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Zalgo text. Zalgo text, also known as cursed text or glitch text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy . Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence ...
Loab. Loab ( / ˈloʊb / LOBE) [ 1] is a fictional character that artist and writer Steph Maj Swanson [ 2][ 3] has claimed to have discovered with a text-to-image AI model in April 2022. In a viral Twitter thread, Swanson described it as an unexpectedly emergent property of the software, saying they discovered it when asking the model to ...
The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore and religious traditions focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic, and the principle of the thing embodied in the person. [ 3 ] These manifested in stories of beings such as demons, witches, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. European horror-fiction became established ...
Momo Challenge hoax. The " Momo Challenge " was a hoax and an internet urban legend that was rumoured to spread through social media and other outlets. It was reported that children and adolescents were being harassed by a user named Momo to perform a series of dangerous tasks including violent attacks, self-harm, harming others, and suicide.
Creepypastas are horror -related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. [ 1][ 2][ 3] These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort readers. [ 1][ 2] The term "creepypasta" originates from "copypasta", a portmanteau of the words "copy" and ...
Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror[ 2] or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible [ 3] more than gore or other elements of shock. [ 4] It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Dissociated press is a parody generator (a computer program that generates nonsensical text). The generated text is based on another text using the Markov chain technique. The name is a play on "Associated Press" and the psychological term dissociation (although word salad is more typical of conditions like aphasia and schizophrenia – which is, however, frequently confused with dissociative ...
Strachey love letter algorithm. In 1952, Christopher Strachey wrote a combinatory algorithm for the Manchester Mark 1 computer which could create love letters. The poems it generated have been seen as the first work of electronic literature [1] and a queer critique of heteronormative expressions of love. [2] [3] [4]