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Way more years ago than I would like to admit, when I was in my teens, I learned to play a Fender Mexican Stratocaster. It became my name on my BBS, and has stuck ever since.
Most people think it has to do with FM radio.
Edit: Also, this question has managed to get replies from almost all of the prolific participators on Lemmy. Nice.
Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future
I mashed the keyboard.
Every time I go to make a new username I just choose the first 2 words that come to mind
"Behold, a token effort" sick line dropped by best boy linhardt in fire emblem warriors three hopes
My display name is probably from the most mysterious song on the internet
Minecraft username I coined at the age of 8. The name speaks for itself.
Kona + Loki + accidentally changing an O to an A = Kolanaki
And then it turns out, it's also the name of a place in Greece.
I asked Dr GPT for a list of nouns and adjectives with a particular theme and picked some I liked and combined them. I do the same process for all my digital identities.
Guess.
You really want to see this thing everybody talks about?
Someone else took karl first and I want to know which one of you it was
Less common anglicisation of Samyaza, first amongst the nephilim; a group of Angels that fell by marrying human women and teaching them knowledge.
Yes I am clearly a bit pretentious.
My display name is a short-version of my nickname which is a phonetic amalgamation of my first and last name.
Remember that mobile game that was popular a while ago, Neko Atsume? It's that, but with Etna from Disgaea, because at the time I first made this username (years ago) Neko Atsume was taken and I was playing through Disgaea D2.
Sometimes I get kinda pedantic.
When i joined the fediverse I decided to make a break from my old usernames.
My husband’s nickname for me. I was born in the holler in Appalachia and am a woodsy pixie. It stuck and is now my trail name.
I was promoted from the rank of Commander.
Bit warden made it for me
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.
Redditors are stupid in very specific ways and it annoys me.
I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.
I'm fatigued in more ways than one and people joke that I'm fae because I'm allergic to metal.
Mine comes from the intro to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Just a greeting used in an RPG I really liked. As pretty much the only formal greeting in its setting, it seemed very overused, so a friend and I started using it in our friend group as a meme, and I decided that it actually goes pretty hard as a username.
I like the word argyle and I'm angry
no imagination and I thpught it was funny image (current acc avatar)
I love airplanes and was excited to see a “modern” one where you could slide back the canopy just like in all those old WWII movies! It’s even ok to fly with it open (a little)!
