GlitchTextGenerator
Mid-weight damage

Corrupted Text Generator

Text that looks like it did not survive the transfer. Heavy enough to read as damaged, light enough that people can still make out what it says.

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Where the marks go
Your corrupted text
c̴̍̋͆͂̔̚҉̰̝̭̤ò̟̗̮̅͠r͉̣̤͉ͩ͂͑̉̏͘͟r̹̝̥̗̺͔̈́̃́u̢͚͖͖͓͙ͥ̚ͅp̷̢͙͇̞͙̎ͅt̩̼̱̲͆͒̀e̢͕̦̝ͪ́ḏ̠͍̥̣̏̈́̆̐̅̓̀͞ d̡͍͍̠̙̝̭̲ͭ̍͗̎̈́ͦͭ̚a̬̩ͮ̓ͯ͝͞ţ̗̊̾́a̤̲͉͌̈̐ͫ̓ͮ̋͟

13 letters 134 characters

One-tap styles that survive strict filters

Each of these adds a single combining mark per letter instead of a stack. They stay readable, they cost far fewer characters, and they rarely get stripped by a bio field.

  • Strikethrough Long stroke overlay, U+0336
    c̶o̶r̶r̶u̶p̶t̶e̶d̶ d̶a̶t̶a̶
  • Slashed Long solidus overlay, U+0338
    c̸o̸r̸r̸u̸p̸t̸e̸d̸ d̸a̸t̸a̸
  • Underline Combining low line, U+0332
    c̲o̲r̲r̲u̲p̲t̲e̲d̲ d̲a̲t̲a̲
  • Double underline Double low line, U+0333
    c̳o̳r̳r̳u̳p̳t̳e̳d̳ d̳a̳t̳a̳
  • Overline Combining overline, U+0305
    c̅o̅r̅r̅u̅p̅t̅e̅d̅ d̅a̅t̅a̅
  • Wavy underline Tilde below, U+0330
    c̰o̰r̰r̰ṵp̰t̰ḛd̰ d̰a̰t̰a̰

Corruption you chose, not corruption that happened to you

There are two very different things people mean by corrupted text, and mixing them up wastes a lot of time.

The accidental kind is mojibake. Text gets written in one character encoding and read in another, so a single curly apostrophe arrives as a run of three garbage characters. It is a bug, it is not reversible without knowing the original encoding, and nobody wants it.

The deliberate kind is what this page makes. Your letters stay exactly as they were, and Unicode combining marks get stacked on top of them. Because the base characters are untouched, stripping the marks gives you the original string back, character for character. It looks broken and behaves perfectly.

Why intensity 6 is the sweet spot

This page loads at 6 with all three mark groups on. That is the setting where a word carries obvious damage but the shape of it still comes through. Push to 8 and the letters disappear. Drop to 3 and it reads as a light decoration rather than a failure.

If you want either end of that, they have their own pages: lighter and heavier. Same engine, different starting point.

Corrupting one word beats corrupting everything

A whole corrupted sentence is hard to read and expensive in characters. A plain sentence with one corrupted word in it reads instantly and costs almost nothing. Generate the single word, copy it, and paste it into your text where it belongs.

Good places for corrupted text

  • Video thumbnails and titles, where the damage signals the genre before anyone reads a word.
  • Discord server categories and dividers, which have room to spare and no filtering.
  • Captions on horror, glitchcore or vaporwave posts, where 2,000-plus characters means the cost does not matter.
  • Game and stream titles, especially for anything built around a broken-system premise.
  • Fiction and roleplay, for a character whose dialogue is meant to be failing.

Bad places for corrupted text

Anywhere it has to work rather than just look good. That means URLs, file names you will need to find later, form fields, email subject lines that get filtered, and any heading a search engine or a screen reader is supposed to parse.

It also means short profile fields. A TikTok bio is 80 characters and corruption at intensity 6 costs roughly ten characters per letter, so you get about eight readable letters before the field is full. The counter under the output box will tell you exactly where you stand if you pick your platform from the dropdown.

Putting corrupted text on a web page

It works, with one caveat: tall stacks overflow their line box and can overlap whatever is above them. Two fixes, both one line of CSS.

  • Give the element a generous line-height, around 2 to 2.5.
  • If you need hard containment, wrap it in a block with overflow: hidden and enough vertical padding that the marks fit inside.

Put the plain text in the markup and the corrupted version in a decorative layer where you can, or at minimum keep the readable version nearby. Search engines index the base letters, but a heading buried under thirty accents is not doing your page any favors.

Corrupted text questions

What is a corrupted text generator?

It takes normal text and stacks Unicode combining marks onto every letter until the words look like a damaged file. Corrupted sits in the middle of the range: heavier than glitch, lighter than full zalgo, and still just about readable.

Is corrupted text the same as mojibake?

No, and the difference matters. Mojibake is an accident: text encoded in one character set and read as another, which is how a single apostrophe turns into a run of garbage characters. Corrupted text here is deliberate and reversible, because the original letters are intact underneath the marks.

Will corrupted text break my website?

It will not break the page, but tall stacks overflow their line box and can overlap the line above. If you use it in HTML, give the element extra line-height and test it on a phone. Keep it out of headings that need to be read by search engines or screen readers.

How do I corrupt only part of a sentence?

Generate the word you want damaged on its own, copy it, then paste it into your sentence where it belongs. Corrupting one word inside plain text reads better than corrupting everything, and it costs a fraction of the characters.

Does corrupted text work in file names?

Usually yes on macOS and Linux, unreliably on Windows, and almost never in URLs. Combining marks are legal in most file systems but they make files miserable to search for and share. Do not do it to anything you might need later.