy it into your darkest corners of the internet.
5 styles · tap to copy
He cometh. The text that eats itself.
Upside-down letters A–Z
Type a whole word above and it flips in order, or copy single flipped letters here — ¡ and ¿ come free with ? and !.
Upside Down
Capitals
Lowercase
Numbers
What exactly is Zalgo text?
Zalgo isn't a font — it's your normal letters with dozens of combining marks stacked above and below them. Unicode lets any character carry these diacritics (they normally write accents and tone marks), and early internet forums discovered that piling on far more than any language needs makes text look possessed. The style takes its name from a long-running creepypasta entity, and it's been the internet's house haunted-font ever since.
Because each mark is a real character, cursed text stays selectable and copyable — but search, screen-reader behavior and exact matching can vary. It is genuinely harder to read, so deploy it where atmosphere matters more than clarity.
Cursed text questions
Is cursed text safe to use?+
Completely. It's ordinary Unicode text — combining marks stacked on regular letters — so there's nothing to install and nothing that can affect your device. The only 'danger' is readability, which the haunt level slider keeps in check.
Why does my zalgo bio look broken after pasting?+
Some apps cap how many combining marks they'll draw per character, or use fonts without the mark glyphs, which flattens or garbles the effect. If a platform butchers high haunt levels, dial it back to 20–40% — fewer marks survive more places.
Can I use cursed text as my username?+
Many games and platforms reject combining marks in handles, so Zalgo often fails validation. Upside-down text uses replacement symbols, while strikethrough and crossed-out styles add far fewer combining marks; they may work more often, but you should still test before committing to a permanent name.
How do I make the glitch stronger or weaker?+
Drag the Haunt level slider above the preview. Low settings add just a whisper of marks (great for subtle chaos in bios); 100% stacks layers of marks on every letter for full possession. The preview updates live, and what you see is what copies.