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wat--Fuckingcunt 20:43, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

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HOW THE FUCK YOU DO THIS SHIT, BITCHES???

Seriously, HOW??? —The preceding comment was added by Proudhate, who is too much of a fucking retard to sign his or her own posts. IT'S 4 TILDES (~), NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

/nosound

did it work? Ilostmyipodlawl 00:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Is it just me...

...or is the standard of quality in Zalgo-related shoops much higher than that of most other memes? I've only seen a small few that I'd consider total shit. Angelinriotgear 21:14, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

  • No, it's not you. Loads of work and time are put into those shoops. Quite interesting indeed --thespammer 00:24, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
    • Lol, I spoke way too soon.... by now there are just as many shit shoops as with any other internet phenomenon. Also, why does the gallery need two "Epic Zalgo Guy" images that are virtually the same, only one is inverted and with text? Angelinriotgear 01:26, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

LOL MY COMPUTER IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH ZALGO

I DON'T HAVE THE 50 LANGUAGE PACKS REQUIRED LOL. Vlad 23:28, 27 June 2009 (UTC)


Me too :D


I normally don't like to ask people, but I fucking give up, I've looked as hard as I can and I can't find shit about why I can't see it. I've even switched fucking computers and it looks the same, all I see are weird sun shapes, lines over letters and some boxes-with-numbers-in-them garbage; nothing like other people's screenshots. sceeenshot(not uploaded here because it's just a shitty screenshot) WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?--Loldude83 13:34, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion

A little bit of history would make a big difference to this article (or even a simple synopsis of what the fuck is going on). - Raspberry Rush (talk)

  • That doesn't make any sense. Why would you want it to make sense? Dysrhythmia 21:49, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
  • touché. - Raspberry Rush (talk)
  • I think the ED article makes too much sense as it is.... It should be more fucked up and illogical. But this is the only history/information on Zalgo as far as i can find. Most other reference to zalgo is just gibberish, from random users. as one would expect. so to ad information of his history, would be to add more gibberish. . . ?Halph-Price 16:20, 28 March 2009 (UTC)Halph-Price
  • This makes it much easier to force, if you make it mysterious in origin. - ZEROpumpkins 11:46, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
  • this comment also makes me feel ill. -- Bryce

Hynozalgojack?

I don't know why, but doesnt this meme have the potential of Hypnotoad or Candlejack...

seeing as it goes like: ZALGO... HE COMES

idk. shoot me --thespammer 00:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

  • With that shit you show a picture of them... This one you show a picture of ANYTHING that's being fucked up, and say he comes, and yea, the page floods like sniper/candlejack/hypnotoad, but instead of something idiotic like "I CAN'T FINISH MY SENT-" it's flooded with Zalgo'd pictures. and fucked up text. so this has better potential then all of them combined. Sniper shows the same fucking picture every fucking time. Halph-Price 16:29, 28 March 2009 (UTC)Halph-Price

Butthurt

KEEP AN EYE ON THIS ARTICLE -
LOTS OF BUTTHURT ON ED AND 4CHAN ABOUT ZALGO
AND NEWFAGS CALLING IT A "FORCED MEME"
KEEP BUTTHURT IN HERE

This "meme" was created 2 days ago by one lonely motherfucker newfag who was forcing it until he make this article. I'm now sugesting the delition of this shit beacause like he did, anyone can come and force a meme and then post it on ED. Mods, Admins, please delete this shit.Blopa 02:00, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

  • It's actually old SA bullshit, so yeah, shows how much you know. ps, "sugesting" "delition" "beacause" Image:socashsig.gif (talk) 03:24, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Yep, 4chan didn't make it at all lols Pink PoodleImage:Pink_poodle_icon.png 03:36, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Dude you are a retard. About 10 people tried to make this shit before this incarnation came about --zaigertalkplx 03:32, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Anything that is Zalgo related is shit. --Pierced Anonymous 19:04, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

It doesn't make me lol, it just freaks the shit out of me. Crazyconan Wanna chat? 20:49, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

It doesn't make me lol, it just freaks the shit out of me. Crazyconan Wanna chat? 20:49, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

  • I actaully did up a lot of the pics for it , and yeah there was no ED article on it, but there was a lot of other cartoons before redone of garfield and that I didn't do, and I spent a lot fo time making up the garbbled text, I had to learn to copypasta it from a word doc to see it. I found it got popular one day, and people bitching about 'force meme', but to be honest I just spent the night making them, had fun, and oh yeah, TOTAL MIND FUCK to oldfags on /b/. Eventually I found a lot of new (crappier pics) coming up from other people, so I only did some of the work, there is a lot of shit from more then one person. In Zalgo threads, They are made by others I join, but if I start, there's OC posted all the time. I am always finding new stuff. Love it. I was a big C'Thulu fan and this is going to find a huge niche, be sure to see it for a long time. It's going to be a Zalgo raid year. --Halph-Price
  • You are everything that is wrong with /b/. You are treating it like some kind of product that will be happily consumed by the masses without them questioning the origins of said "meme" (which evidently is straight from the computers of retards with nothing better to do than to watch their e-fame levels soar by forcing their shit onto the internet community). The amount of edit wars and shit that has occurred over this is surely indicative of how unwanted it is. - ZEROpumpkins 11:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Not forced, faggot. Your butthurt is duly noted. GreatMothersProphet 23:02, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Still shit though - ZEROpumpkins 02:05, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the butthurt, this is not a meme, it's an art style. like furry is to gay porn, Zalgo is to memes and comics. it's not samefag either.
    Can you believe it, something that isn't just one person trying to force a meme. Actual OC, and you'd rather what instead? that we don't do this, and just talk a bout Call of Duty 4? Complain about black people? Make fun of homosexuals? Insult people that are new? talk about the last suicide? Talk about Germany in 1940's? Try to destroy a strangers life? post CP?
    If it's not one of those things you get mad, call it shit, and claim faggotry. I can't figure out why, though. I don't understand, explain?Halph-Price 16:06, 28 March 2009 (UTC)Halph-Price

Lock please?

Lock? --Slix0r 15:06, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Excellent, have some jiggling tits for your work :3

Image:Brandytaylor.gif

--Slix0r 15:06, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Once the faggotry dies down, someone needs to add some ED to the article, it's looks like it was written by some zalgofag rather than the normal sarcastic, lovingly critical ED article Intestinalworms 15:17, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

  • this article was just made up this week, the only other explanations of Zalgo is urbandictionary, and that one is sad. This is an obscure thing, to be honest, ED page was needed to explain zalgo. yea, ED for information? who'da thunk it!!! Halph-Price 16:11, 28 March 2009 (UTC)Halph-Price

April 4th

what did i miss? --thespammer 22:47, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

WTF

I still don't get this meme at all.--Aert 16:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

See also...

Do you think that Creepypasta should be a see also? - Image:LuigiBike.gif Ms. NHMAMA MIA! Image:LuigiBike.gif 22:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Penny Arcade origin?

Has anyone noticed this comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/

The whole 6 mouths singing a song that will end the earth thing is taken DIRECTLY from this comic

All the comic needs is the word ZALGO and it would be the perfect sauce.

  • Nah, that has to do with the WH40K Chaos Gods. /tg/ posts it a lot and /x/ got it from them in the /tg/ /x/-tan shipping-fest. GreatMothersProphet 21:59, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
    • That explains why the Imperium of Man wants to kill Zalgo dead. Halph-Price 07:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Halph-Price

April Fools

Not in my timezone, but meh. Epic Fail Girl 05:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Forced meme

I don't care what background there is to this piece of shit, the point is it is being forced all over the chans. People are trying to make excuses like "it's not a meme, it's a mysterious force" and bullshit like that but bottom line is it is a failed piece of shit and should die. - ZEROpumpkins 03:06, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Welcome to ED.
    KILL IT BEFORE IT USES ATTRACT. PageChatContribs 03:09, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
    • Where forcing memes is as easy as clicking the "edit" button? - ZEROpumpkins 03:11, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Because multiple people doing quality shops and genuinely enjoying the humor of something is "forcing" it. Right then.
    • Humor? What humor? And quality shoops? It's just playing around with some lighting effects in photoshop, hardly anything amazing. Also the multiple people thing is to be taken with a grain of salt, it's no indication of how forced this shit is anyway. All it means is that either a) it was originally one person forcing this bullshit onto the webs and it appealed to a bunch of retards that wanted to be part of e-history or b) It was forced by one dude and his friends. - ZEROpumpkins 01:37, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


Dude, you've been attacking this page for a few weeks now. If you don't fucking like it then don't fucking look at it. Fuck. End of fucking conversation. - Raspberry Rush (talk)

  • Yeah, learn from my mistakes. I got a swift kick to the pants by a certain sysop trying to fight the powah.-- What would you do for a ? 02:21, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

4/4

OH SHI- that's tomorrow! AnonOfTheWeek09 15:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

  • He comes... OriginalBadass 21:33, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Really? Well, I'll just be sittin' here. I wonder what's going to happen...? :0 - Image:LuigiBike.gif Ms. NHMAMA MIA! Image:LuigiBike.gif 22:07, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
    • Probably a bunch of chan spam; but I find it very interesting that the cancer won't even touch this cancer... it's like a cancer that consumes other cancers. A cancer consumer, if you will.
  • It's 4/4... No Zalgo Spam at all... not on /b/, not on /x/. What's going on?!?!?! Fratboy 00:05, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
    • I saw one or two in each, probably just some EDiot who saw the article, but like I said above, cancer won't even touch it, and thus they kept their distance.

Why all the h8?

I've embraced his shadowy appendages like a loving father does for his son. ZALGO-MALICE - ҉ - - ҉ - He is coming... 14:22, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Because it's the least funny thing to come out of the intertron in quite some time
  • the real anti-lulz here is this article - Lulwut13 09:02, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Off̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠͇̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̿̿̿̕̚̕̚͡ icial҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠͇̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̿̿̿̕̚̕̚͡ ̒̓̔̕̚ly ove̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠͇̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̿̿̿̕̚̕̚͡ ̒̓̔̕̚r

I'm leaving this because it is officially over.


Zalgo was originally created in 1998 as a Super Hoax/get rich quick scheme titled "Bawaji" by now defunct short-film studio Zeke and Ralph Productions (ZNR) in Portland, OR. The proprietors of ZNR, Robb and Nolan (last names witheld- Im sure you'll understand why) had originally decided on a UFO hoax but, later deciding UFO's were real, thought a more plausible hoax would be something leading to the end of the world hysteria surrounding 2000 and the Y2K. We were going to create and sell a product that "offered nothing, did nothing, promised everything and cost a fortune". Thus Bawaji was born. Unfortunately no one could spell it right so we had to change the name.


What we needed was a product that sold exclusively from word of mouth and had nothing to do with elegant code, shiny finishes, solid workmanship or quality merchandise- we needed mass praise for having done nothing and we needed referrals. We used to define the referral process as "That hive-minded zombie algorithm that sensible people have deep embedded in their psyche which allows them to abandon research and logic for the ease of simply taking someone else’s word for it".


Then we got jobs and raises and promotions at our real places of business and Bawaji/ZAlgo got put on the back burner.


Until late 2003, 2004.

  • Epic victory over cancer - MattyX 04:51, 13 April 2009 (UTC)


As the internet became an entity more closely resembling what it is today we started working on Bawaji/ZAlgo as a hoax simply to mess with people more than anything else. There was no longer the Get Rich Quick angle because we couldn’t imagine how to actually do that without going to jail. We decided that religious cults are always fun and had set out to play at starting one based around the internet as an living entity and some darker overtones.


Our original idea was to found a cult based on Christian principles but later deduced that most Christianity-based cults go horribly wrong and usually end up with the leaders dead or in jail so we figured why not start with a doomsday cult and expect that it will go horribly right?


What we really needed, however, was more time and a clear deadline. Our original plans for Bawaji only gave us less than two years between the day we had the idea and 01.01.2000, not nearly enough time. What we figured- using Jim Jones, David Koresh and Heavens Gate as templates- was about a decade and the then-obscure Mayan Baktun calendar year 2012 was close enough as anything was going to get.


We decided on the date 4.04.2012 for three reasons- 12.21.2012 was taken, 2012 was as good a year as any and 404 was a popular number on the internet and the numerologist conspiracy theory nutjobs would have a field day with it.


Now all we needed was a deity. Originally going back to the intended marks as being "hive-minded zombie alorythm" types we decided a good deity name would be ZAlgo. (The “hive-minded zombie algorithm” was shortened to ZAlgo, as you may have seen it on the 'net.) We used a lot of typical "He Who Waits Behind the Wall" (referring to the mythical locked gate in Jerusalem that, when breached, will begin the End Of Days juxtaposed against Stephen Kings He who Walks Between The Rows from Children of the Corn) and "will sing the last song at the dying of the earth" which was inevitably shortened to "sings the last song of earth" which was plucked from Norse mythology. Those guys sang of EVERYTHING. Believe it or not some of the other stuff surrounding Zalgo we had nothing to do with at all. It did pick up a certain amount of its own steam for a while.


But to sell it all we had to do was say H.P. Lovecraft had written of ZAlgo.


Of course he hadnt. Ever. In none of his works has Lovecraft ever referenced anything named ZAlgo. We expected to get called out on that first and had even considered spreading internet rumors about a lost Lovecraft short story or letter or something but then "it must be true- I read it on the internet" took over so we just didnt pursue that.


Thus ZAlgo was born (admittedly without the capitalized "A") and he was to be the Bringer Of Chaos- neither good nor bad. He just WAS. Or was NOT as it evolved.


The first logical dropping off point for Zalgo was the internet bulletin boards because those kids will buy into anything. We expanded on ideas by Marilyn Manson of bringing hopeless disillusioned nobodies into the mix because they have an infinite amount of collective income and no common sense to spend it on but more so because they are an un-leadable group starving for a leader. Add to it the Anonymous freedom provided by the web and the kids like you find on 4chan's /b/tards rosters and you get an army of pliable minds wiling to disrupt and spam and create repetitive chaos simply because they have little else to do with their time.


ZAlgo was a forced meme before we even knew what a forced meme was.


Its important to point out that ZAlgo never originally was intended to be a "he" at all. ZAlgo just was, or was not, hence the black tendrils. I originally defined ZAlgo as "simply encroaching darkness" and had mentioned that if it could be seen then it would look kinda like Spiderman’s nemesis Venom and had drawn a quick representation on the funnies page during a rather dull sales meeting with a black Pilot G-2 gel-roller pen. Basically it was Venom kiling Ziggy... damn I hate Ziggy. I still have that cutout from a paper in 2003.


The rest is history, I suppose. The cult never even got close to getting started, the meme as it would be called today is dying out and the /b/tards are tired of the reference. Even Wikipedia wont carry the page anymore and google searches are all but nonexistent.


And we never made a dime from it.


/ZAlgo --Of tariff 12:48, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Epic victory over cancer - MattyX 04:53, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

tl;dr.buttfucker 06:54, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Two things that mildly amuse me

Secondly, Zalgo leaks out onto google via the page title.
Secondly, Zalgo leaks out onto google via the page title.

Firstly, the chaps at know your meme, (google them, im not even linking them cite this talk page

 
“ 		 
Observers have noted that Zalgo-related images tend to be of considerably higher quality than your average meme 1.
  		„
 

—knowyourmeme

Which links to Talk:Zalgo#Is_it_just_me... above. -Zac Browser Image:Pinkpony.gif • msg 13:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

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