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I'm Chinese and we fucking love 8 since it rhymes with fortune in Mandarin. I'm also born roughly around 1988 so a lot of people in my generational cohort have 88 in their screen names.
Every time I see username_88 I gotta try to figure out if they're Chinese, my age, or a Nazi.
damn, that's a rough one. Nazis really took a whole ass number
I graduated in 2014 and for awhile my email address was "lastname14@whatever.com". My partner insists 14 isn't tainted enough that I needed to worry about it, and possibly he's right. Still, I did get a new email address, because I'd feel just awful if I'm giving my email to someone and they see the 14 and have to wonder if I mean it in the 14 words sense or not. Fucking internet nazis, ruining perfectly good numbers for the rest of us!
When I was young I had a random username generator give me 4994 as the suffix to my username to avoid duping, I got so lucky that when I forgot my passwords I'd shift the outer numbers going 5995 rather than the inner going 4884.