Typecase

Cursed Text Generator

Text that appears to be corrupting. Set the intensity, choose which directions the distortion spills in, and re-roll until it looks right — the output is random every time.

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Cursed text

What this cursed text generator does

It buries your text under a mass of accent marks until it looks like a file that has been damaged. The intensity control sets how many marks land on each character, and the three checkboxes decide whether they pile up above the line, strike through it, or hang below it. Because the marks are chosen at random, no two conversions are identical — press Re-roll to get a different arrangement of the same settings.

How it actually works

The effect is built from the same class of character as the strikethrough tool, but the intent is the opposite. Where a strikethrough adds exactly one mark per letter to produce a tidy line, this adds as many as it can to produce chaos.

Unicode defines well over a hundred combining diacritical marks, which exist so that languages can build accented letters from parts. Crucially, the standard puts no limit on how many you may attach to a single base character, because some scripts legitimately stack several. Nothing stops you attaching forty.

A text renderer given a letter with forty marks does exactly what it is told: it stacks them outward, one above the next, until the pile escapes the line it belongs to and overlaps whatever is drawn above or below. That overflow is the whole effect. It is not a glitch, a hack or an exploit — it is the normal accent-stacking rule followed past the point of sense. The style is usually called Zalgo, after a 2000s internet horror character the technique became associated with.

The three zones map onto three groups of marks. Marks above the line are the largest group, which is why the upward spill is usually tallest. The through group is small — only a handful of overlay marks exist — so it thickens the letters rather than extending them.

Where people use it

  • Discord messages and server names, where cursed text is close to a native dialect.
  • Horror, creepypasta and ARG accounts, for the visual language of a corrupted transmission.
  • Halloween posts and event names, at a low intensity so the text stays readable.
  • Glitch-aesthetic and vaporwave edits, where the text is screenshotted into a graphic.
  • Reaction posts, where a single cursed word carries the joke.

Use it sparingly and expect some rejection. Heavy cursed text is disruptive by design: it overlaps neighbouring messages and can make a channel hard to read. Many Discord servers have automoderation rules that delete it, some platforms strip excess combining marks on paste, and a very long high-intensity string can slow down older devices trying to render it.

Questions about cursed text

Why does the output change every time?

The marks are picked at random from the available pool, so each conversion produces a different arrangement even with identical settings and identical input. That randomness is what stops the effect looking mechanical. Press Re-roll until you get one you like, then copy it.

Why does cursed text spill over other lines?

Because marks stack outward from the character they attach to, and nothing constrains them to the height of the line. A letter carrying twenty marks above it is drawn twenty marks tall, and the surrounding layout does not make room. Overlapping neighbouring lines is the intended appearance rather than a rendering fault.

Can cursed text get me muted or banned?

It can get your message deleted. Plenty of Discord servers treat heavy zalgo as spam and configure automoderation to remove it, and moderators on most platforms take a dim view of text that makes a channel unreadable for everyone else. Low intensity in an appropriate channel is rarely a problem; a wall of high intensity often is.

Why does my cursed text look flatter after pasting it somewhere?

Some apps limit how many combining marks they will render on one character, and some strip the excess when text is submitted. Both produce a shorter, tamer version of what you copied. There is no way to force a receiving app to draw the full stack.

Does cursed text work on iPhone?

It renders, but iOS caps the visible stack height more aggressively than Android or desktop browsers, so the same string looks less extreme on an iPhone. Very long high-intensity strings have historically caused slowdowns on mobile devices, which is a good reason to keep it short.

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