I'd wager a lot of VMs. Bold is reserved for Staff, I'm pretty sure that was brought up in the original colour discussions. Besides, there are some of us that still do get mistaken for staff by new members even now.
I like my italicized name. I remember when Tier 6 was still getting the kinks ironed out and they forgot to give us the blue Italicized names, we had the badges, not the name style. I was ok with it at first, but I started to really miss my blue name and asked Erica to change it for me.
(I dunno what I'd do if I had to choose between Italic name or bold name, that would be one very tough decision.)