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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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[–] Braz666@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Surname plus 3 random numbers

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 6 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.

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

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

I'm fatigued in more ways than one and people joke that I'm fae because I'm allergic to metal.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

[–] Hominy_Hank@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Hank likes hominy.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

From a famous Australian poem called... "Said Hanrahan"

https://www.australianculture.org/said-hanrahan-john-obrien/

I was promoted from the rank of Commander.

[–] hollerpixie@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

My husband’s nickname for me. I was born in the holler in Appalachia and am a woodsy pixie. It stuck and is now my trail name.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Ranidaphobic; but going with Frog-Man was a too on the nose rip off of Bat-Man (and it’s taken anyway).

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse

[–] tht@social.pwned.page 2 points 6 months ago

I liked playing tachanka on R6, tht is short for TheHolyTachanka

[–] viking 2 points 6 months ago

Used to live in Norway when I joined reddit, and the whole Norse lore resonated with me. Back then I had a number attached, that wasn't needed on Lemmy anymore.

[–] ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I have no imagination and my legal name is Tanis Nikana.

It scans like a username when it’s all lower case and jammed together though.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Star Wars Galaxies I was on a red wine kick at the time and had found Ecco Domani to be a good low priced red. I meeded a character name for SWG so I looked up "to seize" in Italian to make "seize tomorrow".

It's actually "squeeze tomorrow" or "tighten tomorrow" and should have been "cogliere il domani" which is cooler. But c'est la vie, or questa è la vita.

[–] improvise3020@ani.social 2 points 6 months ago

Bit warden made it for me

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal

[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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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[–] urata@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I’m betting on major Python package index enthusiast!

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago

Tally Hall (band) → callyral (pseudonym + username) → cally (nickname)

[–] DampCanary@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

no imagination and I thpught it was funny image (current acc avatar)

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago
[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

I studied abroad while the Two and a half Men season with Ashton Kutcher aired. A guy at a pizza place always wanted to chat but he barely spoke any English and somehow he really wanted to tell me that I look like Ashton Kutcher. Had similar length beard and hair at the time. A few days after that I signed up on Reddit.

[–] LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I used to play GH3 on PS2 a lot and i played boss battles quite frequently

One time, in another game called Soldat, when a clan was recruiting they told me to change my old nickname since it was bizarre (i was 15 yo). I was looking for inspiration and quickly came up with Lou (final boss in GH3), added ` so i would be recognised easily while also not impersonating anyone unintentionally.

Few months passed by and i saw someone on some Soldat-related IRC channel chilling with my nickname and that person wasn't actually impersonating me (he/she used that nickname for much longer time than me since "Lou" is actually a first name which for me, as a native polish speaker, wasn't that obvious at the time) so that huge coincidence made me come up with an addition to my nickname - 2nd boss in GH3, famous guitarist - Slash. In the end i started using LouSlash`

As time passed by, in some places/websites/games i couldn't use ` so i drop it occasionally.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

I like the word argyle and I'm angry

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