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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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[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future

[–] TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I made this account shortly after watching Jackass 4. One of the new guys brings his dad on, this guy served time and did not look like he was one to fuck with. They put his head in a fishbowl with a tarantula and he instantly went into full bitch mode. That man's name was Dark Shark.

[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

It popped into my head while I was thinking of one, felt kind of clowny, then I searched for it online and didn't find any results. I was shocked that, apparently, nobody else is using this, so I've decided to.

[–] improvise3020@ani.social 2 points 6 days ago

Bit warden made it for me

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

It’s like 15 years old from back when I used to PVP in EVE online. Vaguely weird to pronounce and towards the middle of the alphabet so I don’t get primaried

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days 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.

[–] LNSS@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's related to my first name. But some letters removed and others rearranged.

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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

I love frogs and was hungry when I made my account.

I couldn't think of a name but I wanted an account. Every time I tried to think of something, I hit a mental block. "I don't want to"

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Do I really need to spell it out?

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] tht@social.pwned.page 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days 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.

I read an article, that the executioner who operated the electric chair was sometimes called the state electrician. I liked that, as I like many little known words and phrases. It has nothing to do with his job, the euphemism just tickled my fancy.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

i like the swapnote girl so i borrowed her name

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I‘m doing a 6-2 job in finances on autopilot while mentally at another place to not be drained when I follow my hobbies after work

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

I like the word argyle and I'm angry

[–] DampCanary@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Sometimes I get kinda pedantic.

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

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days 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.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 days ago

Less common anglicisation of Samyaza, first amongst the nephilim; a group of Angels that fell by marrying human women and teaching them knowledge.

Yes I am clearly a bit pretentious.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] DM_Me_Boobs@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You really want to see this thing everybody talks about?

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal

Display Name is because the Earth part of a Universe Simulator program run on a windows 11 machine and the Earth.exe process crashed, which is why we have assassination attempts, felon president, CEO getting shot, random coup attempt in South Korea. The Simulation program just spews random plotlines without the Earth.exe process to fine-tune it. Its basically telling AI to draw human hands, it keeps making no sense.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days 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.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

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

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

[–] Braz666@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Surname plus 3 random numbers

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