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[–] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I got it from a random generator after I had to change my Minecraft username when I was a kid. Been using it ever since.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have plans to find a better one.

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[–] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My favorite cyberpunk book, Neuromancer has a bartender in it named Ratz who serves drinks to the main character in a bar called Chatsubo

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I asked chatGPT to come up with something that combines forests and debate and then I just started making different variations of that for each of my new accounts and this is the latest version. Hardly any resembalance to the original one.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I based it of the kid who goes “fahfahfahfah” in the pork chop sandwiches gi joe thing but everyone thinks it’s a reference to Jeff Dunham

[–] Sidyctism@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

i thought that my old username (that i came up with when i was 8 and creating an account for runescape) was too childish.

At some point after i watched donnie darko while being really high. The rest is history

[–] Cameri@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It was the in-game alias of a very skilled swordsman and skirmisher in the MMORPG called Vindictus. We became good friends and played regularly for several years, conquering the toughest horrors, but one day, he never logged back on. So I started using his username to honor his kindness and prowess with the blade. If you're reading this, just remember that everyone in Lost Paradise [LP] remembers you!

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

They were out of Bort usernames.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It's embarrassing. I'm not telling.

[–] Sacabambaspis@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

I was tickled pink about this prehistoric fish that went viral a little while back and I thought I would adopt its name.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My original reddit name. It is on my 2 Guinness World Records for "Largest Online Secret Santa".

It means = Paramedic, guy(pig), and I did "save" two babies as a Paramedic.

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sleeping pills and a misspelled person. It was my pirated minecraft username first.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well it started when I was born and my mom named me Bill…

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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

In memory of the Apollo app.

[–] dirtySourdough@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Just made that shit up. I was trying to think of something stupid that wouldn't identify me in any personal way, and this one made me chuckle

[–] kugel7c@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

First word that came to mind when I was like 13 followed by an arbitrary number and letter. It just means ball or sphere in German. I took up naming things by simple shapes by then so I guess there must be something I like about it.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I like making up names and wanted a unique name for myself. So.. I ended up with Thelsim.
I wanted it to be unique, gender neutral, and easily pronounceable.

[–] ZeroGravitas@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. RIP

[–] Susaga@ttrpg.network 4 points 10 months ago

Preteen me was bad at Japanese.

[–] kirbowo808@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I just love the Kirby game series cuz it’s really cute but I also love Kirby himself as well at it being a reference to Kirbo from TerminalMontage, who I also equally love as is one of my fave YouTubers.

808 is a reference to the Roland TR-808 drum machine, referencing to many of my favourite electronic/alternative/hip hop musicians that have used it.

Also I love being cringe too so there’s that too xD

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I made it up myself. I came up with the phrase decades ago, and recently decided it was time for a new online moniker since a number of people were able to deduce my real identity based on my old one I'd used for a couple decades prior.

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I like Marvin from hhgttg. Also, I have sleep issues.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's a reference to Hollow knight and Subnautica

Also it's a double negative

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It came from a one-off inside joke with some online friends (I don't remember the context) as PopeJoeI (Pope Joe the First). I eventually embraced it fully and changed all my online handles. At some point, Discord added crowns to server owners where it wasn't immediately obvious who owned it and it evolved into "Pope-King Joe".

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 3 points 10 months ago

I read Les liaisons dangeureuses my second year in France and loved it. Misspellt de Valmonts name though :-)

The upside of the misspelling was that the name was always free on any forum up til not that long ago where bots started to recycle existing usernames all over the place.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 3 points 9 months ago

my friend's username started with "int" and I wanted a similar username, and interstellar sounded cool (I was also 12 when I made it) and then I added a 1 because interstellar was taken

[–] Atin@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

One of my favourite characters from a book.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Abbreviation of my real name yields "NW". I decided to add wind to make it a Hong Kong slang.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

Mistakes.
I created a test account on SDF pubnix. Since it was a test account, I didn't use my usual username, but just user224. Then some good user (xiled) decided to verify my account. Thus I had to stick with it.
Then later on Twitter I've seen SDF announce their Lemmy instance. Not knowing what Lemmy is, I've used the same username as on SDF pubnix, which was an accident.
I can't change it either, and this account has some history already. Just building up on mistakes. Just like when I find a "temporary" solution to something.

[–] Glitchington@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I like glitchy stuff, and I had friends who added "-ington" to everything for laughs.

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago

It's a portmanteau of federation and degenerate. This account was going to be a porn account and I am a degenerate.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

kill cry > blacklisted word on whatever I was trying to sign up for originally > jumbling intensifies > kryllic

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