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I had a boss back in the day that I had a really good rapport with, and he would jokingly call me Shrek because I was almost a foot taller than he was. I also worked in a lot of restaurants in my late teens to early twenties and found a love for cooking that has never really gone away.

It came from a one-off inside joke with some online friends (I don't remember the context) as PopeJoeI (Pope Joe the First). I eventually embraced it fully and changed all my online handles. At some point, Discord added crowns to server owners where it wasn't immediately obvious who owned it and it evolved into "Pope-King Joe".

https://sopuli.xyz/post/2837546

I like penguins and 90s nostalgia. It's a Legends of the Hidden Temple fake team name.

Could I have gone for the alliteration? Perhaps. But Purple Parrots already existed. And I don't like pink.

I made it up myself. I came up with the phrase decades ago, and recently decided it was time for a new online moniker since a number of people were able to deduce my real identity based on my old one I'd used for a couple decades prior.

I like popcorn and may or may not be royalty..

I just really like the character.

I was making a WoW character (back in the days even the Burning Crusade wasn't there yet). It was a troll with big tusks, so I thought he'd need a toothpick or two.
And the spelling is from "Don't be a menace to South Central...", there was a stupid gangster under this name, he's my soul animal.

my dad came up with it on his own and I adopted it

I had to make a new name for the then brand new game: league of legends. I was high af and came up with this. Inspired by boss names in wow I guess.

A half-assed variation of "bah humbug"...

I like Marvin from hhgttg. Also, I have sleep issues.

Main character from The Darkness that Comes Before/The Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker. Liked the character, liked the name, loved the books.

I just love the Kirby game series cuz it’s really cute but I also love Kirby himself as well at it being a reference to Kirbo from TerminalMontage, who I also equally love as is one of my fave YouTubers.

808 is a reference to the Roland TR-808 drum machine, referencing to many of my favourite electronic/alternative/hip hop musicians that have used it.

Also I love being cringe too so there’s that too xD

I used to like soda a lot when I was a kid.

From the podcast Action Boyz

My name

wanted a zerg sounding name when I started playing SC2 and then mained terran instead

I stole it from some old-timey sailors who were shooting the breeze.

I mostly enjoy but not competitive online player from UO and Everquest era so I tired of typing good game no re do

I like mechs

kill cry > blacklisted word on whatever I was trying to sign up for originally > jumbling intensifies > kryllic

It's a drink that makes you feel good and I drink a lot of it

As with all my online accounts:

• Visit a name generator website.
• Find one that doesn't suck.
• Check if it's available.
• Here we are.

And each has a different email address. I hope adtech loves me. 😁

Huge fan of GWAR and always used their lead singers name for online accounts.

my friend's username started with "int" and I wanted a similar username, and interstellar sounded cool (I was also 12 when I made it) and then I added a 1 because interstellar was taken

Keys on a qwerty keyboard.

chu

I wanted to upgrade my cringy username and realized it was very hard to choose something, after a while I decided to do the same thing Seba Jun (rest in beats) made for its stage name. 🎶

I learned how to solve a Rubik's cube and figured I could make a username out of it.

Plus, it doubles as a reference to a pixel on a screen and I'm a security engineer, so... It kinda works both ways.

Combined a few numbers that are meaningful to me, turned it into hex, and here we are.

Typing and limited clicking

I used the username blackandred56, until one day I used blackrose56, and since then it's blackrose56 or roserose56. I just liked rose.