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It was my username on my porn account on Reddit. I derived it from my not porn account that I also used for other things and people IRL knew. I ended up using this one way more so kept it when Reddit banned me and I came over here.
I don't remember where my name came from but maybe it's a variation off the NES game The Astyanax
It's just a name I put into a BBS when I signed up 35ish years ago and I've used everywhere since.
Shit!
I got bored of winning all these fuckin accolades for porn.
Then the world started runnin outta french fries and burrito coverins, people starvin and shit.
Enough was enough!
President Camacho 2024!
A fairy name generator.
Mistakes.
I created a test account on SDF pubnix. Since it was a test account, I didn't use my usual username, but just user224. Then some good user (xiled) decided to verify my account. Thus I had to stick with it.
Then later on Twitter I've seen SDF announce their Lemmy instance. Not knowing what Lemmy is, I've used the same username as on SDF pubnix, which was an accident.
I can't change it either, and this account has some history already. Just building up on mistakes. Just like when I find a "temporary" solution to something.
It's my lizard's name
I made it up myself. I came up with the phrase decades ago, and recently decided it was time for a new online moniker since a number of people were able to deduce my real identity based on my old one I'd used for a couple decades prior.
I appreciate numbers.
It used to be the name of my character back when I played DnD, and the very origin was some online dwarvish names generator.
Mine is an old Black Crusade character name. The original Xariphon was a scholar-warrior.
I like Marvin from hhgttg. Also, I have sleep issues.
I think mine is kinda obvious but in case it isn't, it's "GNU" in the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet. I got it because I like aviation and Linux... and also because I'm too autistic to get a more normal one
I like glitchy stuff, and I had friends who added "-ington" to everything for laughs.
Abbreviation of my real name yields "NW". I decided to add wind to make it a Hong Kong slang.
Back in the olden days I played Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast at a buddys home. I didn't have a username for online play and I think he had gotten his from a Majoras Mask guide, so I flipped through it and randomly chose Gibdos. It's been my one and only username for over 20 years now.
Golden Sun for GBA... except it was taken so I added an I... it's occasionally taken so sometimes I switch it for a 1 but I hate doing that
One of my favourite characters from a book.
Was my reddit username for ten years. When I joined reddit it was through the swimming sub, looking for info on waterproof MP3 players so I could swim laps while listening to AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Slayer, etc etc. I'm a bogan that swim laps pretty much every day.... therefore waterbogan
I had a boss back in the day that I had a really good rapport with, and he would jokingly call me Shrek because I was almost a foot taller than he was. I also worked in a lot of restaurants in my late teens to early twenties and found a love for cooking that has never really gone away.
I just love the Kirby game series cuz it’s really cute but I also love Kirby himself as well at it being a reference to Kirbo from TerminalMontage, who I also equally love as is one of my fave YouTubers.
808 is a reference to the Roland TR-808 drum machine, referencing to many of my favourite electronic/alternative/hip hop musicians that have used it.
Also I love being cringe too so there’s that too xD
I was making a WoW character (back in the days even the Burning Crusade wasn't there yet). It was a troll with big tusks, so I thought he'd need a toothpick or two.
And the spelling is from "Don't be a menace to South Central...", there was a stupid gangster under this name, he's my soul animal.
Not allowed to answer this question
Huge fan of GWAR and always used their lead singers name for online accounts.
Main character from The Darkness that Comes Before/The Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker. Liked the character, liked the name, loved the books.
A half-assed variation of "bah humbug"...
If by that you mean the URL one, it's a combination of different anime characters, but if by that you mean the one you see on comments, it's short for the one I've had at birth. You can change how it looks in the account settings.
I used to like soda a lot when I was a kid.
Random word generator.
Combined a few numbers that are meaningful to me, turned it into hex, and here we are.
My name
I stole it from some old-timey sailors who were shooting the breeze.