Zalgo. A strange name, ancestral for one of the memes that are brutalizing our internet and www-culture in recent times. Alt did he say?
We start from the concept of meme , difficult to explain in words but much easier with an example. If I tell you, " I've seen things you people can not even imagine " I refer to something very specific. A quote that has become part of our culture, and is a part of the final monologue reciting the replicant played by Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner. Or I could also say "All your base are belong to us ", which is part of a quote ungrammatical - so memorable - of an old video game quote that I addressed in this post. In short, a meme is a recognizable entity information on the human culture that is replicable by a mind or a symbolic support of memory - such as a book - or support to another mind. In more specific terms, a meme is "self-propagating unit" of cultural evolution, analogous to what the gene is genetics. The word was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene (The Selfish Gene, 1976). For those who want to know more, this article of wikipedia is the usual wealth of information.
Ok, we said to Zalgo.
Zalgo is an unusual Internet phenomenon that started among fans of horror literature contained, dreamlike, mysterious and Lovecraftian. The object of this thing are very often innocent and followed comics, manga and cartoons as Linus, Garfield or Simpson, who suddenly veer off to their dark side (this is a quote. Cabbage, another meme!) And suddenly they become horror and grotesque. The presence of Lovecraftian (darkness, evil, chaos) in our culture (subculture? Counterculture?) Is extraordinarily surprising, considering that Lovecraft is a writer who died in 1937. Some might opine that it is not strictly Lovecraftian Zalgo, but certainly agrees with quality exceptional as macabre humor, horror and "viral."
The example shown here is obvious. Shroeder and Lucy, in their classical position (and here you must have read comics wagon, my friends), with him playing his toy piano and she goes to worship him endless moments, suddenly melt into a kiss and fatal bleeding.
Another funny thing, and here we get into technique, writing or Zalgo Zalgo. Try to go here and see how the text is broken right at the left. In an attempt to represent precisely the corruption and chaos, lurks the use of diacritics encoded in 'UTF-8 of your browser. If you see a bunch of meaningless signs, you have the wrong encoding and not see the writing Zalgo, but you will live just as well. If you see these signs, however, between the phrase also played in the right box, you win the doll ... fregherà and there's nothing like before. However, it is to give you an idea of \u200b\u200bthe magnitude of the phenomenon.
Zalgo Recently the phenomenon has arrived on youtube , and we see here an example of chaos on the abbreviation of "Diff'rent Strokes ," that my peers will know for sure.
What's fascinating and frustrating, is that nobody knows this Zalgo who is born, by which the mind - ill - may have been born.
probably in the damp jungle decadent forums and board on the Internet. Others swear it is a Zalgo Assyrian demon whose name means "ray of light." The truth is that we are scratching their heads quizzically for a lifetime. But Zalgo is. And we will reach the peak and then decline, or continue to infect the network, and bring about some writer, director, artist will bring to the fore. And then you realize that the network has Zalgo reference material only in English, and in Italian there is little or nothing, and then you will remember that I will be one of the few who told you about the first time in your Italian language ...
In conclusion, it can be reduced to a formula: graphic impact from passable to excellent + various doses of Lovecraftian horror + various doses of humor from the web = ZALGO .
And if on some forum you'll find the word HE COMES ... you'll know why!
To invoke the hive-mind Representing chaos.
Invoking the feeling of chaos.
Without order.
The Nezperdian hive-mind of chaos. Zalgo.
He who Waits Behind The Wall.
ZALGO !
The entire room is filled with Zalgo.
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