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irelephant [he/him] @lemmy.dbzer0.com

2mo ago

What's the most creative username you have seen?

I saw someone with "inner-child-abortion-clinic" on tumblr.

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My personal favorite is FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
- Kind of similar to your own, there.
  
  No theirs has humor, class and sophistication.
- Unless you are specifying a mailto link, you need to preface the username with @ to mention them, i.e @RobotZap10000@feddit.nl
  
  Thanks.
  I was attempting to say the name without mentioning them directly.
- Oh, yoo-hoo, @SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world!
  
  What’s up?
- Yours was the first I thought of after reading the question…

To this day, I remember from probably twenty years ago or more seeing something on SomethingAwful that included the name “HPHovercraft” and it’s just the greatest. I’ll never forget it.
- I don't get it?
  
  Spin on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
  
  Is this a question? Is the answer no?

Pretzlcoatl
- Similarly, quetzaldilla.

My brother, when he was playing Overwatch back then, was killed by someone called Kim Jong Skillz

For tumblr, that username is cute. For LinkedIn, it would be brilliant.
- I think your user name is pretty freaking clever, too. Nice job!
  
  thanks!

I think the first person to use an obfuscated name like lIiḷ|ḷiIl was pretty clever.
- This has me really curious about the most obfuscated, ambiguous/difficult/problematic possible usernames both for security/privacy and interesting anomalies in general.
  Feel like one could make a whole book on this -- please send any resources that could shed insight if possible
  
  I wonder if you can break copy-paste by mixing in similar looking characters from a right-to-left language.
  
  I don’t know what technically constitutes the most troublesome username, but surely some of the kaomoji Japanese folks have come up with are up there. Good luck trying to type these.
  ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ੈ♡‧₊˚
  
  Two biggest terms I found in my research - 'Confuseables' and Homoglyphs Allographs and homographs are good runnerups Superbly informative wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph

Margot Robbie used to be around here
- She was an extremely active user here, despite being a busy Academy Award nominated actress. I assume she’s busy filming her next movie, or maybe in talks to do Barbie 2.
  Such a shame because she was actively involved in the Fediverse. We need more Academy Award nominated character actors and actresses to join. Then this place would really take off.
  @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world, not sure if you’re still filming out of the country but drop a line here if you can take a break from your busy schedule!
  
  there's no way this is legit

Reanu Keeves
- Sounds familiar. I think I saw him in Skyrim a few times.
- You're treathbaking! You're all treathbaking!
- Hey name sibling!
  
  Hey there lol

Definitely not mine. First, too many people don't actually pay attention to realize it's not "fuck" and surprisingly too few people get the joke considering Lemmy is so Linux crazy. But most frustratingly, people just assume I'm an asshole because of it and then treat me like I am. Sometimes I really regret it.
- Well I think you're cool. It's the kind of inside joke that makes me feel foolishly self congratulatory for getting it
  
  Thanks. That's nice to hear. Being "cool" isn't as important to me as not being interpreted as someone intending to be an asshole. I wish people assumed the opposite, instead. I may come off like an asshole, but my intent is the opposite and I want to spread happiness and knowledge. I'm just bad at conveying my intent and meaning.
- Telling people to filesystem check isn't cool, man. Instead, we should coach them to switch to a journaling or CoW filesystem.

Yours is pretty good, actually.
Most names I see here are just references or trying to be ultra edgy and offensive (SatansMaggotyCumFart for example). They might be memorable, but I wouldn't say they are creative.
Not many people have puns or even well done portmanteaus for usernames. 😔
- I have seen yours the most. It's not the most creative but it's definitely the most eye catching from all big Lemmy posters.
  
  Would it be more creative knowing the origin?
  It's my two dogs' names combined. Loki and Kona. But I also misspelled it and the KOLA should have been a KOLO. KOloNAki.
- Mine's not clever, just an NPC I made for an old GURPS game I ran ages ago that I've since used as my handle online. Frustratingly there's some guy in Italy who claimed it as their Steam name though so that's the one place I couldn't use it lol
  
  FYI: your display name on steam doesn't have to be your login name and it doesn't need to be unique (but if you join a game with someone using the same name, whoever joins last will have a number appended to the end of it). You can change it whenever you want from the edit profile page.
- Fark had a “Terrified Asexual Forcemeat” back in the day and that was…memorable

I like @MacNCheezus@lemmy.today
- Right back at ya.

JeffBoyardee

Ran across a Hunter back in my WoW days named Bowjob. Had a good laugh.

That's got to be mine
- Where do you get your ideas from?
  
  Yk there are very rare occasions where I decide to use my brain and that is the result. You just have to be as smart as I am, then nothing is a problem anymore!

I_HATE_KNICKERS
there were a lot of funny ones on the Opie and Anthony reddit

It took me entirely too long to catch the gag in @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
- I just realised it now. I feel stupid.

League of legends player named Fizz on my Jayce. Crass but clever.

@this@sh.itjust.works
- I feel so validated!

Back when I was playing World of Tanks, there were plenty of quite interesting nicknames. Unfortunately, most I remember were in my non-english language, but there were some international like Hairy Spotter, IPutTheFunInFuneral or 10InchInColdWater.

Incellio Faggotini

Mine is the least interesting username on this site.

FrenchEnglishFish, Cumuffins, Organic-CPU. All user names of my boyfriend

LokiLuciano (for those of you who don’t get the reference, Lucky Luciano was a notorious gangster. Loki is, well, Loki.)

Saw a UrethraFranklin on reddit I think

UGetzNoBunz

Slimey Slime McSlimington, from a page of this sources back in the old Internet. For additional reference "twink" used to refer to a tabletop RPG munchkin or power gamer; not the, uh, not the other thing.
As far as I've seen it's the oldest example of the "namey mcname" joke out there.
- I remember 8bit theatre

Dickish World.

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