How did you come up with your username? Why did you choose it?

[w8n8]

It has no specific meaning, it's mostly gibberish, but it is actually a shortened version/acronym of a longer username I wanted to go by but decided against. I also like the letter W, which is the starting letter of one of many names I have gone by; it also reminds me of water. The 8s in my username, well, the first 8 is an 8 which has no meaning... but the second 8 I stylize as an infinity symbol. Originally I intended to stylize both 8s as an infinity symbol, but it looked weird, so now I just do it for the latter. Most websites don't really support special characters for usernames though! So, w8n8 it is.

[camelwize]

It doesn't have an actual meaning as such, I just wanted something that sounded very "username-y", like the kinda username I would have picked as a kid using the internet for the first time. (I only chose the name very recently as I wanted a new online persona)

Plus I like the sound of "camelCase" so that was in my head and I decided to go with camelwise but spelt wize because.. I'm not even sure. I think the wize part was me just guaranteeing the name wasn't already in use by not using a real word.

Went with lowercase because lowercase names feel more fun/less serious to me.

It wasn't part of the name choice but I also like the band Camel, and camels are pretty dope so that was a bonus.

As you can see there wasn't much actual logic to it, mostly went off vibes.

[Horsey Chobunso]

Mine comes from a YouTube video made by the actor that played Gibby in iCarly. When I found it in college I thought it was literally the funniest video I've ever seen, and I've used it for so long that it has become sort of a persona for me.

[Knotnu]

Knotnu, my username is chosen to be my primary because I wanted to prank my friends whenever I try to tell them what is my username in my socials. So whenever I tell my user name, they will always say "Is it not new?". And I will have to spell it out for them. Always make my day 

[saku]

i used to go by multiple names back in 2023-24, a few of them were things like 'chireii' and 'sakushi' but i wanted a short, nice name so i decide to shorten 'sakushi' into saku 
i went by sakupurin around early 2025 but the username was often taken on some websites like youtube so i decide to change it as i wanted an original username 
my username became sakusplushie for a while, but i didnt rlly like the sound of it and after some thinking i changed it to sakufukufu  it sounds better and i like it 

[Notabot]

Hello :D

I created an account on a website (idk what website that was) and i needet to do a "I am not a robot" capture. Then i needet to make me a username. I had no idea and then i thought "Notabot" bcs of the capture :)

[WaybackGuy]

WaybackGuy is a reference to s period of American history, art, culture, and social change that I take interest in, bookended by the 1939 New York World's Fair and the Richard Nixon Watergate scandal. While this period does not overlap my own life, I experience an uncanny nostalgia for this time, informed by the art, literature, music, social change, and historical events and figures of this era.  This nostalgia is probably artificially colored by various media that have depicted this era over the years. The term wayback is a reference to WABAC Machine, featured in the Peabody's Improbable History segment of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, 1960s Cold War era cartoon.


Sherman (left) and Mr. Peabody (right) enter the Wayback Machine ca. 1960 to witness another time and place in history.


My account picture is in theme, snipped from Edward Hopper's 1942 painting Nighthawks.

[Kaiji]

I just really liked the anime Kaiji, and the main character from it with the same name.

Which I recommend you watch if you enjoy shows about:

• underdogs
• high stakes gambling
• anti-capitalist themes
• characters that choose to see the good in people despite it all

And of course if you can handle the dread and anxiety it may bring you as you're watching!

[ali3n_1nvad3r]

aliens are cool and that was kinda the extent of my thinking (i've been using variations on this username since i was like 13 TwT)

that being said a cooler backstory is probably my website url 'ultraviolet catastrophe' which is a term from the history of quantum physics to describe when people didnt accurately model the energy of different frequencies of radiation making it look like uv light had pretty much infinite energy (kinda). that one actually came to me pretty organically lol as my physics teacher was talking about it in class I thought huh that would make a pretty sick name for something