I'm half Korean, 6' 230lb. My martial arts instructor said to me, "You're the biggest fucking Korean I've ever seen." So Giant Korean just kind of stuck.

I like frogs.

I also like to change usernames on a semi-regular basis, so it was time for a change, and this is the first time in a really long time that I've been able to have a four-letter noun as a username. So I shall celebrate the joy of being simply "frog".

It's a line from a Pink Floyd song. I like the fact that when people see my name, if they know the song, they probably hear it in their heads. This is especially poignant since I once had a love like no other- it was our song. He died, but he would have loved my username. He would have loved Lemmy, too.

One time I walking past a bar with some buddies in high school and a very drunk man was kicked out right in front of us. He screams and hollers at the bouncer and throws a big tantrum about it for a bit then out of NOWHERE he pulls out several folded up strips of bacon out of his front pocket, takes a bite and this seems to calm him down.

We're all flabbergasted by what we've just witnessed and we're all very obviously staring right at him when he notices us. He slurs, "Sorry you had to see that, little dudes" and offers us some of his pocket pork as an apology, which we politely refused. He shrugs and goes on his merry way.

This was right around the time reddit was taking off and I made my account a few days later and it was the first thing that came to mind. Thus, BaconInMyPants was born.

Having been on the Internet longer than some of you have been alive (damn whippersnappers), it was a result of being tired of choosing usernames. To prevent doxxing, I had been creating new accounts every few years, and this was the last name I made at the Alien site.

Zoids toys are cool and I like Futurama.

kobold

It's a new name for me. I'm Coco, recently.

Its just an old space ghost reference

In the 90s I was Boatman_Charon on IRC. As happens on the internet - folks shortened the far-too-long username to boat. And one of my good buddies typoed it 'Bota' once, and from that day forward I was Bota instead of Boat. And being a 20 year old on IRC... I replaced the 't' with a '7'.

I made the mistake on the r site of naming my account for what I used it for, which was wasting my own time. It was intended to serve as an active reminder that I could be doing better things with my time. I had about 50/50 split If people thought I was a troll or not, though, so I didn’t bring it with me.

I wanted to go with a different but similar theme, and a lot has changed in my life and frankly, I’ve grown rooted and apathetic. The username is a reminder to be better.

This probably won’t be the account I end up using long-term, but it’s a good one for now, as I learn everything.

Just another heathen who likes plants and mushrooms tbh.

This year we made a jackdaw friend in our garden. We can feed it directly from the hand and it's comfortable around us.

Jackdaw in Swedish is Kaja (sounds kinda like "Kaia")

We named it Kajko (kaiko). I liked the name and now I'm using it.

Checksum

"The piano ain't got no wrong notes" - Thelonious Monk

It’s a word I made up in High School (mid 90s) for a D&D character. It’s based on the Latin word for truth - veritas - but with tweaks it sound “cool” and like an actual name. When my family finally got internet, it also became my go-to username/identity for all things digital.

Rottcodd is a character in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. He's the curator of The Hall of Bright Carvings - a sculpture gallery in a far distant corner of the castle that virtually no one ever visits - where he leads a simple and contented life. When he isn't working or loafing about, he spends time observing the distant life of the castle - or what he can see of it at least - through a single tiny window.

For better or worse, I relate...

I had been using another name that expressed gratitude in the affirmative, decided to change it up to a name that is more for saying no politely.

Mine is from the novel Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. Amazing book, very different and imo much better than the movie.

It's a Devo album, my personal fav of theirs.

I love the stillness of winter. The type during a blizzard where everything "sleeps".

I had this realization when playing Dragon Age: Inquisition: https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Winter_Stillness

Also this; https://imgur.com/a/lEpKXAF

It's the song that was playing when I first made the account and couldn't think of anything that wasn't already taken.

NEIN

I've been a Tolkien fan for sixty or so years.

Baggins wasn't available on Reddit but it was here.

I also use it in email addresses.

I was hungry and was thinking about making a sandwich

I've got the same one here as on reddit, and on tildes as it happens. It is a variant on a local mythic being in my part of the world.

It's just a goofy thing me and my friends used to say and I made a depiction of it (much worse than my current avatar, which I commissioned from a cool artist I met a while back) I just thought it was fun.

Wish I knew what her current website/contact was id love to share it but I think she has gone a different way since.

Mine is a bad pun. It's not even an original pun, but you do need to be pleasantly weird enough to know the source.

Lizards are cool so I picked the first available lizard. It feels a lot nicer than keysmashing an username together.

I like retro and vintage things.

I don't remember which forum I was on, but it was around the late 2000s. Me and some people were joking around, the subject of wrestling came up, someone asked what Triple H's name stood for, so a bunch of us started making fake answers. I really like one that I said, so I just made it my user name. Haven't really felt the need to change it since.

I had just been to Sonic that week and their best drinks are their limeades. I hate coming up with names for anything, so I went with something simple.

Incorporates my name with a positive attribute (at least imo), made the mistake at that other site, of a username that was pretty easy to reply 'user name checks out' in a negative connotation, even when asking legit questions or making positive comments. Hoping to get the same reaction on Lemmy but positive this time around!

I chose mine for two reasons: the first lofi hip hop song I listened to was titled wet season and everyone on social media shortened season to szn so I adopted the name with the shorter spelling. And my second reason is because I love the rain and the smell of the earth after it’s been raining :)

I have no idea what the original words were. But my coworker at an old job had one of those magnet letter boards. I just haphazardly rearranged her note and it became Scrumpf Dabogy. I liked it so much I kept it in my head until I needed it for a new account somewhere.

Someone doxed me about a decade ago so now I use my first two initials and my last name. Harder to get doxed if you only say shit you'd say face to face with someone.

It's a reference to my favorite author, but using different words to get the same ve sound. So far no one had noticed

One, I like Corvids. Brilliant birds they are, various mythologies around them, etc.

The latter portion is a reference to an old gaming clan I was a part of in my youth called MotR: Mercenaries of the Republic. It was a Star Wars Republic Commando clan, one of the biggest among them. I was part of Nyx Squad, and we were the biggest group of misfits and weirdos among the other squads. We weren’t always the most skilled, but damn we had character, and we had fun.

Quite random actualy, I just came up with it and it stuck

I've had the same (same or some iteration close to it) for over 20 years, 25 maybe? I used to be Valhalla in the 90s but at some point it became impossible to keep it as the name was popular and used on multiple forums and sites.

Being a big Led Zep fan I had chosen it from Immigrant Song. So when it came time to change it I thought of their label Swan Song and just added my initials to it. I have a couple of other accounts for other purposes that are almost as old but not as meaningful as this one is to me.

In college I took a “Latin and Greek roots of English” course. I wanted a new username around that time and wanted something that sounded cool, so I figured out the Latin version of zombie and chose that.