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What is the origin of your username/nickname? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago by pip@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Minecraft username I coined at the age of 8. The name speaks for itself.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is the JG at the end?

[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

my initials

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

https://current931.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogue-2

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I mashed the keyboard.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 7 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.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Redditors are stupid in very specific ways and it annoys me.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months 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.

[–] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I’m chaotic and I like cookies, nothing more to it!

[–] Braz666@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Surname plus 3 random numbers

[–] tht@social.pwned.page 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I was making a silly joke on Reddit...

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Someone else took karl first and I want to know which one of you it was

[–] DM_Me_Boobs@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Guess.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

You really want to see this thing everybody talks about?

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Sometimes I get kinda pedantic.

When i joined the fediverse I decided to make a break from my old usernames.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I saw a watch company use the name Omega, before I even knew it was the name of a greek letter.

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Title of a book by my favourite author Jonathan Carroll. Almost all of my various handles over my time online have been some variation of one of his book titles because they're so unique. I used one on Reddit and some Nazi started stalking me, and it turns out some lady on Twitter uses it as her handle there, so he kept messaging me and calling me Stephanie.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

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

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

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Hominy_Hank@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hank likes hominy.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 7 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.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 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.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I asked Dr GPT for a list of nouns and adjectives with a particular theme and picked some I liked and combined them. I do the same process for all my digital identities.

[–] DampCanary@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

it just means emoticon in french canadian

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