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This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.

So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What's the meaning behind it?

Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Just an old meme.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

My page name, ShinigamiOokamiRyuu, is an amalgamation of different anime characters from anime whose characters I have cosplayed as.

My nickname (the thing that says "Call me Lenny/Leni") is based on one of my nickname preferences. I have quite a few, my birth name being Valentina, which allows for a lot of nicknames (including Leni, which is one of the shorthands for Valentina, though Tina is the most popular) that get changed around depending on who I communicate with.

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm a huge fan of Bathory, so I just combined Quorthon with his previous stage name, Ace.

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[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

I‘m doing a 6-2 job in finances on autopilot while mentally at another place to not be drained when I follow my hobbies after work

[–] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

I used to see the F1 in the so called boring years.

[–] darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

My name's Darren. Here I am in the 'net.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

HEXN3T stands out and was only taken on PSN, apparently.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.

[–] Infrapink@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I read it in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan's best. Violà.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

i like the swapnote girl so i borrowed her name

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Tenno, wake up. It's time to put on the silly norg fish mask from cetus and make it look good.

I read an article, that the executioner who operated the electric chair was sometimes called the state electrician. I liked that, as I like many little known words and phrases. It has nothing to do with his job, the euphemism just tickled my fancy.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

It's a new one I made up when I joined Lemmy. Not sure how I exactly ended up with this but it's the only one I made in over a decade. I like nicknames that sound like actual names but are still unique, and I wanted something that sounds nice and gender-neutral.
Anyway, my nicknames usually become part of my identity. So I'm as much Thelsim as I am nowadays :)

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal

[–] UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

Every time I go to make a new username I just choose the first 2 words that come to mind

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I mashed the keyboard.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Someone else took karl first and I want to know which one of you it was

I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.

[–] urata@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What about you pip? My first thought was the main character of Kid Icarus.

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[–] ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Mine comes from the intro to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I asked Dr GPT for a list of nouns and adjectives with a particular theme and picked some I liked and combined them. I do the same process for all my digital identities.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Kona + Loki + accidentally changing an O to an A = Kolanaki

And then it turns out, it's also the name of a place in Greece.

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[–] Uriel_Copy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I enjoyed The Talos Principle. And the messages in that world seemed about as real as you guys. I mean that in an endearing way

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[–] TrippaSnippa@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

https://youtu.be/FhykvrPZwA4

The pinnacle of Australian culture

[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Minecraft username I coined at the age of 8. The name speaks for itself.

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[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Behold, a token effort" sick line dropped by best boy linhardt in fire emblem warriors three hopes

My display name is probably from the most mysterious song on the internet

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

A bunch of goofy bureaucracy name fuckups to my real name. It’s a long and boring story. It’s in no way related to being a group for tacos addicts.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Redditors are stupid in very specific ways and it annoys me.

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