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?

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    At first I lurked on my boyfriend’s account. We had both left Reddit during the API debacle, but I wasn’t ready to rejoin social media yet, so he hopped on Lemmy first.

    But as he shared links and news and memes with me, and I scrolled the comments, I started wanting to participate. The first few times I felt drawn to comment (but didn’t yet), I wanted to ask people what the reasoning was behind their thoughts. That stuff is interesting to me.

    So when I finally sat down and made an account for myself, it was the first thought in my head. I haven’t found myself asking anybody about their reasoning since then, but I still like the name.

    • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      What’s your reasoning for not asking someone’s reasoning? Or in other words, if the reasoning behind their thoughts is interesting then why stop before your started?

      Also sorry i just have lots of questions. Was there a certain type of comment that you wanted to know reasoning behind, or just in general? For instance were you wanting to understand hateful comments, or political perspectives outside your own? That sort of thing

      Neat username regardless!

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        Pretty much all of the above. Sometimes it was a silly comment or argument that didn’t quite make sense. Sometimes it was like, “what are you trying to say?” but specifically asking for one’s reasoning helps clarify things.

        I still might ask it some time, but I’ve found the environment here to be more hostile to rational thought than I’d originally expected… which was a sad discovery. A lot of people seem to react without first comprehending what they’re reading.

        Also, thank you!

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    3·
    6 days ago

    I was playing some crappy F2P MMO (Perfect World, maybe?) and I made a warrior of some werewolf race. Just played with random wolf-related combinations and settled on this. Quit after two days and the username carried on for probably 15 years now.

    I don’t even really know all that much about Stalin. I just pulled it out of my ass.

  • 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • legopika@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    6 days ago

    I liked Legos and I liked Pikachu at the time(I was 11 or so? Trying to make a Minecraft account lol)

    I don’t think I’ll be able to use this name for anything commercial if I wanted to do that…

  • LouSlash@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    6 days ago

    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.