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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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[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Quote from Fight Club

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

Means potato / lame

[–] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Clipper Defiance was a Boeing 707 operated by Pan Am. Its main claim to fame was when on February 7th, 1964 it brought The Beatles to America for the first time.

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My initials are BJB.

I was in jazz band in high school. We were doing a joint thing with the choir, so everyone was running around moving stuff to make space. My parents had bought me a nice music bag with my initials on a plate on the front of it. Someone held up my music bag asking who owned it. I figured they just wanted to let the owner know where it was being moved to, so I spoke up... "Hah, your initials are BJ!"

Hence, my name became blowjob. The completionists called me Blowjob Betty (I'm male) to get that last initial in, too. At the time, I was quite quiet and took myself maybe a little too seriously. This ended that.

One day, I was at my buddy's place, and he called me "Beege," saying he didn't want to say "Bee and Jay," as it was too long. At that point, I said fuck it. My name is Beege. Let's go.

Over time, my friends added an article because why the fuck not.

Over 20 years later, and it's still my name. It actually taught me to not take myself so seriously. Although, one interviewer at a job had a really hard time keeping it together when HR told her my nickname without catching the meaning. She and I are good friends now.

In any case, I always get a slight chuckle inside when people hesitate slightly after introducing myself. I'm great at keeping a deadpan face about it now, too

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 10 months ago

It is kind of descriptive...

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

An ex drinking buddy was drunk and high as F and would butcher the name of several people. I couldn’t let this one die.

My girlfriend calls me that regularly.

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I zonk out really fast. Sometimes mid-sentence.

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[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 10 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 10 months ago

Fo' shizzle my bizzle

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 10 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

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months 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

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 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"

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

My page name, ShinigamiOokamiRyuu, is an amalgamation of different anime characters from anime whose characters I have cosplayed as.

My nickname (the thing that says "Call me Lenny/Leni") is based on one of my nickname preferences. I have quite a few, my birth name being Valentina, which allows for a lot of nicknames (including Leni, which is one of the shorthands for Valentina, though Tina is the most popular) that get changed around depending on who I communicate with.

[–] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My cousin, brother and I used to get high and play MTG quite a bit back in the day. There's a card called "Reef Pirates" that we used to joke around and call them Reefer Pirates. When I was making an account on Diablo 2 some time around then it's what popped into my head and stuck.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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).

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago

I used to see the F1 in the so called boring years.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

It's a new one I made up when I joined Lemmy. Not sure how I exactly ended up with this but it's the only one I made in over a decade. I like nicknames that sound like actual names but are still unique, and I wanted something that sounds nice and gender-neutral.
Anyway, my nicknames usually become part of my identity. So I'm as much Thelsim as I am nowadays :)

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Just an old meme.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago

Wishful thinking

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 3 points 10 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.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I am terrible at names

The name i used before was "youtuber", which i "came up with" when creating my youtube account

This is the first name that wasnt already taken in Minecraft so i kept it

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

i like the swapnote girl so i borrowed her name

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.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do I really need to spell it out?

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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] LNSS@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 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

[–] TheDarkestShark@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] Disco_Dougie@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Ambian, maybe? I don't especially like disco, and my name isn't Doug. But I felt it in my heart at some point that isn't exactly clear to me.

[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Its a me, mario

[–] darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

My name's Darren. Here I am in the 'net.

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