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

[Tiffany]

I just use my first name :)

[arsenicCatnip]

I just stole it from my favorite HomeStuck character! :PPP

[Guest]

I just use my first name :)

I have actually never even considered just using my actual name online. When I was young, the popular thinking was that you should never use your real name online because the internet is a terrifying place where everyone wants to steal your nuggies. Obviously that has changed, but for anything that isn't business related I still always use an alias.

The closest my username has ever been to my real name is when I used "kent-o-matic", so you can probably guess what my real name is. That's right. My name is O'Matic.   

[debleb]

my old club penguin account was called debleb2, no idea how i picked it back then, but maybe a couple years later i used debleb for my transformice account and i ended up playing that a ton and talking to lots of people there so it just stuck. i think it sounds pretty nice, rolls of the tongue.

[JoacoEra]

I Think my user name is boring, what do you think? 

[SilkSkull]

I Think my user name is boring, what do you think? 

I actually quite like it! I'm not sure if it's a reference to something but it just sounds nice 

[Cattafang]

 

My username came from a Fakemon I thought up of when I was ~13-14 for a Pokémon pet sim site. It was supposed to be this giant cat-like Pokemon with glowing yellow eyes, lynx-like tufts on its ears, and absurdly long claws. Despite never drawing it, I still remember it somewhat vividly. I think it was supposed to be some sort of Dark-Steel type Pokemon based on its appearance, with a bunch of grey and black outside of the yellow eyes.

Maybe I*ll finally draw it someday.

[Tiffany]

I have actually never even considered just using my actual name online. When I was young, the popular thinking was that you should never use your real name online because the internet is a terrifying place where everyone wants to steal your nuggies. Obviously that has changed, but for anything that isn't business related I still always use an alias.

The closest my username has ever been to my real name is when I used "kent-o-matic", so you can probably guess what my real name is. That's right. My name is O'Matic.   

I remember the whole child safety thing, but I also remember the internet being a lot more anonymous than it is today, and it was more like don't tell someone your last name, where you live, and don't talk to strangers online (which was most of what I did tbh.).

[Guest]

I always found some of the child safety rules to be odd. I mean, sure, don't tell them your full name (or last name if you have a rare one) or address, but what's anyone gonna do with a first name? Plus, I don't think most abuse came from random online strangers but people you know irl.

Here's a scary fact: your neighbors know your name and where you live!

[debleb]

I always found some of the child safety rules to be odd. I mean, sure, don't tell them your full name (or last name if you have a rare one) or address, but what's anyone gonna do with a first name? Plus, I don't think most abuse came from random online strangers but people you know irl.

Here's a scary fact: your neighbors know your name and where you live!

they could definitely be extreme but even so i think they did kind of drive home good habits when it comes to personal info online. if you shouldn’t even share your first name, surely you wouldn’t share your age, where you live, etc either! it’s certainly preferable to young kids sharing just about everything online, not just bc of the potential of predators but because gods know we should be trying to avoid sharing more information with big tech companies and teaching the kids to do the same.

that said, i think that restrictive guidelines for internet use like this can make kids rebellious and just ignore them harder. no kid likes being told what to do even when it’s what’s good for them.

[ThySonnet190]

I like poetry a lot, so I decided that since I have been reading lots of sonnets from Elizabethian era England and beyond, I simply decided to just use "sonnet" as the base of the username. I also inserted "thy" since it is the informal/intimate (but now out-of-style) way to refer to someone in the second person implying the sonnet is for someone personal. The final part of it—the digits—are just a reference to Petrarch's Rima 190 and more specifically Sir Thomas Wyatt's translation of it, a translation that I really like because of the historical context!

I have used a somewhat similar username on a few different forum sites, but I did change it a bit for this rendition of it. I have used many different usernames over the years as suggested by my minecraft and discord usernames, but this one just has a special feel for forum sites.

[Guest]

For myself, awhe doesn't really mean anything. It's pronounced as "aw" or "awe" as in when you see something cute and go awww! but it was originally a tumblr url so I had to make it extra fancy otherwise it was already taken LOL. Silent H... Which I think makes sense!

[wygolvillage]

Wygol Village is a location/hub area from my favorite video game (Castlevania Order of Ecclesia)

[tenkai_no_perusona]

It's the transliterated Japanese title of a song by Shizuka:

[4377666]

it's a combination of numbers i associate things with- 43 is a number commonly associated with my favorite band in their fandom, 77 is my favorite number and the one i consider lucky, and well, i don't think i need to explain 666