Username Origins Page 2

Started by Hikamaru November 22nd, 2012 5:34 PM
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Male
Seen August 20th, 2014
Posted January 18th, 2013
89 posts
11.3 Years
Hey, they put asteristics in that name ;_;~~~~

If you're talking about wild animals, really there's nothing we can do.

Yep, I'm vegan.
Maybe, when all the humans become vegan, we can eventually develop a technology to make the rest of the world more peaceful.

Good stuff. I've taken it a step further and gone fruitarian. :D

Arcturus.

Chews nails and spits napalm

Male
The star known as Sol (Virginia)
Seen August 24th, 2014
Posted July 18th, 2014
605 posts
10.8 Years
I just stole my name from Mass Effect because I couldn't think of anything better. I've thought of some different usernames now and I kinda wish I could change it. oh well.
"War.
War never
changes."
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Dreg

Done after the GT.

Seen July 11th, 2016
Posted July 11th, 2016
1,496 posts
11.2 Years
Airbourne Bubblun came about back in 2009, but was originally just called Bubblun before the name change. Realising there was another person under the same name on another forum, I decided to go with Airbourne, from the wrestler named Evan Bourne, who was nicknamed Air Bourne, so I merged those 2 together.

Bubblun has been my favorite VG character since 1992.
Age 36
Seen 56 Minutes Ago
Posted 57 Minutes Ago
10,149 posts
17.1 Years
Back when I first joined here, I had a name based on a fancharacter. I wanted to get away from that, but I didn't know what to change my name to. At this time, I was reading the book series DragonLance, and reached the chapter about the character Astinus. Based on what Astinus does in the books and how he acts, I used the name.

On other sites, I might toss a title in front of the name. Like "Speaker" in reference to my favorite book. I also used "ninja" once, because on a completely different site there was someone named "pirate_asty", and since "Asty" is one of the nicknames for "Astinus", I used ninja in reference to pirates.

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Olli

I am still bathing in a summer's afterglow

Male
Skyloft
Seen 55 Minutes Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
2,583 posts
12.8 Years
Pretty simple, it's just my irl nickname together with my abbreviated birthyear. I don't even remember why I came up with something as generic at that, but I think it was when I set up my email for the first time and had no idea to what to call it, and then the Olli97 just stuck and has been what I've used pretty much anywhere if I couldn't think of anything :p
Not removing this from my signature!

Seen January 26th, 2014
Posted December 31st, 2013
258 posts
11.4 Years
My username comes from the types of Starter Pokemon: Fire, Grass, Water. I made the order Water, Grass, Fire. I used Rainy, 'cause rain's related to water, ...it's water anyway, then comes Garden, because gardens have plants and grass...and then Fire, which says the thing that it is -- fire. So, that's the whole cause of Rainy Garden of Fire.
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Nearsighted king of Ice

We'll get to that tomorrow

Age 26
Male
Manehattan, Equestria
Seen May 4th, 2014
Posted May 4th, 2014
991 posts
14.3 Years
I used Green goblin because green is my favorite color, Green Goblin is my favorite villain and I was watching episodes of spectacular spider-man when I was deciding to change my username.

Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?

Black FC: 1592-5761-9212
Pokemon X FC: 2921-9174-9000

Brendino

The Ruins of Alph
Seen 5 Days Ago
Posted April 6th, 2023
8,567 posts
13.5 Years
My username was basically my nickname that I got around 3rd grade, strangely enough from two different people (one of my friends and a cousin), who would always say "Yo, yo, yo, Brendino!" despite having never even met each other. And it stuck pretty well, as I've either used Brendino or a variant of it more mostly any username I make.

Shining Raichu

Expect me like you expect Jesus.

Age 32
Male
Australia
Seen October 17th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2017
8,958 posts
12.3 Years
Mine came from the Shining Raichu Pokemon card that I got in a booster pack as a kid. It was the most exciting Pokemon-related memory I could conjure up when I joined the site :P
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Zeffy

g'day

Male
Seen December 1st, 2022
Posted January 30th, 2021
6,395 posts
14.1 Years
I honestly can't remember how I came up with my original username, UltimaZelfier. I think I was a huge Final Fantasy fanatic back then and Ultima is a pretty popular (and strong!) spell name in the series. The Zelfier part, nope. A few months later, I got tired of the name and when I realized that we could change usernames I ultimately removed the Ultima- part of the username. Zelfier was a pretty cool name. Then WOFZ came into existence. Somehow they started calling me Zeffy and it became quite attached to me so I stuck with the name. I eventually changed to it during the final name change.

It's not interesting, but it's history to me.

Sammi

Age 33
she/her
The States
Seen 5 Days Ago
Posted November 8th, 2021
14,085 posts
18.3 Years
My sister nicknamed me sammi-san back in 2004ish, when I started using the Internet. I liked it well enough. As you can tell, my username took me like 5 seconds to figure out. :p

I'll make a proper signature when Pokecommunity gets a proper slogan

Treecko

the princess without voice

Age 31
He/Him
St.Louis,Missouri
Seen November 30th, 2021
Posted November 29th, 2021
6,311 posts
11.2 Years
The origin of my username, AWsquared, goes back to when I was in 10th grade (10th year or Junior). In February of 2010, I joined a site called Dailybooth. It was basically a photoblogging site where people would take a photo of themselves everyday and would document their lives through pictures. Basically a social networking site with pictures. I say was because it's shutting down, probably because of too much competition from Instagram. Anyway, I wanted a creative and fun name that incorporated my IRL name, Aaron. So I went with "AaronWhatAaronWho".

At the same time, I decided to make a goal of becoming a famous YouTube star like Shane Dawson or RayWilliamJohnson. ( who I now think are both awful). I initially was gonna go with AaronWhatAaronWho. Though while I really thought the name was nice, it felt a little odd. I soon realized the name was way too long. So I thought of a way to shorten it. My first thought was AaronWho but I didn't like the sound of that.Then I came up with AaronWhat, but I also thought didn't sound good. Then I thought of the mathematical term "squared". If you know algebra, you know that a square number is a number that is multiplied by itself. I figured that if AaronWhatAaronWho would be a square number, that it would be written as AWsquared or AW2. I wasn't sure if AW2 was possible so I decided to go with AWsquared. I figured it was also easier to type out anyway. I changed my Dailybooth username to AWsqaured. I then created my Youtube channel and choose AWsquared as my username. This eventually became my Twitter handle and the username I now use when registering for most sites.

I never actually started the YouTube vlog that I wanted to. So obviously I didn't become famous. I actually haven't uploaded a single video to that channel. I didn't have enough time to record myself talking basically daily and still don't. I also didn't have a good enough quality camera and couldn't find a room in my house to get enough lighting. And now I don't have a camera at all so that is also a contributing factor. I now use the channel mainly to comment on videos.
"Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere"

Bounsweet

Fruit Pokémon

Seen September 17th, 2018
Posted October 11th, 2017
2,102 posts
15.6 Years
I usually use LightningHarpy; Harpy is from when I was really getting into YGO but that since has died down a bit :p

And Lightning, because it sounds cool. Kinda ironic using it on a Pokemon forum since I don't really like Electric-types.

And I picked up AzaleaLightning at FanFiction.net because I wanted to use something different but still a little comparable. No relation to Azalea Town, I picked it cause I like the flower.

Hybrid Trainer

Age 28
Him/Them
«UK»
Seen April 12th, 2023
Posted January 27th, 2022
2,096 posts
14.5 Years
I use to go by 05jamesd, but I thought it was unoriginal and some other people have used it before on websites I'd rather not be affiliated with.
So back when I was on my first forum I joined a club that was basically a place where people would post spliced pokemon sprites. I eventually became well known for mixing pokemon trainer sprites with pokemon, and when asked what I call them I said 'Hybrid Trainers'. Eventually people started calling me the Hybrid Trainer and when I moved onto other sites the name just stuck with me.

Shiny Celebi

Seen August 25th, 2015
Posted October 17th, 2013
2,377 posts
12 Years
I used to use this username on every forum I went on pretty much. I first used it on BMGF and switched usernames when I hit 1000 posts there, kind of silly but oh well, I just wanted to. It was really random. I like shinies and Celebi is my favorite Pokemon so I just threw it together.

Kura

twitter.com/puccarts

Age 33
Female
London, UK (orig. Toronto, Canada)
Seen August 30th, 2021
Posted August 24th, 2021
10,993 posts
18.7 Years
My first group of online friends had yugioh nicknames for each other, and mine was subsequently "Bakura".. so they called me "Kura" for short.
I've been Kura ever since.
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