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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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[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

I was promoted from the rank of Commander.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] tht@social.pwned.page 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] viking 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] antiquity2038@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Bitwarden username generator 👍

[–] improvise3020@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

Bit warden made it for me

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

My display name is a short-version of my nickname which is a phonetic amalgamation of my first and last name.

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

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Remember that mobile game that was popular a while ago, Neko Atsume? It's that, but with Etna from Disgaea, because at the time I first made this username (years ago) Neko Atsume was taken and I was playing through Disgaea D2.

[–] DM_Me_Boobs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love airplanes and was excited to see a “modern” one where you could slide back the canopy just like in all those old WWII movies! It’s even ok to fly with it open (a little)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_American_AA-5

[–] DampCanary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I like the word argyle and I'm angry

Just a greeting used in an RPG I really liked. As pretty much the only formal greeting in its setting, it seemed very overused, so a friend and I started using it in our friend group as a meme, and I decided that it actually goes pretty hard as a username.

Finn from Enderal

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

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