Why did you choose your username?

I was an emotional teenager who thought "life was too chaotic". I've grown fond of the name over the years, so I still use it to this day.

I'm using my real name because I was here to virally promote a movie, just like all the other celebrities on reddit before.

It was a very successful promotion.

To play off my instance name.

I'm, uh, a big Korean.

I was hurt by one and haven't healed

It's a family name

I love ninjas and carbonhydrates

mom i'm internet famous

I like not being easily identifiable on social media. When I was a kid my parents taught me to not reveal my real name on the internet and nowadays it seems that your real life and internet life should be the same.

I can't remember

I often expend my creativity elsewhere. 😅

Because I'm not a banana, duh.

Because I want to instill fear

It's been my nickname for over 50 years.

Because it’s all I really want to do here.

Because I think that summer is too warm

TLC wrote a song about me.

I’m a simple man.

Rocks are cool

One of my nicknames growing up was Lil Miss Potatoes. But now I'm a grown up, so I'm Lady Taters.

Because I make chairs.

It's an anagram of my real name, 'lcdou 991y9'

Ich bin ein Hurensohn

I thought it was funny

KeePassXC password gen.

You know what?

I kept on trying to make an account and it wouldn't let me for some reason.

I didn't. It's my IRL nickname. It means 'short circuit' (as in 'easily frustrated'). I'm the opposite of it, I'm the calmest person on this planet. My friends thought it would be funny. (the full word spells 'Kurzschluss')

I still haven't grown the fuck up

I was thinking of McDonald's and balls

It’s the name of my favorite Star Ship! USS Defiant

Shork

Well I'm a very confused person, and I'm surprised at the world around me.

Have you seen kiwis? They're adorable!

The bird is alright too I guess

Old WoW randomly generated name. Stuck with it for years now

It appeals to the edgelord teenager in me.

You'll never guess where I browse the internet from

I just wanted to share an interesting fact about myself.

I just run pwgen -c 6 -0 and picket one that I liked most.

I did same thing when I was picking my Wifi home network name (Wahthahv)

Corrupt windows nt boot menu circa 2003.. It should have said "last known good configuration"

I like pizza, words with four 'z's, and palindromes. So I appended an 'ip' to pizzazz, and here we are!

When I joined up, there was much discussion about bots, so I reckoned that I should set the record straight.

Step 1: Download https://www.eff.org/files/2016/07/18/eff_large_wordlist.txt

Step 2: run the following in the terminal

shuf -n 20 eff_large_wordlist.txt

Step 3: choose two good looking words from the output

Step 4: smoosh them together with optional underscore or capitalization

Now you have a tasty username worth sharing with friends and family!

My initials if my middle name were Keith

Remembering multiple names is too hard. I'll just stick with the one mom gave me

I like Moss. I like Bears. There it is!

I like coffee and I like vectors. I made it in high school and thought I'd be one of those names I regret, but even now I still like it.

I like tea

I grew up in central Flordia in the 80s and 90s. I loved saltwater fishing. Because of this I started to have lots of interactions with pelicans.

After awhile I became kind of close with them, we somehow seemed to communicate, I would spend hours with them, sometimes I would take out the boat and float around the shallows for these huge schools of pompano that would swim around the deep shipping channel then they would come up in the shallows for a few seconds and hit the bait fish really hard, it made them an easy catch and an unbelievably hard fight on ultralight gear.

I would go alone, sometimes with friends, but the one living being that always showed up was the pelican, and in this particular case it was a fishing spot I found near the Skyway bridge in St. Petersburg.

This is where the pelican became my favorite bird, we had some good times together, one bird in that area though new me and followed me around, never bothering me, never once trying to catch my bait that obviously has a hook in it, it seemed to know what was up, I'll never forget those pelicans and especially my buddy who always loved hanging out and getting fat from my catch.

So I carry the name because I love pelicans and the more people see the name maybe just maybe they might think twice before harming one of these magnificent birds or littering which is heavily contributing to their extinction.

My Geometry teacher started calling me this. Still don't know why.

I had a T-shirt with a toaster that had flame decals and just the word toast underneath. People kept asking me what it meant, as if there was a secret meaning to warm bread.

It was my neopets username in like 2004 lol.

I chose my name as a shortened version of the name I generally use on social media platforms. It's just this one is easier to type and since the account didn't exist I took advantage of being able to use the shorthand.

The cat’s nickname. It’s very floofy.

Because of Russians.

Se got lots of immigrants from Ukraine these two years. One girl started going to our summer camp/all year group (something like Scouts) and started dated my friend. He keeps "dictionary" of mispronounced words.

There is lots of good usernames but "plactagonic relationship" was best at the time (it grew a lot since).

I tried and it worked.

Childhood nickname.

Here's a wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality

TLDR: in our current capitalist and technologically advanced society, we increasingly live in a world where reality and fiction mix, so much so that it's hard to tell what is real or isn't real. They blend into each other. This is hyperreality. Arguably what's real doesn't even matter as much. The 'truth' generated by (social) media is often far more consequential than something as trivial as what actually happened.

For people who like movies, watch Cronenberg's Videodrome or Existenz. That's what 'reality' has become.

My job involves making donuts.

My favorite song from an artist

It's a reference to human cannibalism. I found it interesting that humans taste similar to pork. I'm just weird like that.

it is I

The Dude abides.

Cogito ergo sum.

If I don't think, I'm DoesNotExist

I became that which I feared the most

Just some random thing that comes on my mind at the time, i guess.

I was a big weeb, and my original name was Nekomaru. As I "grew out" of it, I translated the name back into English, and realized I actually liked it better.

Typo.

I rather like it.

I like boobs.

A real life nickname I've had since I was 7. I've just stuck with it for the past 26 years. It actually originated from the Beanie Baby Lizzy. And Izzy is just Lizzy the Lizard without Legs. 🐍

I had a bottle of maple syrup on my desk and I'm not a very creative person.

You can work it out yourself by looking at my instance name.

It's a play off Friend of Dorothy.

To promote razors

To paraphrase a longer explanation, I’m a Nintendo fan, I like Mario games, I love the Bowser fights. I wanted some alliteration on that and Bashing came to mind. Played with that and ended with BowserBasher

Way back in the day I wanted my club penguin to be named sparky, but that name was already taken. So club penguin recommended to me sparky678348

Its the same username I had at the other place that shall not be named, until I got permabanned for reasons still unclear to me.

I originally joined via the swimming sub there, looking for recommendations on waterproof music players to use while swimming so I can listen to AC/DC and Motohead etc while swimming laps. I'm a bogan (Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated) and I swim laps every day. Therefore..... waterbogan

Out of habit. It was my reddit username for almost a decade and the first thing that came to mind when I made a lemmy account.

Why I originally chose "justlookingfordragon" on reddit: I was looking for fellow Pokémon X/Y players with dragon-type safaris willing to share their codes, but the simplest usernames like "dragon" and "safari" were already taken, and "Imjustlookingforadragontypesafarikthxbai" didn't fit the character limit. I originally didn't even plan to keep the account, so I didn't care that the username was silly and awkward.

"Wolf Link" was a nickname that came later.

I like pretty assholes

What if Carl’s Jr. had a son

It's the name of my youtube and twitch channels.

The name is a bit of a long story using text to speech in Sea of Thieves to annoy another crew. Tried getting to to speak in an irish accent and misspelled "charms" and the way the TTS said "chamrs" was just hilarious. So there we go.

There's a character on Adventure Time named AbracaDaniel and I just switched in my name.

I stopped taking my daily interval 💊

I was binge watching the show "Letterkenny" One of their plotlines was about a Ostrich. Allegedly.... Im Australian, No Ostriches, only Emus.

I hit randomize in a passphrase generator until it farted out a mental image that made me laugh.

Coolest shit I’ve ever pulled off happened on a sick day

That is just who I am

Self descriptive.

I write an anticapitalist tech blog at theluddite.org

I like noodles

The first time I tried karaoke, I was a bit intoxicated and worried that, having a common name, another Nick would get confused. My parents worked by full name incorrectly, so, I figured that that would be a great way to differentiate it, not realizing at the time that the name "Nick" itself normally has a "k" in it, making "Nick w/ a K" arguably more confusing. After sobering up, I found the whole concept wonderfully silly and decided to switch to it as my main screen name.

Why not?

am sour ._.

Food you want to eat but won't risk your life for

Because it’s clear to me that in order to solve the problem of school shootings, we must arm kindergarteners with grenade launchers.

I really don't care.

Agents 0 to 640 were taken.

Because I wanted to be obscure and mysterious, but if I'd call myself MrMysterious I'd know deep inside that I'm a wanker.

1: Has just three letters. 2: Doesn't really mean anything. 3: I like how it sounds.

BillyWitchDoctor.com work mostly with chicken.

I have no f***ing idea.

It's my real name.

Because i'm a monke

Well, I'm waiting to drop a standard line that can be deduced from my username, but I still haven't landed a good post to do so...

Also, I wanted it to be disjoint from my former Reddit usernames

My name is not Tony

song by a band that fitted with my habit of nuking my PC every couple of weeks, either because I wanted to try a different Linux distro or because I got some kind of Limewire chlamydia

I lived in Tropical country and iced cool water is the best

I don't remember my username

Well. I am a wench. And quite jaded. I wanted to make something I had not really used before, back when I joined the place that shall not be named, and it sort of stuck. I also really love the color green. If it makes you feel any better I am a much happier person today than I was then. Still a wench though. 😈

iron maiden song, a poker hand, and my name has 2 a's.

I have a big dick , I swing it for the glourius five year plans.

Star wars

I’m one of Zaphod’s cousins

Randomly generated by another website and I thought it was funny.

Because my tiny little arms have been replaced with laser-cannons.

For Karl!

No anime.

I came up with it when I created my second acc on Reddit; I didn't want to spend time thinking of a username so I just thought of the first two words that described my mood at the time and went with it. It means "melancholic potato", I like how dumb it sounds

I chose mine because one day I had nothing to do and was super bored, so I just stared at ceiling and blackedout. And mind you I wasn't tired or anything neither did I sleep, I just lost consciousness because I was bored.

I love dogs

This my first nickname from when I start gaming on line : Star Craft - Broodwar.

There was a now deleted YouTube video by OneMinuteGalactica called "Apollo launches his viper funny" where Apollo from the original BSG tries to take off, but the launch tube just goes for miles and miles while the bridge crew and other pilots scramble to figure out what's going on. I thought the reference to it was funny and sounded cool when I was 15ish and it's pretty much stuck

I originally chose this as my Minecraft nickname, it's the name of a JavaScript library that I used (https://webpack.js.org)

Because squid can fly and it's awesome.

I wanted to add "the magnificent" to the end of it but it didn't fit so

In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix

First
Must
Burn.

~Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

I like to smoke dope.

Because it's accurate

Beta as in Beta Pictoris, a cool star.

I am a TANK

I liked Ren and Stimpy when I was a kid first getting on the Internet.

It's the back of my name stuck on the front of my name. Also hope it makes me sound like a knight of the seven kingdoms.

I'm afraid to say why.

I like popcorn.

Two random nouns

Because fewer a's were all taken

I just want to have a good time

idk

Because it sounds perverse, slummy/moist, and randomly generated in equal measure.

Mine should be obvious.

Mine was easy

It's the truth

In memory of the Apollo app. RIP.