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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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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My username is a reference to the Wug test, specifically this question: "This is a man who knows how to gling. Yesterday he glanged. Tomorrow he will _____."

My irl nickname is Lizard. This is the story:

I was at what was supposed to be FNM, but none of us were feeling Magic that day so we decided to play Secret Hitler, mostly because it was my fiancée's best friend's sister's birthday so she ended up picking the game.

If you haven't played Secret Hitler, at the start of the game you get a little envelope secretly telling you whether you are a Liberal, Fascist, or Hitler. Liberals want to pass liberal policies to win the game, the fascists want to pass fascist policies that give players ability to shoot dissidents and eventually get Hitler to win. The relevant thing is that Hitler and the Fascists are lizards; apparently the Liberals are normal people, but I don't know for sure since I've never played as a liberal.

Just to be clear, it's almost statistically impossible for me to have never played as a liberal. In each game I've played in, there was a total of 3 Fascists (including Hitler) and usually about a dozen Liberals. I should have been a liberal at least once by now, considering I got my nickname 2 years ago.

On this particular night, we played about a half dozen games, in which I was Hitler twice. I kept suprising them by doing well! They all know I am autistic and can't lie to save my own skin, so as the games went on they got progressively more tilted each time I was revealed to be a lizard. I was also getting frustrated because I really do not like lying!

At the start of the last game, I opened my envelope, saw a lizard, and I was just so fucking done. I snapped at the shuffler, "Are you even shuffling these cards?" and threw my envelope at him. He responded "Well, now I need to reshuffle. And for that you shall die!" and started chasing me around with the Nerf gun we had been using to shoot dissidents. Eventually he cornered me with me cowering and covering my face with my hands, and with a shout of "Die, Lizard!" he shot the gun.

I somehow caught the bullet in between my hands with my eyes closed! And that's why my name is Lizard.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I got named Bizzle in like 2008 because my real name wasn't cool enough, it just stuck

[–] pip@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Fo' shizzle my bizzle

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

water, metal, pressure and faith.

leaky showers and prayers.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I can remember the Ace part of AceFuzzLord very well. Comes from me always using Ace whenever a game requires a profile name or a 3 letter initial.

The Fuzz Lord part I don't remember really at all, but I assume the Lord part comes from the fact I think pretty highly of myself despite the fact I'm a nobody.

Oh, and do y'all see AceFuzzLord or do y'all see Dizzy Devil Ducky? I have no idea who sees either. I see Ace and I've had other people see DDD. Either way, DDD comes from the fact that he's my favorite Tiny Toons character.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I once created a character in a story when I was a child about a Jack Green from the planet Æarth, and named an account on a popular site accordingly as a similarly young person, as I lacked nominative creativity, evidently. People kept getting confused between Æarth and Earth so I just changed it to Earth for future accounts.

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Means potato / lame

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 months ago

It is kind of descriptive...

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Around the time I first started using this username about 7 or so years ago, I was playing through the Megaman Zero games, that take place approximately 100 years after the events of Megaman X, which take place during "year 21xx". So 'Zero22xx' specifically references the version of Zero from the Megaman Zero games.

On top of that, I also just thought it was a cool mix of letters and numbers that can look pretty random if you don't know the games, or if I'm not using a profile pic.

The only annoying thing is that at some point around the time I created this username, I started seeing an anime character called 'ZeroTwo' around. So I guess it could be mistaken that I'm referencing that too.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Old demo crew I formed with school friends when I was a teenager.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

HUM - The Scientists

Keep this benzine ring around your finger, and think of me when everything you wanted starts to end

The song is one of my favorites. About a couple scientists, probably in a relationship, testing drugs

With HUM, you never can really tell what they are talking about but it's always pretty poetry and awesome music. With a good imagination.

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[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I believe it's self explanatory.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Mine’s a music joke and a reference to a line from the song “Shiny” from Moana.

Though if my great grandfather was a god it was of strawberries which is nice. He’d grow plants and ship them to gardeners all over the east coast

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

I couldn't think of a better one, and just shortened my full name.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

Wat Dabney is a minor character in Terry Gilliam's first non-Python movie, Jabberwocky.

The protagonist, Dennis (Michael Palin) goes to the city to make his fortune as a cooper. One of the first people he meets there is a legendary cooper named Wat Dabney ("the inventor of the inverted firkin") who's been reduced to begging because he's not a member of the guild that controls the trade.

I first adopted the name on IMDb, back in the late 90s, but retired it when IMDb shut down their general interest forums, and didn't use it on Reddit. I revived it for Lemmy.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

Wishful thinking

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months 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

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mine is related to my name but is not my name. I've been using it so long and in so many places that I decided I need a pronunciation and decided on "wudgerie," which is also not my name. Anyone who knows me IRL could figure out who I am without much trouble, and a dedicated investigator could probably dig it up (that's NOT a challenge, BTW 🤣) with a pretty high level of confidence without breaking a sweat, but (1) I allow for that in what I say online, and (2) I kind of like having an online persona that is mostly just the real me with a bit of anonymity. Keeps me grounded and reminds me that all you assholes are real people too (except you, @GiantRobotTittiesTeeHeeHee@definitelynotabot.ai... or you, Georgia Bulldog fans).

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Depending on what your lemmy app/ui shows, it's either a Guild Navigator or a Facedancer.

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.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

HEXN3T stands out and was only taken on PSN, apparently.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

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"

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

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

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Just an old meme.

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Tenno, wake up. It's time to put on the silly norg fish mask from cetus and make it look good.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

School nickname

In Portuguese "zero hora" is the midnight shift, people started making jokes when I slept in class and the name got stuck.

[–] TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Username should be pretty self explanatory. If you still don't get it you can either ask me or bravely run away.

[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

The way I drove and the papers I used for rolling joints back when I was a teenager

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

It's from valarin (Tolkien's language of the Valar)

https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/motsvalarins.html

Akasan is 'he says'

-z suffix is a person's name

So it's basically 'Teller' (I'd say storyteller) in valarin.

The 'h' was supposed to help in pronunciation, it only mildly does, I find

[–] fakir@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

It means bare, naked, possession-less.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

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

Do I really need to spell it out?

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[–] legopika@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months 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...

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Calvin and Hobbes. I added a 'y' to the end because I could.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The Reddit API debacle that killed third party apps.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I think I picked it when registering with Sharky Forums back in like 2000, it just means a wage labor worker.

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