ant
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exerian
@exerian

i chose mine because i wanted it to start with exe so that people in mmos would just call me exe and i wanted it to sound vaguely feminine so i played with every collection of syllables i could imagine until something stuck. now this has been my primary username/character name/blog name/whatever on basically everything for like 20 years. lol


gock
@gock

i think this username speaks for itself. lmao


ireneista
@ireneista

we iterated through every morpheme we could think of for the ending, evaluating it on how we liked the sound of it, on how many people were using it per cursor searches of social media (preferring fewer), on whether it was diminutive (preferring not), and then we came up with one that has a hidden meaning that people with the appropriate background sometimes recognize but that typically goes unnoticed although its connotations may have subconscious effect.

so we went with that one, because we're all about that sort of thing.


ring
@ring

I think of concepts I like and then look up words related to them that I think sound neat. Ring was actually a name I used for a while when I was younger, but naturally it's taken on most sites. Plasma Ring was kind of a happy accident because I started looking up stuff related to ionized air and ran across this. Trying not to get famous ever so my porn doesn't come up in search results for the people working on very normal stuff like fusion power.


nicuveo
@nicuveo

I used to use the English <-> Sindarin dictionary to find several words that resonated with the project / character i was trying to name, and then smoosh them together and massage the syllables until it sounded pronounceable in English.


arborelia
@arborelia

I took the word "arboretic" from a Bon Iver song I liked. This was not a unique username.

Later, when I realized my gender, I made the name more femme-sounding. I tried a bunch of variants that sounded wrong. Then I saw "arboretic" misspelled as "arborelic" in a twitch chat and it got me to "arborelia", which sounded enough like me that the "elia" part became my actual name.


SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

i dunno but i have some egrets about mine


Chicanery
@Chicanery
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irisjaycomics
@irisjaycomics

i'm iris. i would've just gone with "irisjay" on here but i'm "irisjaycomics" on every other social media site, and also if you don't like my comics then don't fuckin follow me lol


ompuco
@ompuco

i got excited when typing computer company and a few years later i liked how it sounded

(and now i'm uco!)

Giik
@Giik

Wii + Geek. This was back when the Wii was new. I went by "nintengeek" before that for similar reasons.


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I can't even remember why I chose my base username (which is my blog name here, I guess), but I remember I added the esoteric part when making a steam account because triangle was unsrurpisingly taken. I wanted something that rolled off the tongue nicely and added flavor, and esoteric felt right.

What's interesting to me is I feel like I've grown into the name a lot; I continue to delve deeper into weird niches of information and amass a sprawling network of interconnected ideas. I'm a nice stable corner for all this weirdness but I've got some sharp edges. Names giving Form is endlessly fascinating to me.

(the bad part about my onlinename is it is 16 characters with no space and things tend to arbitrarily stop at 15!!)

it's hard but i brainstorm a lot of words i like and then start winnowing them down to what speaks to me most at the given moment.

in the case of Cohost it was also interesting because so many short and basic words were still available.

i have ~3 usernames

@a2aaron is the most common. its my name + where i live. i had this for basically all my life (literally since i was a child)

@gnar was chosen because i like gnar from league. hes very cute :3

i sometimes go by “DeltaRunicGnar” which is just deltarune + gnar, because i also like deltarune lol. tbh my usernames are not extremely deep

Almost 30 years ago I sent a straight-faced joke email around to my friends that got out of control and soon thereafter everyone was referring to me as “joXn”. That ended up being convenient for me in the end. It turns out that “joXn” is just odd enough to not be snapped up early as a username, so I usually manage to get it when a hot new website comes around.

in my case I performed a series of increasingly esoteric adaptations of the name I’d used since childhood (which more-or-less appeared to me in a dream)

could be better but I already wiped one identity off the internet and I’m not doing that again lol

bck356 was generated as my username by my college when I was still going and I just kept it

bck are my initials but I don't know what the 356 means

Brett is what the b in bck stands for

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