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Before jumping the gun on anything, yes, I have looked at this Q/A already.

I've recently discovered the Twitter user '@Glitchr_', and have been looking through some of his tweets and some of the "art" he makes. Something that caught my eye as I was scrolling down the page were these two things:

Now, you may think, wow, backwards text. The title must be formatted like that. But if you look into the HTML, here's what you find (Highlighted Text):

The second thing I found was this:

Some of the zalgo text also messed up the dates and somehow reversed it as shown.

So as stated in the title, What causes Zalgo text to do this?

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The text contains U+202E (RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE), which indicates that the text should be rendered from right-to-left.

For example:

U+0041 U+0042 U+0043
ABC

U+202E U+0041 U+0042 U+0043
‮ABC

In this case, the character is in @glitchr_'s name: "Glitcher<U+0020><U+202E>".

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  • Twitter does not allow for that many characters in a username. – Dylan Nov 11 '16 at 20:56
  • @dylan The characters aren't in their username, they're in their profile name (and even if they were, it would still be under the length limit of 15 characters). – 一二三 Nov 12 '16 at 08:53
  • I meant profile name, and I don't believe twitter allows for more than twelve? EDIT: Just tried, can only hold twenty. How does he trick the webpage formatting though? Inserting that into my prof. name just outputs that rather than anything else. – Dylan Nov 12 '16 at 21:28