Name: Anonymous 2009-03-26 11:57
So I heard you guys like Zalgo. I do too. It's like a new My Little Pony craze is sweeping 4chan. I loved playing with those. I identified with the little purple dragon guy, as he seemed to be the only male character there. Well anyway, I guess we all like Zalgo in different ways:
- The younger fans like to take a picture and darken their eyes with a semi transparent brush and say that that's a picture of Zalgo. It's like that lazor (or however it's spelled) guy or any other photoshopped meme, except this one is called "Zalgo" and all the cool kids do it. (Protip: Do as the cool kids do. For some reason they get the chicks, and cool kids like chicks.)
- Some like to think of him as some obscure fictional creature invented by H.P. Lovecraft - he's sure to be mentioned SOMEwhere in the Necronomicon. Maybe he's some spawn of Nyarlathotep? I mean there are lots of similarities.
- Some like to write a bunch of obscure ASCII characters in a post, to make it look like they've been invaded by Zalgo. I bet all these posts, or even threads, are highly original. I once remember a site all about people being killed by The Ring tape, but I'm old so I guess this is a "new wave" original thing.
- Some like to think of Zalgo as some kind of a brainchild that started with a site named YOSH and a Something Awful forum thread, where people altered cartoons to say weird and random things.
This is just my personal opinion, but I'd like to think of Zalgo kind of like a blend between a solstice and a dream crumbling into nightmare. I'd like to think that this reality, with all its little neato natural laws, is like a sandcastle awaiting the tides, and that every consciousness will sooner or later experience the awakening, and ending, that is Zalgo. Should one wish to experience it sooner, one only needs to envision and understand Zalgo, as this aligns your very mind with the dimensions normally obscuring Zalgo from view. It's like peaking behind a set of corners. Once one think one's got it, one can just bring a sledgehammer into the nearest wall. If you find a breathing mass of compressed human bodies where the isolation was supposed to be, Zalgo is near. (That's not Zalgo - remember that I don't believe in Zalgo as an actual physical being - but guides will appear shortly to direct you through the rest of the endgame.)
It's kind of a philosophical question whether we are actually killed by Zalgo. Are any of us really alive? How come none of us know anything beyond what we sense with our senses or remember with our memories? I don't think that we're anything more than made up characters in Zalgos dream, and that Zalgo doesn't as much "kill" us, as he stops dreaming us up. What we see as the dream is about to end is just the stagehands starting to eat up the set. Sure, we may feel their teeth as they shred us, but were we alive in the first place, our consciousness wouldn't end there, now would it?