I'm half Korean, 6' 230lb. My martial arts instructor said to me, "You're the biggest fucking Korean I've ever seen." So Giant Korean just kind of stuck.

I like frogs.

I also like to change usernames on a semi-regular basis, so it was time for a change, and this is the first time in a really long time that I've been able to have a four-letter noun as a username. So I shall celebrate the joy of being simply "frog".

It's a line from a Pink Floyd song. I like the fact that when people see my name, if they know the song, they probably hear it in their heads. This is especially poignant since I once had a love like no other- it was our song. He died, but he would have loved my username. He would have loved Lemmy, too.

One time I walking past a bar with some buddies in high school and a very drunk man was kicked out right in front of us. He screams and hollers at the bouncer and throws a big tantrum about it for a bit then out of NOWHERE he pulls out several folded up strips of bacon out of his front pocket, takes a bite and this seems to calm him down.

We're all flabbergasted by what we've just witnessed and we're all very obviously staring right at him when he notices us. He slurs, "Sorry you had to see that, little dudes" and offers us some of his pocket pork as an apology, which we politely refused. He shrugs and goes on his merry way.

This was right around the time reddit was taking off and I made my account a few days later and it was the first thing that came to mind. Thus, BaconInMyPants was born.

kobold

It's a new name for me. I'm Coco, recently.

Just another heathen who likes plants and mushrooms tbh.

Feanor is one of the most important elves in the silmarillion. He is the creator of the silmarils and he led the noldor back to Middle Earth

I had an old internet friend on Tumblr when I was 13-14 or so who had the username "coolpng". One day they just deleted all of their accounts with no warning, no trace, no nothing -- just vanished, so I made the username "cooljpeg" in honor of them and in hopes that maybe they'll run into my e-presence one day. It's also just a simple 'n funny username, and I love jpegs so :+D

I've been a Tolkien fan for sixty or so years.

Baggins wasn't available on Reddit but it was here.

I also use it in email addresses.

"The piano ain't got no wrong notes" - Thelonious Monk

Zoids toys are cool and I like Futurama.

Having been on the Internet longer than some of you have been alive (damn whippersnappers), it was a result of being tired of choosing usernames. To prevent doxxing, I had been creating new accounts every few years, and this was the last name I made at the Alien site.

This year we made a jackdaw friend in our garden. We can feed it directly from the hand and it's comfortable around us.

Jackdaw in Swedish is Kaja (sounds kinda like "Kaia")

We named it Kajko (kaiko). I liked the name and now I'm using it.

I love the stillness of winter. The type during a blizzard where everything "sleeps".

I had this realization when playing Dragon Age: Inquisition: https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Winter_Stillness

Also this; https://imgur.com/a/lEpKXAF

NEIN

In Anarchism one of our most influential books is The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin, also known as the Bread book. I needed to burn my old social handles and at the time the anarchist meme sub reddits would call our dank memes yeasty memes (since bread) and so I chose the name AnarchoYeasty

I made the mistake on the r site of naming my account for what I used it for, which was wasting my own time. It was intended to serve as an active reminder that I could be doing better things with my time. I had about 50/50 split If people thought I was a troll or not, though, so I didn’t bring it with me.

I wanted to go with a different but similar theme, and a lot has changed in my life and frankly, I’ve grown rooted and apathetic. The username is a reminder to be better.

This probably won’t be the account I end up using long-term, but it’s a good one for now, as I learn everything.

In the 90s I was Boatman_Charon on IRC. As happens on the internet - folks shortened the far-too-long username to boat. And one of my good buddies typoed it 'Bota' once, and from that day forward I was Bota instead of Boat. And being a 20 year old on IRC... I replaced the 't' with a '7'.

It’s a word I made up in High School (mid 90s) for a D&D character. It’s based on the Latin word for truth - veritas - but with tweaks it sound “cool” and like an actual name. When my family finally got internet, it also became my go-to username/identity for all things digital.

Thank you Xbox Live username generator

Misspelled 'Fedaykin,' the name for the fremen death commando in Dune.

As edgelordy as that sounds, I mostly just liked the word. One spelling error creating a character in a game and I liked it better, so I kept using it.

In French the word "Didascalie" is used for stage directions, often scribbled in the edges of a play, oftentimes by the author. "Les" indicates a plural, so my name would read "Les didascalies", or "the author's notes".

It pronounces basically the same as Lady Dascalie, hence where the name came from.

I have a fairly prickly personality IRL and online communities like this one make up the majority of regular interactions with people outside of my home; it's my "distraction" from being an introverted grump. Plus my insides are mostly water and pulp, so I have that going for me.

Checksum

I had been using another name that expressed gratitude in the affirmative, decided to change it up to a name that is more for saying no politely.

I live in California and I am naturally skeptical of anything you tell me 🤔

Its just an old space ghost reference

Someone doxed me about a decade ago so now I use my first two initials and my last name. Harder to get doxed if you only say shit you'd say face to face with someone.

One, I like Corvids. Brilliant birds they are, various mythologies around them, etc.

The latter portion is a reference to an old gaming clan I was a part of in my youth called MotR: Mercenaries of the Republic. It was a Star Wars Republic Commando clan, one of the biggest among them. I was part of Nyx Squad, and we were the biggest group of misfits and weirdos among the other squads. We weren’t always the most skilled, but damn we had character, and we had fun.

I'm a six foot turkey.

Awesome things I appreciate and/or identify with:

• cookies
• the blue monster that chomps them down
• cats

Surprisingly, so far my clever play on words has rarely been taken anywhere I signed up, so I use it for any accounts I don't mind being link-able.

It's just a goofy thing me and my friends used to say and I made a depiction of it (much worse than my current avatar, which I commissioned from a cool artist I met a while back) I just thought it was fun.

Wish I knew what her current website/contact was id love to share it but I think she has gone a different way since.

I've had the same (same or some iteration close to it) for over 20 years, 25 maybe? I used to be Valhalla in the 90s but at some point it became impossible to keep it as the name was popular and used on multiple forums and sites.

Being a big Led Zep fan I had chosen it from Immigrant Song. So when it came time to change it I thought of their label Swan Song and just added my initials to it. I have a couple of other accounts for other purposes that are almost as old but not as meaningful as this one is to me.

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka has Oompaloompas working as slaves(?) in his factory. I constantly have the Oompaloompa song playing in my head so it's Oompaloompa with more OOMPH! Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, I am a moron and I know it would've been better as Oomphaloompa, but it's too late now. At least there's twice as much oomph now.

It's a reference to my favorite author, but using different words to get the same ve sound. So far no one had noticed

Mine is from the novel Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. Amazing book, very different and imo much better than the movie.

I wanted a username that would be googleproof

Part pun, part general description, part alliteration. Also, preferably easy to say/read without CamelCase or under_scores or hyphen-ation.

I like comics. I also like comedy. My mind is an absolute fucking mess, full of nonsense, and I have trouble keeping things in order.

I find the best way to deal with it all is to laugh at it.

Mixing it all together, comically cluttered. Amusingly disorganized, both physically and mentally.

It's a Devo album, my personal fav of theirs.

means frog

I didn't ever really have a name for my fursona and then I got my dogs, Kona and Loki. I combined their names and came up with Kolonaki, but then misspelled it when I entered it in something the first time. Now it's Kolanaki.

It kinda sounds Hawaiian (pronounced cola-nah-key). 😋

I was hungry and was thinking about making a sandwich

Quite random actualy, I just came up with it and it stuck

In college I took a “Latin and Greek roots of English” course. I wanted a new username around that time and wanted something that sounded cool, so I figured out the Latin version of zombie and chose that.

Rottcodd is a character in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. He's the curator of The Hall of Bright Carvings - a sculpture gallery in a far distant corner of the castle that virtually no one ever visits - where he leads a simple and contented life. When he isn't working or loafing about, he spends time observing the distant life of the castle - or what he can see of it at least - through a single tiny window.

For better or worse, I relate...

Lizards are cool so I picked the first available lizard. It feels a lot nicer than keysmashing an username together.

14 year old me thought it was a cool gamertag. 30 year old me still agrees.

It's the song that was playing when I first made the account and couldn't think of anything that wasn't already taken.

I chose mine for two reasons: the first lofi hip hop song I listened to was titled wet season and everyone on social media shortened season to szn so I adopted the name with the shorter spelling. And my second reason is because I love the rain and the smell of the earth after it’s been raining :)

I would tell anecdotes and stories but would constantly go off at a tangent. Someone said I had "Tangentism".

You can probably guess my two favourite indie platformers

For whatever reasons my friends were messing around giving each other weird nicknames and I ended up with metal toilet (we had just been in a gas station that must’ve had a metal toilet). I tried it out I a couple things and it’s stuck since.

It's a tribute to my husband and love for Studio Ghibli movies, specifically Howl's Moving Castle. He is my Howl and I am his Sophie ☺

Mine is a bad pun. It's not even an original pun, but you do need to be pleasantly weird enough to know the source.

Genesis, particularly Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, is my favorite band. I've played around with using names from their songs as usernames for years, but it's only when I joined Reddit that I decided I should try to settle on one. I've always been fond of this track off their 1972 album Foxtrot. So if you should see some variation of this username online, it's probably me.

I like retro and vintage things.

I don't remember which forum I was on, but it was around the late 2000s. Me and some people were joking around, the subject of wrestling came up, someone asked what Triple H's name stood for, so a bunch of us started making fake answers. I really like one that I said, so I just made it my user name. Haven't really felt the need to change it since.

I had just been to Sonic that week and their best drinks are their limeades. I hate coming up with names for anything, so I went with something simple.

Incorporates my name with a positive attribute (at least imo), made the mistake at that other site, of a username that was pretty easy to reply 'user name checks out' in a negative connotation, even when asking legit questions or making positive comments. Hoping to get the same reaction on Lemmy but positive this time around!

I have no idea what the original words were. But my coworker at an old job had one of those magnet letter boards. I just haphazardly rearranged her note and it became Scrumpf Dabogy. I liked it so much I kept it in my head until I needed it for a new account somewhere.

It's shortened from what I actually wanted, NorthernLightMountain, since that was too long. That in turn is based on the main antagonist (MorningLightMountain) in my favorite book from my favorite author, Peter F. Hamilton.

I live quite far to the north so I figured it would be a nice twist on the name.

Used to go by other handles on other sites but figured I'd start fresh over here.

Still hoping for a change to a bit longer display names. :)

I blurted it out in a chat one day in reference to something, and realizing it would be a clever band name or something... Well when I need a new identity to serve as a vehicle for my current creative output, here we are. I realized that it was at least somewhat clever and oddly not taken anywhere. So I am running with it.

shameless plug: doomcough.bandcamp.com :P

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So mine is because of Bell end of year 2022.

As things happens in Ukraine, we had one girl from Kharkov on summer camp. She started dating one friend here and he keeps "dictionary" of things she misspelle.

There is a lot of good usernames there but the plactagonic relationship is my favourite.

Considering I moved here after deleting my Reddit account, I present to you...

In electrical engineering, a thevenin equivalent circuit is a small, simplified circuit that mimics the behavior of a large, complicated one for the purposes of calculation.

Whenever I talk on forums, I make effort to distill ideas that are often nuanced and math-heavy into something everyone can relate to. The thought once struck me that I'm making a thevenin equivalent of myself, and the name stuck.

it's a digital play on the word gadabout (one who wanders in search of amusement).

I like Oscar Wilde and puns.

I chose the username "computerfan" because I'm a fan of computers. Soon I found a website where that username was taken, so I added my (at the time) favourite number to the end and kept it ever since.

it’s the title of a YMO song!

I've got the same one here as on reddit, and on tildes as it happens. It is a variant on a local mythic being in my part of the world.

Anyone heard of Mitchiri Neko? I want a cat marching band

The Matrix is one of my fav movies ever. The first one, anyway. That scene where Dissolved Girl by Massive Attack plays, this piece of magic is seen

I've always been small like a rabbit. You should probably follow me, too.

It's just a cool sounding thing from my favorite anime that doesn't scream "I'm a total weaboo," also one of my favorite songs from said anime. (Eureka 7, well the song is from the """"sequel"""" and is one of the few redeeming parts, but anyway...)

It's a play on words for my name and generic. If anyone I know sees my username, they won't know it's me lol.

It's a reference to my last name, which, at least in the U.S., is much more commonly spelled with an e on the end. I always have to clarify that there's "no e on the end" whenever I give/spell my name to anyone.

I also make no secret of my actual identity and only say things I'd be comfortable saying in person. I know there's some risk of running into a crazy stalker person, but thankfully I haven't dealt with anything like that so far in my Internet years.

Mine originally was a reference to an album by Val Emmich, “Slow Down Kid”. I used that for a long time and finally decided that since I’m in my 30s it was time to drop the “kid” part. slowd0wn is now my online/gamer handle and has been for several years

I used “Saint Derelict” as a pen name for some poetry in high school, then in college I used it without the Saint as a character name in Numenera, and it stuck as a gamer name. I used it here because my other online handles are either unwieldy or name-based and I didn’t want a new one

It's my name.

shortened from username generator name

My is just the name of my fursona. I came up with it years ago by just combining parts of random words until I got something I liked and that was unique.

neco arc on kbin :D

I was really into Changeling: The Dreaming, cyberpunk, and old DOS 8.3 filenaming back in the day. It just stuck.

I thought of an username made up of shortening my first and last name when I was like twelve, and I just kept it. It's unique, unpronounceable, and long enough so I can claim it literally anywhere.

Julian Carax, a character in The Shadow of the Wind.

Boring, but I looked at my desk and saw a rolodex and a cisco switch. DEX CIS to DEXSIC

Well, have this thing where I like RnB, and also Perry the Platypus, so boom.

It's the Latin version of my name (which is just a tree), and vox for voice. So, Juniper's Voice. Rather on the nose, but I like it.

Now its time to..Kick out the JAMMs!

I like KLF, Illuminatus and peanut butter.

When my wife and I first started dating she called me Bear.

I also like Skyrim.

it's my name, with a 2k tacked onto the end, because I started using it a long time ago..

dry sarcasm aside, I have many online "handles" I use but I found that I'm totally ok consilidating most of my online presence under my real google-able identity.... MOST

I like the Longest Johns who wrote a song called Moby Duck, and I also like Radio Caroline a group of old-school offshore pirate radio enthusiasts set to be the last British radio station left on AM pretty soon, they broadcast on 648 kHz.

Mine is the first name plus last name initial of my OC, whom I renamed after realizing I was trans! So I use it everywhere lol.

I like anime, so I am an animefans

grape + apple = grapple

Its from a region from a certain JRPG I adore but misspelt

My old Ultima Online character's name was Tintagel (like the castle from Arthurian legend). I used LadyTintagel as a username for a long time, and eventually it was shortened to just Tin.

I got into an argument with my ex, and I came out of it feeling totally defeated and completely worthless; like nothing I ever said mattered to anyone. I deleted my first Reddit account and all my internet forum accounts the same night, since I had nothing to add to any discussion anywhere.

When I finally climbed my way out of that despair pit (and that relationship), I made a new, half-ironic username on that theme. "ad acta" is Latin, and it literally translates to "from the archives", but in common use it was a phrase meaning "irrelevant". So Vox ad Acta is "Voice of the Irrelevant".

Blue skies are an image of good times and I have chronic depression. I like making people smile, though, so I keep it upbeat.

I'm in California. Blue skies over California.

I shortened the last bit because I'm into the whole brevity thing, dude.

Never put the "original content"/OC thing together, but that works too.

I am a fan of Gene Wolfe's books, especially The Book of the New Sun. The main character of the books is named Severian, who claims he has ''perfect memory'' (or how he remembers things the way he prefers it)

It was the closest object to me when I needed a username several years ago.

My full name is Amanda and my gf nicknamed me Mandy, so henceforth that is all I shall be

Been using the handle for years since I started it in World of Warcraft. Just stuck with me.

I was making an account to play Command & Conquer: Renegade. The NOD team had a unit called the Chem Warrior that shot liquid tiberium like a flame thrower, thought it was super cool. Don't remember how I ended up on Slayer instead, but it stuck

If you have to ask, I have a TV series for you.

I’m terrible at naming things so I used a random username generator.

I also like to have numbers at the end so if anyone actually desires the username “Evergreen” I, who don’t really care too much about getting that specific username, will not be taking it from them. It’s a dictionary word, those get snapped up fast.

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