It was meant to be a nonsensical placeholder until I decided on something better. Then I realized we can’t change our usernames and now I’m stuck with it.
It’s the last name of a character from a webtoon series that I ended up loving. Great world building and it was the second story I read. Loved him so much that I adopted the name and I have been using it for years now. Plan on making it my legal last name
In my early teens, proper LOTR geek that I was, I used a name generator that turned my name into my elf name. I started using it for creating an email account (same I use today), as a nick, etc. And every time I thought about finding a new one, I remember I’m shit at coming up with names. And, I have never, not once, been told “username taken”! So it just stuck.
In the good old days on the internet we insisted anything uploaded on the internet belongs to any user of the internet. In other words, the internet is some sort of communist society.
So if you ever downloaded some files from the internet ‘to make sure they are not lost’ at some point in your life, you are basically an internet communist. Or, an internetcommie. I’m not sure why the underscore but maybe it makes reading it easier.
Have always enjoyed “Beowulf”, but thought Grendel got a bum wrap. There’s also a book titled “Grendel” by John Gardner.
So, I’ve used “Grendel” since the mid 90’s. Then comes that horrible animated movie in 2005. “Grendel” becomes popular so I went with another term from “Beowulf””: ‘Grendel. A Grim Spirit. Keeper of the fen and the fastness.”
I wanted “onioner,” as in “one who onions,” but that was taken, so settled for “onioning,” or “the act of onions.”
Basically, I think onions are super cool. Foundation to almost every cuisine on Earth (damn you Jainists and Innuits!).
Unfortunately people often think it’s either a reference to The Onion, or the practice of weighing up more expensive items as less expensive items (like onions) at self-service checkouts. Which, cool, if that’s your thing. Not hating, but that’s not me.
I chose it for all my socials when I was like 12 because I hate my given name. I use a different username now on everything else, but I can’t change it on here.
I used to just use “Nazzer”, and for a while I used “Dawk” on minecraft. When I first went to sign up for Steam so I could buy Audiosurf, however, “Nazzer” was taken, so I combined it to make “nazzerdawk”. This was 2009.
“Nazzer” came from the phonetic pronunciation of my initials. I actually also used it for Minecraft initially, but I got banned from one server for griefing or something dumb like that, and quickly made a new account (At this point in time they were still free) and chose “dawk” because I looked around and saw my copy of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins on my shelf.
I was dealing with untreated depression when I picked my username. I’m medicated now, more content however I have grown really attached to my username.
my brothers bday 4/4 and then 4ever as a sorta play on words. He has a life threatening illness so I use it to stand with him and show that I care. I’ve been told that it gets mistaken for meaning that I like a certain political figure, which I didn’t realize until it they said it but who cares that’s not why I made it lmao
Nickname in world of warcraft was Pan. I was a decent tank and someone in our guild said I was doing a fantastic job. My girlfriend (now wife) then said that I was pantastic. The studios was meant to be a youtube/twitch thing but never took off but Pantastic_Studios is kinda still my own personal branding thing.
I’m not very open about my asexuality and back when I was into kpop I discovered there was a group called ACE that wrote a song titled Undercover. It seemed perfect so I just went for it 😂
I was in the shower when my roommate downstairs said “what are we gonna do, play duck duck goose?” I heard ducked up goose and spent the rest of the shower trying to figure out what the hell that is.
My best buddy and roommate at the time bought me a gift at a thrift store because “he saw it and HAD to buy it for me.”
It was huge and possibly the most tacky and ridiculous painting I had ever seen. A mother and baby unicorn, chillin’ in a cave/metior flying through outer space. Complete with obnoxious, tacky frame and everything.
To this day I cherish that gloriously awful painting. It hangs proudly in my garage taking up the majority of a wall. (It’s legit like 6ft x 4ft).
I was dating a woman who was interested in swinging and being a hotwife. We created this account to meet potential partners. She had big tits and was 38 years old.
But also. I work a fancy job (top law school, super high end law firm, etc.), so I always chuckle when I’m talking about froofy things then this is my username.
Comments
It’s pretty obvious
Guess
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I’m attracted to them.
If I had free will I would have made it loyal_illithid_thrall but I guess Reddit thinks I’m irreplaceable
Bc like Mario kart
By stating a fact
A moose once bit my sister…
High school nickname
I want a nap
it was destiny
Just thought it was a cute name
Sometimes I don’t feel like a real human
South Park reference
I wanted to see some.
I saw a lot of people using the name throwaway so I used it too not knowing that it meant that I use it for a little and never again
I just… do it a lot.
Realized that I am a crazy person and have a lot to tell that I don’t tell anyone
Ralph Wiggum
Old nickname
Pop, lock it, drop it.
its just who i am
I “like” Gojira, the kaiju and the band.
Watched Die Hard
It came from a reference in Quake. And it was initially all edgelord-y with altenating caps because it was 1996 and I was a teenager.
(76m) I have lots of real life stories to tell and I like to share them on Reddit.
I’m scrawny and peak twink despite being straight, and I have a tinky winky costume so my fiancée calls me that
It fits me lol
It was meant to be a nonsensical placeholder until I decided on something better. Then I realized we can’t change our usernames and now I’m stuck with it.
So, there I was….
It’s the last name of a character from a webtoon series that I ended up loving. Great world building and it was the second story I read. Loved him so much that I adopted the name and I have been using it for years now. Plan on making it my legal last name
In my early teens, proper LOTR geek that I was, I used a name generator that turned my name into my elf name. I started using it for creating an email account (same I use today), as a nick, etc. And every time I thought about finding a new one, I remember I’m shit at coming up with names. And, I have never, not once, been told “username taken”! So it just stuck.
I intended to use it for some role playing and then just kept using it.
A jab at the name GrayStillPlays
In the good old days on the internet we insisted anything uploaded on the internet belongs to any user of the internet. In other words, the internet is some sort of communist society.
So if you ever downloaded some files from the internet ‘to make sure they are not lost’ at some point in your life, you are basically an internet communist. Or, an internetcommie. I’m not sure why the underscore but maybe it makes reading it easier.
Was feeling melancholic about my life.
I didn’t. Reddit gave it to me automatically. So I roll with it.
I l♡ve Paris, so I picked a Paris themed username
Joke from college about how bad AI was back then
I’m a fatass who loves sweets. I’m trying to lose weight, and I am, but I was comparing myself to a marshmallow 🍡
My name i guess
just watched a bill nye video before creating the account
Lucid visionmaker gear from Tera Online and Monkey Nuts from Runescape.
I have an interest in women with a certain hair color
I was given it from Reddit
A degree in Paralegal Studies
I was looking at the keys trying to figure out which buttons to push.
Went to the first Earth day & am concerned about the future of the planet
It’s inspired by my favorite Disney princess, and the date her movie came out. 🙂 Huge Disney fan.
30 min after I got to work and had a coffee
Totally not my real name, my name Jeff
Typed something random. I made this account in 5th grade
It’s my username everywhere steam, ps5, Xbox, and discord I got kami from dbz so basicly it means doomed God which i thought would be ironic
Its poop with turd in the middle
Reddit literally did not let me, it just automatically gave me a boring ass default name
The website tv tropes has a page titled “chivalrous pervert,” but I was too much of a coward to add the pervert part
I picked it out of the recommended username list
Looked in the mirror
I’m one taco short of a combination plate.
Every thing I tried was taken. It seemed similar to click bait to me. 🤷♂️
Have always enjoyed “Beowulf”, but thought Grendel got a bum wrap. There’s also a book titled “Grendel” by John Gardner.
So, I’ve used “Grendel” since the mid 90’s. Then comes that horrible animated movie in 2005. “Grendel” becomes popular so I went with another term from “Beowulf””: ‘Grendel. A Grim Spirit. Keeper of the fen and the fastness.”
Who doesn’t like buttered kernals?
I allowed it to be randomly generated, but there’s proof that it’s a good fit for me.
I was high and felt like dopamine was really working in my favor that day
It just popped into my head
I’ll get back to you on that
It’s a pseudonym that I invented for myself. F and X are my favorite letters, and Forsythia Xzaviera was my favorite of all the names I thought of.
My hair transplant is slowing killing me.
Put my name in it
It was the only name available on pokemon go I could find without numbers so now I js use it for everything
I’m addicted to energy drinks specifically white monster and Gfuel
No clue
Reddit picked it, and I was too lazy and didn’t care enough to change it.
I was born with it
finding nemos best joke
In 1997, when I signed up for my university UNIX Bulletin Board, it asked me for a username.
I’d never had to pick a username for anything before, and my eye fell on the bare brick wall in the computer lab.
I’ve been using it ever since, though these days I mostly have to append my year of birth, 78, as just “Brickie” is usually gone
I wanted “onioner,” as in “one who onions,” but that was taken, so settled for “onioning,” or “the act of onions.”
Basically, I think onions are super cool. Foundation to almost every cuisine on Earth (damn you Jainists and Innuits!).
Unfortunately people often think it’s either a reference to The Onion, or the practice of weighing up more expensive items as less expensive items (like onions) at self-service checkouts. Which, cool, if that’s your thing. Not hating, but that’s not me.
well, I’m into anime and all and plus I’m cute lol
I let Reddit choose and I didn’t feel like changing it
Starcraft.
I just knew.
Easy, I didn’t. Reddit created it for me and I have no idea how to change it.
The way my parents and cousins who weren’t born in Canada pronounce my name. I’m Korean/Japanese.
I couldn’t think of something funny
It was my nickname throughout my life.
I suffer from seizures.
https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/civil-procedure/civil-procedure-keyed-to-marcus/describing-and-defining-the-dispute/wigglesworth-v-teamsters-local-union-no-592/amp/
Sinestro was taken, so I chose to be better
Wanted something nondescript
Every name I could think of was stupid
Everyone is a potate
I didn’t, I just went with what Reddit suggested.
Had a bag of cough drops sitting on my desk.
I like glittery stuff and thangs
I chose it for all my socials when I was like 12 because I hate my given name. I use a different username now on everything else, but I can’t change it on here.
It’s a sentence from Bojack Horseman
I used to just use “Nazzer”, and for a while I used “Dawk” on minecraft. When I first went to sign up for Steam so I could buy Audiosurf, however, “Nazzer” was taken, so I combined it to make “nazzerdawk”. This was 2009.
“Nazzer” came from the phonetic pronunciation of my initials. I actually also used it for Minecraft initially, but I got banned from one server for griefing or something dumb like that, and quickly made a new account (At this point in time they were still free) and chose “dawk” because I looked around and saw my copy of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins on my shelf.
I like the plant.
I’ve always liked Kirby
my dad had this username on aol back in the day. he doesnt use social medias in any form cuz he doesnt care for them. so i took it for myself.
I was dealing with untreated depression when I picked my username. I’m medicated now, more content however I have grown really attached to my username.
This one time, at band camp…no, for real though, my nickname is Weezy. Lil Wayne said it best. “It’s Weezy baby”
My dad used to always use “Sunk Monkey” to describe someone that’s in trouble or screwed. It kind of stuck.
Actual Bacon Expert
My first DnD character I played from level 1 to level 5…. In the 90s.
“SV Libertine” was the USCG call sign and documented name of my previous sailboat I owned and lived on (Catalina 42)…when I finally joined Reddit.
my brothers bday 4/4 and then 4ever as a sorta play on words. He has a life threatening illness so I use it to stand with him and show that I care. I’ve been told that it gets mistaken for meaning that I like a certain political figure, which I didn’t realize until it they said it but who cares that’s not why I made it lmao
Nickname in world of warcraft was Pan. I was a decent tank and someone in our guild said I was doing a fantastic job. My girlfriend (now wife) then said that I was pantastic. The studios was meant to be a youtube/twitch thing but never took off but Pantastic_Studios is kinda still my own personal branding thing.
I had just watched Constantine
Well I’m not weird.
Take a wild guess.
I am a great grandmother. My cat Ike stuck his ass in my face. Cats do that kind of shit.
I accidentally signed up for Reddit and didn’t know I created an account.
Can I change my username?
I wanted my name to be BIG! Like, really BIG!!!!
But I didn’t want to use my real name.
I’m confident, but shy.
😎🙃
Best movie
45 minute crush on the receptionist
It is a Boy Scout song that I misspelled horribly
I’m not very open about my asexuality and back when I was into kpop I discovered there was a group called ACE that wrote a song titled Undercover. It seemed perfect so I just went for it 😂
it’s a variation of my real life name
I tried typing in my favorite Nintendo character with something I wasn’t going to have to put a number after. Got my 1st pick!
Reddit generated it randomly for me but I love lychee so it worked for me!
I like blue. And it’s none of your business.
color + animal
sounded cool
It’s been me with all the way from AOL chats to JustForFans.
It’s my favorite phrase
It’s self explanatory.
Well..
I used to be exitzero. Someone stole my account and deleted 12 years of posts.
I’m a busy wizard
Its just funny to say and think about
I have anxiety that comes on in waves, like storms.
My Dad has constantly screamed it out loud since I’ve been able to hear. 💩🤣
I was in the shower when my roommate downstairs said “what are we gonna do, play duck duck goose?” I heard ducked up goose and spent the rest of the shower trying to figure out what the hell that is.
A line from my favorite song in my teen years.
It’s my childhood nickname
My best buddy and roommate at the time bought me a gift at a thrift store because “he saw it and HAD to buy it for me.”
It was huge and possibly the most tacky and ridiculous painting I had ever seen. A mother and baby unicorn, chillin’ in a cave/metior flying through outer space. Complete with obnoxious, tacky frame and everything.
To this day I cherish that gloriously awful painting. It hangs proudly in my garage taking up the majority of a wall. (It’s legit like 6ft x 4ft).
I thought about Inspector Gadget, and I’m a dumbass.
Lethal in high doses.
I was dating a woman who was interested in swinging and being a hotwife. We created this account to meet potential partners. She had big tits and was 38 years old.
Two decades in tech support.
I watch a lot of Chopped.
I didn’t know i couldn’t change it from the default after i made my account
Because most of the shit I say is pretty stupid.
But also. I work a fancy job (top law school, super high end law firm, etc.), so I always chuckle when I’m talking about froofy things then this is my username.
Lack of imagination.
Looked down
I hate cops
I love triple portmanteaus.
Narcissist+Narcissa+sista=Narcissista.
I also love Harry Potter and didn’t think anyone IRL would think to trace this name back to me. And I didn’t have to add any numbers etc.
I looked up into the corner of the room I was in at the time.
Random generation
I make zee clones.
Mine is from a Kurtis Conner video. Now I don’t even remember which one. Possibly the vegan teacher one???
I just don’t give a fuck anymore
I think you know
I made mine without any awareness that this beloved TV show GoT would eat itself in the end
Whoever has seen The Wire will understand.
It’s my Minecraft username, also it just sounds cool (at least to me)
I used to have 3 guinea pigs that I called my fluffy potatoes. they’ve sadly all crossed the rainbow bridge 😔
Simon says and blues clues
It was an automated name given to me on Game Center and I just kept it for other things as well
I went to a mysterious assassin school.
It was a slow progression, but now they’re almost black.
If you know what I am, you know. If you don’t, I don’t exist.
By thinking
Reddit made it for me😆😆
I was a really good butcher. Gretzky was the greatest. And number 99. Hence butcher99
Parks and Rec is my comfort show and gay rights.
it came to me
Used to watch Viva La Bam back in the day.
Reddit sucks time ergo a deficit of efficient use of time.
At one point I had a whole bunch of computers in all networked together in my basement just for fun, because I could. Typical computer nerd behavior.
i clicked the randomize button
Fictional surf shop in a fanfic written by an incredibly talented human
He was and is the best candidate for president!
I like sluggs
insomnia
I could give y’all a guess