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?
Birch, please.
I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.
I studied abroad while the Two and a half Men season with Ashton Kutcher aired. A guy at a pizza place always wanted to chat but he barely spoke any English and somehow he really wanted to tell me that I look like Ashton Kutcher. Had similar length beard and hair at the time. A few days after that I signed up on Reddit.
I used to play GH3 on PS2 a lot and i played boss battles quite frequently
One time, in another game called Soldat, when a clan was recruiting they told me to change my old nickname since it was bizarre (i was 15 yo). I was looking for inspiration and quickly came up with Lou (final boss in GH3), added ` so i would be recognised easily while also not impersonating anyone unintentionally.
Few months passed by and i saw someone on some Soldat-related IRC channel chilling with my nickname and that person wasn’t actually impersonating me (he/she used that nickname for much longer time than me since “Lou” is actually a first name which for me, as a native polish speaker, wasn’t that obvious at the time) so that huge coincidence made me come up with an addition to my nickname - 2nd boss in GH3, famous guitarist - Slash. In the end i started using LouSlash`
As time passed by, in some places/websites/games i couldn’t use ` so i drop it occasionally.
CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan’s best. Violà.
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.
I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.
I opened a physical dictionary to a random page and pointed to a word without looking.
First attempt was diarrhea
I was promoted from the rank of Commander.
My husband’s nickname for me. I was born in the holler in Appalachia and am a woodsy pixie. It stuck and is now my trail name.
First shiny Pokemon I ever got. Basculin carried my team a lot, hence the name “CaptainBasculin”.
I love airplanes and was excited to see a “modern” one where you could slide back the canopy just like in all those old WWII movies! It’s even ok to fly with it open (a little)!
it just means emoticon in french canadian
Bitwarden username generator 👍
Tally Hall (band) → callyral (pseudonym + username) → cally (nickname)
