I Love You Zigzag, Repeated
I love you zigzag, one hundred copies below, 1,799 characters. The zigzag is a layout rather than a phrase, so the block here is one flowing line and the shape has to be added by hand.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 1,799 characters.
What the zigzag actually is
The zigzag is not a different set of words. It is the same phrase on many lines with the indent growing by one space each line and then shrinking back, so the left edge of the block travels right, returns, and travels right again. Read down the screen it looks like a wave. The repeater below produces the text; the shape is a second step.
Building one
- Set a count and copy the block, or copy the hundred copies already on this page.
- Paste it into a plain text editor and replace each space between copies with a line break, so there is one copy to a line.
- Add one space to the front of each line for ten lines, then take one away for the next ten, and repeat to the bottom.
- Copy the result and paste it with Shift+Enter, which most chat apps treat as a line break inside one message rather than as send.
Swapping every space for a line break does not change the size: a line break is one character, the same as the space it replaced. So the totals stay 1,799 characters at 100 copies, 17,999 at 1,000 and 179,999 at 10,000.
Where it falls apart
Word wrap is the first problem. A zigzag built at desktop width re-wraps on a phone and the shape disappears, because each line is longer than the window. Short lines survive – one copy of a 17-character phrase is short enough almost anywhere.
Leading spaces are the second. Anything that renders as Markdown or HTML collapses runs of spaces to one, which flattens the whole thing back into a wall. Plain-text destinations keep it: SMS, notes apps, most desktop chat clients.
Related
The flat version of the same phrase is on i love you, and the message-formatting notes are on i love you text. Everything else sits on the repeat text hub.