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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 130 points 6 months ago

That's kind of how stage names work.

I've insisted people call me "esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie" for months and only like 2 people here ever did that. Breaks my heart.💔

[-] tuxtey@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Whoa whoa whoa, are you Margot Robbie? As in, the esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie? What an honor.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

Of course I am, would I really lie to you over the Internet?

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

NGL, The first time I saw your username I really truly believed, and My heart was pounding and I was astounded and I was about to post something telling everyone that

she's really here! She's one of us!

I went down quite a rabbit hole reading everything in your profile before I realized

you're extremely knowledgeable about computers and you spend a lot of time on Lemmy, couldn't possibly be a world-traveling, in-high-demand, constantly busy Hollywood actress.

But I've also imagined after every interview we've seen her do, she immediately picks up her smartphone and goes straight to Lemmy because this is where she spends all her free time.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

It's surprising how much extra time I can save when without Twitter or Instagram in my life.

Also, why can't I know a little bit about computers? Didn't I tell you Barbie is everything?

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[-] _wizard@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago
[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

And I want to believe I will finally win that Oscar next March...

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months ago

I will be rooting for you, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie

Fingers crossed that I'll get to call you esteemed Academy Award winning character actress Margot Robbie

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[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

You're the most prolific person on Lemmy or I just always notice your comments. Because I'm a huge fan of course.

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[-] TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 99 points 6 months ago

Prince literally wanted us to call him a symbol with no explanation.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 85 points 6 months ago

It took me years until I finally learned why he did that. It had something to do with the music industry owning his name. He reclaimed ownership of all his music and art and made a departure from the extortionate music industry.

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

Could've picked something easier to pronounce, though.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 57 points 6 months ago

It was actually brilliant. Got everyone talking about him without really giving up ‘Prince’ in the public consciousness.

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 15 points 6 months ago

Never thought of it that way but yeah. Gave up his name without actually giving it up. Brilliant. That guy was savy as fuck. Also a genius.

[-] Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 6 months ago

He chose an unpronouncable symbol because it allowed him to break his recording contract.

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I seeee! Never heard the finer details of that whole thing (I was young and not super into his stuff anyway). Smart guy though by the sounds of it!

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

I asked GPT why:

In the early 1990s, Prince was embroiled in a contractual dispute with Warner Bros., his record company. He felt they were restraining his creativity by not allowing him to release albums as frequently as he desired. In 1993, in an act of rebellion, he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, which was a combination of the male and female gender symbols, in order to free himself from his contract obligations to Warner Bros. Since the symbol had no pronunciation, he was often referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" during that period. He returned to using the name Prince in 2000, after his publishing contract with Warner Bros. expired.

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[-] A_A@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

The unpronounceable symbol :

Hollow circle above downward arrow crossed with a curlicued horn-shaped symbol and then a short bar

(known to fans as the "Love Symbol")

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 71 points 6 months ago

Artists be like that. Stage names have been a thing for quite some time.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 36 points 6 months ago

Writers use pen names too. I'm kinda confused why OP even thinks this is notable?

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

I'm a performer, people have literally worked under the assumption that my stage name is my legal name. It's not really surprising.

[-] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 65 points 6 months ago

Vin Diesels real name is Mark Sinclair and weve all accepted that too. Marilyn Manson's name is Brian Warner and Alice Cooper was born Vincent Furnier. Stage names are pretty common with performers

[-] AnonWyo@startrek.website 12 points 6 months ago

But Sinclair stations DO sell diesel.

[-] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Gene Simmons is really Chaim Witz

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[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 59 points 6 months ago

Isn't that just kind of... how names are supposed to work?

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 29 points 6 months ago

I had to double back to your comment because at first I glances at it and thought yeah... Then I thought about it some more and thought .... Yes! That is exactly how they work. Papers plus or minus but that is the way they work. We all agree upon it and bam. You are now named!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 6 months ago

The fact there is a dude out there who wants to be called "Buckethead" and wears a bucket of KFC over his head but also has the sickest guitar skills ever is even weirder.

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Never heard of Buckethead before so I had to look him up. HOLY FUCK can that dude shred.

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

JK Rowling also writes as Robert Galbraith.

[-] I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world 45 points 6 months ago

Does that qualify as irony?

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 38 points 6 months ago

Like Rafael Cruz’s proposal that everyone else must use their given name, TERFs have rules for thee not for me.

[-] amio@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago

Irony of the subtype heavy.

[-] kellyaster@kbin.social 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In case people don't know, JK Rowling's pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men's brains. He claims to have "cured" one of them. He did lots of other fucked up things too, and of course Rowling denies her pen name has anything to do with him. FWIW, she also claims she's not a bigot, but her words and actions clearly indicate otherwise.

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[-] acutfjg@feddit.nl 18 points 6 months ago

Like a lot of celebrities?

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

.....yeah? What about that fact?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 points 6 months ago
[-] Norgur@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago

All we hear is, radio Gaga

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

All I know is that I love it when they call me big papa.

Often, while waving their hands in the air like they just don't care.

[-] IanSomnia@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I mean, have you seen/heard her perform? She's very convincing.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

yeah her music videos are absolutely mesmerizing. I would do anything she tells me.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

Just wait until you hear about Engelbert Humperdinck.

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[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Steph-Steph-ooh-la-la doesn't have quite the same ring.

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