How did you get your Nickname?

Man, am I older than everyone on this board? o_O I'm only 22...

Anyway, I go by lots of different names but lately this one has stuck with me. It's really simple--Mercury for Sailor Mercury (I love the live action Sailor Moon) and Zelda for, um, Princess Zelda. Plain as that, really.

I also went by And40FeetRemain for a while, which is a reference to one of my favorite Franz Ferdinand songs, "40'".

My real name is Emily and I have about 50 nicknames which correspond to that. I don't try to come up with anything based on it for websites, though, as there's been an explosion of people named Emily within the last decade. I used to be unique :'(

MercuryZelda wrote

My real name is

This sounds like a good thread.

MrSparkle came from some weird online forum software that had a really strange name that sounded like sparkle. After far too long of not noticing this, i realized it was a perfect new nick (I had been really not liking the old LinkTetra one for weeks). Shortly after someone said I should use MrSparkle instead, I did not know why, but went with it. Not until later did I learn of this Mista Sparkulu thing :/

100x better than the old one, what was I thinking when i thought it up...

My first name is Alec and I've always loved oldschool Sesame Street's when Kermit was on there.

Here's a really funny Sesame Street skit with Kermit and Cookie Monster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbgRyColvE

Lexkeeta wrote

What about lolilops?

Are you a pedophile?

Lolilops is a Jerry Jackson quote and 54 was a random number. I used to think Jerry Jackson was hilarious x_X

Will is my middle name, and one day in electronics, one of my mates carved Will into my project box, followed by a huge 0, and it stuck.

My current name isn't much of a nickname as you can see. But my old ZeldaTPrunner name I had because I practiced TP alot before I joined YT and did my speed run. MarcusSDA, it was because I didn't like ZeldaTPrunner anymore and I didn't know what to call myself either. So I chosed MarcusSDA because my name is Marcus (obviously) and I only had an SDA acc at that time.

my first name

my remen11 i got because i couldn't think of a good name for YT. my mysticanimal42 is a long but very funny story that all started during a day i was playing halo 2 with some friends (this was before halo 3 was even close to coming out). if anyone wants to hear the story ill tell it.

My actually username is Nin10Gamer. I came up with it because I wanted something original and unique that showed who I am, basically a Nintendo freak.

Ænlgån, however, was made when I made a Mii with a similar name. The name actually comes from "Anglo" as in "Anglo-Saxon", a Germantic tribe that invaded England sometime after the collapse of the Roman Empire (476AD).  However, it was the Anglos that invaded; Saxons are in Germany (If I am correct). The Æ and å are Norwegian/Danish letters. The Æ is pronounced like A as in apple and the å is pronounced like O as in over. There is also a reference to the Greek alphabet in my name. Alpha and Omega- the sounds they make are the same as the Norwegian/Danish letters. This was completely unintentional, though.  ;)

kai (MrGrunz)'s sir name is günder and not grunz^^

kai günder

super smash bros melee prefessional homeruncontest = ssbmproHRC

longest abbreviation ever

i got it cuz melee is nice and i was a homerun player at the beginning (hrc is controller destryoing though)

When I first wandered into the world of internet forums, specifically the NSider forums, I had to come up with a random name that reflected my interests at the time. I considered myself more of a Pokemon enthusiast than any other specific franchise, so I came up with the nickname PokeMasterInTraining. Over time that got shortened down into PMIT, and I've never seen any need to change that.

When i was little (6,7) i glitched on oot so much without even knowing and when my cousin saw a glitch he yelled out "Glitched!" thus my nickname was formed

I was interested in Pivot Stick Figure Animations at the time. I wanted to make an account on Youtube after the famous PivotMasterDX Animator, So I put in something like GuyofPivotDX or whatever. But youtube said the name was taken and it suggested PivotguyDC1, "DC" being my initials and I don't know where the fuck YT got "1" from.

It stuck.

P.S. and I never made a Pivot Animation. Balls to it

pivotguyDC1 wrote

youtube ... suggested PivotguyDC1, "DC" being my initials and I don't know where the fuck YT got "1" from.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PivotguyDC

That's where the one comes from. If a website suggests a name with a number after, it usually means that the original and lower numbered names have already been taken.

Since a little while back, I've been having the name MacMan17 sometimes. Mac, since my name is Marcus I randomly thought it would be cool to call myself Mac. I actually didn't get it from the computers Mac. However, then I added Man to it to make it sound cooler and then 17 since I'm 17 and that is somewhat my lucky number and the one I though was the best.

When I was like 9 or 10 or something I started to play a MMO called Pristontale. They wanted me to have a nick but I didn't have any good ideas so I just put something that I was; a primate. But I spelled it in Swedish and added my d.o.b. 91 and Primat91 was born.

A couple years later, I was unsatisfied with the name but didn't have the energy or will to create new youtube accounts etc. My neighbour called himself ZampraZ so I called myself TimpZ to associate our accounts in some way :p. But then I just started to name every new account to TimpZ so it's a bit mixed out there on the web :p.

Mines is obvious. it's cause I hunt for the triforce and.....stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_T._Robot <-- This

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_(genus) <-- Led to this

my current nickname comes from being a dumbass who listened to too much blink 182 while growing up and didn't take time in picking a username.

the nickname that i used a lot before my current one was ZibaLaZiba. i originally came up with it for my troll shamen in WoW (got to lvl 17!) while trying to make a "mexican-sounding" name. i guess Z's are cool too  :P i had to change it one day though because i pissed off axon or something and dropped out of following speedrunning for a month before i came back with a new identity.

I wish i picked a decent username at some point in my life though  :'(

I thought of making a cool name instead of putting "ferny" or "burnindriver900" on everything that has a username. I first got my username from playing burnout paradise on the 360 while looking at my showtime scores. I beaten all offline scores with 8,000,000 points then came up "blaze factor". Thought it was a little dull so I added "blazing". Now I use it where ever I do.

Blazing Factor wrote

I first used Blazing Factor for my xbox 360 username. I've been using it all the time. Blaze for short.

That's not how, that's when ;)

TimpZ wrote

That's not how, that's when ;)

whoops gonna edit it :P

Started with Snowmanthatknows back in '04 for FlashFlashRevolution, stuck with it till about '08 when I got sick of it and used my real name. But then when I started hanging out with some new friends I met through Melee they all called me Snowman, so I stuck with that.

I got xbox live and halo3 around the same time that crisis core came out.  If anyone has ever played either of those then its really obvious what my username is

I didn't choose it, it's my best friend and because he named my youtube account "v92ify" (very bad choice)...

DJS = so when i joined sda in 2006, i was a huge fan of TSA, because of his 4:57, and stupid as i was, i thought TSA was his initials (i didnt see his real name for some reason i cannot remember), so i thought "oh, it must be cool to have your initials as name"
lambdaN = when i played cs actively a few years ago & i was like 10 or something like that, it was cool (i thought atleast) with names that ended with a big N so i just took the lambda symbol and put a N after it. i hate this name now i might add, but some sites dont allow 3 letters only so i use that then ;)

My mother called me oligi as kid. With a hard g (like in game).
Later i used the name as a portmanteau of Oliver (my first name) and Luigi (Mario's Brother), now pronounced with a soft g (like in giant).
3008 is the birthday of my mother written in day/month form 30/08.
3008 is also the year 3008, 1000 years after I made my youtube account. I like to watch out for the future. Also a slight reference to Futurama.  ;)

Well, my first online username would have to be Nooz. I'm not completely sure how I had gotten it. I guess sine my in real life name is Nick, my friends always said i was cool, so thats Noo, and  always liked the letter z since I grew up, not knowing many words that contained it. I think I adapted from Nooz to Nooz_1 when i was maybe 11 Years old and I was registering for a forum. Then, just june or july of this year, I started playing World of Warcraft. As I never was truely creative, I decided to use the random name generator. At first I was quite skeptical if the RNG could give good names since it gave me wierd names such as Yuwidenar, and Guenthar. Then it gave me Fenrikaz. And thats how I got my usernames. Oh, and MY FIRST POST ON ZSR! :D