This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
I dunno, but people sure love calling me it all the time.
At first I lurked on my boyfriend’s account. We had both left Reddit during the API debacle, but I wasn’t ready to rejoin social media yet, so he hopped on Lemmy first.
But as he shared links and news and memes with me, and I scrolled the comments, I started wanting to participate. The first few times I felt drawn to comment (but didn’t yet), I wanted to ask people what the reasoning was behind their thoughts. That stuff is interesting to me.
So when I finally sat down and made an account for myself, it was the first thought in my head. I haven’t found myself asking anybody about their reasoning since then, but I still like the name.
Stole it from a user on a pirate bbs I was a member of in the early 90s, Digital Underground
It sounds cute.
Bit warden made it for me
It’s classified
Ehhh it is what it is.
It’s from valarin (Tolkien’s language of the Valar)
https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/motsvalarins.html
Akasan is ‘he says’
-z suffix is a person’s name
So it’s basically ‘Teller’ (I’d say storyteller) in valarin.
The ‘h’ was supposed to help in pronunciation, it only mildly does, I find
I’m a huge fan of Bathory, so I just combined Quorthon with his previous stage name, Ace.
I have no imagination and my legal name is Tanis Nikana.
It scans like a username when it’s all lower case and jammed together though.
My girlfriend calls me that regularly.
I get dizzy during sex
Ranidaphobic; but going with Frog-Man was a too on the nose rip off of Bat-Man (and it’s taken anyway).
I liked playing tachanka on R6, tht is short for TheHolyTachanka
Used to live in Norway when I joined reddit, and the whole Norse lore resonated with me. Back then I had a number attached, that wasn’t needed on Lemmy anymore.
