I like Zalgo, but nostalgia definitely plays a big part in that. Buuuut, I’m also wicked fond of that red and black otherworldly horror aesthetic he’s got.
When I was real young, I thought he was the coolest thing ever. There used to be an entire sort of culture around him, too. He was a meme, but in an “ah this is so sick” way… a lot of the edits made of him during that time haven’t aged well lol, like they were done of old-school now-dead memes. Ahhh, I remember making a ton of shitty Zalgo edits of MLP and HTF characters lol… I miss being a kid