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# I don't get the Zalgo bandwagon - but you've done well with this.
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:15, archived)
# I don't think there's much to get.
Evilscary did some Garfield strips with Zalgo in, then it took off.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:18, archived)
# Zalgo is also an Assyrian name meaning "ray of light".
 
b3ta is quite late picking up on this meme, but it's interesting to see it applied beyond comic strip parodies.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:22, archived)
# Was around for a while on other boards (and webcomics) before it it got here, actually.
But I could be overlapping it all in my mind, as I've also been doing 'tulu gags for years.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:24, archived)
# Ha ha :D
I liked this
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 7:32, archived)
# Thx.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 7:47, archived)
# it's from Something Awful
 
started by Shmorky (Dave Kelly) in these strips
shmorky.com/parodies/parodies.html

(this is the same guy who did "how is babby formed")
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:19, archived)
# Ahhhhh
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:23, archived)
# That was later, but yeah. That one started the wholesale madness.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:28, archived)
# I am not a member of SA but I think I might like it there
I ONLY HAVE SO MUCH TIME TO WASTE

also not sure about Shmorky as the origin, that's just what came up in google the other day
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:30, archived)
# Hard to say, with any accuracy.
As the whole bunch of the tentacled freaks flow in and
out of webcomics and web sites in waves. Oldest of mine*.

edit:
*9 years ago BTW, FFFFFFFUUUUUU---
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:39, archived)
# I would be a member if it didn't cost 10 dollars and have pages and pages of ways I could get b&
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:40, archived)
# ahhh
I see
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 5:30, archived)