Having Fun with OCR: Owls are not what they seem edition

Sometime Optical Character Recognition can uncover something really unexpected in the text that is actually quite comprehesible.

This is the case with this caption:

Here we have an entire sheet of with the word "Zoop!". In case if you don't know, "Zoop!" is an onomatopoeaic exclamation accompanied by finger guns that originated on Reddit a couple of years ago. The story goes - it came out of tired frustration. But in essence, it is eerie nondescript.

Know your meme got the caption you can see above and given its repetitive nature - it is perfect cannon fodder for some blatant conceptual experimentation. Naturally, i've put this image through OCR engine.

Here's what came out of it:

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It turns out that underneath that completely innocent and absolutely pointless image was hidden this wicked incantation. I find it debilitatingly charming.

But that's not all. When I turned the image in 180 degrees - i've got this:

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This is even more disturbing. It reminds me of Tibetan monks chants as heard on KLF's Chillout.

But that's not all. After getting another fix of OCR discovery - i've used another OCR engine and this time - i've got this:

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Now this is some serious concrete poetry.