Not sure how other people do it but i tend to take a spiritual approach and meditate on it

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

im loni

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.

I have absolutely no idea, I struggle to remember others' names or come up with new ones for my own online identities

"what would we call someone who could've seen things happening in hindsight?"

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

im tin roof because im a hot cat

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

Username = names of my pet tortoises + how old I was when I made it.
For the display name, asked some people what my nonbinary hacker name should be, and it was the suggestion that spoke to me most.

enjoy a hog

I made it as a kid and it's somehow stuck since.

I was a dork when I was 12 and creating a Minecraft username, so I came up with the two coolest words I knew then, ninja and phoenix. It's stuck ever sense