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What's the story behind your username? Is it the one you use most commonly?

Mine came out randomly when I signed up for reddit actually. Because I thought I wouldn't really be using the account much, I chose a random verb. dwindles is a nickname that jonstoppable gave me and I decided to use it here.

I've used a range of usernames before, the majority of them super cringey.

I tried to make up a word and it turned out to be a word.

Several years ago I was in an electronic mash up duo called soundclip. I just used the same name for my reddit account, which I've only had one.

If your curious I guess here's one. Weird revisiting the page.

http://m.soundcloud.com/soundclip/scien ... ve-vs-mims

When I first signed up for a reddit account, I was excited to use the forum for political discussion/debate. Of course, that plan went to hell quickly, and I was still stuck with the username "TheUnwashedMasses". When I went on IRC, I wanted to use something related but different, and "Molasses" and "Masses" have enough assonance for me to dig it.

Mine comes from my dad always calling me by my initials as a kid... He'd be like "Hey RJB... man" and it just stuck.

I used to love the old Lucas Arts games when I was a kid (Monkey Island, LOOM), and Bobbin Threadbare was the main character in LOOM.



I started calling myself Bobbin from the moment I got online and I use it to separate my professional and personal life. My friends and girlfriend call me Bobbin more than anything else.

Uh.... I think I was high and eating rice pudding.

birthed back when outkast was popular and their music vids were constantly being played on tv and I needed a username for some bougie forum and I used it as my handle ever since. andre3000->sid3000. thankyou.

can't remember, sorry

I needed a username for neopets and I've just kind of used it since.

Flossing while creating account for video games.

my first name is hebrew 'elisheva'. sheva means promise as well as the number 7, hence eli7

i'm so dead inside

My friends and I joked about starting a grindcore band called Thomas PAINe where we just screamed excerpts of Thomas Paine's writings.

It's just a nickname that's somewhat based on my real name. Boring answer.

Just by adding a letter to my name

my online handles are usually character names from the movies Stingray Sam or American Astronaut

I was thirteen and signing up for an online space game where I wanted to call my empire "Space Monkeys" because lol random
I ran out of ideas when filling in the various names for different bits of my empire so put "Monkeys" backwards for a thing I thought was unimportant but turned out to be the name visible to everyone. Everyone got to know me by that name so I just kept it for everything since.

my friend's cat died

i shortened it to make it sound less stupid but it didn't work

I name myself after composers. It's pronounced beyla.

i used to be good at cod on the wii (no brag but i was on the top of the ffa leaderboards) to the point where i reg get hacking messages, and at the age of 14 the idea of 'you got killed by MAJhacks' was a extremely witty play on words to rustle my opponents further. and it stuck.

Not true, majhax is just an abreviation of his full title:

"Major General Jonathan Maximillian 'Hacks' Dunning, Viscount Windsor"

i actually typed this from my yacht

Need I say more?

i made a reddit account just for posting to FFA/MFA/the whole fashion-discussion ecosystem over there. went through a list of intriguing fashion personalities and really liked schiaparelli (in spelling and in the story of her life). the more i use this username the greater preference i exhibit for bright pink. it's very curious.

i actually have a list of potential usernames on my hard drive since i generally don't like to reuse them (aside from stuff directly attached to my real-life/professional identity).

my parents almost named me Michael with the intention to call me Mickey

My father wanted me to be called Adam so people couldn't tell I was brown.

My parents called me Adam and nobody mistakes me for being brown except my nan who once thought I was one of those arab terrorists because i grew a beard and was standing far away wearing a big coat when she saw me for the first time in a few months

See? It probably would have worked.