What's the story behind your username?

[Yousef]

I’ll try to sound cool and mysterious by saying there’s no story. But in truth it’s just what I like to be called, haha.

 

[deceptionfalls]

Mine is just my favorite album, deception falls by exociety. Plus it sounds cool when you put both words together :D

 

[Siggy]

It's a nickname my friend calls me and I think it's cute ?

 

[Axel_Dragani]

Its my real name :p

 

[Gorse]

Its my real name :p

You have the coolest name ever.

 

[vermilion]

For more information visit.

 

[CausticDisco]

It's a song by an Industrial band named Velvet Acid Christ, one of their more notable tracks and a damn good song at that.

I felt it was very fitting descriptor of who I am currently; I can be very bitter and pessimistic at times (Caustic), but at the end of the day I'm determined to have a great time and nothing will stop me from doing so (Disco)

 

[Gingervitis]

I have red hair irl

 

[Cu-Neo]

In my case I use my last name (Cuneo) but I modified it a little

 

[46neko]

96neko (kuro neko, black cat) utaite but white (46, shiro, white)

 

[PKT]

I used to have a longer username. At some point I shortened it to 3 letters to use on an arcade cabinet and liked it more this way.

 

[Octopus]

I just like octopi.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I have red hair irl

I like you already XD

 

[werewolfgimmick]

I've been using it for a while in different sites, it's one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands, The Mountain Goats.

 

[Parasite_Steve]

It's a dumb joke on a now semi-forgotten horror rpg franchise and its protagonist. I never got to use it back in the day because I thought of it just as I was leaving gaming forums (for good I thought) as they were becoming more toxic right-wingish.
Coincidentally I've come out as trans in the meantime.

 

[PKT]

I've been using it for a while in different sites, it's one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands, The Mountain Goats.

Nice, another Mountain Goats fan

 

[philthyweeb]

This might be a weird one.
 I was never really the most creative, and i was especially bad at naming things. So when I was a really small kid i used to play this obscure but really generic browser mmo.....of uh um Fairy Tail. And i was at like 1st grade back then so i didnt even know much of what i was doing on there, it gave me a randomized English username; "Phil Holm" and i just thought its the character's name and didn't even change it.

Sometimes I played that game like 8 hours a day on my brother's laptop when my parents weren't home to yell at me. I even got my character to rank A and was this close to getting rank S. Unfortunately, the server i was playing on got shutdown and i lost everything. Some time later, that game also shutdown (more like replaced by another game, i never liked the newer one as much) And well since then I've been using that same username on everything everywhere, as an homage i suppose, also partly because i couldn't come up with anything better (I had tried countless times).

Then one day after many years i finally modified it a bit, to make it sound more like an actual username/gamertag rather than some european dude's government name,

Behold, PhilthyWeeb

Yes, a pun. The epitome of my creative struggles.

Side note: As for why a 1st grader liked such a fan service heavy bait anime as Fairy Tail, I SWEAR ITS NOT WHAT YOU THINK!
Ahem, rest assured i hadn't reached puberty yet. We used to have Animax on TV back then and Fairy Tail had a more modern artstyle to it compared to the other old school 90s and early 2000s animes that would air normally and so i was drawn to it, also i found Natsu cool.

TL;DR : I literally got it from a random name generator.

 

[Deleted member 537]

it comes from my favorite JRPG franchise, Dragon Quest, and my favorite enemy from there, the Dracky.

 

[philthyweeb]

This might be a weird one.
 I was never really the most creative, and i was especially bad at naming things. So when I was a really small kid i used to play this obscure but really generic browser mmo.....of uh um Fairy Tail. And i was at like 1st grade back then so i didnt even know much of what i was doing on there, it gave me a randomized English username; "Phil Holm" and i just thought its the character's name and didn't even change it.

Sometimes I played that game like 8 hours a day on my brother's laptop when my parents weren't home to yell at me. I even got my character to rank A and was this close to getting rank S. Unfortunately, the server i was playing on got shutdown and i lost everything. Some time later, that game also shutdown (more like replaced by another game, i never liked the newer one as much) And well since then I've been using that same username on everything everywhere, as an homage i suppose, also partly because i couldn't come up with anything better (I had tried countless times).

Then one day after many years i finally modified it a bit, to make it sound more like an actual username/gamertag rather than some european dude's government name,

Behold, PhilthyWeeb

Yes, a pun. The epitome of my creative struggles.

Side note: As for why a 1st grader liked such a fan service heavy bait anime as Fairy Tail, I SWEAR ITS NOT WHAT YOU THINK!
Ahem, rest assured i hadn't reached puberty yet. We used to have Animax on TV back then and Fairy Tail had a more modern artstyle to it compared to the other old school 90s and early 2000s animes that would air normally and so i was drawn to it, also i found Natsu cool.

TL;DR : I literally got it from a random name generator.

you know after writing all this i just realized i literally have a natsu dragneel profile picture. It's just been there on my google account for so long i dont even notice it anymore. Actually, i dont even like fairy tail nowadays, like how the hell is it still going on???

 

[fake-kun]

It's just a random word that popped in my head when I was registering.

 

[TheWanderer]

Not really an interesting one but i like the wandering Arabian travelers in the desert ,it feels cool

 

[nonotz]

in our dialect (one of Indonesia's province) one of the word for penis is nonok ... ofc as a kid i will use that somehow without sounding too direct

hence ive been using this nickname since then..
and also because :
its usually available when registering to an new website so i dont have to spend 5 billion years thinking about a new nickname

 

[RetroLaw]

Not really an interesting one but i like the wandering Arabian travelers in the desert ,it feels cool

Actually I'm pretty sure the desert feels hot. Really really hot.

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in our dialect (one of Indonesia's province) one of the word for penis is nonok

I almost used the username Max Quequette which I used in fighting games and can be translated as "maximum wiener".

 

[PhrawzT]

Saw a guy with the same name in an AOL chat room 30 years ago and decided to steal it. My friend Dave kept calling "Frozzzz-teeeee" and it just stuck as my online persona for decades.

 

[RetroLaw]

Saw a guy with the same name in an AOL chat room 30 years ago and decided to steal it. My friend Dave kept calling "Frozzzz-teeeee" and it just stuck as my online persona for decades.

Stealing is definitively something Homer would do.