This tool creates a glitch / corrupted look by replacing each letter with a neighbouring "broken" Unicode character — Cyrillic and Greek look-alikes, IPA symbols, block elements (█▓▒░) and geometric shapes spliced in — producing a flat, smashed, data-corruption aesthetic that reads horizontally.
Differentiation from zalgo: the existing zalgo tool stacks combining marks on top of each character so glyphs "grow" vertically (creepy, oozing). This glitch tool instead REPLACES letters with adjacent broken glyphs, so the effect is flat and horizontal (smashed, corrupted) — a visually distinct aesthetic, not a duplicate.
Controls:
- Intensity — how aggressively letters get replaced.
Light (~30%) corrupts only some letters; Medium (~60%) is the default balanced look; Heavy (~90%) smashes almost everything.
- Seed (optional) — a number that makes the output reproducible. Leave blank for a fresh random result each run; enter the same seed to get the exact same glitch back (useful for matching a look across runs).
How it works:
- Each letter has a small pool of candidate "broken" glyphs; when a letter is chosen for replacement, one is picked at random from its pool.
- Occasionally a block-element filler (█▓░) is spliced after a replaced letter for extra smash.
- Whitespace is left untouched so words stay separated.
- The RNG is seeded when you provide a Seed, so the same input + intensity + seed always yields the same output.
Good to know: because the replacement glyphs are real Unicode characters, the output survives copy-paste — but the original letters are genuinely replaced, so the text is no longer searchable / readable as the original. Pick a seed you like and reuse it to reproduce that exact look.