When I was a teen I made a way shittier version of this using a bunch of vertical <marquee> tags and exotic looking Unicode characters. I literally just copy and pasted them since I didn't know any JS. It looked great as long as you didn't inspect the code!
I like how marquee is long deprecated yet the MDN compatibility guide[1] shows that no one has dared drop it. Unlike its friend blink who got dropped the moment everyone hated it[2].
