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?
Mine is a cheat code for Castlevania III on NES. Which is, I believe, the name of one of the developers of the game.
I like nicknames that are short and have no real meaning that just kind of sound like they could be a name.
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Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal
What about you pip? My first thought was the main character of Kid Icarus.
I’m betting on major Python package index enthusiast!
Actually, it depends, and the final form of my username on most social media platforms has a very long story.
It all began when I found this meme funny.
And my username became pippipthediddlydo.
But that honestly became quite a handful, so it got shortened to PipPipTDD. Then shortened even more to PipPip, as people honestly just called me Pip most of the time anyways.
During this period my friends and I had developed a tradition where on Halloween, just for the day, we would put “spooky” in front of our username. I don’t remember how my username evolved in this timeframe, but at some point I decided (because I’m very funny /s) to take it a step further and in a very ironic fashion, add a “not” in front of that spooky, to then remove the “not” on Halloween. So the entire year I’m “not spooky” until the one day that I am. And a few adjustments here and there got me to my current username on most platforms (because pip gets taken literally everywhere): notspookypip.
So you could say your full name is notspookypippithediddlydo or nspptdd. That looks like it could be a *nix daemon.
When the instance admin calls you by your full internet name 😳
Do I really need to spell it out?
No, but I wonder what the 3/4th is
Scottish (clan Armstrong), British, Irish, and who knows what else. Ironically I married a woman whose background is clan Campbell and German.
Nice try.
😏
Mine is my password I use for all my accounts. It is very convenient for the frequent times I forget it. I can just come here and there it is.
How many login attempts did you just receive?
I wish there was a way I could tell.
g8 b8 m8
…I’m still here
I’m not locked in here with you, your locked in here with me’ - Rorschach
May you get out soon.
no imagination and I thpught it was funny image (current acc avatar)
Same, diceware generated
I got named Bizzle in like 2008 because my real name wasn’t cool enough, it just stuck
Fo’ shizzle my bizzle
Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse
Ranidaphobic; but going with Frog-Man was a too on the nose rip off of Bat-Man (and it’s taken anyway).
Resol - can mean a number of different things. It’s the first 5 letters of the word “resolution”. It’s also the word “loser” spelled backwards. It’s two notes on a keyboard (D and G in Anglo-Saxon music notation). And it just looks and sounds cool in my opinion.
van - the Dutch word meaning “of” or “from”. Note that I am not referring to actual vans (the German equivalent being “von”, which also appears in a lot of names). Also I prefer spelling that word completely in lowercase.
Lemmy - isn’t it obvious? It’s this wonderful website.
Put them together, and you get “Resol van Lemmy”. It sounds pretty nice, don’t you think? Especially since I really hate my real name.
