Zalgo is an evil and chaotic entity, commonly associated with insanity, death, destruction,
fear, and the end of the world as we know it.
Zalgo is known as "The one who awaits behind the wall" or the "Nezperdian Hivemind" in
some places. It's an entity that exists in a different dimensional plane, and creates
chaos when it appears in ours. Its mere presence is capable of bringing someone to the edge
of insanity. In other words, Zalgo is… horror incarnated.
No matter how much you search on the Internet you will never find a clear explanation about
what Zalgo is, as such an answer does not exist – Zalgo is something so terrible that
no words are able to appropriately describe it. Although, if you look hard enough, you
can find the following terrifying description:
It awaits behind the wall, in a palace of tortured crystal, served by legions forged
from the tears of the restless dead, wearing armor carved out of the suffering of their
mothers. A knight of jet black skin surrounded with a crown of dark lightning.
It's an abomination with no eyes, with seven mouths, and four arms. In its right hands
it holds a dead star and a candle whose light is a shadow. Its left hands are stained with
the blood of Am Dhaegar. Six of its mouths talk in different languages, and when the
times comes, the seventh mouth will sing the song that will put an end to Earth.
The mind that confuses the living, and perpetuates the torture of the damned. It takes the eyes,
the windows of the soul, and eliminates the ability to feel everything… except for pain.
Once the eyes have been ripped out, the soul disappears. The remaining living carcass is
a testimony of cruelty and eternal damnation. It cannot be stopped, as fear itself cannot
be stopped. It is inseparable of reality, as it exists beyond the veil… waiting.
Zalgo is one of the oldest and darkest urban legends on the Internet, and spread quickly
when it was first invented. It started on July 27th 2004 in the Something Awful forums,
famous for spreading the legend of SlenderMan. Zalgo's creator was the user Goon Shmorky,
who published some old Archie comic strips which had been edited in a very bizarre way.
In the strips the characters were acting erratically and insanely. They were also continuously
evoking an entity known as "Zalgo", which was causing monstrous deformities in their
entire bodies. In the beginning, Zalgo went unnoticed in the forums until the user Bobby
Delux made several edited versions of strips from the webcomic Ctrl-Alt-Del,
created by the controversial Tim Buckley.
Zalgo then spread between the users of the website b3ta.com, who photoshopped comics
such as Garfield or Charlie Brown, among others. However, Zalgo went on to become a well known
creepypasta thanks to 4Chan, where many users were marveled by the myth and decided to participate,
creating new strips and modifying images in PhotoShop.
All images made based on this meme follow a pattern: They take a normal image, and retouch
it so that it looks as chaotic and demonic as possible. Gore elements are always welcome
in Zalgo images. The most repeated details in these images are: Black and empty eyes
weeping blood or black goo, an atmosphere composed of red tones, and tentacles of darkness.
Besides that, the only limit is the imagination of who makes the image.
Additionally, Zalgo also appears through corrupted text composed of a chaos of stress marks and
characters. It's everywhere.
It's said that Zalgo only appears through photos, animations and comics, but that we
don't know when it will reach our reality. Zalgo is something that’s gonna start…
it’s about to start.
Before we end the video we wanted to suggest a drawing challenge to you guys! We would
like you to send us modified Zalgo images of your favorite comics and mangas. Or you
could also send us modified images of Tik and Tak, which would be awesome! You can do
it through Instagram, tagging us as @drawthelifeyt. We will publish the top three images we like
the most. We look forward to seeing your submissions!
And don't forget it…HE IS COMING…