That's kind of how stage names work.
I've insisted people call me "esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie" for months and only like 2 people here ever did that. Breaks my heart.π
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Whoa whoa whoa, are you Margot Robbie? As in, the esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie? What an honor.
Of course I am, would I really lie to you over the Internet?
NGL, The first time I saw your username I really truly believed, and My heart was pounding and I was astounded and I was about to post something telling everyone that
she's really here! She's one of us!
I went down quite a rabbit hole reading everything in your profile before I realized
you're extremely knowledgeable about computers and you spend a lot of time on Lemmy, couldn't possibly be a world-traveling, in-high-demand, constantly busy Hollywood actress.
But I've also imagined after every interview we've seen her do, she immediately picks up her smartphone and goes straight to Lemmy because this is where she spends all her free time.
It's surprising how much extra time I can save when without Twitter or Instagram in my life.
Also, why can't I know a little bit about computers? Didn't I tell you Barbie is everything?
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I want to believe..
And I want to believe I will finally win that Oscar next March...
I will be rooting for you, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie
Fingers crossed that I'll get to call you esteemed Academy Award winning character actress Margot Robbie
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You're the most prolific person on Lemmy or I just always notice your comments. Because I'm a huge fan of course.
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Hey, have you ever met Taylor Swift? I heard she gives great IT security advice over at https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity
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Prince literally wanted us to call him a symbol with no explanation.
It took me years until I finally learned why he did that. It had something to do with the music industry owning his name. He reclaimed ownership of all his music and art and made a departure from the extortionate music industry.
Could've picked something easier to pronounce, though.
It was actually brilliant. Got everyone talking about him without really giving up βPrinceβ in the public consciousness.
Never thought of it that way but yeah. Gave up his name without actually giving it up. Brilliant. That guy was savy as fuck. Also a genius.
I asked GPT why:
In the early 1990s, Prince was embroiled in a contractual dispute with Warner Bros., his record company. He felt they were restraining his creativity by not allowing him to release albums as frequently as he desired. In 1993, in an act of rebellion, he changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, which was a combination of the male and female gender symbols, in order to free himself from his contract obligations to Warner Bros. Since the symbol had no pronunciation, he was often referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" during that period. He returned to using the name Prince in 2000, after his publishing contract with Warner Bros. expired.
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The unpronounceable symbol :
Hollow circle above downward arrow crossed with a curlicued horn-shaped symbol and then a short bar
(known to fans as the "Love Symbol")
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Artists be like that. Stage names have been a thing for quite some time.
Writers use pen names too. I'm kinda confused why OP even thinks this is notable?
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I'm a performer, people have literally worked under the assumption that my stage name is my legal name. It's not really surprising.
Vin Diesels real name is Mark Sinclair and weve all accepted that too. Marilyn Manson's name is Brian Warner and Alice Cooper was born Vincent Furnier. Stage names are pretty common with performers
But Sinclair stations DO sell diesel.
Gene Simmons is really Chaim Witz
I love this thread. It's becoming informative and amusing.
Isn't that just kind of... how names are supposed to work?
I had to double back to your comment because at first I glances at it and thought yeah... Then I thought about it some more and thought .... Yes! That is exactly how they work. Papers plus or minus but that is the way they work. We all agree upon it and bam. You are now named!
The fact there is a dude out there who wants to be called "Buckethead" and wears a bucket of KFC over his head but also has the sickest guitar skills ever is even weirder.
Never heard of Buckethead before so I had to look him up. HOLY FUCK can that dude shred.
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JK Rowling also writes as Robert Galbraith.
Does that qualify as irony?
Like Rafael Cruzβs proposal that everyone else must use their given name, TERFs have rules for thee not for me.
Irony of the subtype heavy.
In case people don't know, JK Rowling's pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men's brains. He claims to have "cured" one of them. He did lots of other fucked up things too, and of course Rowling denies her pen name has anything to do with him. FWIW, she also claims she's not a bigot, but her words and actions clearly indicate otherwise.
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Nobody gives a shit anymore. You could tell people to call you Tree Stump and most would. Of course you'd better have a good story (true or otherwise) for when someone asks about it and not just some boring idunno.
Lady Gaga:
Like a lot of celebrities?
.....yeah? What about that fact?
All I know is that I love it when they call me big papa.
Often, while waving their hands in the air like they just don't care.
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