Old Embarrassing Usernames

[PurpleHello98]

My number one example is my old screen name on an old "Sing Karaoke" app (I think it's been renamed to Smule now) that I was obsessed with on my iPad, where I was FrozenLover845 because I was obsessed with that movie at the time. But what's really embarrassing is that elementary school me tried to build a brand off of it. I specifically remember recording a long and a short version of my jingle. Basically, I was trying to be a modern social media influencer in 2014. Not my strongest moment. X-X

This one's not super embarrassing looking back, but still a little bizarre and a wee bit RaNdEm XD: my Club Penguin Rewritten screen name used to be CookieTime57.

Also, some would consider PurpleHello98 to be embarrassing, but at this point who cares? It's been my screen name on everything for so long that I've grown a bit of an odd affection for it, you know? I might pick a different screen name now if I had to start everything over from scratch, but my current screen name is quite satisfactory for now.

[Biggus]

I'll forever be plagued by my Steam username I can't CHANGE (I get it's not on display but I hate logging in with it haha)... potatochan_aot_freak

[wygolvillage]

Oh god, my steam username is also a bit regrettable, since I made it when I was still super into Homestuck and also 13 years old so it's a reference to one of the characters's chum handles.

There's also another old username I used to use when I was quite young and it's mostly embarrassing since I directly referenced my surname in it... Internet safety? Never heard of her!

[soop]

im not embarrassed honestly, but i remember one of my first usernames on the internet as like... an 8 year old was lobomon_of_light after the digimon character!
i also used to use "Call Me Miso" on gaia online, which is funny to me because i looped back around and still use a soup related moniker now all these years later :)

[Memory]

I've never had any username I'd consider to be particularly embarrassing, but I'm glad I don't use my first-ever username anymore because it sounds meh. I used to go by "Allstar98" on Club Penguin back when that was a thing. This was around 2009-2010.

[ohnoitsnoah]

I also started using the internet at a very early age, and have always been creative, and I remember trying to make my own internet cartoon, but I had no idea what to call it/my profiles and somehow I landed on "Golden Goggles"??? But I didn't even spell 'goggles' right, so on some platforms it was "Golden Googles". More recently, like 4 years ago, I was really into Homestuck and tried to come up with a new username for everything that was based around the kinda two-word rule that all the Homestuck characters were using for their usernames in the story, and I landed on "NerdlyCartoonist". As silly as it is, I still sometimes use it to this day, for convenience sake.

[khaos]

i'd say the most embarrassing ones in all my years online were my first neopets account using just my legal first and middle name, and my first email account which was derpsonic2010 xD

[Absentmind]

My first ever username was for Runescape/MSN for which I called myself: "dwaflord" because I loved dwarves and clearly HATED spelling!

[Memory]

I started using the internet at a very young age, and have had countless usernames and screennames over time on various websites and online games. A lot of them are embarrassing but totally understandable for a kid on the web, LOL.

Some of the ones I remember are: LpsLover5658 on Animal Jam (~2011), BrightheartTheOneAndOnly on Quotev (sometime 2010?), and real.comic.sans as an old email (2015).

What are some of your old embarrassing usernames?

Well these aren't super bad but their from when I was around 11 : froggyair , bubblefrog , --disfrog (I really loved frogs). Other than that I've used toxiins , butchbonez , and butchb0nez .

[Max_Starlight]

My first PlayStation account was called DragonBro, because I liked dragons and... I have know idea why I added bro. Probably because Dragon was taken. I wasn't a very creative kid

[halcybutton]

one of my usernames was nightcorelinkinpark which makes me sad to think about now 

[s_redpine]

first username of mine was yotsuba5, on a game-making website called Sploder. I used to get into arguments with people for fun on the forums and profile messages. I also remember using "Princess_Zelda" on one of those "would you rather" websites sometime in my pre-teen years.

[glitterpigeon]

i don't feel embarrassed about the non-harmful things child me did, but I do feel a bit sad. my earliest usernames were all some variation of "brokenclock". because I grew up autistic, and with learning disabilities, and knew from a very young age that something was different about me and I couldn't do the same things other kids could, I was being taken out of class for medical tests and speech therapy and social skills lessons and I didn't take all the same classes other people took (and also I feel like all the special ed teachers and like aides and stuff were all so mean? like I was kinda scared of them :/) and so I felt very broken, to the point that I guess I sort of made that a huge part of my identity.

and then after that I mostly had either pigeon-related names and/or random words in Lithuanian. i thought it was kinda funny that they sounded very fancy to English speakers but they were just random words.

[atari]

Alright let's start from the very beginning for me... my club penguin account. Now one of the only reasons i even REMEMBER my username is because child me was very smart and wrote my username and password on the wall XD
So my first username was <Dead name>ttd. The ttd literally didn't mean anything but i thought i was smart because it said not to use your actual name so i added ttd at the end    (Ironically, now my favourite type of gamer is TOWER DEFENSE because of a club penguin minigame...)
Then we've got Superkitten25Awesomeness for my old goog account, pretty self explanatory to be honest. Then followed the short lived amazingginger (my first cat) which i quality left for amazingsmokey25 (my second cat).
As you can tell my old usernames were very inspired and original. From here i FINALLY moved to a somewhat original username which was "ccranberru" (cranberru was taken on deviantart) because one of my favourite fruits was cranberries, I even had a long forgotten mascot named cranberry !!
From there my usernames got more normal so I wouldn't really call any of them cringey, as someone who's had probably 100 accounts across the net, I felt the need at some point to give them similar usernames (or atleast display names) so the cringeyness had to unfortunately die down 
I love hearing all the stories behind these usernames, truly of an era where we overthought the most simple usernames ever 
Kind regards, Atari @720.48

[atari]

one of my usernames was nightcorelinkinpark which makes me sad to think about now 

Truly a product of its time